Added Value or Strategic Irritant? Chinese Elite Perceptions of the EU's Indo‐Pacific Strategy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In September 2021, the European Union launched its Indo‐Pacific strategy, outlining its intention to strengthen its engagement in the region and add value to its partnerships there. The strategy, however, drew criticism from the Chinese side, particularly because it included Chinese Taiwan as a cooperating partner. To examine Chinese responses
Li Zhang, Ruoyu Ni, Wei Shen
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Posttraumatic Growth and Resilience: Their Distinctive Relationships with Optimism and Pessimism. [PDF]
Behav Sci (Basel)Taku K, Efthemiou A.
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Cognitive dissonance, pessimism, and behavioral spillover effects
A two-stage experiment was designed to examine spillover effects of a type of optimism/pessimism. We first exploit cognitive dissonance to induce optimism/pessimism by random assignment of high/low piece rates for performing a task.
Oxoby, Robert J., Dickinson, David L.
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Navigating the Indo‐Pacific: The EU's 2025 Council Conclusions Amidst Geopolitical Uncertainty
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT More than four years after the EU released its Indo‐Pacific Strategy (in April 2021), the Council of the EU provided fresh ‘Conclusions’ (in October 2025) stating that the EU should ‘further intensify its strategic focus, presence, visibility and actions in the Indo‐Pacific’.
Nicholas Ross Smith +3 more
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Unpacking contextual changes underlying self-injurious thoughts and behaviors among bullying-involved adolescents and young adults in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]
BMC PsycholLi S, Junus A, Yip PSF.
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Dopaminergic signatures of state and trait-like pessimism in mice
Srijani Biswas, Steven J. Shabel
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Guardians Under Siege: Civil Society Access and Reform of the UN Human Rights Council
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how restrictions on civil society participation at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) undermine the institution's effectiveness. Through stakeholder interviews and analysis of recent developments, we show that civil society engagement does not merely fulfil a democratic aspiration, but it is an operational ...
Inés M. Pousadela, Samuel King
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More than a game: the impact of decent work on work engagement among athletes through the serial mediation of visions about future and sport anxiety. [PDF]
Front PsycholHorozoğlu MA, Korkmaz O.
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AnnotateThis: Analyzing a human-LLM system for annotating social media data with the concept of climate change mitigation pessimism [PDF]
Zexuan Li +5 more
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