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Integrating Visual Psychophysical Assays within a Y-Maze to Isolate the Role that Visual Features Play in Navigational Decisions
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2019
Here, we present a protocol to demonstrate a behavioral assay that quantifies how alternative visual features, such as motion cues, influence directional decisions in fish. Representative data are presented on the speed and accuracy where Golden Shiner (Notemigonus crysoleucas) follow virtual fish movements.
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Social Foundations of Self I: Play and Game
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2025
The development of self in children is deeply rooted in social interactions, mainly through stages of play and structured games. These stages, outlined by sociologist George Herbert Mead, illustrate how children progressively learn to understand and adopt social roles, forming a cohesive sense of self.The Play Stage: Imitation and Simple Role-TakingIn the early years of childhood, the play stage is characterized by imitative behavior, where children engage in role-playing based on familiar...
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Peering into the Dynamics of Social Interactions: Measuring Play Fighting in Rats
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2013
Play fighting in the rat involves attack and defense of the nape of the neck, which if contacted, is gently nuzzled with the snout. Because the movements of one animal are countered by the actions of its partner, play fighting is a complex, dynamic interaction. This dynamic complexity raises methodological problems about what to score for experimental studies. We present a scoring schema that is sensitive to the correlated nature of the actions performed. Two experiments illustrate how these...
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Making MR Imaging Child's Play - Pediatric Neuroimaging Protocol, Guidelines and Procedure
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2009
Despite an increase in the use of structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in humans, the study of young pediatric populations remains a challenge. We present a hands-on, step-by-step video protocol including guidelines for clinicians and researchers intending to perform (f)MRI in young children.
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A 'Plug and Play' Method to Create Water-dispersible Nanoassemblies Containing an Amphiphilic Polymer, Organic Dyes and Upconverting Nanoparticles
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2015
Organic dye molecules and oleic acid coated upconverting nanoparticles are not water-soluble. This protocol describes a ‘plug and play’ method that enables the transfer of organic dye molecules and upconverting particles from their initial hydrophobic solvent to water.
FAQs
Guided feedback and repeated rehearsal are the main mechanisms that make role playing useful for behavior change. Feedback helps participants identify how their communication, emotional reactions, or decisions affect an interaction. Repeated practice then allows them to try alternative coping or interaction strategies in a structured setting. This process links observed behavior with psychological skill development and can reveal whether a new response becomes more workable.
The behavior observed during a session can be examined across several psychological domains rather than judged only by whether the scenario succeeds. Researchers or clinicians may attend to communication, emotional reactions, decision-making, and behavioral change. Looking across these domains helps connect a participant’s enacted response with broader questions about empathy, perspective-taking, conflict resolution, or social interaction.
Adopting a character, perspective, or social role can make interpersonal processes observable from more than one position. That shift supports examination of perspective-taking and empathy while preserving an interactive situation in which communication and decisions unfold. In psychology, this is valuable because the activity connects social and psychological concepts to behavior that can be observed during the simulation.
A basic session starts with a selected real or imagined scenario and assigned characters, perspectives, or social roles. Participants then act out the situation while a researcher or clinician observes communication, emotional reactions, decision-making, or behavioral change. Guided feedback follows the performance, and repeated rehearsal gives participants opportunities to practice alternative coping or interaction strategies.
In psychotherapy and social-skills training, role playing provides a structured opportunity to practice alternative coping or interaction strategies before applying them in other situations. A clinician or trainer can observe responses, provide guided feedback, and support repeated rehearsal. This makes communication patterns, emotional reactions, and decision-making available for discussion while emphasizing practical behavioral development.
Researchers and educators can use role playing to examine empathy, group dynamics, conflict resolution, and perspective-taking, while educational assessment can focus on how participants communicate and respond within a scenario. Because the activity is controlled yet interactive, observers can connect psychological concepts with visible behavior. The resulting observations may also highlight changes in behavior or developing interaction skills.