Social Development Research

The article I chose is Social Knowledge and Goal-Based Influences on Social Information. In this article goes into detail taking about all the social effects and all the emotions linked to how people (for call stages of adults) interpret the choices made and why. In the article it goes into depth talking about judgment, social partner selection, likeability can all be directed back to social traits acquired in adulthood or adolences. Hess and his partner suggest that “the accumulation of social experience across adulthood is associated with the development of expert-like behavior in social judgment situations.” (Hess & Kotter-Gruhn, 2011) So based off this reading I was able to learn that most social behavior in adults is reverted back to social effects and examples that they were around as children and young adults and that adults like any other sub group feed off emotions in a social enviorment as well as personal enviorment. If writing a research paper on this topic I would use this paper because it helps to link the social development of adults and also does include younger and older adult referacnces for a “base” They explain the research and experiments into the information that has been collected. The subject were given tasks to accomplish of certin groups and the tasks in turn measured the aspects and in the end devided them by age. In turn their research was able to look into the results and they concluded that the “results generally support the notion that age-related variation in both social expertise and chronic socio-emotional goals impact social inference processes, but that they do so at different stages of processing. Specifically, expertise effects—as reflected in age-related differences in attention to trait-diagnostic information..” (Hess & Kotter-Gruhn, 2011) This information does help in the aspect of understand the way age effect or social development as a whole and over time.

Reference

Hess, T. M., & Kotter-Gruhn, D. (2011,...