Previous research has shown that the effects of basic psychological needs on the flow experience in sports are moderated by implicit motives. However, so far, only leisure and health-oriented sports have been analyzed. In a pilot study and a main study (N = 29, 93), we tested whether the implicit achievement and affiliation motives interact with the need for competence and the need for social r...

There has been growing interest in the possibility that biological factors, including genes, might contribute to differences in political and social behavior. Over the last 40 years, human statistical and behavioral genetics have developed a variety of models that allow the effects of genetic and non-genetic inheritance to be estimated from human kinship data. Until quite recently, these method...

The purpose of this paper is, to describe a work-in process for application of distributed agency methodology to multi-dimensional preference model into a complex social system. This paper shows a study case focused on a modeling system for decision-making on cognitive structure religious affiliation preference. A type-2 neurofuzzy approach is used to configure cognitive rules into an agent to ...

Human beings are social organisms with an intrinsic desire to seek and participate in social interactions. Social anhedonia is a personality trait characterized by a reduced desire for social affiliation and reduced pleasure derived from interpersonal interactions. Abnormally high levels of social anhedonia prospectively predict the development of schizophrenia and contribute to poorer outcomes...

BACKGROUND The neuropeptides vasopressin and corticotropin-releasing factor facilitate, while serotonin inhibits, aggression. How the brain is wired to coordinate interactions between these functionally opposed neurotransmitters to control behavioral states is poorly understood. METHODS Pair-bonded male prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) were infused with a retrograde tracer, Fluoro-Gold, a...

Please cite this article as: Erik C. Nook, David Dodell-Feder, Laura T. Germine, Jill M. Hooley, Lynn E. DeLisi, Christine I. Hooker , Weak dorsolateral prefrontal response to social criticism predicts worsened mood and symptoms following social conflict in people at familial risk for schizophrenia. The address for the corresponding author was captured as affiliation for all authors. Please che...

In the present study, we sought to examine information seeking among individuals with social anxiety disorder (SAD, n 31) and nonanxious controls (n 32) during an impression-formation task. Participants were given an initial description of a protagonist that included polarized information on the social rank dimension (i.e., dominant or submissive) or on the affiliation dimension (i.e., friendly...

Zebra finches demonstrate selective affiliation between juvenile offspring and parents, which, like affiliation between pair partners, is characterized by proximity, vocal communication and contact behaviors. This experiment tested the hypothesis that the nonapeptide arginine vasotocin (AVT, avian homologue of vasopressin) and nonapeptide receptors play a role prior to fledging in the developme...

The term "own-race bias" refers to the phenomenon that humans are typically better at recognizing faces from their own than a different race. The perceptual expertise account assumes that our face perception system has adapted to the faces we are typically exposed to, equipping it poorly for the processing of other-race faces. Sociocognitive theories assume that other-race faces are initially c...