An experiment explored the hypothesis that inhibitory ability helps people stop themselves from engaging in socially inappropriate behavior. All participants completed a Stroop color-naming task, after which half of the participants were asked to remember an eight-digit number (inducing divided attention). Participants were then offered an unfamiliar and visually unappetizing food product (a ch...

Impairments in social interaction represent a core symptom of a number of psychiatric disease states, including autism, schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety. Although the amygdala has long been linked to social interaction, little is known about the functional role of connections between the amygdala and downstream regions in noncompetitive social behavior. In the present study, we used optog...

Premature ejaculation (PE) is a common sexual complaint among men, but its etiology poorly understood. Previous studies on the dual control model of sexuality has revealed that propensities for excitation and inhibition can contribute to dysfunctions, few have included measure premature ejaculation. We sought explore whether PE associated with or inhibition. applied structural equation models d...

BACKGROUND Both Asperger's disorder and the social-emotional processing disorder (SEPD), a form of non-verbal learning disability, are associated with executive function deficits. SEPD has been shown to be associated with deficient saccadic inhibition. OBJECTIVE To study two executive functions in Asperger's disorder and SEPD, inhibition and task switching, using a single saccadic paradigm. ...

A longitudinal study of children's individual developmental functions in observed inhibited behavior toward strangers and in teacher judgments of inhibition in school showed that IQ and teacher judgments of social competence predicted a decrease in both measures of inhibition over a 6-year period from ages 4 through 10 years. These findings suggest that, with increasing age, more intelligent or...

The social inhibition of helping is well documented, and this phenomenon has been explained in terms of the general processes of audience inhibition, social influence, and diffusion of responsibility. In the present research, we adapted the paradigm used in studies of the attribution of responsibility for an accident to examine a specific audience-inhibition process that may contribute to the s...