TY - JOUR A1 - Streubel, Berit A1 - Gunzenhauser, Catherine A1 - Große, Gerlind A1 - Saalbach, Henrik T1 - Emotion-specific vocabulary and its contribution to emotion understanding in 4- to 9-year-old children JF - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology N2 - Positive associations between children’s general language skills and emotion understanding are well documented. Concurrently, research from other domains highlights the importance of domain-specific language skills for conceptual development. The current study examined the relative contributions of emotion-specific and general vocabulary to individual differences in multiple early-acquired components of emotion understanding (e.g., facial emotion recognition) and later-acquired components (e.g., knowledge of emotion regulation strategies) in 4- to 9-year-old children (N = 86). Emotion-specific vocabulary was measured by size (i.e., number of emotion words children use) and depth (i.e., adult-like use of emotion words). Findings emphasize the role of children’s emotion-specific vocabulary rather than general vocabulary for early-acquired and later-acquired components of emotion understanding, especially when measured by expressive tasks. At preschool age, the size of emotion-specific vocabulary explains children’s knowledge of emotion regulation strategies. In primary school, however, the depth of emotion-specific vocabulary becomes relevant for individual differences in emotion understanding. KW - Sprachkompetenz KW - Kleinkind KW - Kind KW - Gefühlsempfindung Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104790 SN - 0022-0965 VL - 193 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Szczepanska, Timo A1 - Priebe, Max A1 - Schröder, Tobias T1 - Teaching the Complexity of Urban Systems with Participatory Social Simulation T2 - Advances in Social Simulation N2 - We describe how we use social simulation as a core method in a new master’s program designed to teach future leaders of urban change to deal with the complexity inherent in current societal transformations. We start by depicting the challenges with regard to cross-disciplinary knowledge integration and overcoming value-based, rigid thinking styles that inevitably arise in the process of solving ecological, technological, or social problems in cities new and old. Next, we describe a course based on urban modeling and participatory approaches, designed to meet those challenges. We reflect on our first experience with this approach and discuss future developments and research needs. KW - Participatory modeling KW - Verstädterung KW - Komplexität KW - Hochschulbildung Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-3-030-34127-5 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34127-5_43 SP - 427 EP - 439 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schmidtke-Bode, Karsten A1 - Kachel, Gregor T1 - Exploring the motivational antecedents of Nepalese learners of L2 English JF - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching N2 - 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 Csizér. 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 (Dörnyei, Zoltán. 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. KW - L2 motivation KW - L2 motivational self system KW - English KW - Nepal KW - random forests KW - Zweitsprache KW - Fremdsprachenlernen Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-26109 SN - 1613-4141 VL - 58 IS - 4 SP - 379 EP - 418 PB - De Gruyter Mouton CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Moore, Richard T1 - The cultural evolution of mind-modelling JF - Synthese N2 - 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. KW - Kulturelle Evolution KW - Theory of mind KW - Propositionale Einstellung KW - Sprachentwicklung Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-25865 SN - 1573-0964 VL - 199 SP - 1751 EP - 1776 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - O'Madagain, Cathal A1 - Kachel, Gregor A1 - Strickland, Brent T1 - The origin of pointing BT - Evidence for the touch hypothesis JF - Science Advances N2 - 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. Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-26110 SN - 2375-2548 VL - 5 IS - 7 PB - American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) CY - Washington ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lorenz, Jan A1 - Neumann, Martin A1 - Schröder, Tobias T1 - Individual attitude change and societal dynamics: Computational experiments with psychological theories JF - Psychological Review N2 - 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. KW - Attitudes KW - Social Influence KW - Theoretical Integration KW - Computational Model KW - Einstellungsforschung KW - Einfluss Y1 - 2021 UR - https://psyarxiv.com/ebfvr/ U6 - https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000291 SN - 1939-1471 VL - 128 IS - 4 SP - 623 EP - 642 PB - American Psychological Association CY - Washington ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Morgan, Jonathan Howard A1 - Zhao, Jun A1 - Zöller, Nikolas A1 - Sedlacek, Andrea A1 - Chen, Lena A1 - Piper, Hayley A1 - Beck, Yliana A1 - Rogers, Kimberly B. A1 - Hoey, Jesse A1 - Schröder, Tobias T1 - Modeling the Culture of Online Collaborative Groups with Affect Control Theory T2 - Advances in Social Simulation N2 - 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. KW - Culture KW - Affect KW - Gruppendynamik KW - Kollaboration Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-030-61503-1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61503-1_14 SP - 147 EP - 160 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Luthardt, Jasmin A1 - Bormann, Inka A1 - Hildebrandt, Frauke T1 - Einstellungen pädagogischer Fachkräfte zu anregenden Interaktionen in Kindertagesstätten BT - Fortbildungsbedarfe entdecken mit Cognitive-Affective Maps (CAMs) JF - Frühe Bildung : interdisziplinäre Zeitschrift für Forschung, Ausbildung und Praxis N2 - Wie eine pädagogische Fachkraft mit den Kindern interagiert und sie damit in ihrer Entwicklung unterstützt, hängt maßgeblich davon ab, wie sie lernanregenden Interaktionen gegenüber eingestellt ist. Diese Einstellungen werden im Beitrag mit sogenannten cognitive-affective maps (CAMs) erfasst. Zur Erstellung der CAMs wurden leitfadengestützte Interviews mit pädagogischen Fachkräften (N = 18) aus sechs verschiedenen Einrichtungen analysiert. Die CAMs zeigen, dass die befragten Fachkräfte hauptsächlich auf sozial-emotionale Aspekte von Interaktionen rekurrieren und ihre täglichen Interaktionen mit den Kindern selbst positiv bewerten. Konkretes Wissen zu lernanregenden Interaktionsformaten benennen sie hingegen kaum. Ein Vergleich der Einstellungen der Fachkräfte deutet auf teamspezifische Besonderheiten hin. In einigen Einrichtungen sind die Einstellungen der Fachkräfte deutlich homogener als in anderen. Die Ergebnisse werden in ihrer Bedeutung für Fortbildungsangebote diskutiert und CAMs als gewinnbringende Methode zur Eruierung teamspezifischer Fortbildungsbedarfe und als Fortbildungsmethode selbst vorgeschlagen. KW - Kindertagesstätte KW - Kindergartenerziehung KW - Fachkraft KW - Interaktion KW - Bewertung KW - Berufliche Fortbildung Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-25462 SN - 2191-9194 VL - 10 IS - 3 SP - 151 EP - 160 PB - Hogrefe Verlag CY - Göttingen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Liebel, Manfred T1 - Economic and Labour Rights BT - A Blind Spot in the Discourse on Children’s Rights JF - Nordic Journal of Human Rights N2 - 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. KW - Internationales Wirtschaftsrecht KW - Arbeitsrecht KW - Kind KW - Menschenrecht Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2021.2001162 SN - 1891-814X VL - 39 IS - 2 SP - 163 EP - 179 PB - Taylor and Francis CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - O’Connell, Courtney A1 - Lucić, Luka T1 - An Informal Education Intervention in Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic BT - Homework Mentorships in a Berlin Refugee Shelter N2 - 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. T2 - Eine informelle Bildungsintervention als Reaktion auf die Covid-19-Pandemie KW - Jugend KW - Flüchtling KW - Migration KW - Bildung KW - Segregation KW - Deutschland KW - Pandemie KW - COVID-19 Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-020-00161-3 SN - 2522-5804 IS - Online first SP - 1 EP - 16 PB - Springer Nature CY - Berlin ER -