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  • Evaluating the effects of active social touch and robot expressiveness on user attitudes and behaviour in human–robot interaction

    Evaluating the effects of active social touch and robot expressiveness on user attitudes and behaviour in human–robot interaction

    This section breaks down the essential components and technologies used in our experimental setup to explore how touch can enhance human–robot interaction. These elements are (i) the robotic platform used, (ii) a peripheral that contains…

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  • Differential neural decoding of alarm and avoidance information from vocal alarm calls in humans

    Differential neural decoding of alarm and avoidance information from vocal alarm calls in humans

    Scream type considerably influences alarm but less avoid-approach judgments

    We recorded brain activity using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) from n = 35 human participants (21 females, 14 males; mean age 27.20 years, SD 6.22)…

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  • Scene consistency enhances state representations of real-world objects

    Scene consistency enhances state representations of real-world objects

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  • The role of self-care and self-compassion in networks of resilience and stress among healthcare professionals

    The role of self-care and self-compassion in networks of resilience and stress among healthcare professionals

  • Lim, J., Hepworth, J. & Bogossian, F. A qualitative analysis of stress, uplifts and coping in the personal and professional lives of Singaporean nurses. J. Adv. Nurs. 67 (5), 1022–1033 (2011).

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  • Building community resilience and calling for collective actions: how corporations and publics communicate disaster aid on social media

    Building community resilience and calling for collective actions: how corporations and publics communicate disaster aid on social media

    This section reviews research on how corporate disaster aid communication can contribute to a fully functioning society. We first discuss fully functioning society theory as our overarching theoretical framework, followed by how CSR serves as a…

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  • Behavioural public policy for natural disaster preparedness and the role of economic experiments

    Behavioural public policy for natural disaster preparedness and the role of economic experiments

  • Albris K, Lauta KC, Raju E (2020) Disaster knowledge gaps: Exploring the interface between science and policy for disaster risk reduction in Europe. Int J Disaster Risk Sc 11:1–12

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  • Transportation infrastructure and good health in urban China

    Transportation infrastructure and good health in urban China

    This study establishes an overlapping generations (OLG) model within an endogenous growth framework to analyze how transportation infrastructure influences individuals’ time allocation across five key activities commuting, work, health…

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  • Smoking prevalence and correlates among inpatients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder

    Smoking prevalence rates in patients with schizophrenia and other psychiatric diagnoses

    After removing duplicated records, smoking status information was available for 391 unique patients. According to the DSM-IV criteria, 60% (233) of the…

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  • What 17th-century nuns can teach us about coping with loneliness

    What 17th-century nuns can teach us about coping with loneliness

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    Is loneliness a modern epidemic as we are so often told? Did people in the past suffer similar feelings of…

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