Would you do something for me? The effects of money activation on social preferences and social behavior in young children

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 603-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agata Gasiorowska ◽  
Tomasz Zaleskiewicz ◽  
Sandra Wygrab
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Social Preferences

scholarly journals Neural mechanisms of social decision-making in the primate amygdala

2015 ◽  
Vol 112 (52) ◽  
pp. 16012-16017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve W. C. Chang ◽  
Nicholas A. Fagan ◽  
Koji Toda ◽  
Amanda V. Utevsky ◽  
John M. Pearson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Basolateral Amygdala ◽  
Social Preferences ◽  
Dictator Game ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Social Decisions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Social Decision Making

Social decisions require evaluation of costs and benefits to oneself and others. Long associated with emotion and vigilance, the amygdala has recently been implicated in both decision-making and social behavior. The amygdala signals reward and punishment, as well as facial expressions and the gaze of others. Amygdala damage impairs social interactions, and the social neuropeptide oxytocin (OT) influences human social decisions, in part, by altering amygdala function. Here we show in monkeys playing a modified dictator game, in which one individual can donate or withhold rewards from another, that basolateral amygdala (BLA) neurons signaled social preferences both across trials and across days. BLA neurons mirrored the value of rewards delivered to self and others when monkeys were free to choose but not when the computer made choices for them. We also found that focal infusion of OT unilaterally into BLA weakly but significantly increased both the frequency of prosocial decisions and attention to recipients for context-specific prosocial decisions, endorsing the hypothesis that OT regulates social behavior, in part, via amygdala neuromodulation. Our findings demonstrate both neurophysiological and neuroendocrinological connections between primate amygdala and social decisions.

scholarly journals Appropriate Social Behavior: Teaching Expectations to Young Children

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 315-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Russell Carter ◽  
Juli Lull Pool
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Young Children

YOUNG BILINGUAL LEARNERS IN NURSERY SCHOOL. Linda Thompson. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters, 1999. Pp. viii + 230. $79.00 cloth, $39.95 paper.

2002 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-132
Author(s):  
Lento F. Maez
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Nursery School ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
Bilingual Learners ◽  
British Children ◽  
At Home

This book is a ten-chapter ethnolinguistic study of the language and social behavior of a group of 3-year-old third-generation British children schooled in the northeast of England. Their families are settled migrants who speak languages other than English at home and in their community. The study uses audiotaped recordings of the children's language, together with thick contextual description, to provide insights into ways in which young children learn to be communicatively competent in their new environment.

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