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Sociology and The Complexity of What Is Missing

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What is ‘missed’ by sociological literature underpinned by assumptions of presence that a missing approach can rectify? I appropriate a metaphysics of presence and an alternative focus on what is missing as ontological foci to revisit complexity studies in sociology.
Konstantinos Poulis
wiley   +1 more source

Interactivity and Illusions of Ability: How Using Generative AI Affects Investor Judgments

open access: yesJournal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I use the setting of generative AI (GenAI) to examine how processing tool interactivity affects investors’ self‐assessments of ability and willingness to invest. Although GenAI can help investors process financial information, I theorize that the interactive nature of GenAI blurs the boundaries between investors’ own abilities and those of ...
Joe Croom
wiley   +1 more source

Exemption or illusion? The impact of a youth tax policy on house asking prices in Portugal

open access: yesReal Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Affordable housing has become an increasing challenge for young individuals in Portugal, where rising house prices and precarious employment conditions hinder homeownership. To address this barrier, the Portuguese Government introduced a tax exemption for individuals under 35 purchasing their first home.
Luís Clemente‐Casinhas, Sofia Vale
wiley   +1 more source

Using artificial neural networks to explain the attraction of jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) to colored traps

open access: yesInsect Science, EarlyView.
Jewel beetles can discriminate leaf feeding sites and bark oviposition sites based upon the opponent comparison of their blue, green, and red photoreceptor signals. Through this mechanism, green traps resemble leaves, and purple traps resemble bark, explaining their different attractiveness to males and females.
Roger D. Santer, Otar Akanyeti
wiley   +1 more source

Noise in judicial decision‐making: A research note

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Researchers suspect large unsystematic variation (noise) in criminal sentencing, but past attempts to quantify it have used short hypothetical vignettes administered in low‐stakes settings to small, heterogeneous samples of judges. Such vignettes are deficient in detail and ecological validity.
Andrzej Uhl, Justin T. Pickett
wiley   +1 more source

The hidden discount: Examining racial disparity in the use of suspended sentences

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Extant research on criminal sentencing generally concludes that racial/ethnic disparity is concentrated in the “in–out” decision, and that racial differences in sentence lengths are small and inconsistent. However, sentence length analyses rarely focus on the fact that criminal sentences are often partially or fully suspended, creating ...
Kevin Petersen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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