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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"social motivation"”.
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Measuring Social Motivation in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Development of the Social Motivation Interview
Social motivation in individuals with ASD is currently derived from the observation of overt behaviors and neurological correlates, from which motivational processes are inferred. Motivation, however, is not the same as behavior, and most theoretical conceptualization of the construct assign …
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Profiles of Internalizing Symptomatology and Social Motivation in Youth with ASD
… is known about how these symptoms may relate to social motivation, a key construct in the etiology of ASD. The aim of the current study was to examine patterns of anxiety, depression, ASD symptomatology, and social motivation in youth with ASD. Using a large public dataset of well-characterized …
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Facial Processing and Social Motivation In Psychopathy: An Event-Related Potential Study
… potentials (ERPs) that are related to social, interpersonal functioning and motivation to help elucidate what aspects of psychopathy and ASD are overlapping or unique to support the perspective of psychopathy as an interpersonal disorder. Psychopathic traits were examined in relation to …
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Translating social motivation into action: The contributions of need for approval to social outcomes in elementary school
… need for approval from peers influenced their social behavior (prosocial behavior, overt and relational aggression, and avoidant behavior) as well as how peers respond to them (popularity, victimization, and exclusion) across a one year span. Need for approval was conceptualized as either the …
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The biological bases of social deficits: the roles of social motivation, theory of mind, and selected genotypes (OPRM1, 5-HTTLPR) in autism spectrum disorder
… two prominent psychological theories, the Social Motivation Theory for ASD (Panksepp, 1979) and the ToM Theory for ASD (Baron-Cohen et al., 1985), and selected an ASD candidate gene that was likely implicated in each of these theories, namely the mu-opioid receptor gene (OPRM1) and the …
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Socially Motivated Vocal Learning
Language is social because the motivation to communicate is contingent on the presence of social conspecifics. This thesis studies vocal learning in two social species, humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) and an oscine songbird, the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata). Using both behavioral and …
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The other-race effect in face recognition: Perceptual, social-psychological and development insights
… two specific questions are addressed: whether social-motivation or perceptual experience (contact) contributes to the ORE; and whether plasticity of face recognition for face subtypes (specific races) is greater in childhood than in adulthood. My first empirical paper (Chapter 3) investigates …
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The other-race effect in face recognition: Perceptual, social-psychological and development insights
… two specific questions are addressed: whether social-motivation or perceptual experience (contact) contributes to the ORE; and whether plasticity of face recognition for face subtypes (specific races) is greater in childhood than in adulthood. My first empirical paper (Chapter 3) investigates …
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Motivational processes underlying gender gaps in school engagement and achievement
… presents three studies (N = 1,668) to unpack the motivational processes underlying the gender gap in school engagement and achievement, including gender differences in academic motivation (Study 1), gender differences in social motivation (Study 2), and a conflict between gender roles and school …
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Social skills and attributions of Asperger's Syndrome
… a single subject design (a) measuring where in social skills ability, a male high school student diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, is deficient based off of 5 subscales of social skills and then (b) creating an intervention focused on improving the areas of weakness to help the student …
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Examing the effects of apology and compensation on participants' perceptions of exonerees.
… & Cook, 2010). Using Weiner’s (1993) theory of social motivation, we investigated whether apology or compensation influenced perceptions of exonerees. Participants read vignettes detailing the release of an exoneree with a video component added in the second study. Study One manipulated exoneree …
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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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Gamemania: What Makes A Virtual Existence So Seductive?
… the online environment, as well as certain gamer motivations (achievement, social, escape) are the main causes of gamemania. However, whether excessive gaming becomes addiction also depends upon the consumers' self-regulation mechanisms. Most of the hypotheses were supported except for those …
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Beliefs About the Causes of Social Success: Development During Early Adolescence, Consequences for Students' Social Goals, and Variations by Gender and Ethnicity
… investigated the development of beliefs about social success and the impact of beliefs on subsequent social goals (dominance, popularity and intimacy) for early adolescents in urban, low-income schools. Self-reports of beliefs about social success in the fall of the sixth grade were used to …
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Measuring pro-social message in job postings using machine learning
… by monetary compensation alone, the meaning and social effects of the work also matter. Pro-social motivation, the desire to have a positive impact on other people or social collectives also play an important role in job searching. On the other hand, organizations also have many incentives to …
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Functional Connectivity of Reward Networks: Characterizing Mechanistic Underpinnings Involved in Positive Affect Deficits within Social Anxiety Disorder
Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is characterized by excessive concern or fear of negative evaluation in one or more social situations and ranks as one of the most common psychiatric disorders. SAD has also been characterized by significant deficits in social motivation and a lack of reactivity to …
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Equine-assisted activities and therapies for children with autism spectrum disorders
… OTee on occupational performance, behavior, and social functioning of eight children with ASD. The qualitative strand adopted a generic qualitative research approach; I conducted interviews with two occupational therapists, aimed at elucidating the theoretical rationale guiding OTee for children …
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The prison of online performance: social achievement goals as a buffer between social media and digital stress
The increasing integration of social media into daily life has raised concern about its psychological consequences, particularly for young adults navigating self-presentation and social validation online. This dissertation investigates how individual differences in social achievement goal …
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The Impact of Motivation on Object-Based Visual Attention Indexed by Continuous Flash Suppression.
Motivationally-relevant stimuli summon our attention and benefit from enhanced processing, but the neural mechanisms underlying this prioritization are not well understood. Using an interocular suppression technique and functional neuroimaging, this work has the ultimate aim of understanding how …
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