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Shaping Future Children, Sex Selection, and “Normal” Human Capacities

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT If we think that parents have an obligation to have a healthy child then we need to know what counts as healthy, when male and female children are born with very different capacities. If we give up on the idea that our obligations to use technologies of genetic selection are discharged once we try to secure the birth of a healthy child, as ...
Robert Sparrow
wiley   +1 more source

Why Engage Communities in Biomedical Research?

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While community engagement in biomedical research is widely lauded, and many reasons to engage communities have been adduced, it is unclear whether all these reasons are equally important, and, if not, which are most important. Here, I argue that, outside of rare circumstances, community engagement should not be understood as seeking ...
Robert Steel
wiley   +1 more source

‘We're not going to start lifting stones now…’: Stakeholder perspectives on the role of psychometric methods in outcome measurement

open access: yesBritish Journal of Clinical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives Psychological outcome measures guide research and clinical decision‐making, yet many widely used tools were developed with limited psychometric rigour. Although advanced methods (e.g., item response theory, structural equation modelling) are now widely available, their added value in applied research remains uncertain and applied ...
David Byrne   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anchors or relational risks? Educator and psychologist narratives of attachment in child–robot relationships

open access: yesBritish Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background As AI‐enabled social robots become more common in schools, children may form strong emotional bonds with them despite robots not being caregivers and lacking the capacities for “true” attachment. Given limited understanding of potential risks and safeguards, professional perspectives are needed to inform responsible design and ...
Dimitris Pnevmatikos   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mindful understanding of the interconnected world: The synergistic effects of mindfulness and interconnectedness in driving collective action and autonomous motivation

open access: yesBritish Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The present study examined the roles of interconnectedness and mindfulness in collective action participation and the motivations underlying the participation. Two studies were conducted. In Study 1, 377 participants completed measures of mindfulness, interconnectedness, collective action intention and participation at baseline, with 308 and ...
Floria H. N. Chio   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The model effect: How the facial attractiveness of a model shapes clothing evaluation

open access: yesBritish Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Clothing plays an integral role in the formation of first impressions and has been studied within social perception. However, little attention has been paid to the reverse process: whether evaluations of clothing are influenced by the attractiveness of the person wearing it.
Young‐Jin Hur   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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