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Editorial: Methodological issues in psychology and social sciences research

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
In recent decades, the classical methods of studying the psychometric properties of tests have advanced to evolve into new innovative statistical methods, which allows obtaining a new view of the data. In this sense, progress has been made in the use of item response theory and in the use of structural equation models.
Espejo Tort, Begoña, Martín Carbonell, Marta, Checa Esquiva, Irene   +2 more
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Thought consciousness and source monitoring depend on robotically controlled sensorimotor conflicts and illusory states

iScience, 2021
Summary: Thought insertion (TI) is characterized by the experience that certain thoughts, occurring in one's mind, are not one's own, but the thoughts of somebody else and suggestive of a psychotic disorder.
Andrea Serino, Polona Pozeg, Fosco Bernasconi, Marco Solcà, Masayuki Hara, Pierre Progin, Giedre Stripeikyte, Herberto Dhanis, Roy Salomon, Hannes Bleuler, Giulio Rognini, Olaf Blanke   +11 more
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Human but not robotic gaze facilitates action prediction

iScience, 2022
Summary: Do people ascribe intentions to humanoid robots as they would to humans or non-human-like animated objects? In six experiments, we compared people’s ability to extract non-mentalistic (i.e., where an agent is looking) and mentalistic (i.e., what
Emmanuele Tidoni, Henning Holle, Michele Scandola, Igor Schindler, Loron Hill, Emily S. Cross   +5 more
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Talking with Your (Artificial) Hands: Communicative Hand Gestures as an Implicit Measure of Embodiment

iScience, 2020
Summary: When people talk, they move their hands to enhance meaning. Using accelerometry, we measured whether people spontaneously use their artificial limbs (prostheses) to gesture, and whether this behavior relates to everyday prosthesis use and ...
Roni O. Maimon-Mor, Emeka Obasi, Jenny Lu, Nour Odeh, Stephen Kirker, Mairéad MacSweeney, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Tamar R. Makin   +7 more
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Blaming automated vehicles in difficult situations

iScience, 2021
Summary: Automated vehicles (AVs) have made huge strides toward large-scale deployment. Despite this progress, AVs continue to make mistakes, some resulting in death.
Matija Franklin, Edmond Awad, David Lagnado   +2 more
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Communicative Methodology: Contributions to Social Impact Assessment in Psychological Research

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Recent advancements in the social impact assessment of science have shown the diverse methodologies being developed to monitor and evaluate the improvements for society as a result of research.
Gisela Redondo-Sama, J. Díez-Palomar, Roger Campdepadros, T. Morlà-Folch   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Mapping of machine learning approaches for description, prediction, and causal inference in the social and health sciences

Science Advances, 2022
Machine learning (ML) methodology used in the social and health sciences needs to fit the intended research purposes of description, prediction, or causal inference.
A. Leist, Matthias Klee, Jung Hyun Kim, David H. Rehkopf, Stéphane P. A. Bordas, Graciela Muniz-Terrera, S. Wade   +6 more
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Are friends electric? The benefits and risks of human-robot relationships

iScience, 2021
Summary: Social robots that can interact and communicate with people are growing in popularity for use at home and in customer-service, education, and healthcare settings.
Tony J. Prescott, Julie M. Robillard
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SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH METHODOLOGY IN MANAGEMENT SCIENCES

, 2018
The author of the article attempted to analyse research methods which are to affect, in a professional and complex way, conducting of a correct and reliable research process, with consideration given to practical and theoretical aspects of management ...
H. Dźwigoł, M. Dźwigoł-Barosz
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Impact of social context on human facial and gestural emotion expressions

iScience
Summary: Humans flexibly adapt expressions of emotional messages when interacting with others. However, detailed information on how specific parts of the face and hands move in socio-emotional contexts is missing.
Raphaela Heesen, Mark A. Szenteczki, Yena Kim, Mariska E. Kret, Anthony P. Atkinson, Zoe Upton, Zanna Clay   +6 more
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