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Why Machiavellianism Matters in Childhood: The Relationship Between Children's Machiavellian Traits and Their Peer Interactions in a Natural Setting [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The current study investigated the association between Machiavellianism and children’s peer interactions in the playground using observational methods. Primary school children (N = 34; 17 female), aged 9 to 11 years, completed the Kiddie Mach scale and ...
Abell, Loren   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

The impact of urbanisation on social behaviour: a comprehensive review

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Urbanisation is a key driver of global environmental change and presents animals with novel stressors and challenges. It can fundamentally influence social behaviour and has the potential to reshape within‐ and between‐species social interactions. Given the role of social behaviour in reproductive fitness and survival, understanding how social
Avery L. Maune   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The flexible, the stereotyped and the in‐between: putting together the combinatory tool use origins hypothesis

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tool use research has long made the distinction between tool using that is considered learned and flexible, and that which appears to be instinctive and stereotyped. However, animals with an inherited tool use specialisation can exhibit flexibility, while tool use that is spontaneously innovated can be limited in its expression and facilitated
Jennifer A. D. Colbourne   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Game theory of mind [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper introduces a model of ‘theory of mind’, namely, how we represent the intentions and goals of others to optimise our mutual interactions. We draw on ideas from optimum control and game theory to provide a ‘game theory of mind’.
A Benveniste   +42 more
core   +5 more sources

Reading hominin life history in fossil bones and teeth: methods to test hypotheses regarding its evolution

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human life history is derived compared to that of our closest living relatives, the great apes. It has been suggested that these derived traits are causally related to aspects of our ecology, social behaviour and cognitive abilities. However, resolving this requires that we know the evolutionary trajectory of our distinctive pattern of growth,
Paola Cerrito   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prosociální chování a jeho vztah k sourozeneckým konstelacím a k vyžadování prosociálního chování [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Příspěvek je zaměřen na prosociální chování a jeho vývoj na základě stimulace v rodině a na souvislost mezi prosociálním chováním a očekáváním člověka. Autoři ve dvou souběžně prováděných studiích kladli následující otázky: 1.
Hošťálková Hana   +2 more
core  

Agent familiarity and emotional context influence the everyday empathic responding of young children with autism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Whereas research addressing empathy in ASD tends to employ pencil-and-paper and lab-based behavioural methods, the current study is novel in eliciting parent-report data regarding everyday empathy, sampling various emotional situations regularly ...
Bacon   +40 more
core   +2 more sources

Sensegiving, ESG, and Firm Value: Mitigating Interpretive Uncertainty in South Korea

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As environmental, social, and governance (ESG) becomes central to corporate strategy, firms must navigate the tension between meeting stakeholder expectations and avoiding overinvestment. This study examines how interpretive uncertainty—arising from stakeholders' divergent cognitive frames—produces a nonlinear relationship between ESG ...
Yanghee Kim   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Positive parenting and adolescent prosocial behaviour – a mediation analysis with representative data

open access: yesInternational Journal of Adolescence and Youth
Understanding factors promoting adolescent prosocial behaviour is crucial for positive development. This study explores how positive parenting relates to prosocial behaviour.
Heidi Backman   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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