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1	Exploring the structure, dynamics, and developmental trajectory of person models: Kim, Minjae January 2023 (has links) Thesis advisor: Liane Young / Effective social interaction requires reasoning about people as generative models. In our day-to-day experience, we come across a remarkable amount of social information, often in the form of other people’s behaviors. Observed behaviors are used to infer agents’ unobservable mental states and traits – the latent causes that drive their behavior. These inferences are stored in person models, which allow us to interpret patterns of observed behaviors across multiple instances and contexts by attributing a common cause to those behaviors, and also allow us to predict people’s future actions, so that we may navigate interactions smoothly and choose our social partners wisely. This dissertation pursued several open questions on flexible trait reasoning. In Paper 1, we found that the relative contributions of different traits to overall impressions may vary depending on what we know about a person. In Paper 2, we found increased neural activity in Theory of Mind regions following the violation of strong and positive prior impressions. In Paper 3, we found that 6-9-year-olds exhibit a negativity bias in impression updating, and older children are sensitive to the strength of behavioral evidence. Overall, we found evidence for flexible trait reasoning – both children and adults were sensitive to the strength and valence of available behavioral evidence, and to the overall inference context. These studies help shed light on how children and adults reason about person models and respond to new social information, and we suggest multiple avenues for further research in this arena. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2023. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Psychology. Flexible trait reasoning Person models
2	The New Voseo Culto: An Exploration of the Complexity of Familiar Address in Chilean Spanish Rouse, Patrick Roy 14 May 2010 (has links) In Chilean Spanish, second-person address is non-uniform in that the vos competes with the conventional tuteo and a third, mixed form has emerged. To add to this complexity, the form speakers choose has been shown to correspond to socioeconomic strata. Upper classes use tú, lower classes use vos, and young, middle class speakers choose the mixed form in which the verb is conjugated according to the voseo and is used with the pronoun tú. The causes and effects of this second-person schism in Chile are explored here, as well as the resulting sociolinguistic issues and consequences. In a study of printed media, television and interviewed informants, an attempt is made to confirm and validate the complexity of address in Chilean Spanish and determine the degree of the mixed voseo‟s pervasion into the mainstream. Chilean Spanish Chilean voseo voseo culto mixed voseo voseo tuteo second-person singular address second-person models familiar address familiar dialog AndrÃ©s Bello GramÃ¡tica de la lengua castellana prescriptivism language policy sociolinguistic stratification linguistic schism solidarity second-person formal sociolinguistic stigma stigmatized voseo voseo morphology voseo syntax morpho-syntax history of voseo

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Exploring the structure, dynamics, and developmental trajectory of person models:

The New Voseo Culto: An Exploration of the Complexity of Familiar Address in Chilean Spanish