When, a couple of years ago, a video appeared on the news showing a New York policeman, caught up in a mass snowball fight in Manhattan, drawing a pistol, it was not the humourless cop that was most interesting but the fact that, in one of the toughest cities in the world, strangers had spontaneously engaged in a snow-fight.
Are perspective-taking processes spontaneously engaged prior to an anticipated communicative event, in the service of generating expectations about what a speaker might say and how she might say it?
Our findings show that children spontaneously engage in 'game talk' regarding game performance, content, actions and experiences.
The current study used a multimodal neuroimaging approach to identify the structural and functional brain organisation that underlies individual differences in the capacity to spontaneously engage in MTT.
Although players were adept in achieving epistemic aims related to knowing in the game and knowing about playing the game, they did not spontaneously engage in critical examination of the game as a representation.
Despite the clear-cut action of GCs on PC axon phenotype, in the pure E17 cultures many PCs spontaneously engage into arbor formation, implying that they had already received instructive information at the time of dissociation.
When an individual (i.e. allocator) spontaneously engages in behavior categorized by the responder as "harmful", the responder may experience a strong motivation to incentivize a change in the allocator's future behavior, for instance by punishment.
Alternatively, patients high in perceived control may spontaneously engage in mental practice, which might explain the effects of perceived control on recovery.
But, when an individual spontaneously engages in behavior categorized by the responder as "helpful", the responder may not experience any motivation to incentivize a change in allocator behavior—"if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
It is the emotional reaction of an individual who is attentive to others' situations and spontaneously engages in prosocial helping behaviors [ 19, 20].
There is at least one published example of an individual in a non-GHC community who spontaneously started engaging in GHC and, over time, transferred this to other members of the group.
