@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} } @article{SchauenburgAryaniHsuetal., author = {Schauenburg, Gesche and Aryani, Arash and Hsu, Chun-Ting and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and Conrad, Markus and von Scheve, Christian and Jacobs, Arthur M.}, title = {Conflict Detection in Language Processing: Using Affect Control Theory to Predict Neural Correlates of Affective Incongruency in Social Interactions}, series = {KZfSS K{\"o}lner Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie}, volume = {76}, journal = {KZfSS K{\"o}lner Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie}, number = {3}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {0023-2653}, doi = {10.1007/s11577-024-00961-3}, pages = {603 -- 625}, abstract = {Affect control theory (ACT) is a sociological theory of meaning processing in social interactions. Meaning, according to ACT, derives from cultural institutions and situational affordances, having denotative (declarative) as well as connotative (affective) properties. Mathematical formalizations of ACT allow predictions of affective incongruency (in the terminology of ACT, deflection), which arises from conflicting institutional and situational meanings in a given interaction context. Although ACT is theoretically consistent, its propositions regarding cognitive and affective processing have rarely been tested. The present study fills this gap by investigating the neural processing of affective incongruency in linguistic descriptions of social interactions. Following a neurosociological paradigm, the study draws on neurocognitive evidence on the effects of words' affective content on word processing as well as on a previous electroencephalography study that investigated processing of affective incongruency using event-related brain potentials. We hypothesized that affective incongruency is associated with activation in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), a brain area known for conflict processing. To test this hypothesis, we replicated the electroencephalography study using functional magnetic resonance imaging: We visually presented sentences describing social interactions to 23 participants in a silent reading task while measuring differences in the hemodynamic response in two conditions of affective congruency. Results show expected increases in neural activity for affectively incongruent sentences in the left ACC, supporting the assumption that affective language content influences meaning-making at very early semantic processing stages. The results also add to the emerging neuroscientific evidence for ACT's mathematical model of impression formation.}, subject = {Funktionelle Kernspintomografie}, language = {en} } @article{SchauenburgConradvonScheveetal., author = {Schauenburg, Gesche and Conrad, Markus and von Scheve, Christian and Barber, Horacio A. and Ambrasat, Jens and Aryani, Arash and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias}, title = {Making sense of social interaction : emotional coherence drives semantic integration as assessed by event-related potentials}, series = {Neuropsychologia}, volume = {125}, journal = {Neuropsychologia}, publisher = {Amsterdam}, address = {Elsevier}, issn = {1873-3514}, doi = {10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.01.002}, pages = {1 -- 13}, abstract = {We compared event-related potentials during sentence reading, using impression formation equations of a model of affective coherence, to investigate the role of affective content processing during meaning making. The model of Affect Control Theory (ACT; Heise, 1979, 2007) predicts and quantifies the degree to which social interactions deflect from prevailing social norms and values - based on the affective meanings of involved concepts. We tested whether this model can predict the amplitude of brain waves traditionally associated with semantic processing. To this end, we visually presented sentences describing basic subject-verb-object social interactions and measured event-related potentials for final words of sentences from three different conditions of affective deflection (low, medium, high) as computed by a variant of the ACT model (Schr{\"o}der, 2011). Sentence stimuli were closely controlled across conditions for alternate semantic dimensions such as contextual constraints, cloze probabilities, co-occurrences of subject-object and verb-object relations. Personality characteristics (schizotypy, Big Five) were assessed to account for individual differences, assumed to influence emotion-language interactions in information processing. Affective deflection provoked increased negativity of ERP waves during the P2/N2 and N400 components. Our data suggest that affective incoherence is perceived as conflicting information interfering with early semantic processing and that increased respective processing demands - in particular in the case of medium violations of social norms - linger on until the N400 time window classically associated with the integration of concepts into embedding context. We conclude from these results that affective meanings influence basic stages of meaning making.}, subject = {Interaktion}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{ScheidtPulver, author = {Scheidt, Alexander and Pulver, Tim}, title = {Any-Cubes}, series = {MuC'19: Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2019}, booktitle = {MuC'19: Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2019}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-4503-7198-8}, doi = {10.1145/3340764.3345375}, pages = {893 -- 895}, abstract = {Here we present Any-Cubes, a prototype toy with which children can intuitively and playfully explore and understand machine learning as well as Internet of Things technology. Our prototype is a combination of deep learning-based image classification [12] and machine-to-machine (m2m) communication via MQTT. The system consists of two physical and tangible wooden cubes. Cube 1 ("sensor cube") is inspired by Google's teachable machine [14,15]. The sensor cube can be trained on any object or scenery. The machine learning functionality is directly implemented on the microcontroller (Raspberry Pi) by a Google Edge TPU Stick. Via MQTT protocol, the microcontroller sends its current status to Cube 2, the actuator cube. The actuator cube provides three switches (relays controlled by an Arduino board) to which peripheral devices can be connected. This allows simple if-then functions to be executed in real time, regardless of location. We envision our system as an intuitive didactic tool for schools and maker spaces.}, subject = {Maschinelles Lernen}, language = {en} } @article{SchellerThoern, author = {Scheller, David and Th{\"o}rn, H{\aa}kan}, title = {Governing 'Sustainable Urban Development' Through Self-Build Groups and Co-Housing}, series = {International Journal of Urban and Regional Research}, volume = {42}, journal = {International Journal of Urban and Regional Research}, number = {5}, publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {1468-2427}, doi = {10.1111/1468-2427.12652}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-26478}, pages = {914 -- 933}, abstract = {This article critically examines the governing of 'sustainable urban development' through self-build cohousing groups in Gothenburg and Hamburg. The two case cities have been selected because both are currently involved in major urban restructuring, and have launched programmes to support self-build groups and cohousing as part of their emphasis on promoting urban sustainable development through this process. Departing from a theoretical discussion on advanced liberal urban governance, focusing in particular on the contemporary discourse on sustainable urban development, we examine the interaction between political institutions, civil society and private actors in the construction of cohousing as a perceived novel and alternative form of housing that may contribute to fulfilling certain sustainability goals. Questions centre on the socio-political contextualization of cohousing; concepts of sustainability; strategies of, and relations between, different actors in promoting cohousing; gentrification and segregation; and inclusion and exclusion. In conclusion we argue that, while self-build groups can provide pockets of cohousing as an alternative to dominant forms of housing, the economic and political logics of advanced liberal urban development make even such a modest target difficult, particularly when it comes to making such housing affordable.}, subject = {Stadtforschung}, language = {en} } @incollection{SchmidtWenzelRubel, author = {Schmidt-Wenzel, Alexandra and Rubel, Katrin}, title = {Inquiry-Based Learning in Social Work}, series = {Inquiry-Based Learning : Undergraduate Research}, booktitle = {Inquiry-Based Learning : Undergraduate Research}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-030-14223-0}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-14223-0_13}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-26335}, publisher = {Fachhochschule Potsdam}, pages = {139 -- 147}, abstract = {Research-led teaching is designed to give students the opportunity to engage with their learning process and develop the skills needed to build their professional identity through active participation in the scientific cognitive process. Here in particular, social workers need research-oriented behavior, hermeneutic competencies and reflexivity in order to master the imminent requirements of case comprehension and case processing in a professional way.}, subject = {Ausbildung}, language = {en} } @article{SchmidtkeBodeKachel, author = {Schmidtke-Bode, Karsten and Kachel, Gregor}, title = {Exploring the motivational antecedents of Nepalese learners of L2 English}, series = {International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching}, volume = {58}, journal = {International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching}, number = {4}, publisher = {De Gruyter Mouton}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {1613-4141}, doi = {10.1515/iral-2017-0037}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-26109}, pages = {379 -- 418}, abstract = {This paper is the first to examine the motivational disposition of Nepalese learners of L2 English. Based on an adapted version of the questionnaire in (Kormos, Judit \& Kata Csiz{\´e}r. 2008. Age-related differences in motivation of learning English as a foreign language: Attitudes, selves, and motivated behavior. Language Learning 58. 327-355. Doi:10.1111/j.1467-9922.2008.00443.x.), we test the robustness and culture-specific applicability of well-known motivational antecedents to this learner population, and we investigate how the effects of these antecedents are mediated by the learners' gender, age and regional aspects of the educational setting. In doing so, we offer novel ways of analyzing the data: Firstly, we employ random forests and conditional inference trees for assessing the relative importance of motivational antecedents. Secondly, we complement the traditional 'scale-based approach', which focuses on holistic constructs like the 'Ideal L2 Self', with an 'item-based approach' that highlights more specific components of such scales. The results are interpreted with reference to the L2 Motivational Self System (D{\"o}rnyei, Zolt{\´a}n. 2005. The psychology of the language learner: Individual differences in second language acquisition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum) and to previous studies on other Asian populations of L2 learners.}, subject = {Zweitsprache}, language = {en} } @article{Seitz, author = {Seitz, Hanne}, title = {An Anthropological Perspective on Technical, Phonetic and Figurative Gestures}, series = {Paragrana : Internationale Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Historische Anthropologie}, volume = {23}, journal = {Paragrana : Internationale Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Historische Anthropologie}, number = {1}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {2196-6885}, doi = {10.1515/para-2014-0014}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-17095}, pages = {156 -- 168}, abstract = {The essay describes a primal scene, imagining how it might have been in the very beginning. Undoubtedly, it was a "homo ludens" who started the project of becoming human by using hand, eye, and the ability to imagine. Technical, phonetic, and figurative gestures gave way to the so-called second nature - cultural expressions that lead to technology, supported understanding, created pictures, music, theatre, or artistic legacies like the labyrinth that serves as a format for this essay. The "line of thoughts" (somewhere between fiction and reality) performs its own truth while one walks through: The text is constructed along the path of a labyrinth, the production of speech interrupted by its seven turns - allowing the experience of linear and cyclical time and creating rhythm and a motion of progression. It was written to be performed - not only to be read, but also to be seen and heard. Readers may imagine it as speech whose sound, rhythm and gestural elements inscribe themselves on the body.}, subject = {Walking}, language = {en} } @article{SirianniMorganZoelleretal., author = {Sirianni, Antonio D. and Morgan, Jonathan H. and Z{\"o}ller, Nikolas and Rogers, Kimberly B. and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias}, title = {Complements and Competitors}, doi = {10.31235/osf.io/bfmy2}, pages = {1 -- 23}, abstract = {The vast majority of research on the diffusion of innovations focuses on how one particular idea or technology spreads across a network of connected individuals, or a population more generally. Diffusive processes are typically considered either in isolation. We consider innovations themselves as nodes in a larger network, and look at how individual innovations can spread with or against one another in a larger community of potential adopters. Using a large publicly-available data set, custom-designed measurements, and network analysis methods, we present a temporal analysis of a set of technological innovations. Specifically, we examine how coding languages spread across users on GitHub, an online platform for collaborative coding. By looking at which languages co-appear in individual projects, we develop network based measurements of how frequently languages appear together in the same coding projects (functional cohesion), and how similar two languages are in terms of how often they co-appear with other languages in coding projects (functional equivalence). We also assess two types of diffusion, one form where users of one language become users of an additional language (complementary or 'piggybacking' diffusion), and another where users of one language abandon one language for another (competitive or 'cannibalistic' diffusion). Using MR-QAP Regression Techniques, we find strong evidence that functional cohesion positively predicts complementary diffusion. We also find some evidence that functional equivalence predicts competitive diffusion. More broadly, we find support for the idea that the networks of functional relationships between innovations is important for understanding diffusive processes.}, subject = {Soziologie}, language = {en} } @article{SirianniMorganZoelleretal., author = {Sirianni, Antonio D. and Morgan, Jonathan H. and Z{\"o}ller, Nikolas and Rogers, Kimberly B. and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias}, title = {Complements and competitors}, series = {PNAS nexus}, volume = {3}, journal = {PNAS nexus}, number = {12}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {2752-6542}, doi = {10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae549}, pages = {1 -- 13}, abstract = {Diffusive and contagious processes spread in the context of one another in connected populations. Diffusions may be more likely to pass through portions of a network where compatible diffusions are already present. We examine this by incorporating the concept of "relatedness" from the economic complexity literature into a network co-diffusion model. Building on the "product space" concept used in this work, we consider technologies themselves as nodes in "product networks," where edges define relationships between products. Specifically, coding languages on GitHub, an online platform for collaborative coding, are considered. From rates of language co-occurrence in coding projects, we calculate rates of functional cohesion and functional equivalence for each pair of languages. From rates of how individuals adopt and abandon coding languages over time, we calculate measures of complementary diffusion and substitutive diffusion for each pair of languages relative to one another. Consistent with the principle of relatedness, network regression techniques (MR-QAP) reveal strong evidence that functional cohesion positively predicts complementary diffusion. We also find limited evidence that functional equivalence predicts substitutive (competitive) diffusion. Results support the broader finding that functional dependencies between diffusive processes will dictate how said processes spread relative to one another across a population of potential adopters.}, subject = {Computational social science}, language = {en} } @article{SteinkellerGrosse, author = {Steinkeller, Annika von and Große, Gerlind}, title = {Children are more social when playing analog games together than digital games}, series = {Computers in Human Behavior Reports}, volume = {6}, journal = {Computers in Human Behavior Reports}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {2451-9588}, doi = {10.1016/j.chbr.2022.100195}, pages = {10}, abstract = {Digital media are being used more and more frequently by children and for a wide variety of functions. However, there are no studies to date that examine the effect of such use on peer interactions and the occurrence of prosocial behavior in peers. For parents, it has been found that when using digital media only few parents respond responsively to their children's attempts at interaction and also very rarely, they communicate with them verbally and nonverbally. In the present study, we investigated how playing a game in a digital versus analog form influences interactions (especially prosocial behavior) of peers. We used an experimental situation, where 24 dyads of 4-10-year-old children were examined. Each of the dyads was randomly assigned to a condition where they played either a digital or analog game together. Various interaction parameters and prosocial behavior during and after the game were analyzed. Results show that children in the analog condition communicated verbally with each other more often, responded more often to interaction attempts of their partners and showed less often negative forms of interaction and more often positive forms of interaction than children in the digital condition. However, the type of medium had no influence on prosocial behavior after the game situation. These results suggest that the format of a game (digital vs. analog) has a decisive influence on peer interactions concerning their communication during but not their prosocial behavior after the game situation.}, language = {en} }