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Intellectual Disability
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2025
Intellectual disability (ID) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by deficits in intellectual and adaptive functioning that manifest during the developmental period. This condition encompasses challenges in reasoning, memory, problem-solving, and learning, accompanied by impairments in everyday life skills, such as communication, self-care, and social interactions. Intellectual disability affects approximately 1% of the population in the United States, impacting an estimated 5...
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Working Memory Training for Older Participants: A Control Group Training Regimen and Initial Intellectual Functioning Assessment
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2020
A cognitive training intervention in elderly population together with the assessment of the pre training cognitive abilities is presented. We show two versions of training - experimental and active control - and demonstrate their effects on the array of cognitive tests.
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Stereotype Content Model
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2020
The Stereotype Content Model (SCM) was first proposed by Susan Fiske and her colleagues (Fiske, Cuddy, Glick & Xu, 2002; see also Fiske, 2012 and Fiske, 2017). The SCM specifies that when someone encounters a new group, they will stereotype them based on two metrics: warmth—or that group’s perceived intent, and how likely they are to provide help or inflict harm—and competence—or their ability to carry out that objective. Depending on the warmth-competence categorization, a person will feel...
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The Other End of the Leash: An Experimental Test to Analyze How Owners Interact with Their Pet Dogs
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2017
This article presents eight different experimental tasks, mirroring the everyday life of dogs and owners, used to analyze how owners interact with their dogs in a standardized way. The tasks included both positive (e.g. play) and negative (potentially stressful) situations (e.g. physical restriction).
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Ole Isacson: Development of New Therapies for Parkinson's Disease
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2007
Ole Isacson gives a concise overview of Parkinsons's disease, its causes, therapeutic strategies, and advances in Parkinson's research.
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The framework treats impressions as an integration of relational and competence-related signals rather than as isolated judgments. Observers consider emotional cues alongside reasoning, knowledge, and problem-solving cues when deciding how to respond to another person. This combined evaluation helps explain why the same individual may be viewed simultaneously as approachable, capable, trustworthy, or some mixture of these qualities.
Examining both dimensions reveals distinctions that a single trait cannot capture. An observer may respond differently to someone who appears friendly but less capable than to someone who seems highly capable but less approachable. Comparing these combinations allows psychologists to study how impressions shape cooperation, credibility, interpersonal expectations, and willingness to trust.
Different combinations can lead observers to anticipate different forms of interaction. Perceived warmth may influence expectations about friendliness, empathy, or trustworthiness, whereas perceived intellect may shape expectations about reasoning and problem-solving. Their joint influence helps researchers examine why people may expect cooperation, credibility, or approachability from others in different ways.
Psychologists can examine how observers interpret cues associated with emotional warmth and intellectual ability during person perception. The focus may include judgments about whether a person seems approachable, capable, or worthy of trust, as well as how those judgments relate to broader processes in social cognition. This provides a framework for organizing research on interpersonal evaluation.
In communication research, the framework helps connect perceived friendliness, empathy, and trustworthiness with judgments about a communicator’s reasoning, knowledge, or problem-solving ability. Researchers can use these dimensions to consider why messages or speakers may be regarded as more credible, approachable, or capable. The approach therefore links social impressions with expectations about interpersonal communication.
Leadership judgments often depend on more than perceived ability alone. This perspective allows researchers to consider how impressions of emotional warmth interact with evaluations of reasoning, knowledge, and problem-solving capacity when people assess a leader. Studying both dimensions can clarify how observers form expectations about a leader’s credibility, approachability, trustworthiness, and ability to support cooperation.