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Norm Circles and Critical Realism

open access: yesJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT An increasing number of scholars have employed the critical realist concept of norm circles in empirical research. Norm circles are social structures, composed of human agents, that tend to encourage people to conform with norms. As such, they provide a (partly) structural explanation for social normativity, which in turn plays an important ...
Dave Elder‐Vass, Manuel Heckel
wiley   +1 more source

Lenition in English [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Honeybone, Patrick
core   +1 more source

Women's Autonomy in Obstetric Care: A Qualitative Study on Violations and Experiences

open access: yesNursing &Health Sciences, Volume 28, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT To explore how women experience and interpret autonomy in obstetric care across pregnancy, childbirth, abortion, and the postpartum period. A qualitative descriptive study was conducted using semi‐structured interviews with women who had received obstetric‐gynecological care.
Carme Perelló‐Iñiguez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Affect, Autonomy, Authenticity, and the Assessment of Decision‐Making Capacity: The Problem of Tyrannical Coherence

open access: yesPhilosophy &Public Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 2, Page 68-82, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT There are cases of psychiatric disorder where affective states produce severely self‐destructive behavior. Sufferers do not appear to be making autonomous decisions, and appear to be severely impaired in their decision‐making capacity. Suffers of these kinds of cases of these kinds of disorders fall into a “gray area” in the law.
Joe Gough
wiley   +1 more source

Diachronie et technolectes

open access: yesÉtudes romanes de Brno, 2013
When linguists affirm, that languages evolve in time, most of them mean standard aspects of history of language or literature. However evolution concerns all variants of natural languages, therefore, also dialects, sociolects and technolects. These last, otherwise called special languages, have their own history, in general strongly realted with the ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Italian Basic Terms Blu and Azzurro: Semantic Power Assessed in the Stroop Task

open access: yesColor Research &Application, Volume 51, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
A Stroop task revealed an asymmetry of the semantic power of the two basic “Italian blues,” blu “dark blue” and azzurro “light blue.” BLU word, rendered in dark and light blue inks, showed no significant Stroop effects. In contrast, AZZURRO word exhibited strong Stroop interference and facilitation. Higher semantic power of azzurro is argued to reflect
Galina V. Paramei   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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