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  • Social support and avoidance mediate positive and negative effects of emotion recognition ability on mental health in medical students

    Social support and avoidance mediate positive and negative effects of emotion recognition ability on mental health in medical students

  • Hall, J. A., Andrzejewski, S. A. & Yopchick, J. E. Psychosocial correlates of interpersonal sensitivity: A meta-analysis. J. Nonverb. Behav. 33, 149–180 (2009).

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  • Increased user engagement on YouTube for loot box content and its potential relevance for behavioural addictions

    Increased user engagement on YouTube for loot box content and its potential relevance for behavioural addictions

    Building on the assumption that loot boxes resemble gambling, we tested the preregistered prediction that user engagement on YouTube gaming channels would be increased by loot box content in videos. To this end, we used web scraping to collect…

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  • Exploring dog and cat cohabitation within Japanese households

    Exploring dog and cat cohabitation within Japanese households

    We collected online survey data from Japanese residents who had both dogs and cats to investigate the factors affecting dog–cat amicability in an Eastern context, enabling comparison with the results of Thomson et al.2 in Western countries….

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  • Evaluating and prioritizing interdependent strategies for construction land reduction in China with interdependent sustainability criteria: an integrated multi-criteria decision-making approach

    Evaluating and prioritizing interdependent strategies for construction land reduction in China with interdependent sustainability criteria: an integrated multi-criteria decision-making approach

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    According to pluralism theory, policy goals in democratic societies are inherently diverse (Dahl, 1984), particularly in land use policies that broadly target sustainability. The triple bottom line (TBL) sustainability…

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  • Investigating epistemic emotions experienced while reading refutation texts through a fine-grained measure of emotion

    Investigating epistemic emotions experienced while reading refutation texts through a fine-grained measure of emotion

    The spread of misinformation is a pressing issue in our contemporary society1. Misinformation is defined as any information that turns out to be false, whether it is spread accidentally or intentionally2. For instance, individuals may receive…

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  • Overcoming the digital divide: Roma communities’ digital empowerment strategies and actions during COVID-19 in Spain

    This study is part of the R&D&I (Research + Development + Innovation) titled ROM21 “Evidence-based solutions for the overcoming of COVID-19 effects on the Roma Community. Roma women leading communities transformation” project, funded by the…

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