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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Social Reasoning"”.
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social anxiety and social reasoning in peer-rejected children
… & Bukowski, 1997). The current study examined social reasoning ability, social context, social anxiety, social goals, and feelings of self-efficacy in social situations with nonaggressive peer rejected males and females in comparison to males and females of average peer status. The results of …
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Social reasoning, negative emotionality, and emotion understanding in rejected aggressive children
… study investigated the relationship between social reasoning ability, negative emotionality, and emotion understanding in different subtypes of rejected aggressive children. Eighty-five 4th, 5th, and 6th grade boys and girls identified through peer nomination as rejected overtly aggressive, …
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The science of social reasoning and decision making: foundations of a new social-liberal theory.
… to current debates – libertarian theory and social-liberal theory. In particular, it examines how representative theories on both sides are based on claims about our human nature as reasoning, self- determining, individual agents; and claims about how this nature may be fulsomely expressed or …
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The inner life of goals : costs, rewards, and commonsense psychology
… theory that enables us to thrive in our social world. In this thesis I propose that children build their commonsense psychology around a basic assumption that agents choose goals and actions by quantifying, comparing, and maximizing utilities. This naive utility calculus generalizes …
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Investigating children’s perspective taking and normative frames of social understanding: A critical design ethnographic study of teacher-led dialogue around stories in early years’ classrooms
Abstract Social communication with adults and peers supports children to play a shared, active, and reflective role in negotiating meaning and making sense of their own social experiences. Through these conversations, children begin to adopt narrative structures, heuristics and rules which help …
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Neural language models and human linguistic knowledge
… tasks which are hypothesized to require social reasoning (e.g., inferring a speaker's intended meaning from ironic statements). These findings suggest that certain aspects of linguistic knowledge could emerge through domain-general prediction mechanisms, while other aspects may require …
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Programmable Expressiveness in Non-Social Tasks: A Mixed-Methods Study of Middle School AI Learning
… robotics. While prior research shows benefits in socially-oriented tasks like storytelling or group collaboration, it remains unclear how student-controlled expressive blocks affect learning when the task itself is non-social. This study isolates the impact of such features in a context where …
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Modeling cognition with probabilistic programs : representations and algorithms
… programs in the domains of concept learning and social reasoning. I provide examples of richly structured concepts, defined in terms of systems of relations, subparts, and recursive embeddings, that are naturally expressed as programs and show initial experimental evidence that they match human …
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Developing a Theory of Mind : insights from FMRI studies of children
Social cognitive abilities undergo drastic changes throughout childhood. Theory of mind (ToM), the ability to reason about the mental states of others, is a core social cognitive ability that is crucial for navigating the social world. A majority of prior fMRI research on ToM has characterized the …
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Three problems of folk psychology: meaning, character, and domain
… Simulationists argue that what underwrites our social reasoning is a capacity to simulate the way others think and act. I suggest that slow progress on this debate can be blamed on fundamental misunderstandings of core concepts that produce ill-posed questions and bad ways of addressing …