Presented By: Department of Psychology
Developmental Brown Bag:
Valerie Freund and Young-eun Lee, Developmental Doctoral Students
Valerie Freund
Title: Boredom by Sensation Seeking Interactions During Adolescence
Abstract: The experience of boredom is linked to several adverse outcomes including substance use, risk taking, and psychopathology. Despite evidence that boredom levels peak during adolescence, little work has been done to understand how it interacts with individual traits and its impact on adolescent psychosocial functioning and behavior. In a multi-cohort, national sample of 8th and 10th grade students from the Monitoring the Future study, latent moderated structural equation modeling was used to estimate the associations of boredom, sensation seeking, and their interaction, with substance use, externalizing behavior, and internalizing symptomology. Moderation by gender was also tested. The results of this study demonstrate the generalizability of boredom associations and the significance of boredom by sensation seeking interactions across multiple domains during adolescence.
Young-en Lee
Title: Children’s Evaluations of Third-party Responses to Unfairness: Children Prefer Compensation over Punishment
Abstract: Humans are willing to punish individuals who violate fairness norms, even if they have to pay a cost and are not directly affected. This so-called third-party punishment is a way to intervene against transgressions and is known to stabilize norms. However, punishment is not the only way to restore justice in such situations. Rather than punishing a perpetrator, a third-party could also compensate a victim for their loss. To date, there is no research that investigated children’s evaluations of punishers in comparison with compensators. In the current research, we examined children's evaluations of third-party punishers and compensators. Five- to 9-year-old children heard a story in which a divider distributes candies selfishly between the self and a recipient. Then, a third-party punisher takes candies from the unfair divider, whereas a third-party compensator gives candies to the victim. We measured children’s liking for each third-party on a Likert scale and their forced-choice preference. Results revealed that children evaluated both third parties positively, but they preferred compensators over punishers. The current research has implications for the development of understanding on justice restoration.
Title: Boredom by Sensation Seeking Interactions During Adolescence
Abstract: The experience of boredom is linked to several adverse outcomes including substance use, risk taking, and psychopathology. Despite evidence that boredom levels peak during adolescence, little work has been done to understand how it interacts with individual traits and its impact on adolescent psychosocial functioning and behavior. In a multi-cohort, national sample of 8th and 10th grade students from the Monitoring the Future study, latent moderated structural equation modeling was used to estimate the associations of boredom, sensation seeking, and their interaction, with substance use, externalizing behavior, and internalizing symptomology. Moderation by gender was also tested. The results of this study demonstrate the generalizability of boredom associations and the significance of boredom by sensation seeking interactions across multiple domains during adolescence.
Young-en Lee
Title: Children’s Evaluations of Third-party Responses to Unfairness: Children Prefer Compensation over Punishment
Abstract: Humans are willing to punish individuals who violate fairness norms, even if they have to pay a cost and are not directly affected. This so-called third-party punishment is a way to intervene against transgressions and is known to stabilize norms. However, punishment is not the only way to restore justice in such situations. Rather than punishing a perpetrator, a third-party could also compensate a victim for their loss. To date, there is no research that investigated children’s evaluations of punishers in comparison with compensators. In the current research, we examined children's evaluations of third-party punishers and compensators. Five- to 9-year-old children heard a story in which a divider distributes candies selfishly between the self and a recipient. Then, a third-party punisher takes candies from the unfair divider, whereas a third-party compensator gives candies to the victim. We measured children’s liking for each third-party on a Likert scale and their forced-choice preference. Results revealed that children evaluated both third parties positively, but they preferred compensators over punishers. The current research has implications for the development of understanding on justice restoration.
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