Category: Social Sciences

Emojis are graphical icons that represent a wide range of concepts, including facial expressions, objects, living beings, gestures, activities, and symbols (see¹, for a review). They were first introduced in Japan in late 1990s and became popular…

The US representative-sample study

Participants in this study (N = 987, representative on age, sex, and ethnicity, 20% self-declaring as welfare claimants) indicated their preference between human and AI welfare decisions. We varied the…

This trial was prospectively registered with the ISRCTN registry (ISRCTN15341724) on May 6, 2025, before the enrollment of participants. The registration record is publicly accessible at: https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN15341724.

Participants

The…

A growing number of countries are considering introducing domestic carbon taxes to meet the carbon reduction targets set in the Paris Agreement. These measures aim to raise the cost of fossil fuels and the electricity generated from these…

Participants

Data collection of the mental imagery task in Experiment 1 was split into three parts, each differing in the stimuli tested (music in Spanish, Italian, or Swedish). For each part, we tested 100 native-speakers of the respective…

Data collection

CUSs’ EFL writing samples were sourced from the Spoken and Written English Corpus of Chinese Learners Version 2.0 (SWECCL 2.0; Wen et al. 2008), a well-established EFL corpus. This corpus comprises 4950 compositions from students…