Category: Social Sciences
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Deliberate misinterpretation from the perspective of socio-cognitive pragmatics
By employing the classification criteria and the analytical framework, linguistic data in Friends will be accordingly divided into deliberate misinterpretation of semantic meaning and deliberate misinterpretation of deictic expressions. The classification is also based on the concrete linguistic phenomenon and is made in light of core common ground and emergent common ground proposed in SCA.…
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Social preferences and well-being: theory and evidence
Measurement method of social preferences We use SVO, an aspect of social preference, as an explanatory variable for well-being; as a continuous variable, SVO represents degree of prosociality. This means that we are using SVO as a proxy variable for the prosociality parameter. Previous studies have developed a variety of methods for measuring SVO (Messick…
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Listen: a litho-phonic encounter | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
The attention of a transcribing lithographer: listening, remembering, writing ‘As in every other aspect of lithography, careful attention to detail during graining, the first step in the process, will help eliminate many problems later. To produce excellent impressions, stones must be properly prepared so that they are perfectly level and do not have any scratches…
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Stereotypes about dads are harming millions, family relationship expert warns
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Misconceptions and stereotypes about the role of dads in family life are not only rife but are setting men up to fail, according to a family relationship expert, who claims millions of families are being hurt as a result. That’s the argument being made by Linda Nielsen, a professor of education…
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De facto decriminalization of drug possession reduces the overall arrest toll on the Black community
After the de facto decriminalization of low-level drug offenses in Baltimore, MD in April 2020, there was a significant reduction in low-level, drug-related arrests overall, with the vast majority (82%) of the decline occurring in the Black community. Yet significant racial disparities still persist. Credit: American Journal of Preventive Medicine De facto decriminalization of drug…
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The spirit of Juneteenth: The freedom to self-determine
Juneteenth Celebration in Emancipation Park in Houston’s Fourth Ward. Credit: Wikimedia Commons To be able to self-determine is to be able to control one’s own life and tell one’s own story—an ability that people who were enslaved in the U.S. did not legally have before the Emancipation Proclamation (1862) or the 13th and 14th amendments.…
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How social media can be better used by people with intellectual disabilities
For Louis Kleemeyer, learning, reading and writing are more difficult because his brain was not supplied with enough oxygen at birth. Credit: Technical University Munich A team at the TUM Think Tank is investigating how social media can be better used by people with intellectual disabilities—together with athletes from the Special Olympics World Games, which…
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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
Rosenberg J. As DTC genetic testing grows among consumers, insurers are beginning to get on board. Am J Manag Care. 2019 April 22, 2019. 23andME. Do You Speak BRCA? 2020. Available from: https://www.23andme.com/brca/. Gollust SE, Hull SC, Wilfond BS. Limitations of direct-to-consumer advertising for clinical genetic testing. Jama. 2002;288:1762–7. Article PubMed Google Scholar Koeller DR,…
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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…