besity is at epidemic proportions in the United States where more than 40% of adults are obese and more than 70% are overweight. One common policy intervention to tackle this urgent issue is to try to improve diet quality by increasing local…
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Antisemitic and Islamophobic hate speech precedes a decrease in lexico-semantic diversity in comment threads online
Following the October 7th attacks by Hamas in Israel, and the subsequent escalation of the conflict in Gaza, reports of hate speech (HS)—specifically, Antisemitic hate speech (AHS) and Islamophobic hate speech (IHS)—sharply rose in the United…
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Unveiling the dual impacts of the aesthetic deficiency of foods on consumers’ purchase intentions
Wu, F., Samper, A., Morales, A. C. & Fitzsimons, G. J. It’s too pretty to use! When and how enhanced product aesthetics discourage usage and lower consumption enjoyment. J. Consum. Res. 44 (3), 651–672 (2017).
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Carbon removal beyond the trees
Another of our projects found similar tendencies around the world. We ran a survey in 30 countries, and focus groups in urban and rural areas in 22 countries, with randomly-recruited members of the public using quotas to ensure socio-demographic…
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Development and validation of standards for evaluating the quality of qualitative research on Olympics breakdance
Research question 1: what are the success criteria for evaluating the quality of qualitative research on breakdancing?
According to the Guttman chart, we found that although most standards demonstrated significant distinctions, few standards still…
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Pathways from eudaimonic and hedonic motives to life satisfaction via response style
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We conducted an online survey in collaboration with a research company. The company emailed invitations to individuals registered as potential survey participants. A total of 11,041 individuals completed the web-based questionnaires…
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Measuring sustainability, beauty and inclusiveness towards a shared vision for cities and urban projects
A Practical Guide to the New European Bauhaus Self-Assessment Method and Tool
Publications Office of the European Union: 2024. 428 pp.
The NEB Self-Assessment Method was envisaged as a comprehensive social and environmental evaluation tool to…
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Object spatial certainty as a measure of spatial variability and its influence on attention
Carrasco, M. Visual attention: the past 25 years. Vis. Res. 51, 1484–1525 (2011).
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Will land transfer improve grain farmers’ adoption of agricultural green production technology? Evidence from Jiangxi Province, China
Adnan N, Nordin SM, Bahruddin MA, Tareq AH (2019a) A state-of-the-art review on facilitating sustainable agriculture through green fertilizer technology adoption: assessing farmers behavior. Trends Food Sci Tech 86:439–452
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Are COVID-19 conspiracy theories for losers? Probing the interactive effect of voting choice and emotional distress on anti-vaccine conspiracy beliefs
The assertion that science is often utilized or distorted to advance political agendas is not novel. However, the politicisation of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the proliferation of various COVID-19 conspiracy theories, has been particularly…
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