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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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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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Three-Dimensional Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Fossil Canid Mandibles and Skulls [PDF]

, 2017
Acknowledgements We thank C.P. Klingenberg for critical discussion of methodology. A. Drake and R. Losey were supported by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant (#SSHRC IG 435-2014-0075) and a European Research ...
Bachura, Olga P., Coquerelle, Michael, Drake, Abby Grace, Fleming, Lacey S., Gusev, Andrei V., Kosintsev, Pavel A., Losey, Robert J., Sablin, Mikhail   +7 more
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The impact of climatic factors on negative sentiments: An analysis of human expressions from X platform in Germany

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Summary: Expressions in social media can provide a rapid insight into people’s reactions to events, such as periods of climatic stress. This study explored the link between climatic stressors and negative sentiment on the X platform in Germany to inform ...
Tareq Al-Ahdal, Sandra Barman, Stella Dafka, Barrak Alahmad, Till Bärnighausen, Michael Gertz, Joacim Rocklöv   +6 more
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Lab Experiments Are a Major Source of Knowledge in the Social Sciences [PDF]

Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been much slower in the social sciences, although during ...
Falk, Armin, Heckman, James J.
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Impact of social context on human facial and gestural emotion expressions

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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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Basic epistemology of biographical research: a review based on the extraordinary life history of a young offender

Revista Latinoamericana de Metodología de las Ciencias Sociales, 2021
This article analyses the basic epistemology of biographical research methodology. This analysis is grounded on the life history of a Moroccan boy who entered Spain illegally, but after being processed by the juvenile justice system, became a social ...
David Herrera Pastor, Nick Frost
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Advancing health equity in the aftermath of COVID-19: Confronting intensifying racial disparities

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Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated the persistent racial and ethnic health disparities in the United States. The pandemic has also had profound spillover effects on other aspects of health and wellbeing, such as mental health ...
Kristen R. Prentice, B. Adam Williams, Jane M. True, Charles H. Jones   +3 more
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Performance of active learning models for screening prioritization in systematic reviews: a simulation study into the Average Time to Discover relevant records

Systematic Reviews, 2023
Background Conducting a systematic review demands a significant amount of effort in screening titles and abstracts. To accelerate this process, various tools that utilize active learning have been proposed. These tools allow the reviewer to interact with
Gerbrich Ferdinands, Raoul Schram, Jonathan de Bruin, Ayoub Bagheri, Daniel L. Oberski, Lars Tummers, Jelle Jasper Teijema, Rens van de Schoot   +7 more
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The Frankfurt School and the young Habermas: Traces of an intellectual path (1956–1964) [PDF]

, 2015
The aim of this study is to discern intersections between the intellectual path of the young Habermas and the issues addressed by the Positivismusstreit, the dispute between Popper and Adorno about methodology in the social sciences.
Corchia, Luca
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