scholarly journals Aging and financial exploitation risk

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Nathan Spreng ◽  
Natalie Ebner ◽  
Bonnie Levin ◽  
Gary R. Turner
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Financial Risks ◽  
Financial Exploitation ◽  
Social Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Brain Changes

Financial exploitation among older adults is an increasing public health concern. Whether in-person or online, financial risks are becoming omnipresent in our increasingly connected and wired world. Understanding why some older adults are more vulnerable to financial exploitation than others, and the specific contexts in which this vulnerability is most likely to emerge, is necessary to design more target surveillance and intervention tools. In this review, we identify the cognitive, socioemotional, and brain changes in aging that increase financial exploitation risks in later life. Next, we build on this review to propose a new social cognitive neuroscience model of financial exploitation risk. In the final section we review emerging work to develop profiles for older adults, towards novel intervention techniques to reduce the burden of financial exploitation in later life.

scholarly journals Chapter 9 - Theory of Mind and Joint Attention - The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jairo Pérez-Osorio ◽  
Eva Wiese ◽  
Agnieszka Wykowska
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Joint Attention ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Computational Models ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Virtual Agents ◽  
Artificial Agents ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Social Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Intelligent Virtual Agents

The present chapter provides an overview from the perspective of social cognitive neuroscience (SCN) regarding theory of mind (ToM) and joint attention (JA) as crucial mechanisms of social cognition and discusses how these mechanisms have been investigated in social interaction with artificial agents. In the final sections, the chapter reviews computational models of ToM and JA in social robots (SRs) and intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) and discusses the current challenges and future directions.

Assemblages and Co-emergent Corpomaterialities in Postsecondary Education: Pedagogical Lessons from Somatic Psychology and Physical Cultures

Somatechnics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 413-431
Author(s):  
Janelle Joseph ◽  
Ellyn Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Postsecondary Education ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Somatic Psychology ◽  
Sport Training ◽  
Postsecondary Institution ◽  
Social Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Inclusive Learning ◽  
Learning Architectures

Building on a new materialist ontology, this article explores the significance of viewing the postsecondary institution and learner as assemblages co-emerging in material relationality. Bodies of thought from social cognitive neuroscience, somatic psychotherapy, and physical cultural studies inform an analysis of the evaluation culture predominant in Western postsecondary education. These disciplines are used to interrogate representational performativity and point to new possibilities for material-inclusive learning. A new materialist pedagogy holds possibilities to reconfigure learning architectures to recognise and attend to the corpomaterialities of learners while allowing for new and creative lines of flight in education, as illustrated by physical cultural practices such as sport training, dance, and capoeira.

The neglected contributions of self-efficacy to older adults’ financial capacity

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hassam Waheed
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Financial Capacity ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
Financial Exploitation

Purpose An ageing population comes with its own set of challenges such as impaired financial capacity and resultant dependency on others to manage financial affairs. Dependency, in turn, as the evidence suggests, creates opportunities for financial exploitation of older adults. Related studies have primarily examined the clinical features and correlates of financial capacity or have attempted to develop its multidimensional measures. Both of which do little to resolve issues associated with impaired financial capacity. This paper aims to make a case for future researchers to assess older adults’ financial capacity from a non-clinical aspect. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on the notion of self-efficacy, as encapsulated within the social cognitive theory, this paper presents evidence from a host of different domains to demonstrate the potential contributions of self-efficacy to older adults’ financial capacity. Findings The contributions of self-efficacy in preserving older adults’ financial capacity appear to be much more profound than is currently acknowledged in the literature, thereby overlooking potentially promising and cost-effective interventions for autonomous ageing. Originality/value This paper presents a novel application of self-efficacy to autonomous ageing. Within this context, potential routes to the deployment of self-efficacy-based interventions are also discussed.

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