Publications of Wouter Wolf    :chronological  alphabetical  combined listing:

%% Journal Articles   
@article{fds349455,
   Author = {Wolf, W and Tomasello, M},
   Title = {Watching a video together creates social closeness between
             children and adults.},
   Journal = {Journal of Experimental Child Psychology},
   Volume = {189},
   Pages = {104712},
   Year = {2020},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104712},
   Abstract = {Human social relationships are often formed through shared
             social activities in which individuals share mental states
             about external stimuli. Previous work on joint attention has
             shown that even minimal shared experiences such as watching
             something together facilitates social closeness between
             individuals. Here, we examined whether young children
             already connect with others through joint attention. In the
             current studies, children sat next to a novel adult who
             either watched a film with them or was not able to see the
             film and read a book instead. After the video, we measured
             children's willingness (i.e., latency) to approach the
             experimenter holding out a toy. In both studies, the
             2.5-year-olds who watched the film together approached more
             quickly than the other children. These results show that
             both minimally interactive shared experiences and
             noninteractive shared experiences lead children to feel more
             comfortable with a novel adult. This suggests that joint
             attention interactions, and shared experiences in general,
             play an important role not only in children's cognitive
             development but also in their social development and the
             formation of their social relationships.},
   Doi = {10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104712},
   Key = {fds349455}
}

@article{fds349456,
   Author = {Wolf, W and Tomasello, M},
   Title = {Visually attending to a video together facilitates great ape
             social closeness.},
   Journal = {Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological
             Sciences},
   Volume = {286},
   Number = {1907},
   Pages = {20190488},
   Year = {2019},
   Month = {July},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0488},
   Abstract = {Humans create social closeness with one another through a
             variety of shared social activities in which they align
             their emotions or mental states towards an external stimulus
             such as dancing to music together, playing board games
             together or even engaging in minimal shared experiences such
             as watching a movie together. Although these specific
             behaviours would seem to be uniquely human, it is unclear
             whether the underlying psychology is unique to the species,
             or if other species might possess some form of this
             psychological mechanism as well. Here we show that great
             apes who have visually attended to a video together with a
             human (study 1) and a conspecific (study 2) subsequently
             approach that individual faster (study 1) or spend more time
             in their proximity (study 2) than when they had attended to
             something different. Our results suggest that one of the
             most basic mechanisms of human social bonding-feeling closer
             to those with whom we act or attend together-is present in
             both humans and great apes, and thus has deeper evolutionary
             roots than previously suspected.},
   Doi = {10.1098/rspb.2019.0488},
   Key = {fds349456}
}

@article{fds318798,
   Author = {Wolf, W and Launay, J and Dunbar, RIM},
   Title = {Joint attention, shared goals, and social
             bonding},
   Journal = {British Journal of Psychology (London, England :
             1953)},
   Volume = {107},
   Number = {2},
   Pages = {322-337},
   Publisher = {WILEY},
   Year = {2016},
   Month = {May},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12144},
   Doi = {10.1111/bjop.12144},
   Key = {fds318798}
}

@article{fds318799,
   Author = {Wolf, W and Levordashka, A and Ruff, JR and Kraaijeveld, S and Lueckmann, J-M and Williams, KD},
   Title = {Ostracism Online: A social media ostracism
             paradigm},
   Journal = {Behavior Research Methods},
   Volume = {47},
   Number = {2},
   Pages = {361-373},
   Publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},
   Year = {2015},
   Month = {June},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-014-0475-x},
   Doi = {10.3758/s13428-014-0475-x},
   Key = {fds318799}
}