@article{GrosseStreubel, author = {Große, Gerlind and Streubel, Berit}, title = {Emotion-specific vocabulary and its relation to emotion understanding in children and adolescents}, series = {Cognition and Emotion}, volume = {39}, journal = {Cognition and Emotion}, number = {7}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis}, address = {London}, issn = {0269-9931}, doi = {10.1080/02699931.2024.2346745}, pages = {1664 -- 1673}, abstract = {Among children and adolescents, emotion understanding relates to academic achievement and higher well-being. This study investigates the role of general and emotion-specific language skills in children's and adolescents' emotion understanding, building on previous research highlighting the significance of domain-specific language skills in conceptual development. We employ a novel inventory (CEVVT) to assess emotion-specific vocabulary. The study involved 10-11-year-old children (N = 29) and 16-17-year-old adolescents (N = 28), examining their emotion recognition and knowledge of emotion regulation strategies. Results highlight the ongoing development of emotion-specific vocabulary across these age groups. Emotion recognition correlated with general vocabulary in the younger group. In the older age group, emotion recognition was related to emotion-specific vocabulary size, but this effect only became apparent when controlling for the depth of emotion-specific vocabulary. Against expectation, there were no significant contributions of general or emotion-specific vocabulary to knowledge of emotion regulation strategies in either age group. These findings enhance our comprehension of the nuanced interplay between language and emotion across developmental stages.}, subject = {Sprachentwicklung}, language = {en} } @article{GrosseStreubelGunzenhauseretal., author = {Große, Gerlind and Streubel, Berit and Gunzenhauser, Catherine and Saalbach, Henrik}, title = {Let's Talk About Emotions}, series = {Affective Science}, volume = {2}, journal = {Affective Science}, number = {2}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Cham}, issn = {2662-205X}, doi = {10.1007/s42761-021-00040-2}, pages = {150 -- 162}, abstract = {Learning to use language in an adult-like way is a long-lasting process. This may particularly apply to complex conceptual domains such as emotions. The present study examined children's and adults' patterns of emotion word usage regarding their convergence and underlying semantic dimensions, and the factors influencing the ease of emotion word learning. We assessed the production of emotion words by 4- to 11-year-old children (N = 123) and 27 adults (M = 37 years) using a vignette test. We found that the older the children, the more emotion words they produced. Moreover, with increasing age, children's pattern of emotion word usage converged with adult usage. The analysis for semantic dimensions revealed one clear criterion—the differentiation of positive versus negative emotions—for all children and adults. We further found that broad covering emotion words are produced earlier and in a more adult-like way.}, subject = {Kleinkind}, language = {en} } @article{HenkelZimmermannVolzetal., author = {Henkel, Miriam and Zimmermann, Johannes and Volz, Matthias and Huber, Dorothea and Staats, Hermann and Benecke, Cord}, title = {The Long-Term Effectiveness of Psychodynamic and Analytical Psychotherapy in Routine Care}, series = {Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology}, volume = {93}, journal = {Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology}, number = {2}, address = {Washington, D.C.}, organization = {American Psychological Association (APA)}, issn = {0022-006X}, doi = {10.1037/ccp0000985}, pages = {814 -- 828}, abstract = {Objective: This naturalistic study examines the long-term effectiveness of two psychoanalytically oriented therapies-psychodynamic psychotherapy (PP) and analytical psychotherapy (AP)-in routine care settings in Germany. Method: A total of 428 patients diagnosed with various mental disorders according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition, underwent treatment with either PP or AP. Diagnoses were reassessed at the end of treatment, and patients provided annual self-reports of their mental health over a 6-year period. We employed propensity score methods and piecewise linear latent growth curve models to estimate treatment effects on primary outcomes (i.e., number of diagnoses, symptom distress) and secondary outcomes (i.e., personality dysfunction, interpersonal problems, general life satisfaction). Results: Patients exhibited substantial and sustained improvements across all outcomes in both treatments. Notably, those receiving AP experienced greater (long-term) improvement in primary and most secondary outcomes compared to those in PP. Improvements in PP primarily occurred during the 1st year, while AP patients continued to show progress throughout the entire observation period. For some outcomes (symptom distress, personality dysfunction, and interpersonal problems), AP was particularly effective for patients with more severe problems at baseline. Conclusions: Psychoanalytically oriented treatments in routine care are associated with substantial and lasting improvements, even posttreatment. Our findings highlight an incremental benefit of AP over PP, particularly for complex cases. Future research should explore treatment mechanisms, cost-effectiveness, and implications for health policy.}, subject = {Effektivit{\"a}t}, language = {en} } @article{HildebrandtGlauer, author = {Hildebrandt, Frauke and Glauer, Ramiro}, title = {Becoming episodic : the development of objectivity}, series = {Philosophical Psychology}, volume = {38}, journal = {Philosophical Psychology}, number = {2}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {London}, issn = {1465-394X}, doi = {10.1080/09515089.2023.2181152}, pages = {456 -- 479}, abstract = {We argue that objectivity is acquired by learning to refer to particular situations, that is, by developing episodicity. This contrasts with the widespread idea that genericity is crucial in developing humans' ability to conceive of an objective world. According to the collective intentionality account, objectivity is acquired by contrasting one's particular perspective in the "here and now" with a generic group perspective on how things are generally. However, this line of argument rests on confusing two independent notions of genericity: social and worldly genericity. Holding these two notions apart shows that there is no coherent developmental route from episodicity to objectivity via genericity. In effect, the collective intentionality account presupposes objectivity. Alternatively, episodicity may develop by enculturation into the common practice of spatial-indexical use. This ability establishes an initial, socially shared spatiotemporal reference system comprising the basis for objectivity.}, subject = {Objektivit{\"a}t}, language = {en} } @article{HildebrandtGlauer, author = {Hildebrandt, Frauke and Glauer, Ramiro}, title = {Singular reference : the turn to propositional thinking}, series = {Grazer Philosophische Studien : International Journal for Analytic Philosophy}, volume = {99}, journal = {Grazer Philosophische Studien : International Journal for Analytic Philosophy}, number = {2}, publisher = {Brill}, address = {Leiden}, issn = {0165-9227}, doi = {10.1163/18756735-00000164}, pages = {159 -- 185}, abstract = {The ability to refer to objects - singular reference - is arguably the decisive innovation on the way to human propositional cognition. This article argues that object individuation requires singular reference because basic singular terms, namely spatial indexicals, provide a symbolic frame of reference for object individuation. The authors suggest that singular reference is intrinsically connected to essential characteristics of propositionality: among other things, it guarantees the situation-independence of meaning, allows for the distinction between truth and falsehood, and enables us to think about possibilities. The authors sketch how singular reference gives rise to the development of predication, the powerful logical tool of quantification, and forms the basis for differentiating between belief and desire.}, subject = {Aussagenlogik}, language = {en} } @article{HildebrandtGlauerKachel, author = {Hildebrandt, Frauke and Glauer, Ramiro and Kachel, Gregor}, title = {Coming from a world without objects}, series = {Mind \& Language}, volume = {37}, journal = {Mind \& Language}, number = {2}, publisher = {Wiley Blackwell Publishing Ltd}, address = {Oxford, UK}, doi = {10.1111/mila.12313}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-25000}, pages = {159 -- 176}, abstract = {While research on object individuation assumes that even very young children are able to perceive objects as particulars, we argue that the results of relevant studies can be explained in terms of feature discrimination. We propose that children start out navigating the world with a feature-based ontology and only later become able to individuate objects spatiotemporally. Furthermore, object individuation is a cognitively demanding achievement resting on a uniquely human form of enculturation, namely the acquisition of deictic demonstratives. We conclude by outlining empirical expectations for operationalizations of our proposal.}, language = {en} } @article{HildebrandtGlauerMoore, author = {Hildebrandt, Frauke and Glauer, Ramiro and Moore, Richard}, title = {Rethinking how children individuate objects}, series = {Synthese}, volume = {202}, journal = {Synthese}, number = {3}, publisher = {Springer Nature}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {0039-7857}, doi = {10.1007/s11229-023-04300-5}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-31948}, pages = {1 -- 25}, abstract = {The current understanding of cognitive development rests on the premise that infants can individuate objects early on. However, the so-called object-first account faces severe difficulties explaining extant empirical findings in object individuation tasks while alternative, more parsimonious explanations are available. In this paper, we assume that children start as feature-thinkers without being able to individuate objects and show how this ability can be learned by thinkers who do not already implicitly possess the notion of an object. Based on Tugendhat's ideas on the relation between singular terms and object reference, we argue that spatial indexicals comprise the fundamental means of object individuation and describe how feature thinkers might acquire the complex substitutional system of spatial indexicals. In closing, two accounts of object cognition that do not rely on symbolic capacities, namely Pylyshyn's FINST indexes and Burge's perceptual objectivity, are critically discussed.}, subject = {Kind}, language = {en} } @article{HildebrandtLonnemannGlauer, author = {Hildebrandt, Frauke and Lonnemann, Jan and Glauer, Ramiro}, title = {Why Not Just Features? Reconsidering Infants' Behavior in Individuation Tasks}, series = {Frontiers in Psychology}, volume = {11}, journal = {Frontiers in Psychology}, number = {Okt.}, publisher = {Frontiers Media S.A.}, address = {Lausanne}, issn = {1664-1078}, doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2020.564807}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-24896}, pages = {9}, abstract = {It counts as empirically proven that infants can individuate objects. Object individuation is assumed to be fundamental in the development of infants' ontology within the object-first account. It crucially relies on an object-file (OF) system, representing both spatiotemporal ("where") and categorical ("what") information about objects as solid, cohesive bodies moving continuously in space and time. However, infants' performance in tasks requiring them to use featural information to detect individuation violations appears to be at odds with the object-first account. In such cases, infants do not appear to be able to develop correct expectations about the numerosity of objects. Recently, proponents of the object-first account proposed that these individuation failures result from integration errors between the OF system and an additional physical reasoning system. We are going to argue that the predictions of a feature-based physical-reasoning (PR) system are sufficient for explaining infants' behavior. The striking predictive power of the PR system calls into question the relevance of the OF system and, thereby, challenges the assumption that infants can individuate objects early on.}, subject = {Individuation}, language = {en} } @article{HildebrandtMusholt, author = {Hildebrandt, Frauke and Musholt, Kristina}, title = {Teaching rationality : sustained shared thinking as a means for learning to navigate the space of reasons}, series = {Journal of Philosophy of Education}, volume = {54}, journal = {Journal of Philosophy of Education}, number = {3}, publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell}, address = {Malden, Mass.}, issn = {1467-9752}, doi = {10.1111/1467-9752.12407}, pages = {582 -- 599}, abstract = {Human thought can be characterised as being situated in the 'space of reasons'. That is to say that human thought is guided by the norms of theoretical and practical rationality which, in turn, enable autonomous thinking. But how do children learn to navigate the space of reasons? Building on the work of Tugendhat and Bakhurst, among others, we argue, first, that this process involves the acquisition of propositional thought and that it is an essentially social one in which both children and adults take an active role. Second, and more specifically, by drawing on Brandom's theory of meaning, we provide a philosophical analysis of empirical findings with respect to the efficacy of 'Sustained Shared Thinking' (SST) in early educational settings. We argue that the efficacy of SST is based on its emphasising, modelling and practising those elements of communication that are essential for gaining proficiency in 'playing the game of giving and asking for reasons', namely drawing inferences between propositions and concepts and providing justifications for one's assertions. This is achieved by making explicit the inferential relationships between concepts and propositions and by the use of modal and doxastic markers that function as an invitation to a joint search for reasons.}, subject = {Denken}, language = {en} } @article{HoeyMacKinnonSchroeder, author = {Hoey, Jesse and MacKinnon, Neil J. and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias}, title = {Denotative and connotative management of uncertainty}, series = {Judgment and Decision Making}, volume = {16}, journal = {Judgment and Decision Making}, number = {2}, publisher = {Society for Judgment and Decision Making}, issn = {1930-2975}, doi = {10.1017/S1930297500008652}, pages = {505 -- 550}, abstract = {The interplay between intuitive and deliberative processing is known to be important for human decision making. As independent modes, intuitive processes can take on many forms from associative to constructive, while deliberative processes often rely on some notion of decision theoretic rationality or pattern matching. Dual process models attempt to unify these two modes based on parallel constraint networks or on socially or emotionally oriented adjustments to utility functions. This paper presents a new kind of dual process model that unifies decision theoretic deliberative reasoning with intuitive reasoning based on shared cultural affective meanings in a single Bayesian sequential model. Agents constructed according to this unified model are motivated by a combination of affective alignment (intuitive) and decision theoretic reasoning (deliberative), trading the two off as a function of the uncertainty or unpredictability of the situation. The model also provides a theoretical bridge between decision-making research and sociological symbolic interactionism. Starting with a high-level view of existing models, we advance Bayesian Affect Control Theory (BayesACT) as a promising new type of dual process model that explicitly and optimally (in the Bayesian sense) trades off motivation, action, beliefs and utility. We demonstrate a key component of the model as being sufficient to account for some aspects of classic cognitive biases about fairness and dissonance, and outline how this new theory relates to parallel constraint satisfaction models.}, subject = {Zwei-Prozess-Modell}, language = {en} } @techreport{HoeyNagappanRogersetal., author = {Hoey, Jesse and Nagappan, Meiyappan and Rogers, Kimberly B. and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and Dametto, Diego and De Zoysa, Nalin and Iyer, Rahul and Morgan, Jonathan H. and Rishi, Deepak and Sirianni, Antonio D. and Yun, Seonghu and Zhao, Jun and Z{\"o}ller, Nikolas}, title = {Theoretical and Empirical Modeling of Identity and Sentiments in Collaborative Groups}, doi = {10.31235/osf.io/4hukx}, pages = {1 -- 36}, abstract = {Theoretical and Empirical Modeling of Identity and Sentiments in Collaborative Groups (THEMIS.COG) was an interdisciplinary research collaboration of computer scientists and social scientists from the University of Waterloo (Canada), Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (Germany), and Dartmouth College (USA). This white paper summarizes the results of our research at the end of the grant term. Funded by the Trans-Atlantic Platform's Digging Into Data initiative, the project aimed at theoretical and empirical modeling of identity and sentiments in collaborative groups. Understanding the social forces behind self-organized collaboration is important because technological and social innovations are increasingly generated through informal, distributed processes of collaboration, rather than in formal organizational hierarchies or through market forces. Our work used a data-driven approach to explore the social psychological mechanisms that motivate such collaborations and determine their success or failure. We focused on the example of GitHub, the world's current largest digital platform for open, collaborative software development. In contrast to most, purely inductive contemporary approaches leveraging computational techniques for social science, THEMIS.COG followed a deductive, theory-driven approach. We capitalized on affect control theory, a mathematically formalized theory of symbolic interaction originated by sociologist David R. Heise and further advanced in previous work by some of the THEMIS.COG collaborators, among others. Affect control theory states that people control their social behaviours by intuitively attempting to verify culturally shared feelings about identities, social roles, and behaviour settings. From this principle, implemented in computational simulation models, precise predictions about group dynamics can be derived. It was the goal of THEMIS.COG to adapt and apply this approach to study the GitHub collaboration ecosystem through a symbolic interactionist lens. The project contributed substantially to the novel endeavor of theory development in social science based on large amounts of naturally occurring digital data.}, subject = {Computational social science}, language = {en} } @article{HoeySchroeder, author = {Hoey, Jesse and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias}, title = {Disruption of Social Orders in Societal Transitions as Affective Control of Uncertainty}, series = {American behavioral scientist}, volume = {67}, journal = {American behavioral scientist}, number = {2}, publisher = {Sage Publ.}, address = {Thousand Oaks}, issn = {1552-3381}, doi = {10.1177/00027642211066055}, pages = {311 -- 331}, abstract = {Bayesian affect control theory is a model of affect-driven social interaction underconditions of uncertainty. In this paper, we investigate how the operationalization of uncertainty in the model can be related to the disruption of social orders—societal pressures to adapt to ongoing environmental and technological change. First, we study the theoretical tradeoffs between three kinds of uncertainty as groups navigate external problems: validity (the predictability of the environment, including of other agents), coherence (the predictability of interpersonal affective dynamics), and dependence (the predictability of affective meanings). Second, we discuss how these uncertainty tradeoffs are related to contemporary political conflict and polarization in the context of societal transitions. To illustrate the potential of our model to analyze the socio-emotional consequences of uncertainty, we present a simulation of diverging individual affective meanings of occupational identities under uncertainty in a climate change mitigation scenario based on events in Germany. Finally, we sketch a possible research agenda to substantiate the novel, but yet mostly conjectural, ideas put forward in this paper.}, language = {en} } @article{HoeySchroederMorganetal., author = {Hoey, Jesse and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and Morgan, Jonathan Howard and Rogers, Kimberly B. and Rishi, Deepak and Nagappan, Meiyappan}, title = {Artificial Intelligence and Social Simulation}, series = {Small Group Research}, volume = {49}, journal = {Small Group Research}, number = {6}, publisher = {Sage Publications}, address = {London}, issn = {1552-8278}, doi = {10.1177/1046496418802362}, pages = {647 -- 683}, abstract = {Recent advances in artificial intelligence and computer science can be used by social scientists in their study of groups and teams. Here, we explain how developments in machine learning and simulations with artificially intelligent agents can help group and team scholars to overcome two major problems they face when studying group dynamics. First, because empirical research on groups relies on manual coding, it is hard to study groups in large numbers (the scaling problem). Second, conventional statistical methods in behavioral science often fail to capture the nonlinear interaction dynamics occurring in small groups (the dynamics problem). Machine learning helps to address the scaling problem, as massive computing power can be harnessed to multiply manual codings of group interactions. Computer simulations with artificially intelligent agents help to address the dynamics problem by implementing social psychological theory in data-generating algorithms that allow for sophisticated statements and tests of theory. We describe an ongoing research project aimed at computational analysis of virtual software development teams.}, subject = {K{\"u}nstliche Intelligenz}, language = {en} } @article{HoppeKulikowskiLorenzSinaietal., author = {Hoppe, Sophia and Kulikowski, Piotr and Lorenz-Sinai, Friederike and Męczkowska-Christiansen, Astrid and Zagulski, Sylwester}, title = {Selected Aspects of Foster Care Systems in Poland and Germany}, series = {Social work \& society}, volume = {21}, journal = {Social work \& society}, number = {3}, address = {Essen}, organization = {Universit{\"a}t Duisburg-Essen}, issn = {1613-8953}, pages = {1 -- 18}, abstract = {This article compares the foster care systems in Poland and Germany, particularly focusing on the moment when young people are prepared to leave the support system and live an independent adult life. The data was collected as part of the work of an international project team in Poland and Germany in the framework of a joint research project, and included an analysis of foundational data (systematic textual analysis and secondary data analysis). An important part of the article is an analysis of the reforms of the foster care system in both countries. In Germany the reform was implemented in 2021 and in Poland the relevant law was changed in September 2022. The result is a comparison of the support systems Poland and Germany offer care leavers and a preliminary assessment of the reforms recently introduced in both countries.}, subject = {Betreutes Wohnen}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{ImaiSajiGrosseetal., author = {Imai, Mutsumi and Saji, Noburo and Große, Gerlind and Schulze, Cornelia and Asano, Michiko and Saalbach, Henrik}, title = {General mechanisms of color lexicon acquisition : insights from comparison of German and Japanese speaking children}, series = {Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society}, organization = {Cognitive Science Society}, pages = {3315 -- 3320}, abstract = {This research investigated how German-speaking children learn color words, both in terms of centroid mappings and boundary delineation, and how they construct the color lexicon as a connected system. The results were compared to those of Japanese children to draw insights on general mechanisms that underlie the acquisition of words in the color lexicon. For both languages, input frequency and category size contributed to the ease of learning. In contrast, in both language groups, naming (in)consistency in adults predicted the adult-like boundary delineation.}, subject = {Kindersprache}, language = {en} } @article{KachelMooreTomasello, author = {Kachel, Gregor and Moore, Richard and Tomasello, Michael}, title = {Two-year-olds use adults' but not peers' points}, series = {Developmental Science}, volume = {21}, journal = {Developmental Science}, number = {5}, publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {1467-7687}, doi = {10.1111/desc.12660}, abstract = {In the current study, 24- to 27-month-old children (N = 37) used pointing gestures in a cooperative object choice task with either peer or adult partners. When indicating the location of a hidden toy, children pointed equally accurately for adult and peer partners but more often for adult partners. When choosing from one of three hiding places, children used adults' pointing to find a hidden toy significantly more often than they used peers'. In interaction with peers, children's choice behavior was at chance level. These results suggest that toddlers ascribe informative value to adults' but not peers' pointing gestures, and highlight the role of children's social expectations in their communicative development.}, subject = {Kleinkind}, language = {en} } @article{KajićSchroederStewartetal., author = {Kajić, Ivana and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and Stewart, Terrence C. and Thagard, Paul}, title = {The semantic pointer theory of emotion}, series = {Cognitive Systems Research}, volume = {58}, journal = {Cognitive Systems Research}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {1389-0417}, doi = {10.1016/j.cogsys.2019.04.007}, pages = {35 -- 53}, abstract = {Emotion theory needs to explain the relationship of language and emotions, and the embodiment of emotions, by specifying the computational mechanisms underlying emotion generation in the brain. We used Chris Eliasmith's Semantic Pointer Architecture to develop POEM, a computational model that explains numerous important phenomena concerning emotions, including how some stimuli generate immediate emotional reactions, how some emotional reactions depend on cognitive evaluations, how bodily states influence the generation of emotions, how some emotions depend on interactions between physiological inputs and cognitive appraisals, and how some emotional reactions concern syntactically complex representations. We contrast our theory with current alternatives, and discuss some possible applications to individual and social emotions.}, subject = {Gef{\"u}hlstheorie}, language = {en} } @incollection{KorntheuerThomas, author = {Korntheuer, Annette and Thomas, Stefan}, title = {Participation of refugee youth in Germany's VET system}, series = {Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2021}, booktitle = {Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2021}, publisher = {Emerald Publishing Limited}, address = {Bingley}, isbn = {978-1-80262-522-6}, issn = {1479-3679}, doi = {10.1108/S1479-36792022000042A002}, publisher = {Fachhochschule Potsdam}, pages = {25 -- 34}, abstract = {Germany has become the most important destination country for young refugees in Europe (Destatis, 2021). Vocational education and training can make an important contribution to overcome educational barriers and gain participation in society (Will \& Hohmut, 2020). Since 2015, rural regions have faced new challenges in establishing effective support systems for young apprentices with forced migration experience (Ohliger et al., 2017). The participatory LaeneAs research project seeks to identify educational barriers and to promote successful educational pathways for young refugees in vocational training. In four distinct rural areas in Germany, stakeholders in formal, non-formal, and informal learning environments and young refugees will be brought together in real-world laboratories. The authors aim to open space for a co-constructive knowledge production process between scientific and political stakeholders, educational practitioners, and refugee youth. Real-world laboratories are a socio-spatial methodology that combines research and a sustainable capacity building process. The lifeworld expertise will be used for a contextual condition analysis of structural, societal, and individual barriers to education as well as for practice transfer. Building on the discussion of the current state of research and the identification of significant gaps in the practice and research landscape, this essay will focus on the critical discussion of the methodological implementation of the study.}, subject = {Migration}, language = {en} } @article{KuchinkeMatthessEckertetal., author = {Kuchinke, Lars and Mattheß, Janna and Eckert, Melanie and Richter, Katharina and Koch, Gabriele and Bindt, Carola and Schweitzer, Julia and Krauskopf, Karsten and Rummel-Kluge, Christine and Theil, Mona Katharina and Galeris, Mirijam-Griseldis and Reinhold, Thomas and Vienhues, Petra and Bergh{\"o}fer, Anne and Roll, Stephanie and Keil, Thomas and Schlensog-Schuster, Franziska and von Klitzing, Kai and Ludwig-K{\"o}rner, Christiane}, title = {Efficacy of parent-infant psychotherapy with mothers with postpartum mental disorder}, series = {Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health}, journal = {Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health}, publisher = {BioMed Central}, address = {London}, issn = {1753-2000}, doi = {10.1186/s13034-025-01013-0}, pages = {26}, abstract = {Background Postpartum maternal mental health problems affect the development of mother-child interaction and of children's attachment security. Focus-based brief parent-infant psychotherapy (PIP-f) was developed to support parents 'mentalize' their child's affective states and promote a healthy parent-child relationship and child development. Efficacy of PIP-f was evaluated against care-as-usual (CAU) in a randomized controlled trial within the SKKIPPI project. Method N = 120 mothers diagnosed with an ICD-10 psychopathological disorder and their infants under one year were randomly assigned to PIP-f (n = 57) or CAU (n = 63). Primary outcome was maternal sensitivity in mother-child interaction after 6 weeks of intervention. Secondary outcomes include maternal and child psychopathological symptoms, child development, parenting stress, emotional availability, parental reflective functioning and child attachment after 6 weeks and 12 months. Results PIP-f was not superior to CAU in maternal sensitivity (b = 0.129, 95\%CI [-0.161, 0.418], p = 0.378) at post-intervention, nor in maternal symptoms (b =-0.702, [-2.603, 1.198], p = 0.463) or child symptoms of regulatory disorder (b = 1.079, [-2.344, 4.502], p = 0.531). Attachment security assessed at 12 months did not differ between intervention groups (OR = 2.0, [0.64, 6.33], p = 0.226). Moderator analyses suggest that emotional availability and parental reflective functioning improve up to 12 months for more severe cases. Conclusion Differences between PIP-f and CAU were smaller than expected, but PIP-f seemed to reduce symptoms of mental health problems. Some evidence exists that mothers with higher symptom burden benefit from PIP-f. High dropout rates and initially high emotional availability prevent generalizability. Trial registration: The trial was registered in the German Register for Clinical Studies (DRKS00016353) on January 16, 2019.}, subject = {Das M{\"u}tterliche}, language = {en} } @article{LevensonLorenzSinaiKessletal., author = {Levenson, Lance and Lorenz-Sinai, Friederike and Kessl, Fabian and Resnik, Julia}, title = {German teachers' pilgrimage to an Israeli Holocaust Memorial}, series = {Anthropology and Education Quarterly}, volume = {55}, journal = {Anthropology and Education Quarterly}, number = {4}, publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {0161-7761}, doi = {10.1111/aeq.12508}, pages = {400 -- 418}, abstract = {Drawing on anthropological conceptions of pilgrimage, our ethnography of professional development at an Israeli Holocaust Memorial follows German teachers on journeys to Israel. Seeking transformative and transferable experiences to combat anti-Semitism in schools, teachers experienced the voyage as a secular pilgrimage rooted in Christian traditions of guilt, confession, and absolution. As teachers' emotional encounters in Israel simultaneously forged communitas and challenged official historical-pedagogical visions, their practices abroad elucidate prevalent Holocaust education discourses in contemporary Germany.}, subject = {Gef{\"u}hl}, language = {en} } @article{Liebel, author = {Liebel, Manfred}, title = {Economic and Labour Rights}, series = {Nordic Journal of Human Rights}, volume = {39}, journal = {Nordic Journal of Human Rights}, number = {2}, publisher = {Taylor and Francis}, address = {London}, issn = {1891-814X}, doi = {10.1080/18918131.2021.2001162}, pages = {163 -- 179}, abstract = {This author discusses the question whether children have economic and labour rights, and if so, what that means in practice. With regard to international law, he clarifies the relationship between different areas of law and the relationship between various legal concepts that are relevant to the protection of children's economic and labour rights. More specifically, he explores the relationship between human rights in general and children's rights in particular, as well as the relationship between economic and social rights, human and labour rights, and legal and moral rights. Next, he focuses on working children and their associations and which economic and labour rights they consider necessary. Furthermore, he discusses how these rights are, or should be, reflected in international law and in national legislation. Finally, the key obstacles in protecting children's economic and labour rights in international law are discussed, i.e. what practical difficulties are to be overcome on the ground in order to realise and bring to life the economic and labour rights of children.}, subject = {Internationales Wirtschaftsrecht}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{LinCzarnuchMalhotraetal., author = {Lin, Luyuan and Czarnuch, Stephen and Malhotra, Aarti and Yu, Lifei and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and Hoey, Jesse}, title = {Affectively Aligned Cognitive Assistance Using Bayesian Affect Control Theory}, series = {Ambient Assisted Living and Daily Activities}, booktitle = {Ambient Assisted Living and Daily Activities}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-319-13105-4}, issn = {1611-3349}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-13105-4_41}, pages = {279 -- 287}, abstract = {This paper describes a novel emotionally intelligent cognitive assistant to engage and help older adults with Alzheimer's disease (AD) to complete activities of daily living (ADL) more independently. Our new system combines two research streams. First, the development of cognitive assistants with artificially intelligent controllers using partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs). Second, a model of the dynamics of emotion and identity called Affect Control Theory that arises from the sociological literature on culturally shared sentiments. We present background material on both of these research streams, and then demonstrate a prototype assistive technology that combines the two. We discuss the affective reasoning, the probabilistic and decision-theoretic reasoning, the computer-vision based activity monitoring, the embodied prompting, and we show results in proof-of-concept tests.}, subject = {Dichte }, language = {en} } @article{LindnerMoellerHildebrandtetal., author = {Lindner, Nadja and Moeller, Korbinian and Hildebrandt, Frauke and Hasselhorn, Marcus and Lonnemann, Jan}, title = {Children's use of egocentric reference frames in spatial language is related to their numerical magnitude understanding}, series = {Frontiers in Psychology}, journal = {Frontiers in Psychology}, publisher = {Frontiers Media S.A.}, address = {Lausanne}, issn = {1664-1078}, doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2022.943191}, pages = {13}, abstract = {Numerical magnitude information is assumed to be spatially represented in the form of a mental number line defined with respect to a body-centred, egocentric frame of reference. In this context, spatial language skills such as mastery of verbal descriptions of spatial position (e.g., in front of, behind, to the right/left) have been proposed to be relevant for grasping spatial relations between numerical magnitudes on the mental number line. We examined 4- to 5-year-old's spatial language skills in tasks that allow responses in egocentric and allocentric frames of reference, as well as their relative understanding of numerical magnitude (assessed by a number word comparison task). In addition, we evaluated influences of children's absolute understanding of numerical magnitude assessed by their number word comprehension (montring different numbers using their fingers) and of their knowledge on numerical sequences (determining predecessors and successors as well as identifying missing dice patterns of a series). Results indicated that when considering responses that corresponded to the egocentric perspective, children's spatial language was associated significantly with their relative numerical magnitude understanding, even after controlling for covariates, such as children's SES, mental rotation skills, and also absolute magnitude understanding or knowledge on numerical sequences. This suggests that the use of egocentric reference frames in spatial language may facilitate spatial representation of numbers along a mental number line and thus seem important for preschoolers' relative understanding of numerical magnitude.}, subject = {R{\"a}umliches Wissen}, language = {en} } @article{LohseHildebrandtHildebrandt, author = {Lohse, Karoline and Hildebrandt, Andrea and Hildebrandt, Frauke}, title = {Hypotheses in adult-child interactions stimulate children's reasoning and verbalizations}, series = {Early Childhood Research Quarterly}, volume = {58}, journal = {Early Childhood Research Quarterly}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {0885-2006}, doi = {10.1016/j.ecresq.2021.09.014}, pages = {254 -- 263}, abstract = {Adult-child interactions can support children's development and are established as predictors of program quality in early childhood settings. However, the linguistic components that constitute positive interactions have not yet been studied in detail. This study investigates the effects of hypotheses proposed by adults on children's responses in a dyadic picture-book viewing situation. In 2 experiments, adults' use of hypotheses (e.g., "Maybe this is a dwarf's door") was tested against the use of instructive statements ("This is a dwarf's door") and in combination with open questions ("What do you think, why is the door so small?"). In Experiment 1, hypotheses differed from instructions only by the modal marker "maybe". Children's responses to hypotheses were longer and contained more self-generated explanations as compared to responses to instructions. The use of hypotheses also seemed to encourage children to attach more importance to their own explanations. In Experiment 2, combining hypotheses with open-ended why questions elicited longer responses but no more self-generated explanations in children than open-ended questions alone. Results indicate that subtle differences in adults' utterances can directly influence children's reasoning and children's contributions to dialogues.}, subject = {Parent-child interaction therapy}, language = {en} } @article{LorenzNeumannSchroeder, author = {Lorenz, Jan and Neumann, Martin and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias}, title = {Individual attitude change and societal dynamics: Computational experiments with psychological theories}, series = {Psychological Review}, volume = {128}, journal = {Psychological Review}, number = {4}, publisher = {American Psychological Association}, address = {Washington}, issn = {1939-1471}, doi = {10.1037/rev0000291}, pages = {623 -- 642}, abstract = {We present an agent-based model for studying the societal implications of attitude change theories. Various psychological theories of persuasive communication at the individual level are implemented as simulation experiments. The model allows us to investigate the effects of contagion and assimilation, motivated cognition, polarity, source credibility, and idiosyncratic attitude formation. Simulations show that different theories produce different characteristic macrolevel patterns. Contagion and assimilation are central mechanisms for generating consensus, however, contagion generates a radicalized consensus. Motivated cognition causes societal polarization or the fragmentation of attitudes. Polarity and source credibility have comparatively little effect on the societal distribution of attitudes. We discuss how the simulations provide a bridge between microlevel psychological theories and the aggregated macrolevel studied by sociology. This approach enables new types of evidence for evaluating psychological theory to complement experimental approaches, thus answering calls to enhance the role of coherent and formalized theory in psychological science.}, subject = {Einstellungsforschung}, language = {en} } @article{LuthardtSchroederHildebrandtetal., author = {Luthardt, Jasmin and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and Hildebrandt, Frauke and Bormann, Inka}, title = {"And then we'll just check if it suits us" : cognitive-affective maps of social innovation in early childhood education}, series = {Frontiers in Education}, volume = {5}, journal = {Frontiers in Education}, publisher = {Frontiers Media}, address = {Lausanne}, issn = {2504-284X}, doi = {10.3389/feduc.2020.00033}, pages = {19}, abstract = {The idea that a simple execution of an innovation invented by actors other than those who are expected to apply it is not likely to take place is a truism. We assume, however, in this paper the idea of a discursive production of knowledge on the application of an innovation across different levels of the education system. We aim to shed light on an innovation's 'journey' from educational policy over training providers to teams of professionals in early childhood education and care (ECEC). By investigating knowledge and emotions associated with the introduction of an intended innovation using the example of "stimulation interactions" in day care-centers, the paper contributes to research on the transfer of innovations in education. To better understand challenges occurring during the transfer of innovations, we triangulate methods from discourse theory (coding techniques based on GTM) and cognitive science, namely cognitive-affective mapping (according to the scholarly conventions). The data corpus includes educational plans (N = 2), in-service training programs (N = 123) and group discussions of pedagogical teams (N = 6) who participated in an in-service training on the subject, stimulating interaction. Findings underline that similar messages from the inventors on the educational policy level are received and processed heterogeneously by the teams of pedagogues as a result of their preexisting views, routine practices and experiences with intended innovations through in-service trainings. Besides, a diffuse mixture of competing and contradictory information is communicated to the professionals and, hence, collides with the in-service training providers' and educational policy actors' expectations on the processing of the intended innovation. Specific knowledge elements and their valences are diametrically opposed to each other. Dissonances like these are considered as obstacles to social innovation. The obstacles are caused by the lack of a 'common language' beyond all levels. Hence, policy-makers and in-service-training providers should anticipate the supportive as well as competing knowledge-emotional complexes of professionals and take these into account when communicating an intended innovation.}, subject = {Sozialinnovation}, language = {en} } @article{MachaHildebrandtWronskietal., author = {Macha, Katrin and Hildebrandt, Frauke and Wronski, Caroline and Lonnemann, Jan and Urban, Mathias}, title = {Making it explicit}, series = {British educational research journal}, journal = {British educational research journal}, publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {0141-1926}, doi = {10.1002/berj.4054}, pages = {1 -- 17}, abstract = {To negotiate quality in early childhood education and care, we must ask from different perspectives what constitutes a good centre for children. The children themselves have only recently been identified as a resource to contribute to that discussion. Several studies have described profound methodologies to obtain children's perspectives by observing, interviewing and conducting group discussions. This article introduces research that combines exploring children's perspectives with sustained shared thinking (SST). Focussing on the dialogue following the rules of SST, we conducted and analysed group discussions with children about their lives within a children's centre in Berlin, Germany. The children were asked to think about aspects of quality. They expressed their ideas, wishes, likes and dislikes within the centre explicitly and profoundly. Following the lead of these children, a dialogue developed in which children and researchers contributed equally and led the way. This showed how well children could act out their agency and were capable of expressing rational and reasonable opinions. Here, we argue that SST helps to see the pedagogical side of exploring children's perspectives and acknowledges this as a pedagogical and political act. Children experience being heard and having a say in shaping situations. This is in itself a pedagogical situation a researcher should be aware of.}, subject = {Erfahrung}, language = {en} } @article{MachaUrbanLonnemannetal., author = {Macha, Katrin and Urban, Mathias and Lonnemann, Jan and Wronski, Caroline and Hildebrandt, Frauke}, title = {Children's perspectives on quality in ECEC as a specific form of participation}, series = {International Journal of Early Years Education}, volume = {32}, journal = {International Journal of Early Years Education}, number = {1}, publisher = {Taylor and Francis}, address = {London}, issn = {0966-9760}, doi = {10.1080/09669760.2023.2299267}, pages = {246 -- 260}, abstract = {In this paper, we want to present research on children's perspectives in the context of participation. We emphasize that the survey of children's perspectives is a form of participation. We understand participation based on children's rights. We refer to the Lundy model ([2007]. "'Voice' Is Not Enough: Conceptualising Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child." British Educational Research Journal 33 (6): 927-942. https://doi.org/10.1080/01411920701657033), which emphasizes that it is not enough to simply ask children to speak their minds. Rather, they also need the experience that their views have an influence. In the discourse on quality in ECEC, children's perspectives became only recently the focus of extended research. In evaluation instruments, at least in Germany, the inclusion of children's perspectives is rare. In the study presented here, these two aspects are brought together using the example of the evaluation instrument QuaSi. We describe how children's perspectives are taken into account in the evaluation and feedback process in contrast to everyday life in ECEC centres. It becomes clear that the collection of children's perspectives and their feedback to the pedagogues in the centre does not automatically lead to their views influencing the quality of the centre.}, subject = {Partizipation}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{MalhotraYuSchroederetal., author = {Malhotra, Aarti and Yu, Lifei and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and Hoey, Jesse}, title = {An exploratory study into the use of an emotionally aware cognitive assistant}, series = {AAAI Workshop : Artificial Intelligence Applied to Assistive Technologies and Smart Environments}, booktitle = {AAAI Workshop : Artificial Intelligence Applied to Assistive Technologies and Smart Environments}, publisher = {Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence}, address = {Palo Alto}, pages = {6}, abstract = {This paper presents an exploratory study conducted to understand how audio-visual prompts are understood by people on an emotional level as a first step towards the more challenging task of designing emotionally aligned prompts for persons with cognitive disabilities such as Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). Persons with ADRD often need assistance from a caregiver to complete daily living activities such as washing hands, making food, or getting dressed. Artificially intelligent systems have been developed that can assist in such situations. This paper presents a set of prompt videos of a virtual human 'Rachel', wherein she expressively communicates prompts at each step of a simple hand washing task, with various human-like emotions and behaviors. A user study was conducted for 30 such videos with respect to three basic and important dimensions of emotional experience: evaluation, potency, and activity. The results show that, while people generally agree on the evaluation (valence: good/bad) of a prompt, consensus about power and activity is not as socially homogeneous. Our long term aim is to enhance such systems by delivering automated prompts that are emotionally aligned with individuals in order to help with prompt adherence and with long-term adoption.}, subject = {Audiovisuelles Material}, language = {en} } @incollection{MarianiAckermann, author = {Mariani, Ilaria and Ackermann, Judith}, title = {Post-digital fairy tales}, series = {Transdisziplin{\"a}re Begegnungen zwischen postdigitaler Kunst und Kultureller Bildung}, booktitle = {Transdisziplin{\"a}re Begegnungen zwischen postdigitaler Kunst und Kultureller Bildung}, editor = {Ackermann, Judith and Egger, Benjamin}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Wiesbaden}, isbn = {978-3-658-32079-9}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-658-32079-9_18}, pages = {283 -- 302}, abstract = {How can Interactive Digital Narratives (IDNs) be employed to reflect on and understand post-digital society and its challenges? To discuss such a complex matter, object of our investigation through the years, we rely on the results of an experimentation that used fairy tales as a starting point for opening up imagination and increasing the distance to everyday life and typical media usage behavior. The activity "Postdigital Fairy Tales" was conducted at Politecnico di Milano, bringing together 45 students in Communication Design for five full days of intensive experimentation. We explored the practice of crafting and developing interactive narratives that analyze societal twists and shifts due to digitalization by remixing traditional fairy tale narratives with aspects of our post-digital era. For this reason we chose to focus on Instagram and to exploit its affordances. The results show how IDNs can be used to question digital media usage with regard to patterns of aesthetics and interaction modes, and to analyse the wicked problems associated with digitalization.}, subject = {Narrativ }, language = {en} } @article{MarianiCianciaAckermann, author = {Mariani, Ilaria and Ciancia, Mariana and Ackermann, Judith}, title = {Interactive Digital Narratives and Counter-Narratives}, series = {GAME : The Italian Journal of Game Studies}, volume = {11}, journal = {GAME : The Italian Journal of Game Studies}, number = {1}, publisher = {Ass.ne Culturale Ludica}, address = {Italien}, issn = {2280-7705}, pages = {5 -- 32}, abstract = {This paper delves into Interactive Digital Narratives (IDNs) as powerful artefacts for challenging dominant narratives and promoting inclusive storytelling. The study is based on a literature review of the research discourse on IDNs, aiming to discern their potential to support and address counter-narratives. Triangulation and systematisation of the existing knowledge corpus, key themes, theoretical frameworks, and studies surrounding IDN and counternarrative were conducted, collecting primary definitions and identifying for each domain relevant clusters. Five original scientific works by as many scholars that constitute this special issue are explored and mapped against this backdrop and associated with IDN and counter-narrative clusters. This process highlights their alignment with the research discourse, leading to the identification of intersections between IDNs and counter-narratives from diverse perspectives. This exploration sheds light on how IDNs can serve as counter-hegemonic narratives, being spaces for alternative perspectives and identities that challenge dominant ideologies. Ultimately, the requisite preconditions for IDNs to function as counter-narratives are discussed.}, subject = {Erz{\"a}hlen}, language = {en} } @article{MarimonHofmannVerissimoetal., author = {Marimon, Mireia and Hofmann, Andrea and Ver{\´i}ssimo, Jo{\~a}o and M{\"a}nnel, Claudia and Friederici, Angela D. and H{\"o}hle, Barbara and Wartenburger, Isabell}, title = {Children's Learning of Non-adjacent Dependencies Using a Web-Based Computer Game Setting}, series = {Frontiers in Psychology}, volume = {12}, journal = {Frontiers in Psychology}, publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation}, address = {Lausanne}, issn = {1664-1078}, doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2021.734877}, pages = {15}, abstract = {Infants show impressive speech decoding abilities and detect acoustic regularities that highlight the syntactic relations of a language, often coded via non-adjacent dependencies (NADs, e.g., is singing). It has been claimed that infants learn NADs implicitly and associatively through passive listening and that there is a shift from effortless associative learning to a more controlled learning of NADs after the age of 2 years, potentially driven by the maturation of the prefrontal cortex. To investigate if older children are able to learn NADs, Lammertink et al. (2019) recently developed a word-monitoring serial reaction time (SRT) task and could show that 6-11-year-old children learned the NADs, as their reaction times (RTs) increased then they were presented with violated NADs. In the current study we adapted their experimental paradigm and tested NAD learning in a younger group of 52 children between the age of 4-8 years in a remote, web-based, game-like setting (whack-a-mole). Children were exposed to Italian phrases containing NADs and had to monitor the occurrence of a target syllable, which was the second element of the NAD. After exposure, children did a "Stem Completion" task in which they were presented with the first element of the NAD and had to choose the second element of the NAD to complete the stimuli. Our findings show that, despite large variability in the data, children aged 4-8 years are sensitive to NADs; they show the expected differences in r RTs in the SRT task and could transfer the NAD-rule in the Stem Completion task. We discuss these results with respect to the development of NAD dependency learning in childhood and the practical impact and limitations of collecting these data in a web-based setting.}, subject = {Linguistik}, language = {en} } @incollection{MaueFlechtner, author = {Mau{\´e}, Rahel and Flechtner, Rahel}, title = {"Hopohopo": a virtual reality awareness application about social anxiety disorder}, series = {Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2022 : MuC'22}, booktitle = {Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2022 : MuC'22}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-4503-9690-5}, doi = {10.1145/3543758.3547550}, publisher = {Fachhochschule Potsdam}, pages = {420 -- 424}, abstract = {Virtual Reality (VR) applications play an increasingly important role in the context of mental health. While VR-based therapeutic interventions are increasingly well-established, the application of VR in the field of mental health awareness represents a novel and promising development. We present our mental health awareness VR application "hopohopo", in which the user takes the perspective of a person suffering from social anxiety. Through the VR journey, the user experiences what it could feel like to suffer from constant fear of being negatively judged by others in everyday social situations. The aim of the application is to allow nonaffected users to expand their knowledge and to raise mental health awareness. In this paper, we report our findings on the potential of this immersive VR application for psychoeducation and destigmatization of social anxiety. In this respect, we provide the scope of our VR application and first results of its ongoing usability and usefulness evaluation process.}, subject = {Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation}, language = {en} } @incollection{McRobert, author = {McRobert, Korinna}, title = {Young survivors of sexual abuse as 'children out of place'}, series = {Intersectionality and Difference in Childhood and Youth}, booktitle = {Intersectionality and Difference in Childhood and Youth}, edition = {1st Edition}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-0-367-72916-5}, doi = {10.4324/9780429466588-10}, publisher = {Fachhochschule Potsdam}, pages = {143 -- 157}, abstract = {This chapter looks at children 'out of place' as a category, focusing on the example of the sexually abused and thus sexually exposed child as experiencing an 'out of place' childhood. It focuses on the child who has been sexually abused and exploited, in contexts involving no compensation - monetary or otherwise. A code for childhood sexuality also developed in the West, with the focus on the innocence and malleability of young people. The projection onto children by adults, in terms of what they should be, can thus eventually be damaging. Children are presented as incapable of being responsible subjects with their own agency in the context of sexuality. Children's agency in the context of their sexuality is highly restricted through laws dictating minimum ages of sexual activity and consent, as well as social expectations of a child as a non-sexual and innocent being.}, subject = {Kind}, language = {en} } @article{McRobert, author = {McRobert, Korinna}, title = {Exploring the theory and ethics of autoethnographic social research with adult survivors of childchood sexual abuse (CSA)}, series = {Przegla̜d krytyczny = Critical review}, journal = {Przegla̜d krytyczny = Critical review}, publisher = {Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu}, address = {Pozniań}, issn = {2657-8964}, doi = {10.14746/pk.2024.6.1.2}, pages = {13 -- 30}, language = {en} } @article{MeinhardtInjacSpaeteSiemeretal., author = {Meinhardt-Injac, Bozana and Sp{\"a}te, Julius and Siemer, Lutz and Witter, Stefanie}, title = {Acceptance of ChatGPT in social work students}, series = {Forum for Education Studies}, volume = {3}, journal = {Forum for Education Studies}, number = {1}, publisher = {Academic Publishing}, address = {Singapur}, issn = {3029-2956}, doi = {10.59400/fes1812}, pages = {10}, abstract = {Recent advancements in natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLM) such as ChatGPT, have generated high expectations and concerns regarding the future impact of AI on education and learning. In light of this, our goal was to investigate the usage of ChatGPT among social work students and to identify factors that predict its adoption according to the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). To achieve this, we conducted an online study with a large sample of social work students (N = 875). The results revealed that ChatGPT has been widely adopted, with 80\% of social work students reporting its use for study-related tasks. However, the frequency of use was moderate. Thus, although students experiment with ChatGPT, they do not use it very frequently for their studies. Its primary applications include clarifying questions, explaining concepts, analysing, editing, and writing texts, as well as conducting literature reviews. The frequency of ChatGPT use was primarily predicted by its perceived usefulness, followed by perceived ease of use. Interestingly, affinity for technological interaction did not emerge as a significant predictor. This suggests that even students who are typically less interested in technology are utilizing ChatGPT for their studies due to its perceived usefulness. Overall, these findings highlight the widespread adoption of ChatGPT among social work students and emphasize the importance of perceived usefulness in driving its usage.}, subject = {ChatGPT}, language = {en} } @article{MichelWronskiPauenetal., author = {Michel, Christine and Wronski, Caroline and Pauen, Sabina and Daum, Moritz M. and Hoehl, Stefanie}, title = {Infants' object processing is guided specifically by social cues}, series = {Neuropsychologia}, volume = {126}, journal = {Neuropsychologia}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {0028-3932}, doi = {10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.05.022}, pages = {54 -- 61}, abstract = {Previous studies showed that the movements of another person's eyes and head guides infants' attention and promotes social learning by leading to enhanced encoding of cued objects. However, it is an open question whether social features like eyes are required or if the lateral movement of any arbitrary stimulus can elicit similar effects. The current experiments investigate the effects of the movement of a nonsocial cue and a perceptually similar social cue on object processing in 4-month-olds using event-related potentials (ERPs). Infants were presented with one of two central cues, either a box with a checkerboard pattern or a box with eye-like features on the front, which turned to one side. The cue thereby either turned toward a novel object or turned away from it. Afterwards, the object was presented again and ERPs in response to these previously cued or uncued objects were compared. When the nonsocial box served as the cue, no difference in neural processing of previously cued and uncued objects was found. In contrast, when the box with eyes served as the cue, we found an enhanced positive slow wave (PSW) for uncued as compared to cued objects. While the turning of the box with eyes promoted the encoding of cued objects, uncued objects needed enhanced activity for processing when presented for a second time. Results suggest that not every dynamic cue can influence infants' object processing but that the presence of a basic social characteristic like isolated schematic eyes is sufficient to enhance social learning processes in early infancy. This hints on a specific sensitivity of the infant brain to social information which helps infants to focus on relevant information in the environment during social learning.}, subject = {S{\"a}ugling}, language = {en} } @article{Moore2020, author = {Moore, Richard}, title = {The cultural evolution of mind-modelling}, series = {Synthese}, volume = {199}, journal = {Synthese}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {1573-0964}, doi = {10.1007/s11229-020-02853-3}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-25865}, pages = {1751 -- 1776}, year = {2020}, abstract = {I argue that uniquely human forms of 'Theory of Mind' (or 'ToM') are a product of cultural evolution. Specifically, propositional attitude psychology is a linguistically constructed folk model of the human mind, invented by our ancestors for a range of tasks and refined over successive generations of users. The construction of these folk models gave humans new tools for thinking and reasoning about mental states—and so imbued us with abilities not shared by non-linguistic species. I also argue that uniquely human forms of ToM are not required for language development, such that an account of the cultural origins of ToM does not jeopardise the explanation of language development. Finally, I sketch a historical model of the cultural evolution of mental state talk.}, subject = {Kulturelle Evolution}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{MorganZhaoZoelleretal., author = {Morgan, Jonathan Howard and Zhao, Jun and Z{\"o}ller, Nikolas and Sedlacek, Andrea and Chen, Lena and Piper, Hayley and Beck, Yliana and Rogers, Kimberly B. and Hoey, Jesse and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias}, title = {Modeling the Culture of Online Collaborative Groups with Affect Control Theory}, series = {Advances in Social Simulation}, booktitle = {Advances in Social Simulation}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-030-61503-1}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-61503-1_14}, pages = {147 -- 160}, abstract = {We review Affect Control Theory (ACT) as a promising basis for equipping computational agents in social simulations with a sense of sociality. ACT is a computational theory that integrates sociological insights about the symbolic construction of the social order with psychological knowledge about cognitive-affective mechanisms. After explaining the theoretical foundations of ACT and applications of the theory at the dyadic and group level, we describe a case study applying the theory from an ongoing research project examining self-organized online collaboration in software development.}, subject = {Gruppendynamik}, language = {en} } @article{NefLorenzSinai, author = {Nef, Susanne and Lorenz-Sinai, Friederike}, title = {Multilateral generation of violence : on the theorization of microscopic analyses and empirically grounded theories of violence}, series = {Historical Social Research}, volume = {47}, journal = {Historical Social Research}, number = {1}, publisher = {K{\"o}ln}, organization = {Zentrum f{\"u}r Historische Sozialforschung}, issn = {0172-6404}, doi = {10.12759/hsr.47.2022.05}, pages = {111 -- 131}, abstract = {Using two phenomena of violence against children and intimate partner violence and based on two case studies, we explore the extent to which social processes of interpreting and negotiating violence contribute to further theorization efforts. The central unifying element is that both forms of violence are enabled and performed in power relations and have long been socially, legally, and politically legitimized. Therefore, our study's focus is not on violence as a subject but rather on the social negotiation and construction of meanings of actions framed as violent. This perspective is exemplified by two independent case studies and data material that illustrate how such microscopic arguments are developed empirically. The methods used for the two case studies include qualitative analyses of interviews and organizational documents. Hence, we also discuss the researchers' involvement and challenges in these processes. Based on our analytical findings, we argue for the use of an approach of a subject appropriated theorizing violence rather than a formal theory formation of violence. The procedural analysis of violence revealed its importance in making non-public and socially taboo forms of violence analytically accessible.}, subject = {Gewalt}, language = {en} } @article{O'MadagainKachelStrickland, author = {O'Madagain, Cathal and Kachel, Gregor and Strickland, Brent}, title = {The origin of pointing}, series = {Science Advances}, volume = {5}, journal = {Science Advances}, number = {7}, publisher = {American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)}, address = {Washington}, issn = {2375-2548}, doi = {10.1126/sciadv.aav2558}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-26110}, pages = {8}, abstract = {Pointing gestures play a foundational role in human language, but up to now, we have not known where these gestures come from. Here, we investigated the hypothesis that pointing originates in touch. We found, first, that when pointing at a target, children and adults oriented their fingers not as though trying to create an "arrow" that picks out the target but instead as though they were aiming to touch it; second, that when pointing at a target at an angle, participants rotated their wrists to match that angle as they would if they were trying to touch the target; and last, that young children interpret pointing gestures as if they were attempts to touch things, not as arrows. These results provide the first substantial evidence that pointing originates in touch.}, language = {en} } @article{OomsFukkinkDevlieghereetal., author = {Ooms, Marian and Fukkink, Ruben and Devlieghere, Jochen and Dreier, Annette and Fischbach, Robert and Langner, Jana and M{\ae}land Str{\o}ms{\o}e, Kari and Van Lombergen, Lobke}, title = {Interprofessional collaboration in ECEC}, series = {European Early Childhood Education Research Journal}, journal = {European Early Childhood Education Research Journal}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis}, address = {London}, issn = {1350-293X}, doi = {10.1080/1350293X.2025.2484266}, pages = {16}, abstract = {In various European countries, there is significant variation in the level of early childhood education and care (ECEC) system integration. In these countries, in which the level of system integration varies from split to integrated systems, there is a growing interest in interprofessional collaboration (IPC) between ECEC, school, and family support (family services, welfare, and child protection services) to offer integrated services for children and their families. In a realist review of six countries with varying levels of ECEC system integration (in descending order of integration: Norway, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Flanders (Belgium) and the Netherlands), we analyzed the literature related to IPC between professionals from ECEC, school, and family support. The review showed various IPC mechanisms, including barriers and facilitators, for professionals working in ECEC who face similar challenges in achieving pedagogical continuity and offering integrated services in different countries.}, subject = {Internationale Kooperation}, language = {en} } @incollection{OswaldKrappmannUhlendorfetal., author = {Oswald, Hans and Krappmann, Lothar and Uhlendorf, Hans and Weiss, Karin}, title = {Social relationships and support among children of the same age in middle childhood}, series = {Social networks and social support in childhood and adolescence (Prevention and intervention in childhood and adolescence ; 16)}, booktitle = {Social networks and social support in childhood and adolescence (Prevention and intervention in childhood and adolescence ; 16)}, editor = {Nestmann, Frank and Hurrelmann, Klaus}, publisher = {de Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {3-11-014360-7}, doi = {10.1515/9783110866377.171}, pages = {171 -- 189}, subject = {Kind}, language = {en} } @article{O’ConnellLucić, author = {O'Connell, Courtney and Lucić, Luka}, title = {An Informal Education Intervention in Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic}, number = {Online first}, publisher = {Springer Nature}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {2522-5804}, doi = {10.1007/s42087-020-00161-3}, pages = {1 -- 16}, abstract = {The Covid-19 pandemic and resulting damage is often portrayed in staggering numbers and statistics. This article offers, by contrast, a personal and qualitative account of employees, volunteers, and young residents at a refugee home in Berlin, Germany. Through the story of a boy who has spent the past 4 years in several of Berlin's 84 remaining refugee accommodations, we examine the inequalities that already existed in Germany and how the pandemic has exacerbated them. To provide ample context, we critically assess the so-called Welcome Classes that children and teens have been attending since their arrival to the country in or around 2015 and argue that the segregation experienced at school mirrors the isolation from the host society that refugees and people seeking asylum are subjected to residentially. We then present an emergency response to school closures: A digital homework mentorship program designed to mitigate the heightened barriers to social interaction and access to education brought about by the pandemic. We explore the sociocultural theory underpinning the program, describe its methods, and offer a qualitative evaluation of the results. Finally, we discuss how the informal education intervention helps fill gaps in the system, offering an approach that can be used going forward to promote learning, social-emotional development, and inclusion of young people with migration and refugee backgrounds.}, subject = {Jugend}, language = {en} } @article{Peters, author = {Peters, Uwe}, title = {Teleology and mentalizing in the explanation of action}, series = {Synthese}, volume = {198}, journal = {Synthese}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {1573-0964}, doi = {10.1007/s11229-019-02256-z}, pages = {2941 -- 2957}, abstract = {In empirically informed research on action explanation, philosophers and developmental psychologists have recently proposed a teleological account of the way in which we make sense of people's intentional behavior. It holds that we typically don't explain an agent's action by appealing to her mental states but by referring to the objective, publically accessible facts of the world that count in favor of performing the action so as to achieve a certain goal. Advocates of the teleological account claim that this strategy is our main way of understanding people's actions. I argue that common motivations mentioned to support the teleological account are insufficient to sustain its generalization from children to adults. Moreover, social psychological studies, combined with theoretical considerations, suggest that we do not explain actions mainly by invoking publically accessible, reason-giving facts alone but by ascribing mental states to the agent.}, subject = {Teleologie}, language = {en} } @incollection{PfeilSeitzVogt, author = {Pfeil, Martina and Seitz, Hanne and Vogt, Christine}, title = {Be unique, be open, be art}, series = {Building bridges, breaking borders : urban culture and youth}, booktitle = {Building bridges, breaking borders : urban culture and youth}, publisher = {SWP}, address = {Amsterdam}, isbn = {978-90-8850-126-5}, pages = {51 -- 127}, subject = {Kultur}, language = {en} } @incollection{PollmerPalentinHurrelmann, author = {Pollmer, K{\"a}te and Palentin, Christian and Hurrelmann, Klaus}, title = {Educational perspectives and psychosocial problems of East German adolescents}, series = {Individualization in childhood and adolescence}, booktitle = {Individualization in childhood and adolescence}, publisher = {de Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {3-11-014681-9}, doi = {10.1515/9783110811001.181}, pages = {181 -- 197}, subject = {Kinder}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{RitterMorganKim, author = {Ritter, Frank E. and Morgan, Jonathan H. and Kim, Jong W.}, title = {Practical Advice on How to Run Human Behavioral Studies}, series = {Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society}, organization = {Cognitive Science Society}, pages = {15 -- 16}, subject = {Experimentelle Psychologie}, language = {en} } @article{SajiSaalbachGrosseetal., author = {Saji, Noburo and Saalbach, Henrik and Große, Gerlind and Schulze, Cornelia and Imai, Mutsumi}, title = {Cross-linguistic comparison of color word learning in German and Japanese children shows universal and language-specific processes}, series = {Scientific reports}, volume = {15}, journal = {Scientific reports}, publisher = {Springer Nature}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {2045-2322}, doi = {10.1038/s41598-025-23286-3}, pages = {12}, abstract = {This study examines how German- and Japanese-speaking children acquire the meanings of color words, focusing on two theoretically distinct processes: centroid mapping and boundary delineation. While previous cross-linguistic studies have typically addressed these aspects in isolation, this paper explicitly investigates both processes simultaneously, assessing language-specific and perceptual factors contributing to lexical acquisition. Using previously collected Japanese data (re-analyzed here for comparative purposes) and newly collected German data, we explore how input frequency, naming inconsistency, category size, and perceptual saliency influence these processes. Our findings show that centroid mapping in both languages is primarily shaped by input frequency, that is, children learn prototypical meanings by hearing the respective color words often. In contrast, boundary delineation is predicted by naming consistency in adult speakers, that is, children's differentiation of color categories is based on the consistency with which adults refer to the same color with the same word. The structural characteristics of each language's lexicon affect these qualitative aspects, highlighting an interplay between perceptual constraints and language-specific lexical structures. This comparative approach provides novel insights into lexical and conceptual development, contributing to broader theoretical debates on continuity and discontinuity in semantic acquisition and informing computational models of lexical development.}, subject = {Deutsch}, language = {en} } @book{SchachameierReichertBreitenfeldt, author = {Schachameier, Armin and Reichert, Ulrich and Breitenfeldt, Tom}, title = {Gestalt in Social Work}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-031-95528-0}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-95528-0}, publisher = {Fachhochschule Potsdam}, pages = {217}, abstract = {This book deals with key situations in social work and reflects on them from the perspective of the Gestalt approach, which has enormous potential for consulting practice. The Gestalt approach has so far played a minimal or no role in social science courses (social work, psychology) as well as in the practice of social work. This book makes the Gestalt approach accessible to a wider audience so that specialists can expand their methodological repertoire accordingly. The authors see professionalism as a continuous, lifelong process that consists of training, reflection and research in specific practical situations. With this volume, they open up a learning path for readers, conveying a didactic concept so that readers can acquire methodological skills for conducting consultations. Based on the authors' experiences dealing with the topics of depression, addiction, codependency, parenting advice, trauma/dissociation and psychosis, short video recordings, commented transcriptions and summary graphics have been created to explain the basic relationship dynamics and approaches to action. This learning material can be used by students and practitioners in the field of the social work, but it is also would interest anyone who is involved in consulting and coaching in other areas. The focus is on reenacting and reflecting on practical situations based on cases. In role plays, students or professionals put themselves in the shoes of clients and consultants. Through these case reflections, basic conversation dynamics on specific topics can be both experienced as well as understood. Approaches can be tried out in order to expand the methodological repertoire for practice. Gestalt in Social Work: Case Studies in Practice is primarily intended for students, lecturers, professors, teachers and practitioners of social work. Readers in the fields of psychology and psychotherapy (doctors, psychiatrists, psychotherapists), Gestalt therapists and trainers, and consultants in other related fields also would find the book of interest.}, subject = {Gestalttherapie}, language = {en} }