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Social semiotics and social representations [PDF]
A social representations approach offers an empirical utility for addressing myriad social concerns such as social order, ecological sustainability, national identity, racism, religious communities, the public understanding of science, health and social marketing.
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Cracking the social code of speech prosody using reverse correlation [PDF]
Human listeners excel at forming high-level social representations about each other, even from the briefest of utterances. In particular, pitch is widely recognized as the auditory dimension that conveys most of the information about a speaker's traits ...
Aucouturier, Jean-Julien +3 more
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The Structure and Content of Social Representations of Lawyers, Psychologists and Journalists about Mentally Ill People [PDF]
We studied the structure and content of social representations of the mentally ill people among the various professional groups of young people.
Yakushenko A.V.,
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Comprendre les représentations des enseignants de langues à travers des récits visuels
Teachers’ representations are of paramount importance to understand their situated professional action. Following a discussion of the concept of “representation” and its importance in foreign language education, a revision of the use of visual ...
Melo Pfeifer, Silvia Maria
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The unpredictably eruptive dynamics of spruce budworm populations in eastern Canada
We examine historical population data for spruce budworm from several locations through the period 1930–1997, and use density‐dependent recruitment curves to test whether the pattern of population growth over time is more consistent with Royama's (1984; Ecological Monographs 54:429–462) linear R(t) model of harmonic oscillation at Green River New ...
Barry J. Cooke, Jacques Régnière
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Everyday cosmopolitanism in representations of Europe among young Romanians in Britain [PDF]
The paper presents an analysis of everyday cosmopolitanism in constructions of Europe among young Romanian nationals living in Britain. Adopting a social representations approach, cosmopolitanism is understood as a cultural symbolic resource that is part
Billig M +30 more
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Network topology drives population temporal variability in experimental habitat networks
Habitat patches connected by dispersal pathways form habitat networks. We explored how network topology affects population outcomes in laboratory experiments using a model species (Daphnia carinata). Central habitat nodes in complex lattice networks exhibited lower temporal variability in population sizes, suggesting they support more stable ...
Yiwen Xu +3 more
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Despite policies aimed at increasing bicycle use, and the health benefits identified in the literature, cycling mobility is still quite limited in most cities. A cultural transformation is needed to change this situation.
Mauro Sarrica +3 more
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Attitude and Social Representation
AbstractIn this paper, I compare attitudes and social representations and their relations. Social representation theorists have criticized the attitude theorists for their failure to conceptualize the social nature of attitudes. The Person here is considered as isolated one and apart from his social environment.
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Social representations and the politics of participation [PDF]
Recent work has called for the integration of different perspectives into the field of political psychology (Haste, 2012). This chapter suggests that one possible direction that such efforts can take is studying the role that social representations ...
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