Michelle S. Hung’s research while affiliated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other places

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Publications (2)


Non-instrumental actions can communicate roles and relationships, not just rituals
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November 2022

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences

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Michelle S. Hung

Actions that do not have instrumental goals can communicate social goals that are not rituals. Many non-instrumental actions such as bowing or kissing communicate a commitment to or roles in dyadic relationships. What is unclear is when people understand such actions in terms of ritual and when they understand them in terms of relationships.


Non-instrumental actions can communicate roles and relationships, not just rituals

September 2022

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Actions that do not have instrumental goals can communicate social goals that are not rituals. Many non-instrumental actions such as bowing or kissing communicate a commitment to or roles in dyadic relationships. What is unclear is when people understand such actions in terms of ritual and when they understand them in terms of relationships. [commentary on Jagiello et al.: Tradition and invention forthcoming in BBS].

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... If we know that relationships are at play, we understand that bowing communicates a certain role in a relationship (A. P. Fiske & Schubert, 2012;Kajanus et al., 2019;Thomas, Radkani, et al., 2022 refer to Box 2). ...

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Cognitive Representations of Social Relationships and their Developmental Origins
Non-instrumental actions can communicate roles and relationships, not just rituals
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  • November 2022

Behavioral and Brain Sciences