Building a Technoself

2013 ◽  
pp. 592-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail F. Melson
Keyword(s):  
Family Background ◽  
Prior Experience ◽  
The Self ◽  
Developmental Perspective ◽  
Developmental Level ◽  
Technological Object ◽  
Robot Technology ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Object Relationship ◽  
Personal Robot

This chapter focuses on how the technoself develops in children through relationships with a “personal” robot technology, robotic pets, especially the robotic dog AIBO. Drawing on studies of children and AIBO as well as similar robotic technologies, I examine children’s ideas about and behaviors toward such robotic pets in order to describe three domains of the technoself: (1) ideas about the robot (the technological object); (2) ideas about the child’s relationship with the robot; and (3) ideas about the self-in-relationship with the robot. A dynamic developmental perspective is applied to each of the three domains of cognition and behavior—technological object, relationship, and self-in-relationship-- that make up the technoself. This perspective asks how variability in child characteristics, such as developmental level, gender, temperament, personality or intelligence; in contextual factors, such as family background or prior experience with other technologies; and in robotic pets themselves predict these three aspects of the technoself.

scholarly journals Building a Technoself

Robotics ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 1407-1423
Author(s):  
Gail F. Melson
Keyword(s):  
Family Background ◽  
Prior Experience ◽  
The Self ◽  
Developmental Perspective ◽  
Developmental Level ◽  
Technological Object ◽  
Robot Technology ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Object Relationship ◽  
Personal Robot

This chapter focuses on how the technoself develops in children through relationships with a “personal” robot technology, robotic pets, especially the robotic dog AIBO. Drawing on studies of children and AIBO as well as similar robotic technologies, I examine children’s ideas about and behaviors toward such robotic pets in order to describe three domains of the technoself: (1) ideas about the robot (the technological object); (2) ideas about the child’s relationship with the robot; and (3) ideas about the self-in-relationship with the robot. A dynamic developmental perspective is applied to each of the three domains of cognition and behavior, technological object, relationship, and self-in-relationship, that make up the technoself. This perspective asks how variability in child characteristics, such as developmental level, gender, temperament, personality or intelligence; in contextual factors, such as family background or prior experience with other technologies; and in robotic pets themselves predict these three aspects of the technoself.

Understanding the Self: A Developmental Perspective

1986 ◽  
Vol 31 (11) ◽  
pp. 900-901
Author(s):  
Gerald R. Adams
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Developmental Perspective

When the Absence of Reasoning Breeds Meaning

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carey K. Morewedge ◽  
Daniella M. Kupor
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
External Source ◽  
Judgment And Decision Making ◽  
Dream Interpretation ◽  
The Self ◽  
The World ◽  
Religious Thoughts ◽  
The Many ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Insight Into

Intuitions, attitudes, images, mind-wandering, dreams, and religious messages are just a few of the many kinds of uncontrolled thoughts that intrude on consciousness spontaneously without a clear reason. Logic suggests that people might thus interpret spontaneous thoughts as meaningless and be uninfluenced by them. By contrast, our survey of this literature indicates that the lack of an obvious external source or motive leads people to attribute considerable meaning and importance to spontaneous thoughts. Spontaneous thoughts are perceived to provide meaningful insight into the self, others, and the world. As a result of these metacognitive appraisals, spontaneous thoughts substantially affect the beliefs, attitudes, decisions, and behavior of the thinker. We present illustrative examples of the metacognitive appraisals by which people attribute meaning to spontaneous secular and religious thoughts, and the influence of these thoughts on judgment and decision-making, attitude formation and change, dream interpretation, and prayer discernment.

Civility in China

2018 ◽  
pp. 70-111
Author(s):  
David C. Schak
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Driver Behavior ◽  
The Self ◽  
Loss Of Face ◽  
Uncivil Behavior ◽  
Chinese Tourists ◽  
Young Stage ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Status Inequality ◽  
And Behavior

This chapter explores the level of civil and uncivil behavior in China with examinations of tourist’s conduct, road behavior, how people treat strangers, conceptions of and attitudes toward disturbing others, treatment of public space and public goods, observance of rules and laws, acts of charity, compassion toward and consideration of others, and egregious actions of the rich, the powerful, and the privilege. Chinese tourists are notorious for their boorishness and breaches of propriety and are a cause of shame and consternation at home; other causes of shame are the treatment of strangers in distress such as the Little Yueyue incident and attempts to extort money from Good Samaritans, the defining case being that of Peng Yu. Driver behavior is influenced by China being at a very young stage of mass car ownership as well as by notions of loss of face and the desire to be first, and behavior toward others by the dichotomizing of society into those with whom one is familiar and strangers and the lack of concern with the latter, though response to disasters is impressive. Civility is hindered by a strong sense of the self, wealth and status inequality, and a casual attitude toward laws and rules.

Are Cheaters Sexual Hypocrites? Sexual Hypocrisy, the Self-Serving Bias, and Personality Style

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (10) ◽  
pp. 1499-1511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Warach ◽  
Lawrence Josephs ◽  
Bernard S. Gorman
Keyword(s):  
Prior Experience ◽  
The Self ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Sexual Infidelity ◽  
Personality Variables ◽  
Moral Hypocrisy ◽  
Avoidant Attachment ◽  
Relationship Partners ◽  
Perpetrators And Victims ◽  
Primary Relationship

This article examines moral hypocrisy and the self-serving bias (SSB) in the sexual infidelity context. We found evidence of self-serving attributions that occur between primary relationship partners following sexual betrayals. Specifically, we found that sexual infidelity perpetrators (a) blamed their primary dyadic partners (i.e., victims) for infidelities significantly more than those victims blamed themselves for such infidelities, (b) blamed the surrounding circumstances for infidelities significantly more than their victims did, and (c) rated the emotional impact of infidelities on their victims as significantly less than victims’ ratings of such impact. Moreover, we found that participants with prior experience as both sexual infidelity perpetrators and victims displayed “sexual hypocrisy” by judging others more harshly than themselves for sexually unfaithful behavior. Our findings demonstrate that personality variables associated with sexual infidelity (narcissism, sexual narcissism, avoidant attachment, and primary psychopathy) are also relevant to self-serving attributions in the sexual infidelity context.

Documenting the Delusion: A Case Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-291
Author(s):  
Donald Wiebe ◽  
Luther H. Martin
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Naturalistic Study ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The University

This paper documents the lack of interest in creating an environment to promote a naturalistic study of religious thought and behavior at the Department for the Study of Religion (dsr) of the University of Toronto. Thedsr, it seems to me, simply exemplifies the point about the self-deception and delusion that characterizes many departments for the study of religion about their academic or scientific credibility that I make in the essay.

Why do Adolescents Eat Low Nutrient Snacks Between Meals? An Analysis of Behavioral Determinants with the Fishbein and Ajzen Model

1994 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilse Mesters ◽  
Ton Oostveen
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Theory Of Reasoned Action ◽  
Reasoned Action ◽  
Subjective Norm ◽  
The Self ◽  
Second Grade ◽  
Frequent Users ◽  
Behavioral Determinants ◽  
And Behavior

This article presents determinants of eating sweet and fat snacks between meals by adolescents (12–15 years). A preliminary qualitative study focused on eliciting students' interpretation of the self-rated terminology ‘low nutrient sweet and fat snacks’ and the development of a written questionnaire following the principles of the theory of reasoned action (Fishbein & Ajzen, 1980). In a quantitative study a questionnaire was administered to 560 students in the first and second grade of Dutch secondary education. In the data-analysis frequent and moderate users were compared. Frequent users had a more positive attitude towards the intake of sweet and fat snacks than moderate users. The intention to consume sweet snacks was more positive for frequent users. As opposed to frequent users, moderate users had a negative intention towards consuming fat snacks between meals. Moreover, moderate users experienced more social influence against the intake of both snacks than the frequent users. This study demonstrates the usefulness of the theory of reasoned action in relation to the self-rated consumption of sweet and fat snacks eaten between meals. In predicting intention to consume such snacks, attitude turned out to be more important than subjective norm. Finally, the correlation between actual eating behavior as reported by the students, and the behavioral intentions was relatively moderate which was probably caused by inconsistency between intention and behavior.

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