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Social brain, social dysfunction and social withdrawal [PDF]

open access: yesNeuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2019
The human social brain is complex. Current knowledge fails to define the neurobiological processes underlying social behaviour involving the (patho-) physiological mechanisms that link system-level phenomena to the multiple hierarchies of brain function.
Porcelli, Stefano   +19 more
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Nudging freelance professionals to increase their retirement pension fund contributions

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2021
People do not save enough for retirement and this can have serious repercussions on their well-being. We tested an intervention in a large field study (N = 20,507) with the goal of nudging a population of freelance workers to save more for the future ...
Enrico Rubaltelli, Lorella Lotto
doaj   +1 more source

To vaccinate or not to vaccinate? The interplay between pro- and against- vaccination reasons

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2023
Background By mid 2023, European countries reached 75% of vaccine coverage for COVID-19 and although vaccination rates are quite high, many people are still hesitant.
Marta Caserotti   +6 more
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Combined Unplugged and Educational Robotics Training to Promote Computational Thinking and Cognitive Abilities in Preschoolers

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2023
Computational thinking (CT) learning activities are increasingly integrated in early-stage school curricula in several countries. Tools used to teach CT in early school years include unplugged coding—i.e., programming without computing devices—and ...
Chiara Montuori   +5 more
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Analyzing Qualitative Changes in Metalinguistic Processing in Typically Developing 5- to 7-Year-Old Children

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2023
This study was based on an analysis of some of the qualitative aspects underlying the findings of previous research into the metalinguistic abilities in 160 Italian-speaking, typically developing children aged from 5 to 7 years.
Sergio Melogno   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

MoodBar: Increasing new user retention in Wikipedia through lightweight socialization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Socialization in online communities allows existing members to welcome and recruit newcomers, introduce them to community norms and practices, and sustain their early participation.
Beschastnikh I.   +5 more
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Direct and Indirect Pathways of Variation in Length of Exposure to the Majority Language, Cognitive and Language Skills in Preschoolers’ Listening Narrative Comprehension

open access: yesChildren, 2021
Listening narrative comprehension, according to the theoretical framework of the multicomponent model for comprehension, involves numerous skills that interact dynamically between each other and have the potential to give rise to individual differences ...
Raffaele Dicataldo, Maja Roch
doaj   +1 more source

Social transgressions, social perspectives, and social emotionality

open access: yesMotivation and Emotion, 1981
This paper reports two studies on the interrelations involving social transgressions, the perspectives from which the actor who commits such a transgression is evaluated, and the extent and quality of the emotionality experienced by the actor. The first experiment examined subjects' perceptions of vignettes depicting transgressions that were either low
Manstead, A.S.R., Semin, G.R.
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Parental socialization of emotion : how mothers respond to their children's emotions in Turkey [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Several research studies suggest a link between parents’ emotion socialization and children’s social competence and behavior problems. Parents contribute to their children’s emotion socialization, more directly, through responses to their children’s ...
Ersay, Ebru
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Improving the Ability to Write Persuasive Texts in a Boy with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Outcomes of an Intervention

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2020
In this paper, we describe an intervention implemented to assist a 13.2-year-old boy with Autism Spectrum Disorder, G, without intellectual disability, aimed at improving his ability to compose persuasive texts. There was an initial assessment (baseline),
Sergio Melogno   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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