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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"social valuation"”.
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Neural Circuitry of Social Valuation
… particular outcomes, and the consequences of social interactions. Here, across three independent studies, I focus on the neural circuitry supporting social valuation — which shapes our social interactions and interpersonal choices. In the first study (Chapter 2), I demonstrate that …
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Contest, social valuation and change in American labor-union organizing, 1961-2004
… of how categories are used in the process of social valuation and how changes in valuation can help organizational sociologists understand why category systems can suddenly change. In the third essay (co-authored with Thomas A. Kochan and Lucio Baccaro) I discuss other historical episodes …
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Costly Signaling and Social Valuation: A Multi-Method Examination of Social Information Processing
… and to spend more of their resources to signal social status. Marketers might look at these effects and see them as evidence of the old business adage, 'Sex Sells.' This adage is consistent with a reward sensitive perspective from psychology and neuroscience: attractive individuals of the …
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Understanding social function in psychiatric illnesses through computational modeling and multiplayer games
Impaired social functioning conferred by mental illnesses has been constantly implicated in previous literatures. However, studies of social abnormalities in psychiatric conditions are often challenged by the difficulties of formalizing dynamic social exchanges and quantifying their neurocognitive …
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The Meanings of New Money: Social Constructions of Value in the Rise of Digital Currencies
… to the world: Bitcoin. As its collective valuation has risen into the billions (USD), it has brought with it a sustained disruption to some of the most deeply taken-for-granted aspects of modern life: money and value. This dissertation undertakes a set of interrelated investigations into …
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The Neurobiology of Social Cognition: Role of the Posterior Cingulate Cortex
… biased towards gathering and processing the social information present in the world. In fact, the neural network that mediates our engagement with the external world - the default mode network (DMN) ¬- is strongly convergent with the neural circuitry for social cognition. The posterior …
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Evaluating Justice: Indigenous Communities and Environmental Litigation in Australia and New Zealand
A discernible gap between economic and legal valuation of environment has been revealed by materials brought before specialist environmental courts worldwide. While economic valuations have a significant role in quantifying environmental harms, the literature available on methods and legal tools …
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Max Scheler's Critical Theory: The Idea of Critical Phenomenology
… of phenomenology to work for the sake of social critique. I argue that phenomenology gains a critical edge precisely where many critical theorists suggest phenomenology withdraws from a critical function: on the basis of their theory of intuition. While Adorno takes phenomenological …
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When commitment matters : essays on social evaluation and its market outcomes
… Gosline and Ezra Zuckerman) illustrates that social valuation plays a role in shaping consumers' social acceptance of technological innovation. In this paper, we investigate a technological innovation in diamond production, namely, labmade diamonds. While this provides a more efficient way of …