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This study examined the association between mental rotation ability and facial masculinity preference in gay and bisexual men in China. The participants (436 gay/bisexual men, 132 heterosexual men, and 254 heterosexual women) completed an online Shepard ...
Lijun Zheng
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XAI-Explainable artificial intelligence [PDF]
Explainability is essential for users to effectively understand, trust, and manage powerful artificial intelligence ...
Choi, J. +5 more
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Intermarriage and Homogamy: Causes, Patterns, Trends [PDF]
People have a tendency to marry within their social group or to marry a person who is close to them in status. Although many characteristics play a role in the choice of a spouse, sociologists have most often examined endogamy and homogamy with respect to race/ethnicity, religion, and socioeconomic status.
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Abstract This article uses rare and detailed data on matriculants to the University of Oxford during the middle decades of the twentieth century as a prism through which to consider gendered processes of recruitment to elite institutions. The article makes four key claims. First, the broader shifts in middle‐class women's labour market participation in
Eve Worth, Naomi Muggleton, Aaron Reeves
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Examination of acculturation processes in Vojvodina based on mixed marriages [PDF]
This paper analyzes ethnically mixed marriages contracted in the territory of Vojvodina, Serbia, between 1956 and 2004. Acculturation is examined based on heterogeneous marriages between Serbs, Hungarians, Slovaks, Romanians, Montenegrins and Croats. The
Sokolovska Valentina
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The Complexity of Multidimensional Learning in Agriculture
Studies on agricultural technology adoption often focus on one input, practice, or package, which is analytically useful, but may overlook the complexities involved with multidimensional learning needed for a lot of agricultural decisions. In Kenya, we study farmers' dynamic learning (from oneself and others) and adoption decisions over six seasons ...
Rachid Laajaj, Karen Macours
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Bend It Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration [PDF]
We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural conformity and cultural distinction.
Bisin, Alberto +3 more
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Party Political Homogamy in Great Britain [PDF]
This paper focuses on husbands' and wives' party political identifications in combination. There is a high level of party political homogamy in Great Britain (i.e. spouses tend to share the same party political identification). Statistical analyses show that levels of homogamy vary according to strength of party political identification, parental ...
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The association between religious homogamy and reproduction [PDF]
Individuals more strongly affiliated to religion have on average more children than less religious ones. Here, based on census data of 3 658 650 women aged 46–60 years from 32 countries provided by IPUMS International and data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (n= 2400 women, aged 53–57 years), we show that religious homogamy is also associated ...
Fieder, Martin, Huber, Susanne
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Gender Differences in the Timing and Chances of Parenthood Across Regions
ABSTRACT An increasing number of studies have examined fertility variation at the regional level within countries, but this research has largely focused on women. As a result, our knowledge of regional variation in male fertility remains limited. The current study addresses this research gap by examining how the timing and chances of parenthood vary ...
Jessica Nisén +3 more
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