scholarly journals Maternal Discussions of Mental States and Behaviors: Relations to Emotion Situation Knowledge in European American and Immigrant Chinese Children

2010 ◽  
Vol 81 (5) ◽  
pp. 1490-1503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacey N. Doan ◽  
Qi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Mental States ◽  
Chinese Children ◽  
European American ◽  
And Behaviors

Maternal mental state language is associated with trajectories of Chinese immigrant children’s emotion situation knowledge

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacey N. Doan ◽  
Helen Y. Lee ◽  
Qi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Mental States ◽  
European American ◽  
Chinese Immigrant ◽  
Children's Emotion ◽  
Mental State Language ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Over Time ◽  
State Language

We investigated the role of mothers’ references to mental states and behaviors and children’s emotion situation knowledge (ESK) in a prospective, cross-cultural context. European American mothers ( n = 71) and Chinese immigrant mothers ( n = 60) and their children participated in the study. Maternal references to mental states and behaviors were assessed at Time 1 when children were three years of age. ESK was assessed when children were 3, 3.5, and 4.5 years of age. Multi-group latent growth curve analyses were used to model children’s growth in ESK over time, as well as relations between mental state language and references to behaviors on children’s trajectories. Results indicated that maternal references to mental states were associated with concurrent levels of ESK for European American children, and change over time for the Chinese immigrant children. Maternal references to behaviors were negatively associated with concurrent ESK for both groups.

When robots (pretend to) think

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Ghiglino ◽  
Agnieszka Wykowska
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Flexibility ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Social Brain ◽  
Natural Domain ◽  
And Behaviors

Mental activities are a fascinating mystery that humans have tried to unveil since the very beginning of philosophy. We all try to understand how other people “tick” and formulate hypotheses, predictions, expectations and, morebroadly, representations of the others’ goals, desires and intentions, and behaviors following from those. We “think” spontaneously about others’ and our own mental states. The advent of new technologies – seemingly smart artificialagents – is giving researchers new environments to test mindreading models, pushing the cognitive flexibility of the human social brain from the natural domain to towards the artificial.

Children’s Emotion Knowledge and Internalizing Problems: The Moderating Role of Culture

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 689-709 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacey N. Doan ◽  
Qi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Internalizing Problems ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Chinese Children ◽  
European American ◽  
Emotion Knowledge ◽  
Children's Emotion ◽  
American Children ◽  
Moderating Role

This study examined in a cross-cultural context the prospective relation between children’s emotion knowledge and internalizing problems. European American ( N = 33) and immigrant Chinese children ( N = 22) and their mothers participated. Children’s emotion knowledge was assessed at three-and-a-half years of age using a task to elicit their understanding of situational antecedents of discrete emotions. Mothers reported on children’s internalizing problems using the Behavior Assessment System Children (BASC) when children were seven years of age. The relation of children’s emotion knowledge to internalizing problems was moderated by culture. Whereas early emotion knowledge was associated with decreased internalizing problems later on for European American children, it was associated with increased internalizing problems for immigrant Chinese children. The findings shed critical light on the different functional meanings of emotion knowledge across cultures.

Sticks, Stones, and the Origins of Sapience

2019 ◽  
pp. 102-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip J. Barnard
Keyword(s):  
Tool Use ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Neural Systems ◽  
Ancestral Species ◽  
Behavioral Systems ◽  
Evolutionary Response ◽  
Meaning Systems ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
And Behaviors

This chapter explores the conjecture that tool use helped lay the foundations of key properties of modern minds: propositional meaning; wisdom and intuitions about meanings with their ineffable qualities and links to emotion; and our ability to walk, talk, and think about meanings at the same time. People need to react to similar things with similar thoughts and behaviors (generalization), while reacting to different things with different thoughts and behaviors. Differentiation within the behavioral systems of ancestral species must have advanced in tandem with differentiation of their mental and neural systems. Tool use clearly contributed to that differentiation. Such differentiation creates new challenges for grasping what mental states underpinning perception, the control of vocal and physical actions, and bodily reactions all have in common. The emergence of two meaning systems in a specific architectural arrangement is one plausible evolutionary response to those challenges.

Bioterrorism-Related Beliefs, Attitudes and Behaviors of Community-Based Clinicians

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (S2) ◽  
pp. S48
Author(s):  
Robyn R. M. Gershon ◽  
Kristine A. Qureshi ◽  
Stephen S. Morse ◽  
Marissa A. Berrera ◽  
Catherine B. Dela Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Community Based ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
And Behaviors
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