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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 ...
A Cross-Cultural Study of Distress during COVID-19 Pandemic: Some Protective and Risk Factors
(MDPI, Basel, 2021)
Previous studies on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health in different countries found an increase in anxiety, stress, and an exacerbation of previous mental health problems. This research investigated some ...
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 ...
PTSD and depressive symptoms are linked to DHEAS via personality
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 2018)
Background Research results on dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate ester (DHEAS) in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are inconsistent. We hypothesized that personality traits could be the confounders of DHEAS levels and ...
Support for collective action against refugees: The role of national, European, and global identifications, and autochthony beliefs
(Wiley, Hoboken, 2019)
To understand recent anti-refugee protests in Europe, we examined how different levels of inclusiveness of group identities (national, European, and global) are related to intentions to protest among native Europeans. We ...
The impact of physical attractiveness judgments on stigma of epilepsy
(Wiley, Hoboken, 2017)
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 ...
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 ...