Relationships between individual endorsement of aggressive behaviors and thoughts with prejudice relevant correlates among adolescents

The current study explored how individual differences in endorsement of aggressive behaviors and thoughts relate to individual levels of tolerance and prejudice toward immigrants and established prejudice correlates such as social dominance orientation (SDO) and ethnic out-groups ratings among adolescents. Participants (N = 141; Age M = 16.08, 68% girls) completed the Readiness for Interpersonal Aggression Inventory, the Tolerance and Prejudice Questionnaire, and measures of SDO and ethnic out-groups ratings. Results indicated that higher individual endorsement of aggression was related to higher prejudice and SDO and lower tolerance and ethnic out-groups ratings. Patterns of endorsement of aggression related to habitual and socially determined aggressive acts or stable needs to hurt others as a source of satisfaction were significantly correlated with prejudice. Conversely, the relationship between prejudice and endorsement of impulsive actions lacking of emotional control resulted was less marked. The results highlight how in the cognitive spectrum of prejudice, individual levels of endorsement of aggression may play a significant triggering role during adolescence. These findings may have implications for future studies and interventions aimed at reducing prejudice already in young ages

The role of incomplete information and others' choice in reducing traffic: a pilot study

In this study, we investigate the role of payoff information and conformity in improving networkperformance in a traffic dilemma known as the Braess paradox. Our goal is to understand whendecisions are guided by selfish motivations or otherwise by social ones. For this purpose, weconsider the manipulation of others’ choice, public and private monitoring and information ondistribution of choices. Data show that when social comparison was not salient, participantswere more cooperative. By contrast, cooperativeness of others’ choice made participants morecompetitive leading to traffic and collective performance decrease. The implications of these findingsto the literature on social dilemmas are discussed

Social workers and social work in the global age abstract

Статья «Social workers and social work in the global age abstract» была опубликована в сборнике материалов III Всероссийской научно-практической конференции с международным участием «Проблемы формирования профессионализма специалистов социальной работы