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Stereotypes of Age Differences in Personality Traits: Universal and Accurate?
(Amer Psychological Assoc, Washington, 2012)
Age trajectories for personality traits are known to be similar across cultures. To address whether stereotypes of age groups reflect these age-related changes in personality, we asked participants in 26 countries (N = ...
Impacts of COVID-19 and social isolation on academic staff and students at universities: a cross-sectional study
(BMC, London, 2021)
Background "The impacts of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the shutdown it triggered at universities across the world, led to a great degree of social isolation among university staff and students. The ...
The general fault in our fault lines
(Nature Research, Berlin, 2021)
Ruggeri et al. tested perceptions of opposing political party members in 10,207 participants from 26 countries. Results show that beliefs about others are overly negative but could be more realistic with transparency about ...
Experts' Perception of the Key Drivers of Land-Use/Land-Cover Changes in Serbia from 1990 to 2012
(MDPI, Basel, 2021)
Negative trends in land use and land cover changes (LULCCs) are embodied in environmental, economic and social problems, keeping entire societies away from sustainable development goals (SDGs). This recognition incites a ...
Tell me what you are like and I will tell you what you believe in: Social representations of COVID-19 in the Americas, Europe and Asia
(ISCTE, 2020)
This study analyzes the range and content of Social Representations (SRs) about the COVID-19 pandemic in 21 geographical zones from 17 countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia (N = 4430). Based on Social Representations ...
We probably sense sense probabilities
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Abingdon, 2021)
In this paper, we demonstrate the effects of Information Theory measures on the processing of polysemous nouns and reveal that the sensitivity to multiple related senses can be learned from the linguistic context. We ...
Conceptual relation preference: A matter of strategy or one of salience?
(Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2020)
In order to determine whether preference in object matching tasks measures participants' strategy or tells us something about the salience of relations between corresponding concepts, we conducted three experiments. In ...
How do teachers perceive their cultural intelligence?
(Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam, 2011)
The first-year students' attitudes related to teaching are necessary teleological landmarks for choosing this career. This study has two. The main objectives of this study were to determine the level of cultural intelligence ...
Towards measuring teachers' general pedagogical knowledge - A mixed method investigation of a pilot test
(Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2020)
This paper aims to investigate a test instrument measuring teachers' general pedagogical knowledge. Pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, and teacher educators from Estonia participated in a pilot study (N = 393). ...