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Students’ subjective constructions and their satisfaction with academic life
Students’ satisfaction with academic life, which implies their overall experience at university and the quality of adaptation to academic environment, is conditioned by subjective experience. Subjective constructions of students represent the attitude of
Tamara N. Dragojević +1 more
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Cognitive Dissonance, Pessimism, and Behavioral Spillover Effects [PDF]
This paper reports results from a unique two-stage experiment designed to examine the spillover effects of optimism and pessimism. In stage 1, we induce optimism or pessimism onto subjects by randomly assigning a high or low piece rate for performing a ...
David L. Dickinson, Robert J. Oxoby
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Estimating water resources is important for regional climate impact analysis and risk estimation. The Middle East and Central Asia have largely reached the limit of sustainably usable water across their river basins and ecosystems. Strategies designed to mitigate environmental risks require a reliable estimation of water availability trends.
Paolo Reggiani +4 more
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Schopenhauer's view of religion:Religion as a means of liberation from suffering [PDF]
Schopenhauer presents suffering as a fundamental and inevitable feature of human existence, resulting from a blind and aimless will. In this framework, religion is presented as a means to reduce and alleviate this suffering.
Khoshnevisan Khoshnevisan
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The Evolutionary Stability of Optimism, Pessimism and Complete Ignorance [PDF]
We provide an evolutionary foundation to evidence that in some situations humans maintain optimistic or pessimistic attitudes towards uncertainty and are ignorant to relevant aspects of the environment.
Schipper, Burkhard C.
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This review explores climate predictions as actionable decision‐making tools, focusing on the Mediterranean. It examines transforming forecasts into user‐defined information through bias adjustment, downscaling and impact models. Highlighting collaborative EU initiatives, it addresses challenges like limited forecasting skill and data accessibility ...
Silvio Gualdi +12 more
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Rational Expectations and Ambiguity: A Comment on Abel [PDF]
Abel (2002) proposes a resolution of the riskfree rate and the equity premium puzzles by considering pessimism and doubt. Pessimism is characterized by subjective probabilistic beliefs about asset returns that are stochastically dominated by the ...
Alexander Ludwig, Alexander Zimper
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The graphical abstract presents observed (1963–2023) and projected changes in hydroclimatic extremes in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. It integrates dry‐spell duration (CDD) and extreme precipitation (R95pTOT) using CMIP6 multimodel ensembles under SSP1‐2.6, SSP2‐4.5, and SSP5‐8.5.
Daris Correia dos Santos
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(Re)humanizing Blackness: Integrating BlackCrit in the Mental Health Counseling of Black Clients
ABSTRACT Does Black mental health matter? Historically, mental illness in the Black community has been inadequately addressed. Yet Black Americans experience more severe psychological distress than other races, and they are also more likely to experience poor outcomes in counseling.
Demetrius Cofield
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Abstract Purpose The purpose of the study was to evaluate the impact of psychological factors on functional outcomes of patients undergoing isolated acromioclavicular joint (ACJ) stabilization for acute and chronic ACJ injuries. Methods Patients who underwent ACJ stabilization between January 2015 and December 2021 and had a minimum follow‐up of 2 ...
Lukas Nawid Muench +8 more
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