What gene–environment interactions can tell us about social competence in typical and atypical populations

Iarocci, Grace; Yager, Jodi; Elfers, Theo

doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2007.01.008

Cited by 75 publications

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“…Social functioning is complex, and several processes contribute towards socially-competent behavior [102]. Specifically, social interactions involve the comprehension of social cues, such as expressed behavior and speech, in conjunction with knowledge about a person and situation.…”

Section: Social "Building Blocks"mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The way in which this integration occurs can be affected by individual factors, such as anxiety [103]. Social competence includes face recognition as well as emotion recognition [102], and the changeable aspects of a face (such as movements) and its invariant aspects (e.g. identity) are both important to face perception [107], and contribute towards the social context.…”

Section: Social "Building Blocks"mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…29 sensory/perceptual, cognitive, and emotional processes are thought to lead to the development of the higher-order capabilities which are involved in social functioning [102] -for example, emotional contagion is a pre-requisite of empathy [113]. As such, future research aimed at these "building blocks" could help to identify the point at which emotional impairments appear.…”

Section: A C C E P T E D Accepted Manuscriptmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such social motives may contribute towards the additional processes that are involved in social competence, such as theory of mind [102], which has also been called cognitive empathy [114]. Theory of mind, or "mentalizing", is a form of meta-cognition [115], and is thought to be an explicit process [116,117] which engages the neural systems involved in self-projection [118].…”

Section: Empathy and Social Interactionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Social interactions, emotion and sleep: A systematic review and research agenda

Beattie

Kyle

Espie

et al. 2015

Sleep Medicine Reviews

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Sleep and emotion are closely linked, however the effects of sleep on socio-emotional task performance have only recently been investigated. Sleep loss and insomnia have been found to affect emotional reactivity and social functioning, although results, taken together, are somewhat contradictory. Here we review this advancing literature, aiming to 1) systematically review the relevant literature on sleep and socio-emotional functioning, with reference to the extant literature on emotion and social interactions, 2) summarize results and outline ways in which emotion, social interactions, and sleep may interact, and 3) suggest key limitations and future directions for this field. From the reviewed literature, sleep deprivation is associated with diminished emotional expressivity and impaired emotion recognition, and this has particular relevance for social interactions. Sleep deprivation also increases emotional reactivity; results which are most apparent with neuro-imaging studies investigating amygdala activity and its prefrontal regulation. Evidence of emotional dysregulation in insomnia and poor sleep has also been reported. In general, limitations of this literature include how performance measures are linked to self-reports, and how results are linked to socio-emotional functioning. We conclude by suggesting some possible future directions for this field.

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Section: Social "Building Blocks"mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Social "Building Blocks"mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A C C E P T E D Accepted Manuscriptmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Empathy and Social Interactionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Social interactions, emotion and sleep: A systematic review and research agenda

Beattie

Kyle

Espie

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Sleep Medicine Reviews

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“…Relevant studies provide strong evidence that parenting is influenced by parents' past, characteristics of their children, family environment, and social and cultural resources and pressures. In contrast to the breadth of this literature, few studies have focused on the genetic basis of parenting in humans, and even fewer provide evidence that (human) parenting is predicted by the interplay between genes and environment, though this seems likely based on theory (e.g., Belsky, 1984) and findings concerning other types of complex human behavior (Iarocci, Yager, & Elfers, 2007;Rutter, 2006). Evidence that parenting behavior is predicted by Gene Â Environment interactions could explain some of the variability in parenting behavior across individuals and could point to conditions associated with less than optimal care of children.…”

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Mothers' dopamine receptor polymorphism modulates the relation between infant fussiness and sensitive parenting

Kaitz

Shalev

Sapir

et al. 2010

Developmental Psychobiology

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We determined whether the combination of the 48-bp variable number tandem repeat polymorphism of the dopamine (DRD4) gene and infants' (fussy-difficult) temperament predicted parenting sensitivity. The sample was comprised of 147 mothers and their 6-month olds. Sensitive parenting was assessed by coding filmed interactions between mothers and infants. Infant temperament was assessed by parents' reports on a standard questionnaire. Moderated regressions models, with maternal education and infants' interactive behavior as controls, were used to test our hypotheses. Results showed no main effects of either temperament or DRD4, though the maternal DRD4 x infant temperament interaction was significant. Probes indicated that parents with a DRD4 7-repeat allele behaved more sensitively to fussier infants and less sensitively to less fussy infants compared to parents without the 7-repeat allele. Among those parents, sensitivity did not vary with infant temperament. This pattern of results indicates that mothers are differentially susceptible to infant fussiness, dependent on the presence of the 7-repeat DRD4 allele.

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