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2017
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(2017): Treating Broome Fairly. In: Utilitas 29 (02), S. 214-238. DOI: 10.1017/S0953820816000303
Abstract: John Broome has developed an elegant and powerful theory of fairness. It is important to lay out his theory afresh because the basic structure of Broome's theory has been generally misunderstood. Once we understand its general structure, we are in a better position to assess what its normative implications are. In discussing objections that have been raised against Broome's theory, I will show that these implications are different from what his critics have commonly assumed.
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(2017): Key-frame Extraction With Semantic Graphs in Assembly Processes. In: IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS 2 (3), S. 1264-1271
Abstract: In this letter, we present a novel method for key-frame extraction in assembly processes, with the support of visual sensors. The method is based on the construction of a sequence of weighted graphs containing the semantics of the underlying scene, encoded as primitive temporal and spatial relations between the involved objects. The objects are modeled as three-dimensional ellipsoids, with the formulation of the minimum volume covering ellipsoid problem as a convex optimization program, which is solved by an efficient algorithm. The new models are used in the sequence of actions-relations to increase the accuracy of the key-frame extraction, by extending the states encoded in the graphs. We present and analyze the method, followed by preliminary experimental results, and provide significant evidence on its potential.
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(2017): A diplomatic advantage? The effects of bilingualism and formal language training on language aptitude amongst Australian diplomatic officers. In: LANGUAGE AWARENESS 23 (3), S. 203-219
Abstract: This study sought to contribute to the growing literature on third and subsequent language learning by establishing whether bilingualism has an effect on ability to learn a subsequent language, as indicated by a measure of language aptitude, the Defense Language Aptitude Battery (DLAB). Test results were obtained for 142 diplomatic officers in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). The officers' language biographies were elicited using an online questionnaire and were used to classify them as monolingual or bilingual, and with or without experience of formal language training. Results showed that bilinguals performed better on the aptitude test than monolinguals, as did those with prior formal training. This suggests that bilinguals' metalinguistic awareness, and likelihood of success in subsequent language learning, is higher than that of monolinguals, at least as measured by the DLAB.
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(2017) : Die Vorstrukturierung des Möglichen – Latenz und Technisierung In: Friedrich, Alexander; Gehring, Petra; Hubig, Christoph; Kaminski, Andreas; Nordmann, Alfred (Hg.): Technisches Nichtwissen: Jahrbuch Technikphilosophie: 1. Auflage: Baden-Baden: Nomos, S. 15-40. Online verfügbar unter https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/9783845277677-15.pdf, zuletzt geprüft am 21.11.2016
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(2017): The psychometric properties of the "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" Test: an item response theory (IRT) analysis. In: Cognitive neuropsychiatry 22 (3), S. 233-253. DOI: 10.1080/13546805.2017.1300091
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13546805.2017.1300091 Abstract: INTRODUCTION The "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" Test (hereafter: Eyes Test) is considered an advanced task of the Theory of Mind aimed at assessing the performance of the participant in perspective-takingthat is, the ability to sense or understand other people's cognitive and emotional states. In this study, the item response theory analysis was applied to the adult version of the Eyes Test. METHODS The Italian version of the Eyes Test was administered to 200 undergraduate students of both genders (males = 46%). Modified parallel analysis (MPA) was used to test unidimensionality. Marginal maximum likelihood estimation was used to fit the 1-, 2-, and 3-parameter logistic (PL) model to the data. Differential Item Functioning (DIF) due to gender was explored with five independent methods. RESULTS MPA provided evidence in favour of unidimensionality. The Rasch model (1-PL) was superior to the other two models in explaining participants' responses to the Eyes Test. There was no robust evidence of gender-related DIF in the Eyes Test, although some differences may exist for some items as a reflection of real differences by group. CONCLUSIONS The study results support a one-factor model of the Eyes Test. Performance on the Eyes Test is defined by the participant's ability in perspective-taking. Researchers should cease using arbitrarily selected subscores in assessing the performance of participants to the Eyes Test. Lack of gender-related DIF favours the use of the Eyes Test in the investigation of gender differences concerning empathy and social cognition.
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(2017): Connecting minds and sharing emotions through mimicry: A neurocognitive model of emotional contagion. In: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 80, S. 99-114. DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.05.013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.05.013 Abstract: During social interactions, people tend to automatically align with, or mimic their interactor’s facial expressions, vocalizations, postures and other bodily states. Automatic mimicry might be implicated in empathy and affiliation and is impaired in several pathologies. Despite a growing body of literature on its phenomenology, the function and underlying mechanisms of mimicry remain poorly understood. The current review puts forward a new Neurocognitive Model of Emotional Contagion (NMEC), demonstrating how basic automatic mimicry can give rise to emotional contagion. We combine neurological, developmental and evolutionary insights to argue that automatic mimicry is a precursor to healthy social development. We show that (i) strong synchronization exists between people, (ii) that this resonates on different levels of processing and (iii) demonstrate how mimicry translates into emotional contagion. We conclude that our synthesized model, built upon integrative knowledge from various fields, provides a promising avenue for future research investigating the role of mimicry in human mental health and social development.
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(2017): Theory of Mind and Empathy. Part I - Model of Social Emotional Thinking. In: Fundamenta Informaticae 150 (2), S. 221-230. DOI: 10.3233/FI-2017-1466
Abstract: There are two very different approaches to understand functioning of the brain. First, there is a huge progress in the research of the neurological and neurophysiological properties of different brain substructures, circuits, networks, single cells, synapses and their molecular properties. It contributes to the progress of research in the fields of basic medical sciences and the dramatic increase in average life expectancy. On the another side that does not directly follows neurological developments, it is our introspection related to individual ways of thinking in order to solve different problems that also involve human creativity (cognitive theory of mind). We use many diverse ways of thinking, and they depend on different circumstances. Especially interesting are influences of intuition, feelings and emotions on our creativity, which is in a large part are also related to the social interactions (affective empathy). In this work, we formalise emotional scales and transfer of emotions between individuals (social emotional thinking). We also demonstrate a continuity of the emotion transfer mappings, and an importance of the interactions between emotional faces. It is not only human specific to show and to react to face emotions, but strong and wide human social interactions are based on the precise emotional social thinking. By measuring critical values of face deformations that may influence mutual emotions, we can test precision and tolerance of human visual and emotional systems. By introduction indiscernibility relations between individual reading of face parts deformation, we have used rough set theory to probe social emotional thinking. As one of us have demonstrated that the visual system has properties that follows rough set theory (cognitive theory of mind), this work extends this concept to the social emotional interactions (cognitive and affective theory of mind). As in modern world IT - information technology - has became driving factor in the process of globalisation by creating effective channels of information exchange; hence it becomes extremely important to analyse emotional meaning (cognitive empathy) for this vast information flow. By using as described here, rough set theory to determine, which parts of information have significant emotional influence, our model may give grounds to increase the collective well-being.
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(2017): Human Emotional Behavior Simulation in Intelligent Agents. Processes and Architecture. In: Procedia Computer Science 104, S. 517-524. DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2017.01.167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2017.01.167 Abstract: The paper describes and discusses processes needed for human emotional behaviour simulation, in particular, emotion incorporation into rational thinking, as well as presents corresponding agent architecture. Such system would enable various application fields, perhaps one of the most important being enhancing smart devices with emotions. Decreasing frequency of social contact has become an urgent issue, particularly among young people. Emotional and social intelligence are however highly desired set of skills which is impossible to develop without interacting with others. Although this problem has been acknowledged, and there are some efforts to facilitate social contact, e.g., by augmented virtual reality games, that is still not enough. There is a need to develop environment that would allow learning exactly social and emotional skills. This on-going research aims at developing intelligent agents that are able to express and incorporate affects into rational processes.
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(2017): Practical Application of Critical Race Theory. A Social Justice Course Design. In: Journal of Social Work Education 53 (3), S. 414-423. DOI: 10.1080/10437797.2016.1275896
Abstract: Social work education aims to prepare students to effectively engage with diverse people and groups. This article presents a practical application of critical race theory (CRT) toward that end. It describes a brief history of curricular approaches to teaching diversity and social justice and examines a few of the challenges with current curricular approaches that CRT has the potential to mitigate. I provide an overview of CRT and discusses the utility of applying CRT to the design of a diversity and social justice course in a social work education program. A logic model, which illustrates the application of CRT and a social justice approach, is presented and discussed. The model includes strategies, course methods, student outcomes, and influential factors.
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(2017): Buddhism, identity, and class. Fairness and favoritism in the Tyva Republic. In: Religion, Brain & Behavior 8 (2), S. 205-226. DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2016.1267031
Abstract: Current research suggests that commitment to moralistic, omniscient, and punitive gods may contribute to the evolution of cooperation. As they may curb antisocial behaviors that incur costly social repercussions, supernatural punishment may help stabilize reciprocal relationships among peers. One recent elaboration of this hypothesis posits that commitment to such gods may boost prosociality to the point that it expands cooperation beyond one's family and local community. Using three permutations of an experimental game designed to measure impartial fairness, the present study tests this hypothesis among Buddhists from the Tyva Republic. Contrary to the expanded sociality hypothesis, we found that key features of local spirits and Buddha systematically predict favoritism toward co-religionists from one's community rather than fairness toward co-religionists from distant towns. Moreover, important indicators of class - years of formal education, material insecurity, and fluency in the Tyvan language - also predict favoritism toward local Buddhists rather than geographically distant Buddhists. We used a Buddhist protection charm as a prime condition that showed no simple effects across games, but did interact with key religious variables. Importantly, when players had a stake in the game and played against anonymous, geographically distant Buddhists, if the experiment reminded them of the Buddhist temple or charity, they were fairer toward the distant co-religionist.
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(2017): Make it personal. A social explanation system applied to group recommendations. In: Expert Systems with Applications 76, S. 36-48. DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2017.01.045
Abstract: Recommender systems help users to identify which items from a variety of choices best match their needs and preferences. In this context, explanations act as complementary information that can help users to better comprehend the system’s output and to encourage goals such as trust, confidence in decision-making or utility. In this paper we propose a Personalized Social Individual Explanation approach (PSIE). Unlike other expert systems the PSIE proposal novelly includes explanations about the system’s group recommendation and explanations about the group’s social reality with the goal of inducing a positive reaction that leads to a better perception of the received group recommendations. Among other challenges, we uncover a special need to focus on “tactful” explanations when addressing users’ personal relationships within a group and to focus on personalized reassuring explanations that encourage users to accept the presented recommendations. Besides, the resulting intelligent system significatively increases users’ intent (likelihood) to follow the recommendations, users’ satisfaction and the system’s efficiency and trustworthiness. zitiert von 5
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(2017): Moral Learning. Conceptual foundations and normative relevance. In: Cognition 167, S. 172-190. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.08.015
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27601269 Abstract: What is distinctive about a bringing a learning perspective to moral psychology? Part of the answer lies in the remarkable transformations that have taken place in learning theory over the past two decades, which have revealed how powerful experience-based learning can be in the acquisition of abstract causal and evaluative representations, including generative models capable of attuning perception, cognition, affect, and action to the physical and social environment. When conjoined with developments in neuroscience, these advances in learning theory permit a rethinking of fundamental questions about the acquisition of moral understanding and its role in the guidance of behavior. For example, recent research indicates that spatial learning and navigation involve the formation of non-perspectival as well as ego-centric models of the physical environment, and that spatial representations are combined with learned information about risk and reward to guide choice and potentiate further learning. Research on infants provides evidence that they form non-perspectival expected-value representations of agents and actions as well, which help them to navigate the human environment. Such representations can be formed by highly-general mental processes such as causal and empathic simulation, and thus afford a foundation for spontaneous moral learning and action that requires no innate moral faculty and can exhibit substantial autonomy with respect to community norms. If moral learning is indeed integral with the acquisition and updating of casual and evaluative models, this affords a new way of understanding well-known but seemingly puzzling patterns in intuitive moral judgment-including the notorious "trolley problems."
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(2017) : Work-family conflict and positive spillover: Examining the interaction of gender, gender-role ideology, and national gender equity culture. In: Korabik, Karen: The Work-Family Interface in Global Context: Milton: Taylor and Francis, S. 392-417
Abstract: The aim of this chapter was to uncover the main and interaction effects of gender, gender-role attitudes, and macro aspects of a country's gender culture on W-F interface dependent variables. Thus, two broader sets of gender-related variables— gender-role ideology (GRI) and national gender equity (NGE)—were included in analyses, besides physical gender, in order to extend our understanding of the role of gender in the W-F interface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
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Rauh, Andreas (2017): Fremdheit und Interkulturalität. Aspekte kultureller Pluralität. Bielefeld: Transcript (Edition Kulturwissenschaft)
Abstract: Welche Bedeutung hat das Fremde für die eigene Kultur und wie lässt es sich übersetzen? Wo liegen Möglichkeiten und Grenzen eines erkennenden Zugangs und auf welchen kulturellen Deutungsmustern basieren Heterogenität und Homogenität? Welche Rolle hat die eigene Normalitätserwartung und was wäre eine interkulturelle Kompetenz?0Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge aus Philosophiegeschichte, Bildungsethnologie, Erziehungswissenschaft, Entwicklungspsychologie und -soziologie, die Fremdheit und Interkulturalität als grundlegende Dimensionen gegenwärtiger Kulturerfahrung analysieren.
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Recognition, International Workshop on Context Based Affect (2017): 2017 Seventh International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW). 23-26 Oct. 2017. 2017 Seventh International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW). San Antonio, TX, 10/23/2017 - 10/26/2017. International Workshop on Context Based Affect Recognition (CBAR); Design for Affective Intelligence Workshop (DfAI); International Workshop on Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media (ESSEM); Workshop on Tools and Algorithms for Mental Health and Wellbeing, Pain, and Distress (MHWPD); International Workshop on Automatic Sentiment Analysis in the Wild (WASA); Demos; International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction; Acii. [Piscataway, NJ]: IEEE
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(2017): A Social Recognition Approach to Autonomy. The Role of Equality-Based Respect. In: Personality & social psychology bulletin 43 (4), S. 479-492. DOI: 10.1177/0146167216688212
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28903658 Abstract: Inspired by philosophical reasoning about the connection between equality and freedom, we examined whether experiences of (equality-based) respect increase perceived autonomy. This link was tested with generalized experiences of respect and autonomy people make in their daily lives (Study 1) and with more specific experiences of employees at the workplace (Study 2). In both studies, respect strongly and independently contributed to perceived autonomy over and above other forms of social recognition (need-based care and achievement-based social esteem) and further affected (life/work) satisfaction. Study 3 experimentally confirmed the hypothesized causal influence of respect on perceived autonomy and demonstrated that this effect further translates into social cooperation. The respect-cooperation link was simultaneously mediated by perceived autonomy and superordinate collective identification. We discuss how the recognition approach, which differentiates between respect, care, and social esteem, can enrich research on autonomy.
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(2017): The relationship between gender and mobile technology use in collaborative learning settings. An empirical investigation. In: Computers & Education 113, S. 61-74. DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2017.05.005
Abstract: Mobile technology offers educators new potential for course and learning material construction. Empirical best practices research is scarce, particularly in secondary and higher education settings. This article provides a field experiment using a 2 (individual vs. group) x 2 (text vs. video) design in a secondary school context with students engaged in learning activities related to either text or video content on mobile devices. We structured material to benefit either individual or collaborative learning practices and examined gender as a critical factor to understand ways to improve teaching approaches. The study used an ANOVA with repeated measures to understand impacts of various attributes on outcomes such as material experience duration, perceived peer influenced learning, satisfaction, perceived understanding, and performance. This study provides empirical evidence in a mobile learning environment that suggests female students engaged in group learning modes, supported with video material, had different engagement patterns than male students. Females spent more time in the application consistent with earlier research suggesting females are more likely to use strategies such as active listening, asking questions, and soliciting input. In addition, female students engaged in group learning mode, supported with video material, had higher peer-influenced learning scores than male students. Holistically, this evidence supports the view that females use learning strategies that benefit from group learning and features provided by mobile technologies. The results help direct future research regarding design and implementation of learning in secondary school settings and may help remove gender disparities. zitiert von 2
Keywords: Cooperative/collaborative learning, Gender, Gender Studies, Geschlechterforschung, Gruppenverhalten, Human-computer interface, Improving classroom teaching, Lerntheorien, Mensch-Technik-Relation, Mobile learning, Multimedia/hypermedia systems, science direct, Secondary education, Teaching/learning strategies -
(2017): Gesundheits-Roboter für Senior/innen: neue Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien in der alternden Gesellschaft. Online verfügbar unter https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00031723, zuletzt geprüft am 11.11.2019
Abstract: Die Dissertation nimmt die Vision einer roboterunterstützten Gesundheits-Assistenz älterer Menschen hinsichtlich der Gesundheitskommunikation in den Blick. Dazu wurde eine Roboter-Plattform durch Senior/innen im Rahmen einer Fallstudie in mehrtägigen Feldtests evaluiert. Zur weiteren Konkretisierung der Vision wurde ermittelt, wie sich ein Gesundheits-Roboter langfristig in Alltag und Tageslaufstrukturen älterer Menschen einfügen sollte. Die so entwickelten Personas wurden mittels Szenario-Technik zu drei normativen, narrativen Nutzungs-Szenarien verknüpft und abschließend durch Fachleute wie Laien diskutiert. Im Ergebnis konnten überindividuelle Anknüpfungspunkte zur bedarfsgerechten Gestaltung und Integration in Tagesverläufe identifiziert werden. Es zeigte sich, dass Gesundheits-Roboter mit Chancen für Gesundheit, gesellschaftliche Partizipation, interpersonale Kommunikation und einem konkreten Nutzen für die selbstständige Lebensführung, aber auch mit Risiken verknüpft werden.
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(2017): Altruistic behavior in cohesive social groups. The role of target identifiability. In: PLoS one 12 (11). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187903
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29161282 Abstract: People's tendency to be more generous toward identifiable victims than toward unidentifiable or statistical victims is known as the Identifiable Victim Effect. Recent research has called the generality of this effect into question, showing that in cross-national contexts, identifiability mostly affects willingness to help victims of one's own "in-group." Furthermore, in inter-group conflict situations, identifiability increased generosity toward a member of the adversary group, but decreased generosity toward a member of one's own group. In the present research we examine the role of group-cohesiveness as an underlying factor accounting for these divergent findings. In particular, we examined novel groups generated in the lab, using the minimal group paradigm, as well as natural groups of students in regular exercise sections. Allocation decisions in dictator games revealed that a group's cohesiveness affects generosity toward in-group and out-group recipients differently, depending on their identifiability. In particular, in cohesive groups the identification of an in-group recipient decreased, rather than increased generosity.
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Ritter, Joachim; Gründer, Karlfried; Gabriel, Gottfried (Hg.) (2017): Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie online. Basel: Schwabe Verlag. Online verfügbar unter http://www.schwabeonline.ch/
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(2017): TERESA: Socially intelligent robot as window to the world. In: Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking 20 (5). DOI: 10.1089/cyber.2017.29072.ceu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2017.29072.ceu Abstract: This column aims to describe the characteristics of current cyberpsychology research in Europe. In particular, CyberEurope aims at describing the leading research groups and projects running on the other side of the Ocean. The researchers have developed methods that enable the robots to perform social functions automatically, so that the human controller never needs to make decisions about how the robot should move around or what postures it should adopt. TERESA robots are able to navigate semi-autonomously, maintaining face-to-face contact during conversations, and displaying appropriate body-pose behavior—in a similar way to human beings. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
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(2017): Variations in judgments of intentional action and moral evaluation across eight cultures. In: Cognition 164, S. 22-30. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.02.012
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28364713 Abstract: Individuals tend to judge bad side effects as more intentional than good side effects (the Knobe or sideeffect effect). Here, we assessed how widespread these findings are by testing eleven adult cohorts of eight highly contrasted cultures on their attributions of intentional action as well as ratings of blame and praise. We found limited generalizability of the original side-effect effect, and even a reversal of the effect in two rural, traditional cultures (Samoa and Vanuatu) where participants were more likely to judge the good side effect as intentional. Three follow-up experiments indicate that this reversal of the side-effect effect is not due to semantics and may be linked to the perception of the status of the protagonist. These results highlight the importance of factoring cultural context in our understanding of moral cognition. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved) zitiert von: 2
Keywords: 80 and over, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Costa Rica, Cross-Cultural Comparison, cross-cultural psychology, Culture, Honduras, Humans, Intention, Intentional action, Judgment, Kognitionswissenschaften, Kulturelle Unterschiede, Kulturforschung, Mexico, Middle Aged, Moral, Moral cognition, Moral evaluation, Morals, Republic of Korea, Samoa, Side-effect effect, Social Perception, United States, Vanuatu, Young Adult -
(2017): Of Tooth and Claw. Predator Self-Identifications Mediate Gender Differences in Interpersonal Arrogance. In: Sex Roles 77 (3-4), S. 272-286. DOI: 10.1007/s11199-016-0706-y
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-016-0706-y Abstract: Men often score higher than women do on traits or tendencies marked by hostile dominance. The purpose of the present research was to contribute to an understanding of these gender differences. Four studies (total N = 494 U.S. undergraduates) administered a modified animal preference test in which participants could choose to be predator or prey animals, but not labeled as such. Men were consistently more interested in being predator animals than women were, displaying a sort of hostile dominance in their projective preferences. Predator self-identifications, in turn, mediated gender differences in outcomes related to hostile dominance. Studies 1 and 2 provided initial evidence for this model in the context of variations in interpersonal arrogance, and Studies 3 and 4 extended the model to nonverbal displays and daily life prosociality, respectively. The findings indicate that gender differences in hostile dominance are paralleled by gender differences in preferring to thi nk about the self in predator-like terms. Accordingly, the findings provide new insights into aggressive forms of masculine behavior. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved) zitiert von 2
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(2017): Self-prophecies and cognitive dissonance. Habit, norms and justification of past behavior. In: North American Journal of Psychology, S. 65-86
Abstract: Asking someone to predict his/her behavior increases the probability that it will occur. We tested the production of dissonance in the paradigm of self-prophecies by clarifying the role of past behavior and normative beliefs. We also tested the effects of justifying transgressions as a way of reducing dissonance in a situation of prediction. Habit and normative beliefs about recycling were measured. The results showed that self-prophecies are a source of psychological discomfort only when the recycling habit is weak. The psychological discomfort experienced is reduced when the participants had the opportunity to justify their transgressions. Our measures enabled us to test the effects of the level of inconsistency between habit and normative beliefs on psychological discomfort. The results showed that psychological discomfort is determined by a high level of inconsistency between habit and normative beliefs. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
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(2017) : On how self-body awareness improves autonomy in social robots: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO): Parisian Macao, China: IEEE, S. 1688-1693
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2017.8324661 Abstract: Just as humans show consciousness of their body, social robots, in the way to be truly autonomous need to be aware of their body posture. Feasible gestures, moves and actions depend on the current body posture. The work developed in this paper aims to empirically show how self configuration recognition augments the degree of autonomy of a robot in the context of entertainment robotics. The integration of a classification tree for body posture identification based on data acquired from proprioceptive sensors of a NAO robot allows to interact with the robot in a more flexible and persistent manner. As a result, the robot shows a more sound behavior and greater degree of autonomy. Moreover, even if the body-awareness has been developed for minstrel robots, its application can be generalized to other contexts.
Keywords: body posture identification, current body posture, Decision trees, Entertainment industry, entertainment robotics, Gesture recognition, Humanoid Robots, ieee xplore, Künstliche Intelligenz, Legged locomotion, minstrel robots, NAO robot, Robot kinematics, Robot sensing systems, self configuration recognition, self-body awareness, social robots