People possess an innate need to belong that drives social interactions. Aberrations in the need to belong, such as social anhedonia and social anxiety, provide a point of entry for examining this need. The current study used experience-sampling methodology to explore deviations in the need to belong in the daily lives of 245 undergraduates. Eight times daily for a week, personal digital assist...

Using an experimental design, we analysed differences in the occurrence of cognitive-evaluative distortions and performance deficits across children with social anxiety disorder, with subclinical anxiety and without any anxiety symptoms. Twenty-one children with full syndrome social phobia, 18 children with partial syndrome social phobia and 20 children without any symptoms of social phobia wer...

thinking, the ability to learn new skills, problemsolving, and judgment interferes with occupational and/or social performance Cognitive impairment often accompanied by personality change or impaired impulse control ICD-10 ? disturbance of multiple higher cortical functions including memory, thinking, orientation, comprehension, calculations, learning capacity, language and judgment N Cognitive...

the developmental, individual-difference, relationship-based model (dir) aims to describe and explain human psychological development in an integrated way. it has been believed that cognitive, linguistic, affective, personality abilities emerge within stages of “functional emotional development”. the human development influenced by a dynamic interaction among biopsyosocial variables. as a child...

Social network analysis is the study of social structure. This glossary introduces basic concepts in social network analysis. It is designed to help researchers to be more discriminating in their thinking and choice of methods.

Social cognition concerns young children's knowledge of themselves, other people and the groups to which they belong. This type of knowledge can operate at a conscious and deliberate level (explicit knowledge) and also at an unconscious and nonverbal level (implicit knowledge) . Implicit social cognition can exert a powerful influence on children's behavior. Social psychologists have studied im...

Purpose – There is no argument that using games (gamification) is an efficient way of learning in higher education. The questions, though, are which gamification approach is most suitable at that level and how to assess its suitability? This paper aims to attempt to partially answer these two questions, in the context of lean thinking education. Design/methodology/approach – The paper offers an...

In this essay, the authors consider the challenge made by two keynote speakers at recent social work research conferences, one in the United States and the other in Europe. Both spoke of a knowledge crisis in social work. Both John Brekke (Society for Social Work and Research) and Peter Sommerfeld (First Annual European Conference for Social Work Research) proposed some version of realism as a ...