Study 1
Participants
We recruited 449 participants to take part in the study. After removing incomplete responses, our final sample consisted of 311 (aged 18–24, M = 19.6, SD = 1.76; 223 female, 85 male, 3 non-binary/unspecified)…
Category: Social Sciences
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Salience network resting-state functional connectivity predicts self-controlled decision-making
This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Ethics Committee at TU Dresden (EK580122019) in advance. All participants provided informed consent at the beginning of the experiment and were reimbursed…
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Children’s attribution of mental states to humans and social robots assessed with the Theory of Mind Scale
Method
Participants
Participants included 102 children who were four years of age (Mage = 54 months, 16 days; Nmale = 52). The children were recruited from a university participant pool and through social media advertisements. The sample…
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Examining measurement discrepancies in adolescent screen media activity with insights from the ABCD study
Office of the Surgeon General (OSG). Social Media and Youth Mental Health: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory [Internet]. US Department of Health and Human Services; Washington (DC), (2023).
Paulus, M. P. et al. Screen media activity in youth:…
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More information, better diet?―regression-discontinuity evidence from hypertension diagnoses in China
Ethical approval
The analysis reported this study was carried out based on publicly available, deidentified longitudinal datasets from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS): https://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/china/data/datasets. The…
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Exploring Chinese university students’ foreign language enjoyment, engagement and willingness to communicate in EFL speaking classes
Positive psychology in SLA and broaden-and-build theory
Positive psychology has emerged as a foundational framework for understanding language learning processes, marking a significant shift from traditional approaches that primarily focused on…
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Discourse-organising lexical bundles in academic law textbooks: a corpus-based analysis
Vocabulary and academic prose
Academic textbooks constitute an important channel through which specialist knowledge is disseminated, and students from different backgrounds are expected to read and comprehend texts of varying complexity and…
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Exploring public perspectives on synthetic biology and its integration with sex/gender characteristics
Public knowledge and awareness of synthetic biology and the integration of sex and gender in research
We surveyed 300 Korean adults, both male and female, to investigate their perceptions of synthetic biology and sex/gender integration in…
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A small bicycle handlebar sensor can help map a region’s riskiest bike routes
While things like rain or hills can keep people from cycling, a major impediment is the risk of getting hit by a car. It’s hard to identify the safest routes to ride, especially for beginner cyclists, and a key way to flag dicey streets involves…
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Metals and hormone-disrupting substances pose real threat to sustainable agriculture and water management in Europe
The current study focused on two main areas: metals in fertilised agricultural soils and oestrogens in aquatic systems, including the Scheldt estuary. In both domains, attention was paid not only to the presence of pollutants but more importantly…
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