The missing person in gene‐environment interactions

The neural basis of perceiving person interactions.

This study examined whether the grouping of people into meaningful social scenes (e.g., two people having a chat) impacts the basic perceptual analysis of each partaking individual. To explore this issue, we measured neural activity using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while participants sex-categorized congruent as well as incongruent person dyads (i.e., two people interacting in...

The social-sensory interface: category interactions in person perception

Research is increasingly challenging the claim that distinct sources of social information-such as sex, race, and emotion-are processed in discrete fashion. Instead, there appear to be functionally relevant interactions that occur. In the present article, we describe research examining how cues conveyed by the human face, voice, and body interact to form the unified representations that guide o...

THE MISSING PERSON Some Limitations in the Contemporary Study of Cognitive Aging

This chapter offers a sociological perspective on cognition, human development, and aging. The sociological lens brings into focus several questions that receive relatively little attention in the prevailing discourses of cognitive aging yet are fundamental to an adequate understanding of age, cognition, and their interrelationship. These questions concern both the explanandum (the phenomenon t...

Persons, Situations, and Person-Situation Interactions

The care‐planning conference: Exploring aspects of person‐centred interactions

Aim The aim of this study was to describe the care-planning conference from the participants' and researchers' perspectives, focusing on exploring aspects of person-centred interactions. Design A single-instrumental, qualitative case study design was used describing a care-planning conference taking place in the home of an older woman and her daughter. Methods Data collection consisted of o...