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Exposure to Microplastics in Biological Matrices and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Children: A Systematic Review [PDF]
NanomaterialsMicro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) are ubiquitous environmental contaminants detected in numerous human tissues, yet epidemiological evidence on MNPs exposure and neurodevelopmental outcomes in children has not been systematically evaluated.
Francesco Fabrizio Comisi +3 more
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Psychological assessment in forensic settings: new methodological conceptions and ethical considerations [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyForensic psychological and psychiatric evaluations—understood here as assessments addressing legally operative questions such as, for instance, competency to stand trial, criminal responsibility (sanity), violence risk, but also those on legal capacity ...
Alfredo Verde, Emanuela Saveria Gritti
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A common factor underlying individual differences in confirmation bias
Scientific ReportsWhen they are asked to test a given hypothesis, individuals tend to be biased towards confirming evidence. This phenomenon has been documented on different cognitive components: information search, weighing of evidence, and memory recall.
Vincent Berthet +2 more
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Potential reasons for CPI chain drift bias while using electronic transaction data
Technological and Economic Development of Economy, 2023 Scanner data mean electronic transaction data that specify product prices and their expenditures obtained from supermarkets’ IT systems by scanning bar codes (i.e. GTIN or SKU). Scanner data are a relatively new and cheap data source for the calculation
Jacek Białek +1 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 In previous research on the evaluation of food images, we found that appetitive food images were rated higher following a positive prediction than following a negative prediction, and vice versa for aversive food images.
Kajornvut Ounjai +5 more
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Confirmation bias leads to overestimation of losses of woody plant foliage to insect herbivores in tropical regions [PDF]
PeerJ, 2014 Confirmation bias, i.e., the tendency of humans to seek out evidence in a manner that confirms their hypotheses, is almost overlooked in ecological studies. For decades, insect herbivory was commonly accepted to be highest in tropical regions.
Mikhail V. Kozlov +2 more
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Deliberation Enhances the Confirmation Bias in Politics
Games, 2020 The confirmation bias, unlike other decision biases, has been shown both empirically and in theory to be enhanced with deliberation. This suggests that limited attention, reduced deliberation, or limited available cognitive resources may moderate this ...
David L. Dickinson
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Ecological Indicators, 2022 Fluctuating asymmetry (FA), defined as small, random departures away from perfect symmetry, is frequently recommended as a sensitive and universal indicator of environmental stress imposed by both abiotic and biotic factors.
Mikhail V. Kozlov +2 more
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Trends in Hearing, 2021 As musicians have been shown to have a range of superior auditory skills to non-musicians (e.g., pitch discrimination ability), it has been hypothesized by many researchers that music training can have a beneficial effect on speech perception in ...
Colette M. McKay
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The critical period hypothesis in second language acquisition: a statistical critique and a reanalysis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 In second language acquisition research, the critical period hypothesis (cph) holds that the function between learners' age and their susceptibility to second language input is non-linear.
Jan Vanhove
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