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Measuring behavioral social learning in a conservation context: Chilean fishing communities

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, 2021
In the sustainability and conservation sciences, “social learning” is defined as a group process which depends on trust and social capital and tends to boost conservation outcomes.
Jordan Tam   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Crisis Ahead? Why Human-Robot Interaction User Studies May Have Replicability Problems and Directions for Improvement

open access: yesFrontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022
There is a confidence crisis in many scientific disciplines, in particular disciplines researching human behavior, as many effects of original experiments have not been replicated successfully in large-scale replication studies.
Benedikt Leichtmann   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Data Infrastructure and Local Stakeholder Engagement with Biodiversity Conservation Research

open access: yesJournal of eScience Librarianship, 2019
Biodiversity research that informs conservation action is increasingly data intensive. Cutting-edge projects at large institutions use massive aggregated datasets to build dynamic models and conduct novel analyses of natural systems.
Ali Krzton
doaj   +1 more source

Behavioral Ecology of the Family: Harnessing Theory to Better Understand Variation in Human Families

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2021
Researchers across the social sciences have long been interested in families. How people make decisions such as who to marry, when to have a baby, how big or small a family to have, or whether to stay with a partner or stray are questions that continue ...
Paula Sheppard, Kristin Snopkowski
doaj   +1 more source

Black-white Disparities in Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health Index and Their Associations with Self-rated Health and Functional Limitations in Older Adults.

open access: yesThe journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 2020
BACKGROUND To characterize cumulative risk scores of social and behavioral determinants of health (SDoH) and examine their association with self-rated general health and functional limitations between non-Hispanic black and white older adults in the ...
T. Rhee, Kathy Lee, J. Schensul
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Social behaviour in the Age of Empathy? – A social scientist’s perspective on current trends in the behavioural sciences.

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013
Recently, several behavioral sciences became increasingly interested in investigating biological and evolutionary foundations of (human) social behavior. In this light, prosocial behavior is seen as a core element of human nature.
Svenja eMatusall
doaj   +1 more source

Combining the Contributions of Behavioral Economics and Other Social Sciences in Understanding Taxation and Tax Reform [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
This paper extends previous work presented at the SABE/IAREP conference at St Mary’s University, Halifax (James, 2009). In the earlier paper it was shown that conventional economic theory is used to make the case for tax reform but does not always adequately incorporate all the relevant factors.
openaire   +1 more source

The Position-Reputation-Information (PRI) scale of individual prestige.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
Prestige is a key concept across the social and behavioral sciences and has been implicated as an important driver in the processes governing human learning and behavior and the evolution of culture.
Richard E W Berl   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Approach to the Islamization of Social and Behavioral Sciences

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 1989
In this paper I have tried to argue that the two widely used paradigms of Individualism in Western social science, and Collectivism in Soviet social science, are not appropriate for Islamic social science on account of the secularism (disregard of ...
Ausaf Ali
doaj   +1 more source

Hurricane Risk Communication: Visualization and Behavioral Science Concepts

open access: yesWeather, Climate, and Society, 2020
Increasingly, the risk assessment community has recognized the social and cultural aspects of vulnerability to hurricanes and other hazards that impact planning and public communication.
Barbara Millet   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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