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Coregistration of eye movements and EEG in natural reading: Analyses and Review
No full textPointer to the open data and scripts for Dimigen et al. (2011, JEP:Gen), which was already deposited in 2010/201
Transgenerational transmission of hostility bias – from father to son. How to effectively reduce hostile interpretations of social encounters?
No full textThanks to many years of research, we know that aggressive behaviors are related to the pattern of social information processing (SIP) (Crick & Dodge, 1994) that is acquired during childhood (Dodge, 2006). However, the research methods used to date have been limited. Moreover, the mechanism for acquiring this pattern has not yet been sufficiently explained; for example, not enough is known about which stage of SIP is crucial for the transmission of the pattern from parents to children. Therefore, this project aims to fill a major gap in the literature. Furthermore, in this project, I am investigating what factors favor the transgenerational transmission of hostile biases and also how to reduce the impact of this transmission. This will allow for the construction of a theoretical model, while also pointing to practical implications.
The current project has four main objectives. The first objective is to verify and expand previous research results indicating that the level of a father’s hostile attribution bias (HAB) predicts the level of his son’s attributional bias. The second objective is to compare (using the eye-tracking technique) the processing patterns of ambiguous social stimuli by fathers and sons. The third objective is to investigate the mechanism of transgenerational transmission of HAB. And the fourth objective is to examine and compare the effectiveness of methods that could a) correct the non-adaptive perceptions of reality and b) reduce the impact of transgenerational transmission at both encoding and interpretation levels.
An analysis of theoretical assumptions and empirical results regarding aggression and hostility bias has allowed the formulation of hypotheses that: The father's HAB (and encoding pattern) will predict the son's HAB (and encoding pattern). Moreover, the perceived personality resemblance will moderate the relationship between the father’s HAB and the son’s HAB, which will be examined in both correlation and experimental studies. Concerning the intervention, it is assumed that Mentalization-Based Psycho-educational Training (MBT) and Sensitivity to Emotional Expression (SEE) training will reduce sons' HAB levels (respectively SEE more at the encoding, implicit level; MBT mostly at the explicit level) 2) reduce the correlation between the father's HAB and the son's HAB.
To verify the above hypotheses, three blocks of researchers are planned in this project. In Part 1 a population of boys in early adolescence (13–17 years old) and their fathers, who raised them, will be invited to participate. 200 participants are planned to be tested (100 sons and 100 fathers). HAB will be examined among both the boys and their fathers, using three separate methods (in random order): the task focusing on hostility bias as a result of ascribing intentionality and blame to the actor, the task focusing on hostility bias in emotion recognition, and assessment of hostile bias in a narrative task, which is the author's method, that consists of describing a situation perceived as hostile by the son and its interpretation by both the son and the father. All measurements will be carried out using an eye tracker. Besides, the subjective son’s personality resemblance to the father will be measured. Part 2 will involve a group of 100 boys. The study aims to test whether activating a sense of resemblance to the father will make adolescents adapt their interpretations to the answers, allegedly given by their father, thus interpreting them as more hostile, depending on the research group. Part 3 will address young people, displaying aggressive behavior and their fathers. Boys will be randomly assigned to one of the three conditions, in which one of the intervention methods will be manipulated: psycho-educational training with mentalization elements (30 subjects), sensitivity to emotional expressions training (30 subjects), and a passive control group (30 subjects). Sons will take part in the training, but measurements will be taken in both the father group and the son group.
Implementation of the current study seems to offer an opportunity to better understand at which level of social information processing the hostile distortion is more evident and explicit, learn more about the transferability of HAB from father to son, explore the mechanism of this phenomenon and contributes to learning how to reduce aggressiveness among young people
U.S. Congregational Life Survey, Wave 2, 2008-2009, United Methodist Church Congregational Profile Survey
No full textU.S. Congregational Life Survey, Wave 2, 2008-2009, Church of the Nazarene Attender Survey
No full textU.S. Congregational Life Survey, Wave 2, 2008-2009, Church of the Nazarene Leader Survey
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