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  • Protracted development of gaze behaviour

    Protracted development of gaze behaviour

  • Itti, L., Koch, C., Itti, L. & Koch, C. A saliency-based mechanism for overt and covert shifts of visual attention. Vis. Res. 40, 1489–1506 (2000).

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  • Counting days is a spacing incentive that unlocks the potential of low GPA students

    Counting days is a spacing incentive that unlocks the potential of low GPA students

  • Carpenter, S. K., Pan, S. C. & Butler, A. C. The science of effective learning with spacing and retrieval practice. Nat. Rev. Psychol. 1, 496–511 (2022).

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  • A pre–post study evaluating an online CBT-based intervention to improve academic performance in students with low mood

  • Abu Ruz ME, Al-Akash HY, Jarrah S (2018) Persistent (anxiety and depression) affected academic achievement and absenteeism in nursing students. Open Nurs J 12:171–179

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  • Chimpanzees yawn when observing an android yawn

    Chimpanzees yawn when observing an android yawn

  • Leite, I. et al. The influence of empathy in human-robot relations. Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud. 71 (3), 250–260 (2013).

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  • Research on the mechanism of the influence of family socioeconomic status on the Cardinal principle of young children

    Research on the mechanism of the influence of family socioeconomic status on the Cardinal principle of young children

  • O’Rear, C. D. & McNeil, N. M. Improved set-size labeling mediates the effect of a counting intervention on children’s Understanding of cardinality. Dev. Sci. 22, e12819. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12819 (2019).

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  • Crosstalk between delayed and immediate subjective evaluation tasks

    Crosstalk between delayed and immediate subjective evaluation tasks

    Three-way repeated measures ANOVAs were conducted to examine the effects of Dimension (Within/Between), Valence (Positive/Negative) and Compatibility (Compatible/Incompatible). All analyses were based on average measures per subject in each…

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  • Shifting narrative perspective and construal level shape emotional response and enhance eudaimonic well-being

    Shifting narrative perspective and construal level shape emotional response and enhance eudaimonic well-being

  • Hallford, D. J. et al. Remembering for resilience: brief cognitive-reminiscence therapy improves psychological resources and mental well-being in young adults. Appl. Psychology: Health Well-Being. 14, 1004–1021 (2022).

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  • Enhancing social cognition in psychosis – the potential role of open dialogue

  • Leucht, S. et al. Comparative efficacy and tolerability of 15 antipsychotic drugs in schizophrenia: A multiple-treatments meta-analysis. Lancet 382, 951–962 (2013).

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  • A paper-and-pencil questionnaire outperforms GPT for measuring cognitive vulnerability to depression and predicting depressive symptoms

    A paper-and-pencil questionnaire outperforms GPT for measuring cognitive vulnerability to depression and predicting depressive symptoms

    Descriptive statistics for the study variables are shown in Table 1. The data generated and/or analyzed is available in the OSF repository: https://osf.io/c3yf6/files/osfstorage/.

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  • Prevalence and associated factors of work-related musculoskeletal disorder symptoms amongst emergency medical service workers

    Prevalence and associated factors of work-related musculoskeletal disorder symptoms amongst emergency medical service workers

    This study investigated the presence of WMSD symptoms amongst EMS personnel in Hong Kong and identified potential risk factors associated with WMSDs. This study mainly found that the overall prevalence of self-reported WMSD symptoms amongst EMS…

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