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Civic activism online: Making young people dormant or more active in real life?
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 2017)
Citizens can be active in their community through a diverse set of actions in real life or on online platforms. Since the emergence of the Internet, there has been continual debate about the impact of online activism on ...
Perceived social support as a moderator between negative life events and depression in adolescence: implications for prediction and targeted prevention
(Springer International Publishing Ag, Cham, 2017)
Aim and background The role of the perceived social support in prevention of depression in adolescence still remains an insufficiently explored problem. By integrating the results of the previous studies of moderator role ...
The role of inter-ethnic online friendships in prejudice reduction in post-conflict societies: Evidence from Serbia, Croatia and Cyprus
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 2017)
Direct contact between members of ethnic groups is proven to reduce intergroup prejudice. Recent research, however, explores the effects of alternative types of contact, amongst them via social networks in virtual space. ...
Disintegration: A reconceptualization of psychosis proneness as a personality trait separate from the Big Five
(Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, San Diego, 2017)
A nine-facet hierarchical taxonomy of "Disintegration", a trait-like disposition that causes variations in psychotic-like behavior, is proposed, along with the scales to assess it. Strong correlations were demonstrated in ...
Comparing the temporal dynamics of thematic and taxonomic processing using event-related potentials
(Public Library Science, San Francisco, 2017)
We report the results of a study comparing the temporal dynamics of thematic and taxonomic knowledge activation in a picture-word priming paradigm using event-related potentials. Although we found no behavioral differences ...
To call a cloud 'cirrus': sound symbolism in names for categories or items
(PEERJ Inc, London, 2017)
The aim of the present paper is to experimentally test whether sound symbolism has selective effects on labels with different ranges-of-reference within a simple noun-hierarchy. In two experiments, adult participants learned ...
The Mentalization Scale (MentS): A Self-Report Measure for the Assessment of Mentalizing Capacity
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Abingdon, 2018)
The psychometric properties of a new 28-item self-report measure of mentalization, the Mentalization Scale (MentS), were examined in 2 studies: with a sample of employed adults and university students (N-1 = 288 + 278) and ...
Cognitive advantages of immersion education after 1 year: Effects of amount of exposure
(Elsevier Science Inc, New York, 2017)
Previous studies with bilingual children have shown that the nature of their second-language instruction has an effect on the development of their cognitive abilities. The aim of this study was to determine whether children ...
The presence of chronic pain in patients with major depressive disorder and its inter-correlation
(Elsevier France-Editions Scientifiques Medicales Elsevier, Issy-Les-Moulineaux, 2016)