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Phenomenology and Interpretations of Sleep Paralysis with an Aotearoa New Zealand Sample: Cultural Nuances and Clinical Implications

Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 21, Issue 2, June 2026.
Isolated sleep paralysis (ISP) is a temporary state of immobility that occurs during the transition between wakefulness and sleep. Although described as hallucinations within biomedical discourse, frightening multisensory perceptions can often accompany muscle atonia, giving rise to numerous cultural, spiritual, and supernatural explanatory models ...
Francesca Sullivan, Nicole Lindsay
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ExpressionBot: An Emotive Lifelike Robotic Face for Face-to-Face Communication

, 2014
This article proposes an emotive lifelike robotic face, called ExpressionBot, that is designed to support verbal and non-verbal communication between the robot and humans, with the goal of closely modeling the dynamics of natural face-to-face ...
Borts, Eric, Cole, Ronald, Conyers, Stephen, Graitzer, Gabriel, Mahoor, Mohammad H., Mollahosseini, Ali, Voyles, Richard M.   +6 more
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The Uncanny Valley Effect

, 2015
The Uncanny Valley Effect (UVE) first emerged as a warning against making industrial robots appear so highly human-like that they could unsettle the real humans around them. It proposed a specific pattern of negative emotional responses to entities that were almost but not quite human, and has been proposed as the reason why some entities such as dolls,
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Toward a Robotic Future: Generational Shifts in the Acceptance of Social Robots on Brazilian Coffee Farms

Expert Systems, Volume 43, Issue 6, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The selective migration of young people to urban centres has resulted in an ageing workforce within the Brazilian coffee sector, creating a growing demand for solutions that aid producers in crop management routines. Coffee production, the fourth largest in terms of gross national agricultural revenue, can benefit from technological support ...
Danilo Fernandes da Silva, Luiza Campbell Rocha, Gustavo José Giardini Lahr, Luiz H. A. Correia, André Pimenta Freire, André de Lima Salgado   +5 more
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Changing the view:towards the theory of visualisation comprehension [PDF]

, 2009
The core problem of the evaluation of information visualisation is that the end product of visualisation - the comprehension of the information from the data - is difficult to measure objectively.
Bown, James L., Scott-Brown, Kenneth C., Shovman, Mark, Szymkowiak, Andrea   +3 more
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From Shares to Social Ties: Social Media Self‐Disclosure, Self‐Presentation, and Social Benefits in a Collectivistic Cultural Setting

Personal Relationships, Volume 33, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Drawing on Uses and Gratifications Theory, this study investigates the link between social media self‐disclosure and self‐presentation and perceived interpersonal benefits. Whereas self‐disclosure involves communicating personal facts, self‐presentation describes selectively using self‐enhancing information to influence others' impressions. We
Carmen Șurariu, Katherine B. Carnelley, Claire M. Hart   +2 more
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The Affect, Context, and Target (ACT) Framework: A systematic and narrative review of emotions and collective action across democratic‐authoritarian regimes and tight‐loose cultures

Political Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 3, June 2026.
Abstract Drawing on research from the past 30 years, this systematic and narrative review introduces the Affect, Context, and Target (ACT) Framework and synthesizes findings on how emotions shape collective action across different cultural and political contexts. Specifically, it examines the cultures and regimes studied, the types of emotions involved,
Özden Melis Uluğ, Nevin Solak, Yasemin Gülsüm Acar, Maria Chayinska, Emma F. Thomas, Nicole Tausch   +5 more
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From robot to android to humanoid: Does self-referencing influence uncanny valley perceptions of mechanic or anthropomorphic face morphs?

Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans
To examine how the self-referencing effect influences uncanny valley perceptions, this study (N = 188) employed an 11-level mechanic-to-human face morph continuum (ranging from 0% to 100% human-likeness in 10% increments) by 2 (self-face vs.
William D. Weisman, Jorge Peña
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Avoiding the uncanny valley : robot appearance, personality and consistency of behavior in an attention-seeking home scenario for a robot companion [PDF]

, 2008
“The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com”. Copyright Springer. DOI: 10.1007/s10514-007-9058-3This article presents the results of video-based Human Robot Interaction (HRI) trials which investigated people’s perceptions of different ...
A. J. Gill, B. R. Duffy, B. Reeves, C. I. Nass, C. L. Breazeal, C. Nass, D. C. Dryer, D. L. Gillespie, D. Lambert, Dag S. Syrdal, E. T. Hall, E. T. Hall, G. Ball, H. Davis, H. Ishiguro, H. Luczak, J.K. Burgoon, K. Deaux, K. MacDorman, K. Severinson-Eklundh, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Kheng Lee Koay, L. A. Zebrowitz, L. Albright, L. Gong, L. O. Stratton, L. R. Goldberg, M. Mori, Michael L. Walters, P. Borkenau, P. J. Asquith, P. J. Hinds, René te Boekhorst, S. N. Woods, T. Fong, T. Kanda, T. Kanda   +36 more
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Consumer Acceptance of Conversational Bots: Systematic Literature Review and Meta‐Analysis

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Volume 25, Issue 3, Page 1488-1520, May 2026.
ABSTRACT As consumers increasingly rely on conversational bots for daily tasks, evidence surrounding motivations for acceptance remains scattered. A systematic literature review (SLR) was conducted on 64 journal articles published between 2008 and 2024, of which 48 provided sufficient quantitative data for inclusion in a meta‐analysis.
Omar H. Fares, Seung Hwan (Mark) Lee
wiley   +1 more source