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Social Influences on Inequity Aversion in Children
(Public Library of Science, 2013-11-21)
Adults and children are willing to sacrifice personal gain to avoid both disadvantageous and advantageous inequity. These two forms of inequity aversion follow different developmental trajectories, with disadvantageous ...
Memory for Emotional Simulations: Remembering a Rosy Future
(SAGE Publications, 2012)
Mental simulations of future experiences are often concerned with emotionally arousing events. Although it is widely believed that mental simulations enhance future behavior, virtually nothing is known about the mnemonic ...
Adaptive constructive processes and the future of memory
(American Psychological Association, 2012)
Memory serves critical functions in everyday life, but is also prone to error. This article examines adaptive constructive processes, which play a functional role in memory and cognition but can also produce distortions, ...
The Policy Context of Torture: A Social-Psychological Analysis
(Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Acts of torture are conceptualized as crimes of obedience, which are inevitably linked to crimes at higher levels of the hierarchy, where orders are issued, policy is formulated, and the atmosphere conducive to acts of ...
Melting Lizards and Crying Mailboxes: Children's Preferential Recall of Minimally Counterintuitive Concepts
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
Previous research with adults suggests that a catalog of minimally counterintuitive concepts, which underlies supernatural or religious concepts, may constitute a cognitive optimum and is therefore cognitively encoded and ...
Social-Cognitive Contributors to Young Children’s Empathic and Prosocial Behavior
(MIT Press, 2011)
This chapter discusses motivational factors and the contributors responsible for the empathic and prosocial behavior of young children. The reasons that people engage in prosocial behaviors, including self-benefit and ...
Differences in cognitive processes underlying the collaborative activities of children and chimpanzees
(Elsevier BV, 2012)
We compared the performance of 3- and 5-year-old children with that of chimpanzees in two tasks requiring collaboration via complementary roles. In both tasks, children and chimpanzees were able to coordinate two complementary ...
Explaining human multiple object tracking as resource-constrained approximate inference in a dynamic probabilistic model
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2009)
Multiple object tracking is a task commonly used to investigate the architecture of human visual attention. Human participants show a distinctive pattern of suc- cesses and failures in tracking experiments that is often ...
Modeling Visual Working Memory with the MemToolbox
(Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), 2013)
The MemToolbox is a collection of MATLAB functions for modeling visual working memory. In support of its goal to provide a full suite of data analysis tools, the toolbox includes implementations of popular models of visual ...
Core Social Cognition
(Oxford University Press, 2013)
Research on human infants and young children has provided evidence for five systems of core knowledge: knowledge of objects and their motions; of agents and their goal-directed actions; of number and the operations of ...