Category: Social Sciences
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Study finds mass shooters have distinct patterns of buying guns
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The increase in gun violence in the United States has put pressure on law enforcement and others to find ways to reduce it. In 2022, there were 647 mass shootings, up from 383 in 2016. There has also been a three-fold increase in active shooter events between 2000 and 2016. These…
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The use-the-best heuristic facilitates deception detection
Bond, C. F. & DePaulo, B. M. Accuracy of deception judgments. Pers. Soc. Psychol. Rev. 10, 214–234 (2006). Bogaard, G., Meijer, E. H., Vrij, A. & Merckelbach, H. Strong, but wrong: lay people’s and police officers’ beliefs about verbal and nonverbal cues to deception. PLoS ONE 11, e0156615 (2016). Aavik, T. et al. A world…
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Novels of Vaddey Ratner and Viet Thanh Nguyen—unpacking trauma language, facing ghosts, and killing shadows
The language of communication through literary texts and in tourism, in life, has cultural features contained in it. Therefore, the cultural standards of communication are preserved and preserved through language. World literature has been dominated by literary works written in major languages, such as English, German, and French. The binary illusion that literature of major…
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Organizational slack, entrepreneurial orientation, and corporate political activity: From the behavioral theory of the firm
Behavioral theory of the firm and CPA engagement CPA is a firm’s attempt to shape government policy to advance private ends (Hillman et al., 2004). The overall objective of political behavior is to produce public policy outcomes that are favorable for the firm’s continued economic survival and success. To accomplish their goals, firms must respond…
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A manifesto for applying behavioural science
Straßheim, H. The rise and spread of behavioral public policy: an opportunity for critical research and self-reflection. Int. Rev. Public Policy 2, 115–128 (2020). Article Google Scholar Gilovich, T., Griffin, D. & Kahneman, D. (eds) Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002). Lieberman, M. D. Social cognitive neuroscience: a review…
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Spectrotemporal content of human auditory working memory represented in functional connectivity patterns
Goldman-Rakic, P. S. Cellular basis of working memory. Neuron 14, 477–485 (1995). CAS PubMed Google Scholar Murray, J. D. et al. Stable population coding for working memory coexists with heterogeneous neural dynamics in prefrontal cortex. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 114, 394–399 (2017). CAS PubMed Google Scholar Romo, R., Brody, C. D., Hernández, A. &…
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In Memoriam—Robert M. A. Hirschfeld, MD, MSc
In Memoriam—Robert M. A. Hirschfeld, MD, MSc Continue Reading News Source: www.nature.com
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Socioeconomic status and social capital as predictors of happiness: evidence and gender differences
Abdel-Khalek A (2006) Measuring happiness with a single-item scale. Soc Behav Personal Int J 34:139–150. https://doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2006.34.2.139 Article Google Scholar Adedeji A, Silva N, Bullinger M (2021b) Cognitive and structural social capital as predictors of quality of life for Sub-Saharan African migrants in Germany. Appl Res Qual Life 16(3):1003–1017. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-019-09784-3 Article Google Scholar Adedeji A, Idemudia…
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Should Nature endorse political candidates? Yes — when the occasion demands it
Considering the record of former US president Donald Trump’s four years in office, Nature judged that silence was not an option when he ran for re-election.Credit: Jim Bourg-Pool/Getty In October 2020, this journal endorsed Joe Biden for the next president of the United States (Nature 586, 335; 2020). It was not the first time we…
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Diversity and pluralism in Arab media education curricula: an analytical study in light of UNESCO standards
Learning objectives in the MIL The objective of a course or programme is usually in the form of a specific statement regarding what the teacher intends to teach. “The aim of a module gives the broad purpose or general teaching intention of the module whilst the objective gives more specific information about what the teaching…