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“Our one great national malady”: Neurasthenia and American Imperial and Masculine Anxiety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century [PDF]

open access: yesUisahak, 2021
White upper middle-class Americans at the turn of the twentieth century were entrenched in a battle with a newly discovered, or invented, mental illness called neurasthenia.
Yeonsik JUNG
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Investigating the Extent of Coronaphobia and some Related Psycho-Social Variables in Iran [PDF]

open access: yesTaṣvīr-i salāmat, 2022
Background. Today, COVID-19 disease has caused fear and anxiety in all societies. The main purpose of this study was to find out the level of panic and fear of citizens over 20 years of age in East Azerbaijan province from the emerging disease of COVID ...
Siroos Fakhraei
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Study on Driver Visual Physiological Characteristics in Urban Traffic

open access: yesAdvances in Mechanical Engineering, 2014
In the integrated traffic environment, human factor is always a main factor of the three elementary factors, besides the vehicle and road factor. The driver physiological and psychological characteristics have an important impact especially on traffic ...
Fengyuan Wang   +3 more
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Split obturator: An innovative approach

open access: yesContemporary Clinical Dentistry, 2011
A palatal prosthesis can improve function by closing the palatal defect, preventing regurgitation, and improving swallowing and speech. Although techniques have been previously described for fabrication of palatal obturator, but there has not been any ...
Sunit K Jurel   +2 more
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Are ambiguity aversion and ambiguity intolerance identical?: A neuroeconomics investigation.

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
In recent years, there has been growing interest in understanding a person’s reaction to ambiguous situations, and two similar constructs related to ambiguity, ambiguity aversion and ambiguity intolerance, are defined in different disciplines.
Yusuke eTanaka   +15 more
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Mooney face stimuli for visual perception research.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
In 1957, Craig Mooney published a set of human face stimuli to study perceptual closure: the formation of a coherent percept on the basis of minimal visual information.
Caspar M Schwiedrzik   +2 more
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IN THIS ISSUE: Fragility–and resilience–in food systems

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2022
First paragraphs: This summer issue (volume 11, issue 4) includes papers on a wide range of food systems topics, many of which relate to both the fragility and the resilience of food systems.
Duncan Hilchey
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Psychological well‐being of ruminative adolescents during the transition to COVID‐19 school closures: An EMA study

open access: yesJournal of Adolescence, 2021
AbstractIntroductionAdolescents with moderate‐to‐severe levels of trait rumination are at heightened risk for psychopathology and may be particularly vulnerable to disruptions caused by the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic. As most past research documenting the impact of COVID‐19 on adolescent well‐being has been cross‐sectional, it is unclear exactly ...
Swords, Caroline M.   +3 more
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Managerial overconfidence in capital structure decisions and its link to aggregate demand: An agent-based model perspective.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
ObjectiveThis study aims to connect two strands of the psychology and economics literature, i.e., behavioural finance and agent-based macroeconomics, to assess the impact of managerial overconfidence at the micro and macro levels of the economy as a ...
Marcin Rzeszutek   +3 more
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Psychological Closure Does Not Entail Cognitive Closure

open access: yesDialectica, 2017
According to some philosophers, we are “cognitively closed” to the answers to certain problems. McGinn has taken the next step and offered a list of examples: the mind/body problem, the problem of the self and the problem of free will. There are naturalistic, scientific answers to these problems, he argues, but we cannot reach them because of our ...
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