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, 2011 Drawing on material from a broad range of fields, this article identifies an ‘optimism of everyday life’ and proposes that it performs significant psychological, social and cultural functions.
Oliver Bennett, Bennett, Oliver
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American Ethnologist, EarlyView.Abstract An anthropology of horror can serve as a vernacular critique of financial speculation. Drawing on fieldwork in San Pedro, Paraguay, I track horror across three registers: pombero tricksters; plata yvyguy (buried money) as a founding myth of postwar finance; and obligations binding sesame farmers to monsters, patrones, and creditors.
Caroline E. Schuster
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT At its core, transhumanism is utopic and apocalyptic: it tells us we will be saved through an imminent radical change of our being wrought by radical human enhancement (RHE) technologies. We are rushing, its supporters claim, towards a technological utopia so long as assorted techno‐phobes do not stand in the way.
Benjamin N. Parks
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Limiting Human Genomic Data Generation and Retention for Environmental Reasons
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The exponential growth of human genomic data presents a largely unexamined environmental challenge. Generating, storing, processing, using and sharing genomic data each contribute to environmental harms through substantial energy demands, resource use, and waste generation.
Wendy Xin +2 more
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The difference childhood makes: Uniqueness, accommodation, and the ethics of otherness
Journal of Childhood, Education & SocietyThis article examines how the concept of childhood shapes understandings of social difference in education, with a focus on the intersections of ability, disability, and pedagogy.
Ellouise Van Berkel +2 more
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British Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Background According to the control‐value theory of achievement emotions, the classroom social environment is an important antecedent of children's emotions, with emotions, in turn, influencing this environment. We focus on a in CVT largely neglected but important aspect of CVT that has been largely neglected: peer relationships.
Tim Mainhard +5 more
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Velferdsstatens nådeløse optimisme
Norsk Antropologisk TidsskriftDette er en introduksjonsartikkel til et spesialnummer som diskuterer hvordan vi kan forstå migranters prekære arbeids- og livsforhold i den norske velferdsstaten.
Synnøve K. N. Bendixsen +1 more
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British Journal of Educational Technology, EarlyView.Abstract To ensure learning efficiency in game‐based learning (GBL), learners must regulate cognitive, affective, metacognitive and motivational (CAMM) processes, collectively known as self‐regulated learning (SRL). SRL is dynamic and non‐linear, characterized by regulatory patterns and CAMM interactions that lead to macro‐level SRL behaviours. In this
Elizabeth B. Cloude +6 more
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Unrealistic Optimism about Exogenous Events: An Experimental Test [PDF]
An experiment is designed to test if individuals show (unrealistic) optimism when determining their subjective probabilities about exogenous circumstances.
Muren, Astri
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Macrophage Lipid Homeostasis Drives IVDD via a Senescence‐Dependent Impairment of Efferocytosis
Cell Proliferation, EarlyView.Intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD) has been a leading cause of low back pain and lacks disease‐modifying therapies. Although dysregulated disc lipid metabolism is implicated, its impact on the immune microenvironment, particularly macrophages, remains unknown.
Jinyu Wang +12 more
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