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Social Status and Badge Design [PDF]
, 2014 Many websites rely on user-generated content to provide value to consumers. These websites typically incentivize participation by awarding users badges based on their contributions. While these badges typically have no explicit value, they act as symbols
Archak Nikolay +3 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Parents of children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) often experience significant caregiver burden and disruption to their well‐being. While parent quality of life (QoL) during treatment is well characterized, little is known about outcomes during early survivorship.
Sara Dal Pra +3 more
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2015 Steroid hormones are critical regulators of reproductive life history, and the steroid sensitive traits (morphology, behavior, physiology) associated with particular life history stages can have substantial fitness consequences for an organism. Hormones,
Devaleena S Pradhan +4 more
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Two Social Worlds: Social Correlates and Stability of Adolescent Status Groups [PDF]
, 1994 Examined adolescents\u27 peer group status in high school using self-report, peer nominations, and archival data collected during 2 consecutive school yrs. 408 students participated in the 1st yr, and 404 students participated in the 2nd yr.
Davis, Mark H. +2 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purpose Cognitive and psychological difficulties could negatively interfere with treatment adherence and quality of life before and after hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). Methods to mitigate these changes may have positive effects on treatment success.
Kristen L. Votruba +11 more
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Measuring the Fiscal Influence of Higher Education: A Pragmatic Study
International Journal of Social Sciences & Educational StudiesIn today's social and economic environment, higher education has an impact on economic growth and development. This study aims to investigate the key motivational factors influencing individuals’ decisions to pursue higher education and the anticipated ...
Waqar Ahmad
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Status does not predict stress: Women in an egalitarian hunter–gatherer society
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2020 It is widely believed that there is strong association between physiological stress and an individual's social status in their social hierarchy. This has been claimed for all humans cross-culturally, as well as in non-human animals living in social ...
Piotr Fedurek +9 more
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Social Status, Education, and Growth
Journal of Political Economy, 1996 This paper investigates the implications of social rewards on the allocation of talent in society and consequently on the process of economic growth. We consider two sources of heterogeneity among workers: nonwage income and innate ability. A greater emphasis on status may induce the "wrong" individuals, that is, those with low ability and high wealth,
Fershtman, Chaim +2 more
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Social Status and Corruption [PDF]
, 2013 We study the interaction between social and economic incentives in determining the level of corruption. Using social rewards as incentives for civil servants may help to reduce corruption.
Galiani, Sebastian +1 more
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Decoupling social status and status certainty effects on health in macaques: a network approach. [PDF]
, 2016 BackgroundAlthough a wealth of literature points to the importance of social factors on health, a detailed understanding of the complex interplay between social and biological systems is lacking. Social status is one aspect of social life that is made up
Atwill, Edward R +7 more
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