In this within-subjects design field experiment children's behaviour in the playground was charted as a function of gender and time in the classroom immediately preceding playtime. Playground behaviour was also related to post-recess classroom behaviour. Twenty-three 9-year-old children were observed for 14 weeks. Classroom behaviour (i.e., task relevant behaviour on standardised seat work imme...

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.11.012 0003-3472/© 2017 The Association for the Study of A Group members interact with each other during multiple social behaviours that range from aggressive to affiliative interactions. It is not known, however, whether an individual's suite of social behaviours consistently covaries through time and across different types of social interactions. Consist...

BACKGROUND During the adolescent period, risk-taking behaviour increases. These behaviours can compromise the successful transition from adolescence to adulthood. The purpose of this study was to examine social support as a mediator of the relation between problem behaviour and gambling frequency among Finnish adolescents. METHODS Data were obtained from the national School Health Promotion S...

Inappropriate social behaviour is an early symptom of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) in both behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) and semantic dementia (SD) subtypes. Knowledge of social behaviour is essential for appropriate social conduct. The superior anterior temporal lobe (ATL) has been identified as one key neural component for the conceptual knowledge of social b...

CONTENTS Introduction Analysis of social behaviour (1) Gregarious behaviour and the social bond (2) Intracaste behaviour (i) Intraspecific aggressiveness (a) A theory of fields of social force .. (b) Formal regulation of intraspecific aggressiveness (ii) Submission (a) Flight (b) Force altering behaviour (c) "Acceptance" of submission (iii) Socializing behaviour (a) Recognition (b) Asocial beha...

In a large number of human-robot interaction (HRI) studies, the aim is often to improve the social behaviour of a robot in order to provide a better interaction experience. Increasingly, companion robots are not being used merely as interaction partners, but to also help achieve a goal. One such goal is education, which encompasses many other factors such as behaviour change and motivation. In ...

Epidemics of respiratory infectious disease remain one of the most serious health risks facing the population. Non-pharmaceutical interventions (e.g. hand-washing or wearing face masks) can have a significant impact on the course of an infectious disease epidemic. The current study investigated whether protection motivation theory (PMT) is a useful framework for understanding social distancing ...

Interactive robots have the potential to revolutionise the study of social behaviour because they provide several methodological advances. In interactions with live animals, the behaviour of robots can be standardised, morphology and behaviour can be decoupled (so that different morphologies and behavioural strategies can be combined), behaviour can be manipulated in complex interaction sequenc...

This paper explains and demonstrates emergence of organisational behaviour as a social cognitive mechanism, i.e. ones own behaviour at the cognitive level is influenced by interaction with others at the social level. Besides the importance of understanding how behaviour evolves, it is probably more crucial to control emergence or enforce desired behaviour. In our research we demonstrate this by...