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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
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A Scale Development Study For Evaluating The Competency Perception of Air Traffic Controllers

open access: yesInternational Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace
Ensuring the competencies that influence the performance of air traffic controllers is a key priority for the aviation sector in terms of flight safety. Notwithstanding the efforts of international organizations, the absence of a statistically valid and ...
Arif TUNCAL, Ertan ÇINAR
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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
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Bayesian modeling longitudinal dyadic data with nonignorable dropout, with application to a breast cancer study

open access: yes, 2012
Dyadic data are common in the social and behavioral sciences, in which members of dyads are correlated due to the interdependence structure within dyads. The analysis of longitudinal dyadic data becomes complex when nonignorable dropouts occur.
Yuan, Ying, Zhang, Guangyu
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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
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(WP 2017-04) Behavioral Economics and the Positive-Normative Distinction: Sunstein’s \u3cem\u3eChoosing Not to Choose\u3c/em\u3e and Behavioral Economics Imperialism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper examines behavioral economics’ use of the positive-normative distinction in its critique of standard rational choice theory as normative, and argues that it departs from Robbins’ understanding of that distinction in ways that suggest ...
Davis, John B.
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Why and When Are Evidence‐Based Interventions Adopted in Paediatric Supportive Care? A Qualitative Exploration of the Determinants of Photobiomodulation Implementation

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Oral mucositis is a common and debilitating side effect of childhood cancer and stem cell transplant treatments. It affects the quality of life of children and young people (CYP) and places a strain on services. Photobiomodulation is recommended for oral mucositis prevention in international guidance but is poorly implemented in UK ...
Claudia Heggie   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Combining the contributions of behavioral economics and other social sciences in understanding taxation and tax reform [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
publication-status: Publishedtypes: ArticleThis version uploaded to Munich Personal RePEc ArchivePaper presented at the Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics, San Diego State University, August 2-5, 2010This paper extends ...
James, Simon
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Preferences of Pediatric Patients and Their Caregivers for Chemotherapy‐Induced Nausea and Vomiting Control Endpoints: A Mixed Methods Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Although not always achieved, complete chemotherapy‐induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) control is the conventional goal of CINV prophylaxis. In this two‐center, mixed‐methods study, we sought to understand the preferences of adolescent patients and family caregivers for CINV control endpoints.
Haley Newman   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial

open access: yesRevista Portuguesa de Investigação Comportamental e Social, 2015
This issue of the Portuguese Journal of Behavioral and Social Research has a thematic section on aging with three relevant empirical papers in the field of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Fernanda Daniel
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