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Imagine All The Synchrony: The effects of actual and imagined synchronous walking on attitudes towards marginalised groups.

PLoS ONE, 2019
Stereotyping is a pervasive societal problem that impacts not only minority groups but subserves individuals who perpetuate stereotypes, leading to greater distance between groups.
Gray Atherton, Natalie Sebanz, Liam Cross   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The disorderly body: considerations of The Book of Numbers, 19 and ritual impurity after contact with a corpse

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2011
This article deals with the idea of ritual bodily impurity after coming into contact with a corpse in the Hebrew Bible. The evanescence and impermanence of the human body testifies to the mortality of the human being.
Sandra Junker
doaj   +1 more source

Smaller preferred interpersonal distance for joint versus parallel action.

PLoS ONE, 2023
During social interaction, humans prefer to keep a certain distance between themselves and other individuals. This preferred 'interpersonal distance' (IPD) is known to be sensitive to social context, and in the present study we aimed to further ...
Laura Schmitz, Arran T Reader
doaj   +1 more source

Humanising the Actors and Working through the Conflict: The Role of Kurdish Literary Narratives and Culture in the Reconciliation Process in Turkey

International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2018
This paper examines the modern Kurdish literary narratives and their application to the potential reconciliation between Kurds and Turks. It argues that while the subtle forms of dehumanisation of the Kurds are still entrenched in the Turkish state ...
Joanna Bocheńska
doaj   +3 more sources

Novelty Experience in Prolonged Interaction: A Qualitative Study of Socially-Isolated College Students’ In-Home Use of a Robot Companion Animal

Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022
Social distancing policies such as limits on public gatherings and contact with others were utilized around the world to slow the spread of COVID-19. Yet, decreased social interactions may also threaten people’s well-being.
Bryan Abendschein, Autumn Edwards, Chad Edwards   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Improving Intergroup Attitudes through Imagined e-Contact: Preregistered Tests of Web-Delivered Imagined Contact

, 2020
This project will include a number of studies examining the effects of imagined e-contact on intergroup attitudes. Rather than ask participants to participate in a laboratory exercise of imagined contact, participants will participate via a study posted ...
Jean-Nicolas Bordeleau, Adelheid Nicol
core   +1 more source

The relationship between imagined intergroup contact and common ingroup identity: The mediating effects of perceived intergroup similarity and recategorization

Acta Psychologica
Research on common ingroup identification has mostly focused on the outcome variables and potential benefits of common ingroup identification, but little is known about the formation pathways and mechanisms of common ingroup identification.
Yu Hu, Yiren Yan, Denghao Zhang
doaj   +1 more source

INTERNET AMONG STUDENTS – FROM MATHEMATICAL RATIONALITY TO UNREALITY [PDF]

Human Research in Rehabilitation, 2018
Today’s modern lifestyle and contemporary ways of working and gaining knowledge in schools and universities could not be imagined without high technology – the Internet. Simply said, internet entered all the pores of contemporary life in big style.
Tarik Bazdalić, Vehbi Ramaj , Sead Rešić, Maid Omerović   +3 more
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Painting American frontiers: “encounter” and the borders of American identity in nineteenth-century art

Perspective, 2013
The historiographical perspective through which scholars see America, together with the persistent question of the particularity of America’s culture(s), have been developed and adapted in varied ways by recent scholars of the art of nineteenth-century ...
David Peters Corbett
doaj   +1 more source

From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source