Exploring fear in human-robot interaction: a scoping review of older adults' experiences with social robots. [PDF]
Front Robot AIElsheikh A, Al-Thani D, Othman A.
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Methodological Challenges in Studying Wealthy Families
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Studying the wealthy is not easy. This piece provides suggestions for recruitment, interview strategies, and design to gain high‐quality data on wealthy people. It is based on an interview study of 81 US racially‐diverse families with a median net worth of $25 million. First, to gain access to the wealthy, it is key for the researcher to use a
Annette Lareau
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The uncanny valley effect in embodied conversational agents: a critical systematic review of attractiveness, anthropomorphism, and uncanniness. [PDF]
Front PsycholCihodaru-Ștefanache Ș, Podina IR.
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Cultural and Human Capital Signals in Hiring—A Factorial Survey Experiment Across Contexts
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When evaluating candidates, hiring agents may draw on signals of human as well as cultural capital. While these processes have been considered separately, an open question is how the two types of signals interact. As signals of social class, cultural capital signals relate to human capital as they evoke stereotypes about competence, polish ...
Luisa Burchartz +2 more
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Understanding Consumer Purchase Intention in Virtual Live Streaming: The Moderating Role of Anthropomorphism. [PDF]
Behav Sci (Basel)Ji M.
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Twenty‐First Century Butlers and the New Spirit of Service
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT More than 50 years ago, Lewis Coser argued that the “servant” had become obsolete, claiming that such a “premodern” occupation could not function within modernity without religious legitimations. However, with parts of the contemporary service sector exhibiting the very characteristics that Coser viewed as “premodern”—especially within ...
Bryan Boyle
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Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.Abstract Despite growing public awareness and political attention, the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two‐Spirit People (MMIWG2+) in Canada and the United States remains unresolved. Indigenous families continue to report that the disappearances and deaths of their loved ones are investigated inadequately and without ...
Steff King +2 more
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Lost in the Edit: Reclaiming the Clinical Narrative in the Age of Synthetic Records. [PDF]
CureusLakhan SE.
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Social Exchange and Reciprocal Integration Between Migrants and Locals at Work
Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Workplaces are pivotal “contact zones” where migrants and locals negotiate access to jobs, resources, and recognition, yet HRM research has rarely examined how everyday encounters generate integrated relationships at work. This conceptual paper introduces reciprocal integration as a workplace‐anchored social exchange process: the emergent ...
Minna Paunova, Maribel Blasco
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Neural correlates of the uncanny valley effect for robots and hyper-realistic masks. [PDF]
PLoS OneFitzpatrick S +6 more
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