Alterations in Rapid Social Evaluations in Individuals with High Autism Traits
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DOI: 10.1007/s10803-020-04795-8
Abstract: Typically developing adults with low and high Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) scores made rapid social evaluations of neutral faces when these were primed by briefly presented emotional faces. High AQ participants rated neutral faces as… read more here.
Keywords: autism traits; autism; rapid social; high autism ... See more keywords
Giving a larger amount or a larger proportion: Stimulus format impacts children's social evaluations.
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DOI: 10.1037/dev0001121
Abstract: Young children show remarkably sophisticated abilities to evaluate others. Yet their abilities to engage in proportional moral evaluation undergoes protracted development. Namely, young children evaluate someone who shares absolutely more as being "nicer" than someone… read more here.
Keywords: giving larger; children social; larger amount; proportion ... See more keywords
The ventromedial prefrontal cortex is particularly responsive to social evaluations requiring the use of person-knowledge
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-41544-z
Abstract: Humans can rely on diverse sources of information to evaluate others, including knowledge (e.g., occupation, likes and dislikes, education, etc.) and perceptual cues (e.g., attractiveness, race, etc.). Previous research has identified brain regions supporting person… read more here.
Keywords: person knowledge; availability person; ventromedial prefrontal; person ... See more keywords
Toddlers' Social Evaluations of Agents Who Act on False Beliefs.
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DOI: 10.1111/desc.13314
Abstract: Mature social evaluations privilege agents' intentions over the outcomes of their actions, but young children often privilege outcomes over intentions in verbal tasks probing their social evaluations. In three experiments (N = 118), we probed the development… read more here.
Keywords: false beliefs; opened box; agent; desired toy ... See more keywords
Being nice by choice: The effect of counterfactual reasoning on children's social evaluations.
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DOI: 10.1111/desc.13394
Abstract: The ability to engage in counterfactual thinking (reason about what else could have happened) is critical to learning, agency, and social evaluation. However, not much is known about how individual differences in counterfactual reasoning may… read more here.
Keywords: children social; choice; character; social evaluations ... See more keywords