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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Diversity of Value Construal: A Constructivist Approach to the Schwartz Theory of Basic Values
(Taylor & Francis Inc, Philadelphia, 2021)
The Schwartz theory of basic values is the leading model in psychological research. However, few studies qualitatively approach how people make sense of value types. We propose a way to investigate this by focusing on ...
Older People as Digital Newcomers: From Evidence to Intervention Proposal
(Springer, 2020)
The aims of this mixed-method study were to analyze: older adults’ computer proficiency in relation to intelligence, personality traits and attitudes towards computers (Study 1); intention to use online services in relation ...
Beyond General Political Attitudes: Conspiracy Mentality as a Global Belief System Predicts Endorsement of International and Local Conspiracy Theories
(Psychopen, Trier, 2021)
Conspiracy mentality is a general tendency to attribute significant events to the actions of malevolent actors, without referencing to a specific event. In two independent representative surveys of adult Serbian citizens ...
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). ...
Development of Evidence-Based Rehabilitation Practice in Botanical Garden for People With Mental Health Disorders
(Sage Publications Inc, Thousand Oaks, 2021)
Aim: This article aims to make clearer, with supporting evidence, the clinical benefits of the nature-based rehabilitation program (NBRP) and the restorative values of visiting botanical garden for people with stress-related ...
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 ...
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 ...