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Revisiting Mediation in the Social and Behavioral Sciences [PDF]
Journal of Methods and Measurement in the Social Sciences, 2013 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 explicit theoretical justification and empirical support.
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Modeling human behavior in economics and social science [PDF]
Physics of Life Reviews, 2017 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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New functionalism and the social and behavioral sciences [PDF]
European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2021 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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Behavioral addictions-a social science perspective [PDF]
General Internal Medicine and Clinical Innovations, 2018 This conceptual review and analysis discusses the development of the addiction concept, a development that entails a marked expansion of what is considered to constitute an addiction. During the last decade, following the introduction of DSM-5 (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, APA 2013) and the opening up of new terrains, many
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Social Media and the Science of Health Behavior [PDF]
Circulation, 2013 Social influences are a primary factor in the adoption of health behaviors.1,2 Compliance with diet and nutrition programs, adherence to preventive screening recommendations, and maintenance of exercise routines all can depend on having contact with friends and family who also engage in these behaviors. In addition to a great deal of literature on peer
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Editorial: Critical social and behavioral sciences perspectives on ending the HIV epidemic. [PDF]
Curr Opin HIV AIDS, 2022 Auerbach JD, Dubé K.
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Socio World-Social Research & Behavioral Sciences
, 2021 Socio World-Social Research & Behavioral ...
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The FDA's Diverse and Dynamic Activities in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Advancing and Supporting Health Equity. [PDF]
J Prim Care Community Health, 2021 Lee C +10 more
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Precision Health: The Role of the Social and Behavioral Sciences in Advancing the Vision. [PDF]
Ann Behav Med, 2020 Hekler E, Tiro JA, Hunter CM, Nebeker C.
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An Approach to the Islamization of Social and Behavioral Sciences
American Journal of Islam and Society, 1989 AbstractIn this paper I have tried to argue that the two widely used paradigmsof Individualism in Western social science, and Collectivism in Soviet socialscience, are not appropriate for Islamic social science on account of thesecularism (disregard of revelation) of the former and the "scientific atheism"of the latter.
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