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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Social Preference"”.
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Essays on Social Preference
… essays related to experimental investigation of social preference. We investigate the effects of a pure income effect on social preference in the first essay. In the second essay we explore the effects of gender in altruism and the corresponding anticipation behavior. The third essay discusses …
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Children's cross-ethnicity relations in elementary schools: concurrent and prospective associations between ethnic segregation and social status
… group segregation, cross-ethnicity dislike, and social status in 4th and 5th grade classrooms. Primary study questions asked whether ethnic segregation is concurrently (i.e., Fall) and/or prospectively (i.e., Fall to Spring) associated with social preference and perceived popularity as viewed by …
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Longitudinal relationships between children's popularity and social behaviors: the effects of friendship network structures and teacher's knowledge of classroom peer ecologies
… classrooms on longitudinal relationships between social behaviors and popularity. Longitudinal multilevel analyses with two-time points (fall and spring) were conducted on a sample of 901 fourth- and fifth-graders from 46 classrooms. At the individual level, prior aggression was a positive …
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Children's Use of Accent as a Cue for Cooperative Potential
… have shown that 5- and 6-year-old children make social judgments based on accent, consistently displaying a social preference for individuals who speak with a native accent. One theory hypothesizes that this preference to favor individuals who speak like us stems from our evolutionary history, …
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A Relationship Between Physical Fitness and Social and Academic Achievement of Junior High School Girls
… between the physical fitness test scores and social preference scores as indicated by a sociometric test.
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Children’s Social Judgments of Others on the Basis of Dialect-Specific Vocabulary
… speak similarly to them. Children demonstrate social preferences for speakers of their own native language over speakers of a non-native language as well as for speakers of a familiar accent over speakers of an unfamiliar accent. Recent research suggests that young children will similarly show …
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Socioecology, Acoustic Communication and Demography of Asian Elephants in Sri Lanka
… across species brings to light the underlying social and ecological factors that have shaped social organization and communication. Elephantids, the only living members of the Proboscidean clade are cognitively sophisticated, long-lived, putatively social mammals. I examine how vocal …
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Stress And Social Relationships: The Role Of Corticosterone In The Formation And Maintenance Of Pair Bonds In The Monogamous Zebra Finch (taeniopygia Guttata)
<p>Stress and affiliative social relationships are bi-directionally related. It is well understood that social relationships can buffer the physiological response to a stressor. Conversely, there is some evidence to suggest that stress can affect the propensity to form a pair bond. Data from humans …
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Identification, signaling and exploitation of social preferences: An experimental analysis
The Doctoral dissertation centers on social preferences. Three experimental studies address the identification methods and the implications of distributional preference types and pro-sociality on economic decision-making. In Chapter 1, the identification of social preference types using …
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Peer Acceptance in the Lunchroom and Children’s Internalizing Symptoms
… more traditional measures of classroom-based social preference. As expected, self-rated lunchtime liking in the fall semester significantly predicted both depressive and social anxiety symptoms in the spring semester of one school year; these predictions were similar for boys versus girls. …
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Influence of Peer Group Norms on Aggression in Early Adolescence
… and that this influence is mediated by social status. Participants were 647 Chilean 5th and 6th graders. Children were followed over a one-year period. Peer nominations on aggression, social preference and peer perceived popularity were collected. Social networks were derived through …
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Orbitofrontal Cortex and Social Processing in Rodent Models
Social processing is the reception, interpretation, and reciprocation of social information and is critical for mental health. The neural structures, circuits, and substrates regulating these complex mechanisms are not well understood. Social processing in the form of social safety learning, as …
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Social defeat and oxytocin regulation of social avoidance and stress-related signaling proteins
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is one of the most common and disabling anxiety disorders. SAD is characterized by generalized social avoidance and high comorbidity with other psychiatric disorders. Despite its adverse prognosis, the molecular mechanism underlying this condition and its high …
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Contextual Influences on Peer Acceptance and the Social Behavior of Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities
Much attention has been paid to the social behavior of individuals with Intellectual Disability (IDs) due in part to its relevance to quality of life. Deficiencies in social skills are comamong persons with IDs and may include problem behaviors such as withdrawal, aggression, and difficulty …
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Resource control and social dominance in early childhood – behavioural, cognitive and affective factors in the first year at school
Social dominance in early childhood has traditionally been viewed as a social status based on aggression. However, through the lens of resource control theory, social dominance is attained via acquisition of resources (e.g. toys, friendship), which can be achieved via any behavioural means – …
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Infectious disease as a cause and consequence of phenotypic responses to challenge in a songbird species
… a challenge in itself and asked how individual social preferences were shifted by MG infection. I demonstrated that MG-infected house finches showed augmented sociality relative to control birds, choosing to spend more time with a group of conspecifics than alone. Because this increased social …
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Children's Understanding of the Emotions of Victims and Victimizers: Developmental and Peer Status Differences
… rejection include distinctive behavioral and social cognitive patterns. Research has shown that rejected/aggressive children's thinking about social situations with peers contributes to a pattern of antisocial behavior. In particular, rejected/aggressive children demonstrate deficits in each …
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Essays in Behavioral Game Theory
… sub-optimal decisions (bounded rationality) and preferences which may depend on the well-being of others (social preferences). In this dissertation, I examine how bounded rationality and social preferences affect strategic decisions and outcomes in a variety of settings of economic interest, …
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Prenatal Environmental Stressors Impair Postnatal Microglia Function and Adult Behavior in Males
… disorders and is characterized by deficits in social and communication behavior along with repetitive interests. Large scale genetic studies implicate synaptic dysfunction as a mechanism for disease pathogenesis, and increasingly is accompanied by immune dysfunction. Microglia are the primary …
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Adult behaviour and cerebral cell densities after maternal or post-weaning consumption of an obesogenic diet in mice
… open field (for anxiety and locomotion), social interaction (for social preference) and novel object recognition (for object recognition memory) tasks. At 14 weeks of age, the offspring were killed and their brain collected for regional analysis of neuron and glia densities. Behavioural …
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