Sentences with phrase «social decision»

Social decision making and life skills development: Guidelines for middle school educators (pp. 45 - 77).

This in turn leads to political and social decisions based in misinformation.

If there's a voting or other social decision mechanism out there, we lawyers are inclined to say that it must be followed.

The production and distribution of goods and services are matters for deliberate social decision.

According to the study, social responsibility explains the more conservative social decisions.

There are dog trainers and veterinarians who believe that dogs with under - active thyroid glands tend to make bad social decisions.

The dog is beyond the threshold at which he can make appropriate social decisions and is experiencing heightened excitement levels.

Policy Analysts influence both political and social decisions by collecting information, analyzing potential policies, and making policy recommendations to government officials.

Sometimes, social decisions such as sports, camps, can be included in this definition.

He is the co-author of Social Decision Making / Social Problem Solving:

Funding was provided by the National Institutes of Health, the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Brain - Machine Interface Center at Caltech, the Della Martin Foundation, the Caltech Conte Center for Social Decision Making, and the James G. Boswell Foundation.

Steve Chang and his colleagues from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, used electrodes to directly record neuronal activity in three areas of the brain prefrontal cortex that are known to be involved in social decision - making, while monkeys performed reward - related tasks.

I wonder when we will finally get to the point where we no longer base 21st Century social decisions on Iron Age myths from the Middle Ages that were cobbled together into a book during the Dark Ages.

Sander van der Linden is an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology and Director of the Cambridge Social Decision - Making Lab at the University of Cambridge.

A recent study from Caltech and the University of Iowa found that damage to this area made people less susceptible to guilt and could lead to poorer social decision making.

They analyzed decades of research and found that the multitude of characteristics associated with wisdom — including social decision making and control of emotions — may be accounted for by a surprisingly small number of brain regions: a putative wisdom network.

Observing the choice of another leads both individual and social decisions toward whatever the other person's expressed risk preference is.

For example, neuropsychological studies have demonstrated that brain injury (particularly to the frontal lobes) can adversely affect social decision making [53][54].

Teaching Empathy Institute's Little Talks that Make a Big Difference podcasts focus on meeting the social and emotional needs of students, moving them toward healthy social decision - making and pro-social skills development.

Finally, rDLPFC was also highlighted by another study involving social decision - making by Manfred Spitzer and colleagues in 2007: these authors asked participants how much of their wealth they wanted to share with another player.

«Our study shows that animals learn not only about their physical environment, such as how to obtain food in a situation that they had never encountered before, but they also learn about each other and use this information to make flexible social decisions when forming social relationships.»

Perhaps in highly personalized societies of the ancient type, such a usage might make sense — under kings, tyrants, or tribal chiefs, for example, where one person made all the crucial social decisions.

«There is 50 years of behavioral observational research out of Africa that elephants are highly social, they have empathy and they can think about their social relationships and make specific social decisions that impact themselves and others,» said study researcher Josh Plotnik, of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

In the case of drugs that have a definable ill - effect on the user, and the user alone, it is a moral, political and social decision whether the user's free choice to take the drug should be impeded by legislation.

One potential motive is a desire to be seen as a cautious social decision - maker «because that's good for their reputation,» Bolton said.

Understanding social decision - making and social ladders may also aid strategies to enhance cooperation and could be applied to everyday situations from the classroom to the boardroom.

Sallie Keller and Stephanie Shipp have teamed up to form the new Social Decision Analytics Laboratory at Virginia Tech's National Capital Region research facility in Arlington, Virginia.

The odd shove, bite or name calling incident is how children learn how to make better social decisions with careful guidance by adults.

Social decisions also happen independently, particularly for the military partner, as they look outward to friends and family members for connection.

More importantly, they showed that similar behavioral responses can emerge from distinct underlying neural mechanisms, highlighting the importance of continuing to investigate the neural basis of adaptive and maladaptive social decision making in psychopathy.

The insula is active during social decision making.

The doctrine of subsidiarity and the idea of mediating institutions mean that the proper subject of social decisions is the person and persons in community.

* Campbell's Law states, «The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision - making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.»

While those who will base social decisions on genetic reductionism will be ultimately defeated by science, new laws to protect us from genetic discrimination are critical in order to maximize the medical benefits from genome discoveries.

«Most of the research on this brain area which they are inhibiting has suggested that it plays a role in social decisions, in perspective - taking,» Kable says.

Prejudice or hostility towards particular individuals and poor social skills also contribute to poor social decision making.

Teaching Empathy Institute's Little Talks that Make a Big Difference podcasts focus on meeting the social and emotional needs of students, moving them toward healthy social decision - making and...

This bundle of worksheets has TEN quick and focused lessons that helps students link subjects, skills and facts, use literacy, numeracy and social decision making skills.

Again, that is a social decision.

The subject - matter and circumstances of important human and social decisions have increased in complexity to such an extent that the whole context has practically changed its nature.

But I do suggest that we need the ethical convictions and the constitutional mechanisms to ensure that natural rights are represented in our personal and social decision - making processes.

Fighting Eugenics In «My Brittle Bones» (March), Philip C. Burcham makes the excellent point that decisions related to genetic illnesses are not medical decisions; they are social decisions.

This further complicates the social decisions that have to be made.