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Internet, dating, addiction: A match made in heaven

written by Marina F. Thomas, Sylvia Dörfler, Gloria Mittmann & Verena Steiner-Hofbauer

Digital moral distortion: How social media can negatively shape our judgement of right and wrong

written by Tim-Dorian Knöchel & Sarah Vahed

The viral power of migrant crime messaging: Fear, emotion, and algorithms

written by Mary Ortega

Dressed for the feed: The psychology of fashion in a filtered world

written by Paola D'Elia

Covert control: How political elites and influencers use manipulation on social media

written by Meredith M. Turner & Sara Holland Levin

Scrolling against hate: Developing critical media competence to counter online antisemitism

written by Agata Maria Kraj, Özen Odağ, Larisa Buhin, Jannis Niedick, Justine Kohl, Linda P. Juang & Gudrun Dobslaw

Social media use towards self-diagnosing and health anxiety

written by Lili R. Romann

FOMO: The fun everybody else has

written by Carolin Lehmann

Viral and harmful: Violence in media and its impact on empathy

written by Mira Fauth-Bühler

10 results for „adaptive tasks“
found in | magazine issue | 10/2009

Free Will in Social Psychology

... a different response is thus an important and highly adaptive form of freedom. Without that capability, human animals would always ... to irrational biases. In these studies, the depleting tasks were often rather short and simple, such as watching a CNN-style news ... / more
found in | magazine issue | 04/2014

Seeing mountains in molehills: Embodied visual perception of the environment

... resources influence their ability to take on difficult tasks. Consider the New York City Marathon. On the morning of the race, tens of ... perception is likely to be, for the most part, an adaptive and important step in the regulation of behavior as people look ... / more
found in | magazine issue | 10/2014

How stress influences our morality

... (TSST), involving public speaking and difficult arithmetic tasks (Kirschbaum et al., 1993). Compared to the non-stressed control group, ... ourselves which reaction would have been evolutionarily adaptive in a specific situation. What follows is that, while stress usually ... / more
found in | magazine issue | 06/2015

How to win (and lose) friendships across cultures: Why relational mobility matters

... idea that what kind of behavior is optimal – or, adaptive – in any particular situation depends on the nature of the ... at what socio-ecological researchers refer to as ‘adaptive tasks (or goals)’ required for human flourishing in differing levels of ... / more
found in | magazine issue | 08/2015

Why do we so often ignore the influence of situations on behavior?

... others will do next. Because these predictions are so adaptive , necessary, and automatic it might simply be second nature to have a ... have revealed a role for the medial prefrontal cortex in tasks that involve mentalizing or other related social-cognitive phenomena such ... / more
found in | magazine issue | 09/2018

The Effect of Acute Stress on Memory: How It Helps and How It Hurts

... less on relationships and complexities between stimuli or tasks. This shift is often adaptive in that it is less cognitively demanding than flexible thinking, and ... / more
found in | magazine issue | 06/2024

The role of others' presence in sport performance under pressure

... the presence of an audience tends to reduce performance on tasks where accuracy and coordination are dominant [2, 3] . For example, ... and clumsy step-by-step procedures, preventing fluid and adaptive on-line control. In other words, the effect of this shift in ... / more
found in | magazine issue | 06/2024

Virtual reality training in Olympic sports: Promises and pitfalls

... made with baseball players [7]. Those who took part in an adaptive VR batting training (i.e., pitch speed, type, and location ... batting, and archery would count to such highly repeatable tasks. No training tool is needed besides the VR hard- and software itself. ... / more
found in | magazine issue | 08/2024

Bug or feature? Boredom feels aversive, and this is why it matters

... research that has investigated boredom as a driver for adaptive choices is scarce because most studies focus on negative ... ways to boredom. Interestingly, recent work shows that adaptive and maladaptive responses to boredom seem to reflect rather stable ... such designs miss a crucial feature of how these tasks differ: The low-control task typically is very monotonous and ... / more
found in | magazine issue | 08/2025

Age-adequate functioning: The key to recovery for youth in mental health care

... health care, awareness is growing that recovery concerns adaptive development, above and beyond symptom reduction. What role does ... These developmental milestones, also called developmental tasks, are central to how individuals adjust and function in society. The ... / more

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