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Identifying who adolescents prefer as source of information within their social network
Adolescents are highly influenced by their peers within their social networks. This social influence can stem from both unsolicited peer pressure and the active search for guidance.
Scarlett K. Slagter +3 more
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Psy-expertise, therapeutic culture and the politics of the personal in development [PDF]
Expertise stemming from the psy disciplines is increasingly and explicitly shaping international development policy and practice. Whilst some policy makers see the use of psy expertise as a new way to reduce poverty, increase economic efficiency, and ...
Klein, E., Mills, C.
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Il concetto di causalità in Psicologia [PDF]
This paper aims to place an interdisciplinary exchange with different disciplinary spheres regarding Psychology, according to a strong will of exchange of view, although well-aware of epistemological and communicational risks.
Lucia Donsì
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Extensive literature documents that dopaminergic genes play an important role in the link between adverse environments and adolescents’ problem behavior. However, little is known about the potential mechanism underlying adolescents’ vulnerability to peer
Yemiao Gao +5 more
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Background The prevalence rates of childhood obesity are increasing. The current multidisciplinary treatments for (childhood) obesity are effective but only moderately and in the short term.
Taaike Debeuf +6 more
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How can neuroscience contribute to moral philosophy, psychology and education based on Aristotelian virtue ethics? [PDF]
The present essay discusses the relationship between moral philosophy, psychology and education based on virtue ethics, contemporary neuroscience, and how neuroscientific methods can contribute to studies of moral virtue and character. First, the present
Han, Hyemin
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A Developmental Neuro-Robotics Approach for Boosting the Recognition of Handwritten Digits [PDF]
Developmental psychology and neuroimaging research identified a close link between numbers and fingers, which can boost the initial number knowledge in children.
Di Nuovo, Alessandro
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Predictive validity on clinical item-level of the HKT-R divided into clinical patient classes
Background Because of the heterogeneity of forensic groups, latent class analysis (LCA) can allow for the formation of stronger homogeneous patient classes, which can improve the predictive validity of forensic risk assessment tools, such as the ...
Iris Frowijn +2 more
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Evolutionary Developmental Psychology
Evolutionary developmental psychology is the study of the genetic and ecological mechanisms that govern the development of social and cognitive competencies common to all human beings and the epigenetic (gene–environment interactions) processes that adapt these competencies to local conditions.
D C, Geary, D F, Bjorklund
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Young children show the bystander effect in helping situations [PDF]
The authors thank the ESRC for supporting Harriet Over (grant number ES/K006702/1).Much research in social psychology has shown that otherwise helpful people often fail to help when bystanders are present.
Carpenter, Malinda +3 more
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