Previous research on smart phone use while driving has primarily focused on phone calls and texting. Drivers are now increasingly using their phone for other activities during driving, in particular social media, which have different cognitive demands. The present study compared the effects of four different smart phone tasks on car-following performance in a driving simulator. Phone tasks were...

Helping others is often more complicated than fulfilling their requests, for instance, when an individual requests something that is not suited to achieving her or his ultimate goal. Are children indiscriminate helpers, responding to any object-directed action or request, or do their helping actions prioritize ultimate goals over specific requests? We examined how 3-year-olds would provide help...

Big Experimenter Is Watching You! Anonymity and Prosocial Behavior in the Laboratory Social preference research has received considerable attention in recent years. Researchers have demonstrated that the presence of people with social preferences has important implications in many economic domains. However, it is important to be aware of the fact that the empirical basis of this literature reli...

Abstract There is ample evidence to suggest that dogs have highly developed, context-dependent social skills. Recent literature also indicates a human-like susceptibility influence in dogs. However, it still unclear how the affective context affects way behave situation involving an out-of-reach object. The experimental manipulation served prime with positive and negative affect form of interac...

During the course of domestication dogs (Canis familiaris) have inhabited a social field characterizedby inter-specific interactionswithhumans. Themutually advantageous social contact between dogs and humans is facilitated by effective mechanisms that negotiate ongoing interactions and avoid the escalation of conflicts. We investigated the reaction of 37 family dogs towards the approaching owne...

Occasionally, experimental biologists obtain results which mystify them so deeply that the paradoxical nature of their finding is acknowledged in the paper reporting it. This constitutes a more-or-less explicit invitation to those who did not perform the experiments - and even those who do not perform experiments at all - to propose explanations that eluded the experimenter. A much more frequen...