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Death anxiety, exposure to death, mortuary preferences, and religiosity in five countries
Abstract We present three datasets from a project about the relationship between death anxiety and religiosity. These include data from 1,838 ...
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Defusing political animosity in the United States with a cooperative online quiz game
Rising political animosity threatens democracy in the United States and other nations. Previous research indicates that intergroup contact under favorable conditions can reduce animosity. Other research indicates that mutually beneficial cooperation... |
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Demographic Variation in Charitable Giving and Helping Across 22 Countries in the Global Flourishing Study
Prosocial behaviors play a vital role in promoting individual and societal well-being. Charitable giving and helping strangers are two important expressions of prosociality; yet we know little about how these behaviors differ across sociodemographic indicators cross-nationally. Using data from the Global Flourishing Study, |
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Demographic Variation in Self-rated Physical Health Across 22 Countries: Findings from the Global Flourishing Study
Relatively few studies have examined how self-rated physical health (SRH) varies across: (a) countries around the world and (b) demographic characteristics in diverse nations and cultures... |
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Designing Culturally and Contextually Sensitive Protocols for Suicide Risk in Global Mental Health: Lessons From Research With Adolescents in Kenya
In cross-cultural psychological treatment research, investigators must ensure that protocols for addressing risk are culturally tailored and f...
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Development of a character-strengths based coaching program for rural community health workers to address their work stress in Madhya Pradesh, India
Abstract While rural ‘Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs)’ delivering primary care at the village-level in India experience high levels...
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Diagnostic status influences rapport and communicative behaviours in dyadic interactions between autistic and non-autistic people
A growing body of research suggests that the behaviours and experiences of autistic and non-autistic people are influenced by whether they are interacting with someone of the same or different diagnostic status. However, little is known about the relationship between these behaviours and the experiences of rapport... |
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Project: Flourishing Despite Disadvantage: Understanding Resilience in Children Growing up in Poverty
Direct and indirect links between children’s socio-economic status and education: pathways via mental health, attitude, and cognition
A child's socio-economic environment can profoundly affect their development. While existing literature focusses on simplified metrics and pai...
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Discovering Quantum Causal Models
Costa and Shrapnel ([2016]) have recently proposed an interventionist theory of quantum causation. The formalism generalizes the classical met...
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Distributions of hook lengths divisible by two or three
For fixed t=2 or 3, we investigate the statistical properties of {Yˆt(n)}, the sequence of random variables corresponding to the number of hoo...
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Do bumble bees play?
A variety of animals have been found to interact with and manipulate inanimate objects ‘just for fun’, that is, to play. Most clear examples o...
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Do market societies undermine civic morality? An empirical investigation into market societies and civic morality across the globe
Although the market is often praised as a wealth-creating coordination system, it is also repeatedly criticized for undermining morality. We e...
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Do Positive Emotions Make You More Prosocial? Direct and Indirect Effects of an Intervention Program on Prosociality in Colombian Adolescents During Social Isolation Due to COVID-19
The objectives of this study are to analyze the efficacy of the Virtual Hero Program during the social isolation due to COVID-19 to increase t...
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Do Reichenbachian Common Cause Systems of Arbitrary Finite Size Exist?
The principle of common cause asserts that positive correlations between causally unrelated events ought to be explained through the action of...
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Do the Ends Strengthen the Means? An Examination of the Link Between Purpose in Life and Academic Misconduct Among College Students
Scholarship addressing academic misconduct has started to examine the relationship between academic misconduct and student virtues such as sel...
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Does Comparative Cognition Have a WEIRD Problem?
This work describes an as yet unidentified bias relevant to comparative cognition research: WEIRD-centrism. This bias leads us to take as the gold standard the practices, capacities, or concepts of WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) humans, that is, humans who grew up in WEIRD societies and whose behavior has been shaped... |
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Does regeneration recapitulate phylogeny? Planaria as a model of body-axis specification in ancestral eumetazoa
Metazoan body plans combine well-defined primary, secondary, and in many bilaterians, tertiary body axes with structural asymmetries at multip...
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Project: Flourishing Despite Disadvantage: Understanding Resilience in Children Growing up in Poverty
Early adversity changes the economic conditions of mouse structural brain network organization
Abstract Early adversity can change educational, cognitive, and mental health outcomes. However, the neural processes through which early adve...
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Early in life effects and heredity: reconciling neo-Darwinism with neo-Lamarckism under the banner of the inclusive evolutionary synthesis
Recent discoveries show that early in life effects often have long-lasting influences, sometimes even spanning several generations. Such inter...
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