Participants
Thirty-three healthy adults (age: 27.15 ± 2.98 years, 18 females) were recruited through word of mouth and participated in the study. A preliminary screening interview was conducted to assess eligibility based on inclusion…
Category: Social Sciences
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How religious beliefs affect farmers’ participation in community environmental governance: evidence from typical pilot areas in China
Data sources and sample characteristics
In December 2020, 46 key cities such as municipalities, provincial capitals, and the first batch of pilot cities for waste separation covered more than 77 million farmers, and the coverage rate of…
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Modeling the relationships among physical education teachers’ technological pedagogical content knowledge, technology integration self-efficacy, employability, and the mediating role of job passion
The influence of TPCK on TIS
TPCK is a critical framework for understanding how teachers integrate technology into instruction (19). Research indicates that teachers with strong TPCK possess technical skills and the pedagogical understanding to…
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Generalizability of choice architecture interventions
Thaler, R. H. & Sunstein, C. R. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Yale Univ. Press, 2008).
Michie, S., Van Stralen, M. M. & West, R. The behaviour change wheel: a new method for characterising and designing behaviour…
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Behind the Mask: A graphical autobiography of life and labor in the oil sands
[…] Gendered violence does happen when men outnumber women by as much as fifty to one, as they can in camps or work sites. Of course it does. Of course, this happens when men are in isolation for long stretches of time, away…
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Emotion regulation, not executive functioning, mediates longitudinal links between unpredictability in adolescence and social connectedness in young adulthood
Burt, K. B. & Paysnick, A. A. Resilience in the transition to adulthood. Dev. Psychopathol. 24, 493–505. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579412000119 (2012).
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Bandura,…
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1,000-year-old health hacks are trending—and backed by science
It turns out the Dark Ages weren’t all that dark! According to new research, medieval medicine was way more sophisticated than previously thought, and some of its remedies are trending today on TikTok.
A new international research project…
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The impact of weather patterns on increasing violent crime and social cost in South Africa
The crime patterns in South Africa
According to the SAPS, there are quarterly changes in the general crime rate from 2017 to 2023. Broadly, violent crimes are the most frequent, but violent-related offenses are the least frequent (Fig. 1C). Crime…
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Divergent attitudes toward ambiguous and conflicting information
We pre-registered the task and its analysis at: https://aspredicted.org/Q2X_Y9D
Participants, exclusion criteria, and compensation
Participants were recruited through the online crowd-sourcing platform Prolific (https://www.prolific.co/) to…
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The effect of arousal during and post-training on memory consolidation in detection dogs
This study investigated the role of post-training activities on purpose-bred detection dogs’ retention of an odor detection task. Dogs’ arousal during and after training was measured by heart rate, salivary cortisol concentration, and…
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