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Lyndsay Gavin, Jenna McChesney, Anson Tong et al. · 2022 · Technology Mind and Behavior
The spread of misinformation has generated confusion and uncertainty about how to behave with respect to protective actions during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as social distancing and getting vaccinated. garnered significant press…
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Sara Vitoria-Estruch, Ángel Romero‐Martínez, Marisol Lila et al. · 2018 · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Proactively aggressive individuals have been shown to present a different pattern of autonomic nervous system (ANS) dysregulation from that of individuals characterized by reactive violence. Although attempts have been made to classify intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetrators based on ANS reactivity to acute stress, subsequent studies have failed to replicate this classification. Notably, the proposed classification neglected the role of chronic alcohol abuse in ANS dysregulation and the fact that this dysregulation entails an abnormal stress response. The aim of the present study was to a
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Kitae Sohn, Illoong Kwon · 2016 · The Singapore Economic Review
Trust was found to promote entrepreneurship in the US. We investigated whether this was true in a developing country, Indonesia. We failed to replicate this; this failure was true whether trust was estimated at the individual or community…
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Richard Fendler, Craig Ruff, Milind Shrikhande · 2018 · Online Learning
Much of the e-education literature suggests that there is no significant difference in aggregate student learning outcomes between online and face-to-face instruction. In this study, we develop a model that forecasts the grade that individual students would have most likely earned in the alternate class setting. Students for whom the difference between the actual grade received in one class format (for example, online) and the forecasted grade in the other class setting (for example, face-to-face) is one full letter grade or higher are called “jumpers.” Our findings indicate that jumpers are n
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Wesley Myers, Kristin M. Lloyd, Jillian J. Turanovic et al. · 2018 · Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice
There is a growing “replication crisis” in the social and behavioral sciences, where original research across a wide array of substantive areas has failed to replicate when conducted by others. This problem highlights the importance of…
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Chloe Wittenberg, Ziv Epstein, Gabrielle Péloquin-Skulski et al. · 2025 · PNAS Nexus
Abstract Recent advancements in generative AI have raised widespread concern about the use of this technology to spread audio and visual misinformation. In response, there has been a major push among policymakers and technology companies to label AI-generated media appearing online. It remains unclear, however, what types of labels are most effective for this purpose. Here, we evaluate two (potentially complementary) strategies for labeling AI-generated content online: (i) a process-based approach, aimed at clarifying how content was made and (ii) a harm-based approach, aimed at highlighting c
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Toby Prike, Phoebe Blackley, Briony Swire‐Thompson et al. · 2023 · Cognitive Research Principles and Implications
Corrections are a frequently used and effective tool for countering misinformation. However, concerns have been raised that corrections may introduce false claims to new audiences when the misinformation is novel. This is because boosting the familiarity of a claim can increase belief in that claim, and thus exposing new audiences to novel misinformation-even as part of a correction-may inadvertently increase misinformation belief. Such an outcome could be conceptualized as a familiarity backfire effect, whereby a familiarity boost increases false-claim endorsement above a control-condition or
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Neha Bairoliya, Kathleen McKiernan · 2026 · The Review of Economic Studies
Abstract The structure of the Social Security program presents a trade-off between benefit duration and size; individuals who claim early receive lower monthly payments. Surprisingly, even wealthy Americans with high life expectancies frequently claim benefits at the earliest eligibility age, a behavior inconsistent with conventional life-cycle theory predictions. In fact, there is a striking similarity in claiming ages across groups with vastly different life expectancies, wealth levels, and incentives to delay. This paper resolves this puzzle by introducing policy details and subjective beli
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Sofia Ammassari, Duncan McDonnell, Annika Werner et al. · 2026 · European Journal of Political Research
Abstract Do young women and men join political parties for different reasons? To investigate, we theorize the following: first, women will be more attracted by social incentives and men by material ones, while purposive incentives will be…
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Anthony N. Reffi, Caitlin M. Pinciotti, Holly K. Orcutt · 2018 · Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Institutional betrayal reflects the failings of a trusted institution to prevent or respond appropriately to negative experiences. Following sexual assault, survivors who encounter institutional betrayal may experience greater distress and…
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Damian J. Ruck, R. Alexander Bentley, Alberto Acerbi et al. · 2017 · Advances in Complex Systems
Here, we test Neutral models against the evolution of English word frequency and vocabulary at the corpus scale, as recorded in annual word frequencies from three centuries of English language books. Against these data, we test both static…
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Ashley I. Naimi · 2016 · Epidemiology
The less a science is advanced, the more its terminology rests on an uncritical assumption of mutual understanding. —Quine1 Complex systems science is a new field that continues to garner prominence. Arguments for a more widespread…
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Zouhaier Aloui, Mekki Hamdaoui, Samir Maktouf · 2024 · Transnational Corporation Review
This paper examines the moderating role of governance in the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on poverty using simultaneous equations models for sub-Saharan African, Asian, Latin American and Eastern European countries over the…
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Luísa Sório Flor, Cory N Spencer, Jack Cagney et al. · 2025 · The Lancet
BACKGROUND: Violence against women and against children are human rights violations with lasting harms to survivors and societies at large. Intimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual violence against children (SVAC) are two major forms of such abuse. Despite their wide-reaching effects on individual and community health, these risk factors have not been adequately prioritised as key drivers of global health burden. Comprehensive x§and reliable estimates of the comparative health burden of IPV and SVAC are urgently needed to inform investments in prevention and support for survivors at both nat
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Jonathan E. Ramsay, Eddie M. W. Tong, Joyce S. Pang et al. · 2016 · PLoS ONE
Religious priming has been found to have both positive and negative consequences, and recent research suggests that the activation of God-related and community-related religious cognitions may cause outgroup prosociality and outgroup derogation respectively. The present research sought to examine whether reminders of God and religion have different effects on attitudes towards ingroup and outgroup members. Over two studies, little evidence was found for different effects of these two types of religious primes. In study 1, individuals primed with the words "religion", "God" and a neutral contro
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Evan A. Valdes, James H. Liu, Matt N Williams · 2022 · Asian Journal Of Social Psychology
The status‐legitimacy hypothesis proposes that those who are most disadvantaged by unequal social systems are even more likely than members of more advantaged groups to provide ideological support for the very social system that is responsible for their disadvantages. Li, Yang, Wu, and Kou (2020, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin ) sought to expand the generalizability of this hypothesis by testing it in China, addressing inconsistencies surrounding the empirical support for this hypothesis by postulating that the construct of status should be separated into an objective and subjectiv
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Mukhlis Mukhlis, Ahmad Nabriz, Muhammad Eissawy Abu El Yazid et al. · 2026 · Integrated Education Journal
This study aims to comparatively analyze the perspectives, policies, implementation, and challenges of multicultural education in developed and developing countries. A qualitative approach was employed using library research, drawing on scholarly journal articles, academic books, educational policy documents, and relevant previous studies. Data were analyzed through comparative content analysis to identify patterns of similarities, differences, challenges, and implementation strategies across the two contexts. The findings indicate that developed countries generally demonstrate more systematic
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Selina Banda, Florence Phiri, Jack Kaale et al. · 2023
Bloom’s Taxonomy is crucial in any teaching and learning environment because it determines direction for a course of study. This study assessed application of Bloom’s Taxonomy in courses of study offered in colleges in Lusaka District. Objectives were: Assess the application of Bloom’s Taxonomy in setting learning outcomes for the courses; Assess reflection of Bloom’s Taxonomy in activities set for course participants; Ascertain significance attached to Bloom’s Taxonomy in courses of study designed for participants. The study employed a mixed methodology, in particular employing a descriptive
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Isabel O. Gallegos, Chen Shani, Weiyan Shi et al. · 2026 · PNAS Nexus
Abstract As generative AI enables the creation and dissemination of information at massive scale and speed, it is increasingly important to understand how people perceive AI-generated content. One prominent policy proposal requires explicitly labeling AI-generated content to increase transparency and encourage critical thinking about the information, but prior research has not yet tested the effects of such labels. To address this gap, we conducted a survey experiment (N=1,601) on a diverse sample of Americans, presenting participants with an AI-generated message about several public policies
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Melissa Chapple, Philip Davis, Josie Billington et al. · 2022 · Frontiers in Psychology
Dominant theoretical models of autism and resultant research enquiries have long centered upon an assumed autism-specific empathy deficit. Associated empirical research has largely relied upon cognitive tests that lack ecological validity and associate empathic skill with heuristic-based judgments from limited snapshots of social information. This artificial separation of thought and feeling fails to replicate the complexity of real-world empathy, and places socially tentative individuals at a relative disadvantage. The present study aimed to qualitatively explore how serious literary fiction,
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Sumit Agarwal, Meghana Ayyagari, Yuxi Cheng et al. · 2026 · Management Science
This paper examines how infrastructure development affects stock market participation in India using trading data from more than 13 million individuals. Using the phased rollout of a national road construction program as a natural…
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Katharina Schmid, Ralf Wölfer, Herman Swart et al. · 2017 · Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
This article reexamines the so-called "wallpaper effect" of intergroup contact, which contends that for minority group members living in areas more densely populated by majority group members, intergroup contact fails to reduce prejudice. We tested this claim in five studies, using data from five countries, two types of contexts, a range of measures, and involving different minority versus majority groups. Using multilevel cross-level interaction models, we considered whether effects of contact on outgroup attitudes were moderated by relative outgroup size. Results failed to replicate the prev
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Meghan Roche, Andrea Carr, In Heok Lee et al. · 2016 · Journal of Career Assessment
This study explored the measurement equivalence of the Career Indecision Profile (CIP) in a Chinese sample with both U.S. and South Korean samples. Past measurement invariance research on the CIP in four international samples (Icelandic…
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Astrid Marinoni, John L. Voorheis · 2026 · Research Policy
The question of who gains from high-quality entrepreneurship is crucial to understanding whether investments in innovative startup firms produce socially beneficial outcomes. Although entrepreneurship is widely viewed as a central driver…
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Jill E. P. Knapen, Nancy M. Blaker, Thomas V. Pollet · 2017 · PLoS ONE
Research shows that perception of physical size and status are positively associated. The current study was developed to replicate and extend earlier research on height perceptions of political leaders, indicating that supporters perceive their leaders as taller than non-supporters do, and winners are perceived as taller after the elections, while losers are perceived as shorter after the elections (winner/loser effects). Individuals use greater height and strength as indications of greater physical formidability. We hypothesized that in-group leaders' height and strength, but not weight, woul
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Branden B. Johnson, Marcus Mayorga · 2020 · Human and Ecological Risk Assessment An International Journal
Cross-sectional surveys, despite their value, are unable to probe dynamics of risk perceptions over time. An earlier longitudinal panel study of Americans’ views on Ebola risk inspired this partial replication on Americans’ views of Zika…
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Penny Holding, Amina Abubakar, Elizabeth Obiero et al. · 2011
The aim of this paper is to describe the adaptations made to the Infant-Toddler version of the Home Observation Measure of the Environment for use in a low income Kenyan population. A total of 425 (214 girls) children aged 6-35 months were…
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Kate Ambler, Kelly Jones, Michael O’Sullivan · 2025 · Journal of Development Economics
We conduct a randomized controlled trial to test a novel intervention for increasing women’s empowerment in Uganda. The intervention includes a within-household transfer of a productive asset, which has a lower cost than an external…
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Junjie Dong, Zhidan Tan, Y Zhang et al. · 2025 · BMC Psychology
BACKGROUND: With the advancement of globalization and technology, remote work has gradually become a feasible and popular work model, particularly with the rapid adoption of working from home driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. This shift not…
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Susana Pereira Bastos · 2026 · University of Vienna
The presence of Indians in Mozambique since the second half of the 19th century is closely linked with the socio-economic and political transformations of the Swahili coast, as well as with the migratory movements between India and Austral Africa which began in 1860, namely with the wave of Gujarati “passengers” who paid their own passage, first to South Africa, later also to Delagoa Bay (Lourenco Marques). Based on the family life histories of the main Indian (Hindu, Sunni and Ismaili) family businesses of Mozambique, we intend to illustrate how the consolidation of a transnational migratory
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