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Social learning leads to inflexible strategy use in children across three societies

open access: yesScientific Reports
Human adaptability relies on our capacity to learn, either from others (socially) or by ourselves (asocially), and to update our strategy repertoire. Cognitive flexibility is the psychological mechanism that mediates strategy use.
Wilson Vieira   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Anthropology and Ethnicity: From Herder to Hermeneutics [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
For a long time, the central focus of anthropology has been on the study of the so-called traditional societies. However, with the transformation of those societies into ethnicized groups within state systems, anthropologists have had to rethink their ...
Eller, Jack
core   +1 more source

Neurodevelopmental and Psychiatric Studies in Children and Adolescents With Neurofibromatosis Type I: A Comprehensive Scoping Review

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A comprehensive synthesis of the broad range of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric manifestations in NF1 is needed to identify knowledge gaps and future directions for NF1 research. In the following scoping review, we identify and summarize the scope of research that examines neurodevelopmental and psychiatric manifestations, both as ...
Meera Chopra   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Culture and IS: National cultural dimensions within IS discipline [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The study of culture is rooted in sociology, social psychology, and anthropology. In particular, cultural anthropology seeks to understand the similarities and differences among groups of people in the contemporary world.
Ali, M, Brooks, L
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Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change

open access: yesThe Review of Economic Studies, 2017
We examine a determinant of cultural persistence that has emerged from a class of models in evolutionary anthropology: the similarity of the environment across generations.
Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sitting in Many Camps—Innovative Approaches and Methods for First Nations‐Led Research Into Indigenous Peacebuilding

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adulthood denied: youth dissatisfaction and the Arab Spring [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This repository item contains a single issue of Issues in Brief, a series of policy briefs that began publishing in 2008 by the Boston University Frederick S.
Mulderig, M. Chloe
core   +2 more sources

Local resource mobilization for malaria vector control among Rwandan rice farmers: a pilot study into the role of community ownership

open access: yesJournal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2023
Background Evidence suggests a vicious cycle between rice cultivation and malaria control in Rwanda. Rice fields offer an attractive breeding ground for malaria vectors, which increases the disease burden in rice farming communities, and, consequently ...
Alexis Rulisa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unlocking fruit dimensions: Quantification of functional traits driving plant–frugivore interactions

open access: yesApplications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Fleshy fruits attract animals to ingest fruit, swallow the seeds, and release them in the landscape, thus facilitating seed dispersal and plant regeneration. Attraction of animal dispersers is achieved via attractants such as color or scent, and rewards like sugars, lipids, and micronutrients.
Linh M. N. Nguyen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Power relations in the decision-making processes of forest owners in Northern Finland

open access: yesNordia Geographical Publications, 2012
In this article we examine the power relations of forest management in connection with private forest owners’ decision-making processes in Finland. Questions of power are considered through an examination of management decisions regarding even-aged and ...
Mervi Kasanen, Hannu I. Heikkinen
doaj  

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