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Revisiting Mediation in the Social and Behavioral Sciences [PDF]
The process of mediation is of critical importance to the social and behavioral sciences and to evolutionary social psychology in particular. As with the concept of evolutionary adaptation, however, one can argue that causal mediation is in need of ...
Aurelio José Figueredo+4 more
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Precision Health: The Role of the Social and Behavioral Sciences in Advancing the Vision. [PDF]
Background In 2015, Collins and Varmus articulated a vision for precision medicine emphasizing molecular characterization of illness to identify actionable biomarkers to support individualized treatment.
Hekler E, Tiro JA, Hunter CM, Nebeker C.
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Modeling human behavior in economics and social science [PDF]
The complex interactions between human behaviors and social economic sciences is critically analyzed in this paper in view of possible applications of mathematical modeling as an attainable interdisciplinary approach to understand and simulate the aforementioned dynamics.
Dolfin, Marina+2 more
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Learning Social and Behavioral Sciences (Humanities) from People [PDF]
Sunder Lal
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A collaborative clinical case conference model for teaching social and behavioral science in medicine: an action research study [PDF]
Background Effective social and behavioral sciences teaching in medical education requires integration with clinical experience, as well as collaboration between social and behavioral sciences experts and clinical faculty.
Junichiro Miyachi+3 more
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New functionalism and the social and behavioral sciences [PDF]
AbstractFunctionalism about kinds is still the dominant style of thought in the special sciences, like economics, psychology, and biology. Generally construed, functionalism is the view that states or processes can be individuated based on what role they play rather than what they are constituted of or realized by. Recently, Weiskopf (2011a, 2011b) has
Beck, Lukas, Grayot, James D
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The dominant paradigm of experiments in the social and behavioral sciences views an experiment as a test of a theory, where the theory is assumed to generalize beyond the experiment's specific conditions.
Abdullah Almaatouq+5 more
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Learning and negative outcome expectations can increase pain sensitivity, a phenomenon known as nocebo hyperalgesia. Here, we examined how a targeted pharmacological manipulation of learning would impact nocebo responses and their brain correlates ...
Mia A. Thomaidou+7 more
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Background Being gifted with a very high IQ (> 98 percentile) can provide an advantage in the occupational context but can also come with its` own specific challenges.
Patricia A.J. van Casteren+4 more
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Background Staff members, and their attitudes, are crucial for providing person-centered care in residential care facilities for people with dementia.
Jogé Boumans+5 more
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