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Who reads contemporary erotic novels and why?

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2021
In the wake of EL James’s series Fifty Shades of Grey, the book market has seen a veritable surge of bestselling erotic novels over the past decade. The online study reported here pursued two questions: (1) Who reads these erotic novels? (2) What are the
Maria Kraxenberger   +2 more
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The paradoxical role of emotional intensity in the perception of vocal affect

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Vocalizations including laughter, cries, moans, or screams constitute a potent source of information about the affective states of others. It is typically conjectured that the higher the intensity of the expressed emotion, the better the classification ...
N. Holz, P. Larrouy-Maestri, D. Poeppel
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Directions and Methodologies for Empirical Software Engineering Research

open access: yes, 2022
S.405-410 : Lit.This report summarises and builds on the results of the "Directions and Methodologies for Empirical Software Engineering Research" group discussion.
Harrison, R.   +6 more
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Religiosity and Spirituality of German-Speaking Pilgrims on the Way of St. James

open access: yesReligions, 2022
The article examines the intensity and structure of religiosity and spirituality of German-speaking foot and bicycle pilgrims on the Way of St. James within the framework of a multidimensional model of religiosity.
Detlef Lienau   +2 more
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How being perceived to be an artist boosts feelings of attraction in others

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Music production is a universal phenomenon reaching far back into our past. Given its ubiquity, evolution theorists have postulated adaptive functions for music, such as strengthening in-group cohesion, intimidating enemies, or promoting child bonding ...
Eugen Wassiliwizky   +2 more
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Eye-Tracking in Interpreting Studies: A Review of Four Decades of Empirical Studies

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
It has been four decades since eye-tracking was first used in interpreting studies, and recent years has witnessed a growing interest in the application of this method, which holds great potential for offering a look into the “black box” of interpreting ...
Ting Hu, Ting Hu, Xinyu Wang, Haiming Xu
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Exploring the Musical Taste of Expert Listeners: Musicology Students reveal Tendency towards Omnivorous Taste

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
The current study examined the musical taste of musicology students as compared to a control student group. Participants (n=1003) completed an online survey regarding the frequency with which they listened to 22 musical styles. A factor analysis revealed
Paul eElvers   +3 more
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Hospitalization rates and resource utilization of schizophrenic patients switched from oral antipsychotics to aripiprazole-depot in Germany

open access: yesHealth Economics Review, 2018
Objective Examine cost-driving factors of schizophrenia in Germany for patients prior- and post-switch from an oral antipsychotic therapy to aripiprazole-depot and perform a budget impact analysis (BIA) referring to the context of German health care ...
Christoph Potempa, Reinhard Rychlik
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A 5-emotions stimuli set for emotion perception research with full-body dance movements

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Ekman famously contended that there are different channels of emotional expression (face, voice, body), and that emotion recognition ability confers an adaptive advantage to the individual.
Julia F. Christensen   +7 more
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Empirical modelling of translation and interpreting [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
"Empirical research is carried out in a cyclic way: approaching a research area bottom-up, data lead to interpretations and ideally to the abstraction of laws, on the basis of which a theory can be derived. Deductive research is based on a theory, on the

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