TY - CHAP A1 - Dametto, Diego A1 - Michelini, Gabriela A1 - Higi, Leonard A1 - Schröder, Tobias A1 - Klaperski, Daniel A1 - Popiolek, Roy A1 - Tauch, Anne A1 - Michel, Antje T1 - Developing a stakeholder-centric simulation tool to support integrated mobility planning T2 - Advances in Social Simulation N2 - Simulation tools aimed at enhancing cross-sectoral cooperation can support the transition from a traditional transport planning approach based on predictions towards more integrated and participatory urban mobility planning. This shift entails a broader appraisal of urban dynamics and transformations in the policy framework, capitalizing on new developments in urban modelling. In this paper, we argue that participatory social simulation can be used to solve these emerging challenges in mobility planning. We identify the functionalities that such a tool should have when supporting integrated mobility planning. Drawing on a transdisciplinary case study situated in Potsdam, Germany, we address through interviews and workshops stakeholders’ needs and expectations and present the requirements of an actionable tool for practitioners. As a result, we present three main challenges for participatory, simulation-based transport planning, including: (1) enhancement of the visioning process by testing stakeholders’ ideas under different scenarios and conditions to visualise complex urban relationships; (2) promotion of collective exchange as means to support stakeholder communication; and (3) credibility increase by early stakeholder engagement with model development. We discuss how our participatory modelling approach helps us to better understand the gaps in the knowledge of the planning process and present the coming steps of the project. KW - Mobilität 4.0 KW - Computersimulation KW - Transportplanung Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-030-92843-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92843-8_6 SN - 2213-8692 SP - 65 EP - 78 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lohse, Karoline A1 - Hildebrandt, Andrea A1 - Hildebrandt, Frauke T1 - Hypotheses in adult-child interactions stimulate children's reasoning and verbalizations JF - Early Childhood Research Quarterly N2 - 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. KW - Parent-child interaction therapy KW - Hypothese KW - Kinderfrage KW - Sustained shared thinking Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2021.09.014 SN - 0885-2006 VL - 58 SP - 254 EP - 263 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Schachameier, Armin A1 - Reichert, Ulrich A1 - Breitenfeldt, Tom T1 - Gestalt in Social Work BT - Case Studies in Practice N2 - 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. KW - Gestalttherapie KW - Sozialarbeit KW - Ökologie Y1 - 2025 SN - 978-3-031-95528-0 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-95528-0 PB - Springer International Publishing CY - Cham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Macha, Katrin A1 - Hildebrandt, Frauke A1 - Wronski, Caroline A1 - Lonnemann, Jan A1 - Urban, Mathias T1 - Making it explicit BT - Sustained shared thinking dialogue as a way to explore children's perspectives on quality in German early childhood education and care JF - British educational research journal N2 - 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. KW - Erfahrung KW - Kind KW - Kleinkind KW - Partizipation KW - Perspektive Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.4054 SN - 0141-1926 SN - 1469-3518 SP - 1 EP - 17 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Glauer, Ramiro A1 - Sixtus, Elena A1 - Kachel, Gregor A1 - Lonnemann, Jan A1 - Hildebrandt, Frauke T1 - Children's understanding of demonstratives BT - An experimental study with German-speaking children between 5 and 7 years of age JF - Frontiers in Psychology N2 - Demonstratives (“this”/“that”) express a speaker-relative distance contrast and need to be substituted for each other systematically: depending on their relative position, what one speaker refers to by saying “this” another speaker has to refer to by saying “that.” This substitution aspect of demonstratives poses additional difficulties for learning demonstratives, because it requires recognizing that two speakers have to refer to the same thing with different words, and might be one reason for the reportedly protracted acquisition of demonstratives. In an online study conducted in German, it was investigated whether children in the estimated upper age range of demonstrative acquisition (5 to 7 years) understand demonstratives' substitution aspect with familiar (“dies”/“das”) and novel (“schmi”/“schmu”) demonstratives, and whether they understand novel words (“schmi”/“schmu”) when used non-demonstratively as labels (N = 73; between-subject). Children's accuracy was compared with adult performance (N = 74). The study shows that children between 5 and 7 years of age perform less accurately than adults in all conditions. While adults' performance was highly accurate in all conditions (between 75% and 92% correct), children performed below chance in both demonstrative conditions and above chance in the labeling condition. This suggests that children do not understand demonstratives in the presented setup. More detailed analyses of children's response patterns indicate that they instead treat words as mutually exclusive labels in any condition. KW - Demonstrativpronomen KW - Spracherwerb KW - Perspektivübernahme Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1403528 VL - 15 PB - Frontiers Media CY - Lausanne ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Meinhardt-Injac, Bozana A1 - Späte, Julius A1 - Siemer, Lutz A1 - Witter, Stefanie T1 - Acceptance of ChatGPT in social work students JF - Forum for Education Studies N2 - 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. KW - ChatGPT KW - Digitalisierung KW - Sozialarbeit Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.59400/fes1812 SN - 3029-2956 VL - 3 IS - 1 PB - Academic Publishing CY - Singapur ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hildebrandt, Frauke A1 - Glauer, Ramiro A1 - Moore, Richard T1 - Rethinking how children individuate objects BT - Spatial indexicals in early development JF - Synthese N2 - 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. KW - Kind KW - Säugling KW - Kognitive Entwicklung Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-31948 SN - 0039-7857 SN - 1573-0964 VL - 202 IS - 3 SP - 1 EP - 25 PB - Springer Nature CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schauenburg, Gesche A1 - Conrad, Markus A1 - von Scheve, Christian A1 - Barber, Horacio A. A1 - Ambrasat, Jens A1 - Aryani, Arash A1 - Schröder, Tobias T1 - Making sense of social interaction : emotional coherence drives semantic integration as assessed by event-related potentials JF - Neuropsychologia N2 - 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 (Schröder, 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. KW - Affect Control Theory KW - Interaktion KW - Affektive Entwicklung Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.01.002 SN - 1873-3514 VL - 125 SP - 1 EP - 13 PB - Amsterdam CY - Elsevier ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ambrasat, Jens A1 - von Scheve, Christian A1 - Schauenburg, Gesche A1 - Conrad, Markus A1 - Schröder, Tobias T1 - Unpacking the Habitus BT - Meaning Making Across Lifestyles JF - Sociological Forum N2 - The concept of habitus refers to socially stratified patterns of perception, classification, and thinking that are supposed to bring about specific lifestyles. Until now, research on the links between stratification and lifestyles has accounted for the habitus mainly in conceptual and theoretical terms, and studies directly measuring habitus and its association with stratification and lifestyles are rare. The present study conceptualizes the habitus as an individual-level pattern of meaning making and suggests an operationalization that is commonly used in identity research. Using survey data of 3,438 respondents, the study investigates associations between different lifestyles and patterns of meaning making. Results show, first, that self-related meanings vary systematically across lifestyle categories and mirror respondents' stratification position. Second, the meanings of various social concepts also vary significantly across lifestyle categories and partly reflect descriptive lifestyle characteristics. In sum, the study presents a plausible operationalization of (parts of) the habitus and advances our understanding of its mediating position between stratification and lifestyles. KW - Habitus KW - Studie KW - Lebensstil KW - Soziale Schichtung Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12293 SN - 1573-7861 VL - 31 IS - 4 SP - 994 EP - 1017 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schauenburg, Gesche A1 - Aryani, Arash A1 - Hsu, Chun-Ting A1 - Schröder, Tobias A1 - Conrad, Markus A1 - von Scheve, Christian A1 - Jacobs, Arthur M. T1 - Conflict Detection in Language Processing: Using Affect Control Theory to Predict Neural Correlates of Affective Incongruency in Social Interactions JF - KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie N2 - 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. N2 - Die Theorie der Affektsteuerung (Affect Control Theory) ist eine soziologische Theorie zur Verarbeitung von Bedeutung in der sozialen Interaktion. Bedeutung speist sich darin sowohl aus institutionalisierten als auch aus situativen Gegebenheiten und umfasst denotative (deklarative) wie konnotative (affektive) Dimensionen. Die mathematische Formalisierung der Theorie erlaubt Vorhersagen der affektiven Kongruenz oder Stimmigkeit („affective deflection“) einer Interaktionssituation, die sich aus dem Zusammenspiel institutionalisierter und situativer Bedeutungen ergibt. Obgleich theoretisch konsistent, sind die Thesen der Theorie zum Zusammenspiel kognitiver und affektiver Bestandteile von Bedeutung nur selten empirisch überprüft worden. Die vorliegende Studie schließt diese Lücke, indem sie die neuronale Verarbeitung affektiver Inkongruenz in der sprachlichen Darstellung sozialer Interaktionen untersucht. Einem neurosoziologischen Paradigma folgend, stützt sich die Studie auf neurokognitive Befunde zur Rolle der affektiven Konnotation von Wörtern in der visuellen Wortverarbeitung sowie eigene Befunde zur neurophysiologischen Verarbeitung affektiver Inkongruenz mittels ereigniskorrelierter Hirnpotenziale. Wir testen die Hypothese, dass die affektive Inkongruenz sozialer Interaktion mit der Aktivierung des anterioren cingulären Cortex (ACC) korreliert, einem Hirnareal, das an der Verarbeitung konfligierender Informationen beteiligt ist. Dazu replizieren wir ein bestehendes Experimentaldesign unter Nutzung funktioneller Magnetresonanztomographie (fMRT): Im Rahmen einer Leseaufgabe präsentieren wir 23 Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern visuell Sätze, die soziale Interaktionen beschreiben, und messen Unterschiede in der hämodynamischen Reaktion unter zwei Bedingungen affektiver Inkongruenz. Die Ergebnisse zeigen die erwartete Zunahme der neuronalen Aktivität im linken ACC in der Bedingung hoher affektiver Inkongruenz. Dies stützt die Annahme, dass die affektive Konnotation von Begriffen die Genese von Bedeutung in sozialen Interaktionen bereits in frühen semantischen Verarbeitungsstufen bedingt. Die Befunde können zudem als neurowissenschaftliche Evidenz für die mathematische Formalisierung der Theorie der Affektsteuerung gelten. T2 - Konflikterkennung in der Sprachverarbeitung: ein Test der Theorie der Affektsteuerung zur Prognose neuronaler Korrelate affektiver Inkongruenz in der sozialen Interaktion KW - Funktionelle Kernspintomografie KW - Sprachverarbeitung KW - Symbolischer Interaktionismus Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11577-024-00961-3 SN - 0023-2653 VL - 76 IS - 3 SP - 603 EP - 625 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER -