TRANSCENDENT-SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPETENCE

Socio-psychological simulation

Development of socio-emotional competence in bonobos.

Social and emotional skills are tightly interlinked in human development, and both are negatively impacted by disrupted social development. The same interplay between social and emotional skills, including expressions of empathy, has received scant attention in other primates however, despite the growing interest in caring, friendships, and the fitness benefits of social skills. Here we examine...

Transcendent communities

Online communities are potential arenas for informal and lifelong learning. Even though technology fosters internal sharing and collaboration in online communities, it also presents excessively strong external boundaries. These silo-like structures lead to fragmentation, counteracting cross-community collaboration and interdisciplinary learning. We are revising our own online community software...

Gender, family competence, and psychological symptoms.

In this study (n = 197) I examine the relationship between the presence of individual psychological symptoms as reported on the Symptom Checklist-90-R (SCL-90-R) and family competence as measured by the Beavers Interaction Scales, with particular emphasis on how these relationships vary according to gender. Despite the common belief that women need relationships more than men, the psychological...

Socio-psychological reconstruction as a qualitative method

1. The communication model Communication is not simply just information processing from a sender to a recipient. It is an interactive process that has its own specific dynamics by which the communicators themselves become entangled in the topic of the communication. The meaning of any message results from the context in which it is placed and can be understood on three different levels. Take a ...