PURPOSE To verify the oral narrative abilities in preschoolers, before and after language stimulation. METHODS Participants were 58 preschoolers. The study was developed in three stages: 1. Pre-stimulation stage (Moment 1) - preschoolers produced the first autonomous narrative based on a sequence of pictures, and the second under adult scaffolding; 2. Stimulation stage - it was conducted a we...

BACKGROUND Although childhood hyperactivity and conduct problems are associated with difficulties in adulthood, little is known about later service use or public expenditure costs in the UK. AIMS To describe the use of services and calculate recent (past 6 months) and early adulthood (since the age of 18 years) public expenditure costs incurred by young adults who had hyperactivity and/or con...

Two out of three children diagnosed with conduct disorder will not outgrow it without treatment. It is costly to the individual in terms of negative life outcomes and to society in terms of increased health, social and education service use. Psychosocial interventions are effective in psychologically managing and preventing the onset of conduct disorder.

Humans are social animals, they interact with different communities to conduct different activities. The literature has shown that human mobility is constrained by their social relations. In this work, we investigate the social impact on a user’s mobility from his communities in order to conduct location prediction effectively. Through analysis of a real-life dataset, we demonstrate that (1) a ...

There is a long and ongoing debate about the role of social selection versus social causation regarding social factors and physical and mental illnesses. We acknowledge that selection issues are certainly an issue (as they are in the design and conduct of all observational research). However, the debate between causation and selection mechanisms for mental illness is largely settled: both mecha...

Neuromodulators such as serotonin, oxytocin and testosterone play an important role in social behavior. Studies examining the effects of these neuromodulators and others on social cognition and behavior (and their neural underpinnings) are becoming increasingly common. Here, we provide an overview of methodological considerations for those wishing to evaluate or conduct empirical studies of neu...

We conduct a randomized field experiment with a Yale service club and find that the promise of public recognition increases giving. Some may claim that they give when offered public recognition in order to motivate others to give too, rather than for the more obvious expected private gain from increasing one’s social standing. To tease apart these two theories, we also conduct a laboratory expe...