Social Interaction Situations Research Articles

Спектр трудных жизненных ситуаций и стилей их преодоления подростками из семей мигрантов (на материале школьных трудностей)

Спектр трудных жизненных ситуаций и стилей их преодоления подростками из семей мигрантов (на материале школьных трудностей)

Репертуар трудных ситуаций социального взаимодействия подростков из семей мигрантов

Репертуар трудных ситуаций социального взаимодействия подростков из семей мигрантов

Pandemics, Delays, and Pure Data: on ‘afterlives’ (2020), for Flute and Live Electronics and Visuals

The essay addresses creative and technical aspects of the piece ‘afterlives’ (2020), for flute and live electronics and visuals. Composed and premiered in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the composition employs audiovisual processes based on different audiovisual techniques: phase-vocoders, buffer-based granulations, Ambisonics spatialization, and variable delay of video streams. The resulting sounds and images allude to typical situations of social interaction via video conferencing applications. ‘Afterlives’ relies on an interplay between current, almost-current, and past moments of the audiovisual streams, which dephase the performer’s images and sounds. I have avoided, in text, delving deeper into the Pure Data abstractions and or into the musical analysis of my composition. The main purpose of the text is rather to present compositional/technical elements of ‘afterlives’ and discuss how they enable new experiences of time.

Self-image and self-focused attention in a social interaction situation: what is relevant for social anxiety?

According to Clark and Wells' cognitive model (Clark and Wells, 1995), social anxiety is maintained by both a negative self-image and self-focused attention (SFA). Although these maintaining factors were investigated extensively in previous studies, the direction of this relationship remains unclear, and so far, few studies have investigated self-image and SFA together within a current social interaction situation. The aim of this experiment is to investigate the influence of a negative versus positive self-image on social anxiety and on SFA during a social interaction. High (n = 27) and low (n = 36) socially anxious participants, holding a manipulated negative versus positive self-image in mind, had a real-time video conversation with a confederate. Social anxiety, SFA and state anxiety before and during the conversation were measured with questionnaires. An interaction between negative self-image and social anxiety showed that high socially anxious individuals with a negative self-image in mind were more anxious than those with a positive self-image in mind during the conversation. They were also more anxious compared with low socially anxious individuals. Furthermore, high socially anxious individuals reported higher SFA; however, SFA was not affected by negative or positive self-image. The present results confirm once again the strong influence of self-image and SFA on social anxiety, highlighting that a negative self-image has more impact on socially anxious individuals. Moreover, the present results suggest that SFA is not necessarily affected by a negative self-image, indicating that therapies should focus on both.

Emotions in social interactions in pre-service teachers’ team practica

ABSTRACT Emotions are significant in the process of becoming a teacher, especially during the teaching practicum. While studies have repeatedly shown that pupils impact the emotional experiences of student teachers, little is known about student teacher emotions that are triggered by social interactions with their mentor teacher and their team partner. This is the focus of the present research. It is investigated: (1) which emotions are experienced in social interaction situations in the practicum, (2) which factors trigger these emotions, and (3) based on self-determination theory, how the evoked emotions are linked to the fulfilment of basic psychological needs. In order to explore these research questions, semi-structured qualitative interviews with 27 Swiss student teachers were conducted. Thematic qualitative text analysis shows that in different interaction situations, such as successful teaching-related cooperation, support, positive feedback, and goodwill of the mentor teacher, positive emotions are triggered, which are strongly connected to need fulfilment. On the contrary, situations of failed communication, negative feedback, and lack of support are related to need threat and evoke negative emotions. This study shows the importance of emotions in interaction situations during practica and the need to focus more strongly on emotional dimensions of becoming a teacher in teacher education.

Interbrain Synchrony of Team Collaborative Decision-Making: An fNIRS Hyperscanning Study.

In many situations, decision-making behaviors are mostly composed of team patterns (i.e., more than two persons). However, brain-based models that inform how team interactions contribute and impact team collaborative decision-making (TCDM) behavior, is lacking. To examine the neural substrates activated during TCDM in realistic, interpersonal interaction contexts, dyads were asked to model TCDM toward their opponent, in a multi-person prisoner’s dilemma game, while neural activity was measured using functional near infrared spectroscopy. These experiments resulted in two main findings. First, there are different neural substrates between TCDM and ISDM, which were modulated by social environmental cues. i.e., the low incentive reward yielded higher activation within the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), in individual separately decision-making (ISDM) stage while the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and the middle frontopolar area was activated in TCDM stage. The high incentive reward evoked a higher interbrain synchrony (IBS) value in the right IFG in TCDM stage. Second, males showed higher activation in the DLPFC and the middle frontopolar area during ISDM, while females evoked higher IBS in the right IFG during TCDM. These sex effects suggest that in individual social dilemma situations, males and females may separately depend on non-social and social cognitive ability to make decisions, while in the social interaction situations of TCDM, females may depend on both social and non-social cognitive abilities. This study provide a compelling basis and interesting perspective for future neuroscience work of TCDM behaviors.

Reality–fantasy collapse in schizophrenia vs. neurocognitive impairment during Rorschach’s III card responding

IntroductionAdaptive thinking demands a balance between manifestations of intrapsychic activity and reliance on requirements of the outer reality. Features of responses to Rorschach’s III card could provide information about subject’s ability to preserve the dialectical tension between the two poles of external and internal realities during solving tasks related to interpersonal relationships.ObjectivesTo compare reality-fantasy relations during Rorschach’s III card responding in patients with schizophrenia, neurocognitive impairment and normal subjects.MethodsParticipants were 12 young adult inpatients with schizophrenia, 14 students without mental disorders and 12 inpatients with neurodegenerative diseases of old age. Reality-Fantasy Scale (RFS) was applied to assess responses to Rorschach’s III card. RFS scale ranges from –5 (reality collapse into fantasy) to 5 (fantasy collapse into reality) (Tibon-Czopp et al., 2015).ResultsPatients with schizophrenia (M= –3,38, SD= 1,9) demonstrated tendency to fantasy domination (and reality collapse) if compared with the students (M= –1,47, SD= 2,0, p<0,05). Patients with neurodegenerative diseases (M= 0,75, SD= 2,1), conversely, had difficulties to apply fantasy during solving Rorschach task (p<0,01).ConclusionsExpress Rorschach testing using III card could be useful to provide screening data of thinking tendencies related to situations of social interaction. Also it provides a mental pabulum regarding role of cognitive impairment in schizophrenia in relation to significance of affective dependence of their thinking process.Conflict of interestThe reported study was funded by RFBR, project number 20-013-00772

Social Skill Inventory-2 Del-Prette: expanding and updating psychometric properties

Abstract The aim of this research was to update the psychometric properties of the Del-Prette Social Skills Inventory-2, a measure of social performance in social interaction situations. The sample consisted of 4,250 participants of both sexes aged between 18 and 59 years old (M = 35.85; df = 11.33; 51.1% woman). Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling suggested the adequacy of the internal structure of the original version of the instrument, consisting of five factors: Assertive Conversation, Affective-Sexual Approach, Expression of positive sentiment, Self-Control/Coping, and Social Resourcefulness, all of them with good reliability indicators, alphas higher than 0.774, and measurement invariance indicators across groups as a function of sex and different age ranges. The Partial Credit Model provided the item’s and participant’s parameters: difficulty level/theta and adjustment indices, which were adequate. The results suggest that the inventory is a suitable measure of social skills for professional and research purposes.

СЦЕНАРИИ ВНУТРИИГРОВОЙ ИНТЕРНЕТ-КОММУНИКАЦИИ (НА ПРИМЕРЕ MMORPG «WORLD OF WARCRAFT»)

The game can be viewed as a way of organizing the subjects who carry out communication to perform game tasks. Virtual gaming environments have become commonplace for Internet users. The article examines MMORPG as one of the genres of Internet games, describes typical situations of social interaction between players. The empirical research is carried out on the basis of speech communication between Russian-speaking players in three typical situations (trips to raids and dungeons; trade; intra-guild communication) in MMORPG «World of Warcraft». The findings suggest that typical game situations differ from each other by a set of leading speech genres.

Взаимосвязь умственного развития студентов с морально-нравственными регуляторами социального взаимодействия

Objective. The most important source of stabilization and further development of society is the social activity of citizens. Young people have the greatest potential for this activity. In this regard, it is interesting to study the factors and conditions of social activity of students. Background. For Russia, which experienced a socio-political cataclysm at the end of the last century and is in the stage of “recovery”, the social activity of young people is a source of stabilization and further development. In this regard, it is interesting to study the factors and conditions of social activity of students. Study design. The interrelationships of the level of students’ mental development were investigated, firstly, with the level of acceptance of such moral standards as trust and honesty, and, secondly, with such parameters of social interaction as its significance for the subject and the choice of the method of reaction in a particular situation. Participants. 268 students of three universities wich differ by the level of urbanization of the locality (megapolis, regional centre, district city). The average age of subjects is 19-20 years. Measurements. Test of mental development of adults, questionnaire of trusting relationships, questionnaire of legitimization of dishonesty, method of diagnostics of social interaction (M.K. Akimova, etc.). Results. It is revealed that the level of formation of such mental operations as the ability to generalize, classify, think by analogy and inductively, operate with numbers, is statistically significantly interrelated with the level of trust in oneself and in public institutions, the degree of anxiety in social interaction, as well as with the degree of prevention of such manifestations of dishonesty as theft. The erudition of the subject is interrelated with trust in the state and public institutions. The assessment of the subjective significance of the situation of social interaction and the level of activity in it are also interrelated with certain characteristics of the mental development. Conclusions. There is a cognitive component in the form of the formation of certain mental operations, erudition and the level of general mental development of the subject in the forming of trust and honesty, as well as in assessing the subjective significance of the situation of social interaction and determining the level of activity in it.

Philosophical Hermeneutics and Urban Encounters

Abstract The paper applies Gadamerian hermeneutics to everyday situations of nonverbal social interaction in the urban space. First, relevant aspects of urban encounters are briefly discussed with philosophical hermeneutics’ relation to nonverbal communication and bodily understanding. Second, hermeneutic understanding is presented as conversation, and the ethical implications of hermeneutics are articulated: as philosophical practice, Gadamerian hermeneutics is about intensifying the voice of the other. There is a demand for mutual openness towards otherness. Connected to this attitude required for hermeneutic encounters are the ideas of a cosmopolitan public sphere and an inclusive hermeneutic community. After attending to these, the value of specifically urban encounters can be articulated. Urban context and built environment can in good circumstances assist in encountering the other hermeneutically. The passing communicative situations can be negotiations of meanings and values, instances of public sphere. The urban mass society with its crowds has potentiality to enact an inclusive hermeneutic community. To conclude, the consequences of our failures to engage hermeneutically with each other are discussed in a plea for hermeneutic openness.

Group decision-making behavior in social dilemmas: Inter-brain synchrony and the predictive role of personality traits

There are currently many studies available on individual decision-making (hereafter IDM) behavior; however, there are fewer that investigate how inter-brain social influences are substantiated in group decision-making behavior (hereafter GDM). This study examines the neural substrate of GDM and how an individual's personality affects the inter-brain synchrony of GDM in an economic social interaction situation. We used a functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) hyperscanning system to simultaneously measure pairs of participants' inter-brain synchrony in a GDM game. The fNIRS results showed significant differences in inter-brain synchrony between IDM and GDM. Furthermore, agreeableness as a personality trait seems to be a predictive factor of inter-brain synchrony in GDM, and GDM is also influenced by the combination effect of personality and situation context. This investigation of inter-brain synchrony during group decision-making behavior improves not only our understanding of the neural substrate of group decision-making behavior and the association between personality traits and the neural network underlying GDM, but more generally contributes knowledge to the growing field of social neuroscience and neuroeconomics.

Examination of social interactions by problem behaviours (13 years of longitudinal research)

In this study, social interaction situations of adolescents who were identified as having either high or low problem behaviours (LPB) were investigated. Previously, the Teacher Form of Social Skill Rating System scale was applied to 110 children when they were 6 years old. Accordingly, among these participants, there were 26 adolescents who were 19-year old and were available to become participants of this study. In this study, eight adolescents were interviewed in order to investigate their social interactions based on the previous examination of problem behaviours at the highest or lowest level. Results show that the degree of problem behaviours determined at the age of six was the determinant in the current social interactions of these participants. It was observed that children who were defined with high problem behaviours experienced social breaks, insecurities and problems, whereas those with LPB showed better developed social relationships, such as being successful in coping with problems and having the feelings of trust and competence.
 Keywords: Problem behaviours, externalising, internalising, early childhood, early adulthood.

Social diagnostics of information security of digital society: methodological and regulatory aspects

A holistic expert method of social diagnostics of information security of the Russian society, which in its methodological and regulatory framework is based on the concept of national security, as the ability of state and public institutions to resist threats to the interests of the individual, society and the state has been presented. The essence of digital society as an object of protection from adverse effects at the technological level (computer, software and hardware base of digital communications), as well as at the level of content distributed in the information and communication network “Internet” has been stated. The subjects of virtual communication in terms of their capabilities and practice of protection from adverse information impact have been described. The characteristic of various situations of social interaction, which may be threatened by unauthorized access to personal information – in financial, economic and official relations, – has been given.A separate analysis has been made of the status of officials-subjects of the implementation of state powers in the authorities, which may be particularly vulnerable in the weak regulation © The Author(s), 2019. This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). of malicious dissemination of false information in the information and communication network “Internet”. Special attention has been paid to the substantiation of the possibilities of early detection of information threats to the functioning of basic social institutions – social trust and stability of social relations, solidarity, civilizational identity, interfaith peace and tolerance in a complex society.The author’s methodology has been presented in the article as a sociological research technology that includes the interpretation and operationalization of groups of information threats enshrined in the state concept of national security, the correct application of expert procedures to assess security against these threats, as well as the subsequent mathematical-statistical and logical interpretation of the data obtained. The proposals for the use of methods of social diagnostics of information security in the practice of social management in the process of transformation of modern society on the basis of digital technologies have been explained.

Value computations underlying human proposer behavior in the ultimatum game.

Interacting with others to decide how finite resources should be allocated between potentially competing parties is an important part of social life. Considering that not all of our proposals to others are always accepted, the outcomes of such social interactions are probabilistic and risky. Here, we highlight cognitive processes related to value computations in human social interactions, based on mathematical modeling of the proposer behavior in the Ultimatum Game. Our results suggest that the perception of risk is an overarching process across nonsocial and social decision-making domains, whereas the nonlinear weighting of others' acceptance probabilities appears to be more closely associated with social interactive decision-making situations in which others' valuation processes needs to be inferred. Despite the complexity of social interactive decision-making, human participants adjust their risk and probability weighting parameters while interacting with opponents with different social value orientations, and these parameters governing participants' decision-making strategies are influenced by the inferences participants make about their opponents (e.g., how prosocial they think their opponent is relative to themselves), as well as their own social value orientation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

Development of social intelligence of future speech pathologist

The problem of development of social intelligence of the future speech pathologist is in the sphere of the person professional growth with an emphasis on development of the parties of social intelligence. The article is devoted to the analysis of psychological determinants of development of the intellect for the students who will be speech pathologists. Influence of the socially-psychological factors on a social intellect is examined here. At different age stages of the individual the knowledge of the specifics of social intelligence from preschool to adulthood, makes it possible to predict the understanding of social reality. Theoretical generalization of the data obtained in our research provide an opportunity to determine the basic psychological qualities that is necessary for the successful performance of the functions of a speech pathologists. The well-known periodization of R. Selman shows that social intelligence develops throughout all person’s life. Learning the skills to solve complex social problems can be an essential area for improving the developing personality and adult personality. If this is not taught purposefully, the vast majority of society will not be able to realize its potential in situations of social interaction in full. Features of preparation of the speech pathologists for professional activity are caused by philosophy of a modern society development. The culture of building high human relations, teaching students this - is an indisputable value of modern society. Revealing the specifics of social intelligence at each stage of the ontogenetic development of the personality of each student who will be defectologist determines for himself his potential and resources. The principle of parity in the process of professional development of future special educators requires subjective interaction in tandem “teacher-student”, where the teacher not so much teaches, but helps the student to learn independently, as a result of which the student receives not only knowledge but also skills. The leading principles of professional development of the future pathologist should also include the principle of dialogue.

Changes in Self-Image Resulting from Migration

The perception of one’s own identity is one of the basic moments of a personality construct as they relate to how people act; perceive the world around and with what social they identify themselves. While immersed in an alien culture these perceptions transform. The authors aimed to examine differences in selfimages of the Russian-speaking emigrants before and after emigration. Our hypothesis implies significant differences in self-image upon immersing in another cultural environment. The objective we set resides in identifying aspects of selfimage exposed to transformations and the degree of these changes. For data accumulating before and after the process of international migration with a period of 14 months, we exploited M. Kuhn and T. McPartland’s test “Who am I?” The data demonstrated statistically significant differences in the respondents’ self –image in the course of adaptation. The results allow us to conclude that with a changing social situation self-perception also most alternations exhibit those aspects of selfimage through which the respondents interacted with a host-country population. We believe that self-image presents a hierarchically organized, complex, and dynamic structure with the core and the periphery. The components of self-image can rebuild itself in response to a situation of social interaction.

Using the Storytelling Method to Hear Children’s Perspectives and Promote Their Social-Emotional Competence

This study investigated the use of a playful, narrative, vignette-based method, called Story Magician’s Play Time (SMPT), in supporting children’s social-emotional reasoning and in helping children practice their social skills. We set out to examine (a) in what ways children use SMPT sessions to explore social interaction situations and to practice social skills, and (b) what story content and narrative play behavior during the SMPT sessions reveal about the social-emotional competence of children, in terms of acquisition and performance skills. The data were collected during SMPT storytelling sessions where 5- to 6-year-old children narrated stories of familiar but challenging daily situations and enacted their story in play. The data were analyzed using thematic analysis. The results suggest that the children had knowledge of socially responsible behaviors, but that they also had difficulties executing these behaviors in play. SMPT enabled the children to participate, experiment, and reflect on the emotions and strategies needed for developing socially sustainable solutions.

Decision-making in everyday moral conflict situations: Development and validation of a new measure.

In everyday life, we are often confronted with morally conflicting social interaction situations. Therefore, the main objective of the present set of studies was the development and validation of a new measure to assess decision-making in everyday moral conflict situations. All vignettes required a decision between an altruistic versus an egoistic behavioral response alternative. In three independent surveys (N = 200), we developed a 40-items measure with preferable mean rates of altruistic decisions (Study 1), clear representation of altruistic and egoistic response classes (Study 2), unambiguousness of social closeness classifications (socially close vs. socially distant protagonists; Studies 1 and 2), and high similarity to reality ratings (Studies 1 and 2). Additionally, we developed two parallelized item sets for future use in within-subjects design studies and investigated the measurement properties of our new scale (Studies 1 and 3). Results of Rasch model analyses and classical test theory fit indices showed unidimensionality and confirmed the appropriateness of the fragmentation into two parallelized item sets. Notably, in our data, there were neither effects of social closeness nor gender on the percentage of altruistic decisions. In sum, we propose the Everyday Moral Conflict Situations (EMCS) Scale as a promising new measurement tool that may facilitate further research in different research areas due to its broad applicability.

Natividade da flora usada na arborização de cidades brasileiras

Problemas urbanos podem ser resolvidos ou atenuados por meio da arborização das cidades, porque árvores fornecem serviços ambientais e geram situações de interação social. Quando espécies nativas são utilizadas no meio urbano, a arborização pode ainda contribuir para a conservação do patrimônio biológico e para gerar funções ecológicas. Todavia, cidades brasileiras têm sido tradicionalmente arborizadas com espécies exóticas à flora local. Com objetivo de avaliar a natividade da composição florística utilizada em áreas urbanas brasileiras, as espécies de árvores de 55 cidades localizadas em 26 estados e no Distrito Federal foram levantadas. Os resultados mostraram que em 43 cidades o número de espécies exóticas foi superior ao número de espécies nativas. Cidades situadas na Caatinga foram as que percentualmente mais apresentaram espécies exóticas em seus espaços urbanos, e cidades Amazônicas e na região dos Cerrados as que percentualmente mais apresentaram espécies nativas em seus espaços urbanos