Related Experiment Video
Updated: Apr 25, 2026

The Social Dimension of Stress: Experimental Manipulations of Social Support and Social Identity in the Trier Social Stress Test
Published on: November 19, 2015
Adult humans' understanding of support relations: an up-linkage replication
Francisco J Silva1, Merritt I Ten Hope, Ali L Tucker
1Department of Psychology, University of Redlands, P.O. Box 3080, 1200 East Colton Avenue, Redlands, CA, 92373, USA, francisco_silva@redlands.edu.
Abstract:
In an up-linkage replication, three experiments examined adult humans' folk physics, i.e., their naturally occurring and spontaneous understanding of the physical world, using a violation of expectation (VOE) task and stimuli similar to those used to study chimpanzees', monkeys', and rooks' folk physics. Unlike what has been reported with nonhuman primates, adult humans did not look longer at physically impossible than possible events, though they did rate the physically impossible events as more interesting and novel than the possible events. These results underscore that behavior during a VOE experiment has many possible causes, only one of which may be a subject's folk physics.
Related Concept Videos
Theory of Romantic Attachment in Adulthood
Relationship with Parents: Attachment
Relationship Growth
Relationship with Other Adult Family Members and Siblings
Understanding Love
Social Foundations of Self II: The Generalized Other

