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The Uncanniness of Form

open access: yesEdda, 2017
This article is concerned with Carl Jonas Love Almqvist’s Amorina from 1839 and aims to exemplify how its formal organization relates to the Freudian uncanny.
Boris Lazic
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The uncanny valley effect in typically developing children and its absence in children with autism spectrum disorders. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
Robots and virtual reality are gaining popularity in the intervention of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). To shed light on children's attitudes towards robots and characters in virtual reality, this study aims to examine whether children ...
Shuyuan Feng   +6 more
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Stabilising Repair in Psychological Science

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Psychological science has responded to the WEIRD critique through a broad agenda of inclusion, expanding the diversity of research participants, international collaborations and systems of scholarly recognition. While these reforms have generated important gains, concerns about epistemic inequality persist.
Kevin Durrheim
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Analysing Effects of Birth Order on Intelligence, Educational Attainment, Big Five, and Risk Aversion in an Indonesian Sample

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract Few studies have examined birth order effects on personality in countries that are not Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD). However, theories have generally suggested that interculturally universal family dynamics are the mechanism behind birth order effects, and prominent theories such as resource dilution would ...
Laura J. Botzet   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Graph Neural Network‐Based Prediction of Building Energy Consumption

open access: yesEnergy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
A graph neural network that encodes a multi‐zone building as a graph accurately predicts hourly cooling and heating loads across three distinct climates, outperforming Random Forest and XGBoost baselines and serving as a fast surrogate to EnergyPlus simulations for scalable building energy management.
Ali Maboudi Reveshti   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Keeping their powder dry: Purity, pollution, and handgun ownership among Jewish women in Israel

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the gendered practices through which Jewish women in Israel experience and negotiate personal handgun ownership in everyday life. Drawing on interviews, participant observation in gun‐related spaces, and analysis of women‐only online forums, we explore the expanding participation of Jewish women in civilian gun ownership,
Maya Maor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Silent Halls

open access: yesPress Start, 2019
“What is a ghost?” “An emotion, a terrible moment condemned to repeat itself over and over…” -The Devil’s Backbone (Del Toro, 2001) This paper analyses P.T.(Kojima Productions, 2014), a playable teaser made to demo a planned instalment within the ...
Anna Maria Kalinowski
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Walking in the Uncanny Valley: Importance of the Attractiveness on the Acceptance of a Robot as a Working Partner

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
The Uncanny valley theory, which tells us that almost-human characteristics in a robot or a device could cause uneasiness in human observers, is an important research theme in the Human Robot Interaction (HRI) field.
Matthieu eDestephe   +6 more
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Partnerships for Social Cohesion and Social Impact: How Corporate‐Community Co‐Development Constitutes an Impactful HR Initiative

open access: yesHuman Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Organizational scholars have begun to recognize the importance of social cohesion, but we know little about how it can lead to broader social impact, and even less about the role of human resource management (HRM) in these processes. To investigate this link, we examined corporate community co‐development as a particularly impactful HRM ...
Cristina B. Gibson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perceptions and experiences of midwives' regarding the use of the labor care guide at two state hospitals in Khomas region, Namibia

open access: yesInternational Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract The labor care guide (LCG) is a new tool for monitoring labor, introduced to replace the partograph, which had been used improperly and inconsistently across various contexts. Early research suggests that healthcare practitioners view the LCG as a tool that enhances the quality of care during labor and delivery.
Amalia N. N. Ilonga   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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