Preliminary analyses
To ensure the appropriateness of the data for the main analysis, we conducted a series of preliminary analyses. First, we checked whether the missing data patterns were random by performing Little’s MCAR (Missing Completely…
Category: Social Sciences
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Was COVID-19-related working from home (WFH) a chance for change? Gender-based experiences of parents
The study explored the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on parents’ family responsibilities and family-work integration during the period of WFH that many experienced as a result of public health measures. It focused on whether these…
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Exploring the interplay of psychological entitlement, mindset, and luxury products or experience consumption
Campbell, W. K., Bonacci, A. M., Shelton, J., Exline, J. J. & Bushman, B. J. Psychological entitlement: Interpersonal consequences and validation of a self-report measure. J. Personal Assess. 83 (1), 29–45.
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Identifying daily life vulnerability and regional homeostasis: verbalising homeostasis landscape in regional policy for disaster areas of Tohoku, Japan
Verbalised case: reconstruction of the seawall and daily life
In Rikuzentakata and Otsuchi, the 2011 tsunami claimed many lives, including those of local officials, and paralysed administrative functions. Reconstructing social infrastructure…
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Research on the maker learning experiences of engineering college students majoring in mechanical engineering in China
Research on students’ learning experiences has become a hot topic among Chinese scholars. In recent years, some scholars have conducted studies on the learning experiences of engineering students. Professor Lu Genshu, by analysing the survey…
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The interactive role of odor associations in friendship preferences
Participants
The study was advertised around campus as “Speed Friending?” Forty women ages 18–30 (mean age 21.1 years), all with a normal sense of smell (see SOM), participated in the study. They were compensated $35 at the end of the speed…
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Characterizing the sense of agency in human–robot interaction based on the free energy principle
Network computation
Figure 7 shows variable dependencies in the proposed network model. As in ref. 20, each module comprises two types of hidden variables, d and z, in which d follows a delta distribution and z follows a normal distribution. The…
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