Category: Social Sciences
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Assessing the general public’s view of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing and their interpretation of DTC website disclaimer messages
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A randomized controlled trial on the digital socio-emotional competence training Zirkus Empathico for preschoolers
Holodynski, M. & Rüth, J.-E. Emotionale Kompetenz. In Psychologische Förder- und Interventionsprogramme für das Kindes- und Jugendalter (eds Lohaus, A. & Domsch, H.) 2nd edn, 241–257 (Springer-Verlag GmbH, 2021). Dziobek, I. et al. Dissociation of cognitive and emotional empathy in adults with Asperger syndrome using the Multifaceted Empathy Test (MET). J. Autism Dev. Disord. 38,…
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Distrust as a form of inequality
Magee, J. C. & Galinsky, A. D. Social hierarchy: The self reinforcing nature of power and status. Acad. Manag. Ann. 2, 351–398 (2008). Article Google Scholar Kraus, M. W., Piff, P. K. & Keltner, D. Social class as culture: The convergence of resources and rank in the social realm. Curr. Dir. Psychol. Sci. 20, 246–250…
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Children’s education and parents’ dietary nutrient intake: an empirical study based on rural China
First, this paper makes an empirical test of the impact of children’s educational level on parents’ food consumption in rural China, including cereals, beans, vegetables, fruit, livestock meat, poultry, milk, eggs and aquatic products. Second, based on the analysis of food consumption, this paper further explores the impact of children’s educational level on parents’ nutrient…
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Self-experience consistency and life satisfaction: The mediating role of the need for relatedness and the moderating role of Zhong-yong thinking
Self-experience consistency and life satisfaction Self-consistency, one of the most important concepts in Rogers’s personality theory (1959), refers to coordination within and between the self and experience and reflects the degree to which the self reasonably expects experience. If an individual experiences a gap between themself and their own experience, a state of disharmony results…
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EEG alpha band functional connectivity reveals distinct cortical dynamics for overt and covert emotional face processing
A rapid and efficient mechanism for face processing, which allows us to derive information about others, is a critical feature of human and non-human primates’ socio-cognitive abilities. Faces are indeed the most important non-verbal cue for social interaction, providing clues and signals that allow us to extract, in a very short time frame, a large…
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Effect of government intervention in relation to COVID-19 cases and deaths in Malawi
After failing to contain the initial COVID-19 outbreak, countries around the world adopted an array of non-pharmaceutical interventions designed to curb it’s further spread and the rising number of deaths, as well as mitigating the overstretching of national health systems. Generally, these interventions took the form of the following nine yardstick interventions: cancellation of public…
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Author Correction: A symbolic Neanderthal accumulation of large herbivore crania
Independent researcher: Gonzalo Ruiz-Liso, Madrid, Spain; José I. Alonso-Martín, Burgos, Spain; Teresa Sanz, Aranda de Duero, Spain. Museo Arqueológico y Paleontológico de la Comunidad de Madrid, Alcalá de Henares, Spain Enrique Baquedano, César Laplana, Belén Márquez, Sandra Gómez-Soler, Lucía Villaescusa, M. Ángeles Galindo-Pellicena & Juan Gómez-Hernanz Institute of Evolution in Africa, Madrid, Spain Enrique Baquedano, David M. Martín-Perea, Lucía Hernández-Vivanco, Abel Moclán & Marina Vegara-Riquelme Department of…
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Decentralisation by military regimes and challenges to citizen participation: an empirical reflection from Pakistan
Research settings Despite limitations of time and resources, we sought to represent in this study the urban and rural populations of Sindh, the second largest province of Pakistan. Accordingly, Larkana as an urban district and the rural district of Kambar Shahdadkot in Sindh were selected as the two case-study locations for this research. The province…
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Social relationships and mortality | Nature Human Behaviour
Are social isolation and loneliness associated with an increased risk of mortality? Wang et al. show that both social isolation and loneliness are associated with an increased risk of all-cause and cancer mortality in the general population by a systematic review and meta-analysis of 90 prospective cohort studies. In this issue of Nature Human Behaviour,…