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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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Distance Learning Effects Among Italian Children and Parents During COVID-19 Related School Lockdown

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2021
Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, both children and their parents experienced consequences related to distance learning (DL). However, positive and negative effects have varied greatly among families, and the specific factors explaining these ...
Giulia Crisci   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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

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
core   +1 more source

Social games in a social network [PDF]

open access: yesPhysical Review E, 2001
We study an evolutionary version of the Prisoner's Dilemma game, played by agents placed in a small-world network. Agents are able to change their strategy, imitating that of the most successful neighbor. We observe that different topologies, ranging from regular lattices to random graphs, produce a variety of emergent behaviors. This is a contribution
Abramson, Guillermo, Kuperman, Marcelo
openaire   +3 more sources

How Does It Feel to Be Online? Psychotherapists’ Self-Perceptions in Telepsychotherapy Sessions During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Aims: The COVID-19 pandemic and consequent extreme restrictions imposed by governments across the world forced psychotherapists to abruptly change their working modality. The first aim of the current study was to assess psychotherapists’ self-perceptions
Elisa Mancinelli   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Value stability and change during self-chosen life transitions: Self-selection versus socialization effects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Copyright @ 2013 APA. This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record.Three longitudinal studies examine a fundamental question regarding adjustment of personal values to self-chosen ...
Bardi, A   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

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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