Sample and procedure
Data were collected from full-time employees of a company in Western China through snowball sampling, with participants completing two online surveys, 1 week apart. This convenience sampling technique has been successfully…
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Determinants of attitude toward pedophilia crimes in the Catholic Church: a comparative study of Catholics and atheists in Poland
The issue of pedophilia crimes among clergy remains a significant concern for the Catholic Church (Jenkins, 2001), prompting the need to understand the factors underlying negative attitudes toward this problem. Through three studies conducted…
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AI tool makes sense of public opinion data in minutes, not months
DECOTA transforms open-ended survey responses into clear themes — helping policymakers make better use of underutilised public feedback
- AI tool DECOTA analyses free-text data rapidly, affordably, and with human-like accuracy
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Global EV adoption fails to cut CO2
The transition to electric vehicles won’t reduce carbon emissions unless countries clean up their electricity grids.
This is according to a study by researchers from the University of Auckland and Xiamen University in China, published in the…
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Intuition guides farmers towards better decision-making, but remains a taboo
In Finland, farmers who have transitioned to regenerative agriculture perceive intuition as something that leads to better decision-making, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows. However, intuition also remains a taboo; a topic…
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Caspian Sea decline threatens endangered seals, coastal communities and industry
Urgent action is needed to protect endangered species, human health and industry from the impacts of the Caspian Sea shrinking, research led by the University of Leeds has found.
Water levels in the Caspian Sea — the world’s largest landlocked…
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A shadowy market for weight-loss drugs has emerged online
In late 2022, pharmacist Joseph Lambson got an unusual call from a poison control specialist.
He said, “Hey Joe, I’m getting these weird calls about semaglutide.” According to the specialist’s calculations, people were giving…
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Teaching is associated with the transmission of opaque culture and leadership across 23 egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies
Axelrod, R. An evolutionary approach to norms. Am. Polit. Sci. Rev. 80, 1095–1111 (1986).
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Chudek, M. & Henrich, J. Culture-gene coevolution, norm-psychology and the emergence of…
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Uncovering the black box effect of Open Educational Resources (OER) and practices (OEP): a meta-analysis and meta-synthesis from the perspective of activity theory
The results are presented according to each of the aforementioned research questions.
Effect of OER and OEP on students’ learning performance, and what might moderate this effect
Prior to investigating the effect of OER and OEP on learning…
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Problematic internet use in early adolescence: gender and depression differences in a latent growth curve model
The Internet, as the core of information science and technology, has developed at a speed beyond people’s imagination in recent decades, with a growing number of individuals using it for social interactions and information acquisition….
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