The role of insecure attachment and cognitive biases in the social functioning of schizophrenia spectrum patients

Arbitration in its Psychological Context

The Oxford Handbook of International Arbitration ◽

10.1093/law/9780198796190.003.0038 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 909-950

Author(s):

Tony Cole ◽

Pietro Ortolani ◽

Sean Wright

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Cognitive Biases ◽

Behavioral Science ◽

Contextual Approach ◽

Context Sensitive ◽

The Social ◽

Contextual Behavioral Science ◽

Professional Context

This concluding chapter presents a program for a more ‘contextual’ approach to the application of psychology to arbitration than has been adopted within arbitration scholarship thus far. It specifically examines the area of Contextual Behavioral Science (CBS), which focuses on the ‘act in context’, treating behaviour as inseparable from the circumstances that surround it. Such a context-sensitive approach allows new light to be shed on the psychology of arbitration, while also unifying the existing literature within a new epistemic framework that offers the advantage of not only predicting but also of potentially influencing the behaviour of interest in arbitration. While psychology can be applied to arbitration in many ways, the chapter focuses on arbitrator reasoning. It addresses the professional context of arbitration, scrutinizing how individual conceptions of the role of the arbitrator can influence reasoning. The chapter also considers the social context of arbitration, analysing the relations between the hierarchical character of the arbitration community and the existence of cognitive biases.

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Προσανατολισμός δεσμού και κοινωνική αντίληψη του συναισθήματος: Ο ρόλος των κοινωνικών κινήτρων

Psychology: the Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society ◽

10.12681/psy_hps.23501 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 319

Author(s):

Πανωραία Ανδριοπούλου ◽

Κωνσταντίνος Καφέτσιος

Keyword(s):

Negative Emotion ◽

Relevant Literature ◽

Social Goals ◽

Insecure Attachment ◽

Facial Emotion ◽

Relational Context ◽

Emotion Decoding ◽

The Social ◽

Decoding Accuracy

Despite the seminal role of emotion perception in social and personal relationships, there is limited understanding of how adult attachment organization affects the decoding of facial emotion expressions. Previousresearch has focused on how insecure attachment-related strategies for emotion regulation influence early stages of emotion information processing. However, recent studies highlight the importance of socialprocesses and motivational factors in the perception of positive and negative emotion (see e.g., Vrtička, Sander, & Vuilleumier, 2012). Based on a critical review of the relevant literature, the present articlepresents findings from a recent series of studies that reveal the effects senders' social moti ves (relational context, social goals) have on emotion decoding accuracy in adults with insecure attachment. The findings from these studies are discussed in the context of theories of motivated social cognition and the social perception of emotion.

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Trustworthiness judgments are associated with interpersonal functioning in individuals with schizophrenia

Journal of Experimental Psychopathology ◽

10.1177/2043808719827094 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 204380871982709

Author(s):

Michal Hajdúk ◽

Dana Krajčovičová ◽

Miroslava Zimányiová ◽

Viera Kořínková ◽

Anton Heretik ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Social Interactions ◽

Social Functioning ◽

Social Cognitive ◽

Cognitive Biases ◽

Interpersonal Functioning ◽

Future Research ◽

Healthy Controls ◽

Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders ◽

Schizophrenia Spectrum ◽

Spectrum Disorders

Rapid and accurate trustworthiness judgments are important during successful day-to-day social interactions because they can influence the decision whether to approach someone and initiate social interaction. The aim of the present study was to analyze associations between these judgments and self-reported and clinician-rated social functioning. The sample consisted of 48 patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and 35 healthy controls matched for age, gender, and educational level. A trustworthiness task, subjective, and clinician-rated scales for social functioning were administered to both samples. Trustworthiness judgments did not differ between patients and healthy controls. Both groups were able to discriminate between trustworthy and untrustworthy faces. Trustworthiness ratings were associated with self-reported and clinician-rated measures of interpersonal functioning in patients with schizophrenia. Despite the absence of differences between groups, in patients with schizophrenia, a tendency to mistrust based on facial appearance was related to worse functional outcome, predominantly in the domain of disturbed interpersonal functioning. This study highlights the importance of future research into social–cognitive biases in schizophrenia.

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The relationship between theory of mind and social functioning within the schizophrenia spectrum

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.01.2110 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 41 (S1) ◽

pp. S187-S188

Author(s):

C. Bredicean ◽

I. Papava ◽

C. Giurgi-Oncu ◽

M. Cristanovici ◽

A. Popescu ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Theory Of Mind ◽

Social Functioning ◽

Age Of Onset ◽

Professional Status ◽

Psychiatric Clinic ◽

Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders ◽

Schizophrenia Spectrum ◽

The Social ◽

Icd 10 ◽

Competing Interest

IntroductionCurrent research shows that subjects with disorders belonging to the schizophrenia spectrum have a poor social functioning. There are several factors that can influence social functioning, social cognition being one of them.ObjectivesAssessing the ability to identify emotions and its role in the social functioning of subjects with a schizophrenia spectrum diagnosis.PurposeIncreasing the social functioning of subjects with a schizophrenia spectrum diagnosis.MethodWe evaluated 31 subjects who were at their first admission to the Timisoara psychiatric clinic and who met the diagnostic criteria for a schizophrenia spectrum disorder (a diagnosis of F20, F22 or F25 according to ICD 10). The following parameters were monitored: sociodemographic (gender, age of onset, educational level, marital and professional status), theory of mind (Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test) and social functioning (GAF Scale). The subjects were evaluated during periods of remission. The acquired data was statistically processed.ResultsThe results of the sociodemographic parameters analysis were similar to those in international literature. Most subjects showed a lack of theory of mind (a mean score of 18, standard deviation 5.84). All subjects experienced a decrease in social functioning (a mean score of 64.7 on the GAF Scale). There is a direct correlation between the ability to identify emotions and social functioning (Spearman R = 0.386, P < 0.05).ConclusionsA decreased ability to identify emotions is directly correlated with decreased social functioning in subjects with schizophrenia spectrum disorders.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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The Role of Social Cognition in Predicting the Social Functioning in Patients With Chronic Schizophrenia

Iranian Rehabilitation Journal ◽

10.32598/irj.16.3.239 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 239-246

Author(s):

Zahra Saffarian ◽

Behrouz Doulatshahi ◽

Abbas Pourshabaz ◽

Najmeh Rasti Kerdar

Keyword(s):

Social Cognition ◽

Social Functioning ◽

Chronic Schizophrenia ◽

The Social

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Biomedical treatment versus the social functioning of a child with autism spectrum disorders

Special School ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0014.4734 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol LXXXI (4) ◽

pp. 273-282

Author(s):

Maja Jędruszczak ◽

Danuta Al-Khamisy

Keyword(s):

Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽

Social Functioning ◽

Treatment Guidelines ◽

Social Behaviors ◽

Autism Spectrum ◽

The Social ◽

Spectrum Disorders ◽

The Difference ◽

Biomedical Treatment

This article looks at the findings of a study whose aim was to explore the difference in the social functioning of a student with autism spectrum disorders before biomedical treatment was introduced and during the treatment. It provides information on changes in the participant’s social behaviors collected with the use of the case study method and a short description of biomedical treatment guidelines and elements. Analysis of the information gathered shows that after 12 months from the beginning of biomedical treatment for autism, positive changes occurred in the participant's social functioning. He made the most progress in fulfilling the role of a friend and the least progress in social behaviors toward his family.

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Social Representations and Commitment

European Psychologist ◽

10.1027/1016-9040/a000317 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 23 (3) ◽

pp. 233-249 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Eric Bonetto ◽

Fabien Girandola ◽

Grégory Lo Monaco

Keyword(s):

Social Representations ◽

Social Representation ◽

Second Line ◽

Review Of The Literature ◽

First Line ◽

Research Perspectives ◽

The Social ◽

Bibliographic Search ◽

English Articles

Abstract. This contribution consists of a critical review of the literature about the articulation of two traditionally separated theoretical fields: social representations and commitment. Besides consulting various works and communications, a bibliographic search was carried out (between February and December, 2016) on various databases using the keywords “commitment” and “social representation,” in the singular and in the plural, in French and in English. Articles published in English or in French, that explicitly made reference to both terms, were included. The relations between commitment and social representations are approached according to two approaches or complementary lines. The first line follows the role of commitment in the representational dynamics: how can commitment transform the representations? This articulation gathers most of the work on the topic. The second line envisages the social representations as determinants of commitment procedures: how can these representations influence the effects of commitment procedures? This literature review will identify unexploited tracks, as well as research perspectives for both areas of research.

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