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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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Purposeful Explanation and Causal Gaps [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In this paper, I argue that a commitment to science and the methodo- logical commitment to causal closure do not require a rejection of the idea that the choices of souls explain the occurrence of certain events in the physical world.
Goetz, Stewart
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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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The use of "no evidence" statements in public health [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Public health communication makes extensive use of a linguistic formulation that will be called the "no evidence" statement. This is a written or spoken statement of the form "There is no evidence that P" where P stands for a proposition that typically ...
Cummings, L
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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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Development of Psychological Problems Among Adolescents During School Closures Because of the COVID-19 Lockdown Phase in Italy: A Cross-Sectional Survey [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Pediatrics, 2021
Background: Previous studies have shown that during COVID-19 pandemic, mainly due to the imposed lockdown, significant psychological problems had emerged in a significant part of the population, including older children and adolescents. School closure, leading to significant social isolation, was considered one of the most important reasons for ...
Esposito S.   +7 more
openaire   +6 more sources

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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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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Retrieval-induced forgetting as motivated cognition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Recalling information from a particular category can reduce one's memory capability for related, non-retrieved information. This is known as the retrieval-induced forgetting effect (RIF; Anderson et al., 1994). The present paper reviews studies that show
Chernikova, Marina   +4 more
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