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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Konstantinos Pelechrinis, Wayne Winston
Summary: This study builds on existing literature and develops a framework to quantify the extent to which success can come in streaks-beyond the stroke of chance-in a natural environment. The analysis provides statistical evidence that individual basketball players do exhibit the hot hand effect to some degree, but as a whole, there is shooting regression.
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Medicine, General & Internal
Hal R. Arkes, Scott K. Aberegg, Kevin A. Arpin
Summary: This survey study of 215 physicians found that physicians consistently underestimated the combined probability of medical outcomes resulting from two independent events. This biased estimation may have significant implications for diagnostic and prognostic decision-making.
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Sociology
Laura K. Nelson
Summary: The debates within the women's liberation movement regarding the cause of women's oppression and the best approach to change it are complex and stable differences in interpretation, more influenced by place than by political moment. Through network analysis, computational text analysis, and qualitative interpretation, the author explores how political logics in different locations contribute to durable differences within movement discourse.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY
(2021)
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Environmental Sciences
Nadia Ameli, Sumit Kothari, Michael Grubb
Summary: Disclosure of climate risk in investments may lead to divestment from high-carbon assets, but mobilizing finance requires more than just transparency. While the financial sector's response to climate change pressures has focused on disclosure, achieving climate goals will also require research and support from public policy.
NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
Debbie Hopkins, Stefan Gossling, Scott Cohen, Paul Hanna, James E. S. Higham
Summary: Despite the growing recognition of the negative impacts of fossil fuel extraction and use, many economic sectors still heavily rely on these fuels. This paper critically examines the concept of 'sustainable aviation' by analyzing the websites and reports of 14 international and regional airlines, revealing how it perpetuates the status quo and prioritizes sectoral growth over radical action and change necessary for a climate-safe and just energy future.
ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE
(2023)
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Business
Adiel Moyal, Stephen M. Garcia
Summary: The present research introduces the seller's status-signaling fallacy: Sellers tend to use status signals to attract buyers, but buyers actually prefer sellers who do not signal status. Across six studies we demonstrate the effect using different operationalizations of status and various products for sale. This work enriches the growing literature on status signals in two ways. First, it shows that sellers mistakenly believe that such signaling is beneficial for them. Second, contrary to accepted wisdom, it shows that such signaling repels buyers. In the gig-economy era, where everyone can become a seller in the marketplace, these findings are highly applicable.
PSYCHOLOGY & MARKETING
(2023)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Prashasti Kumar, Pratul K. Agarwal, Matthew J. Cuneo
Summary: Hydrogen plays a central role in biology, but due to difficulties in precisely determining its location, research on short hydrogen bonds has been controversial. Studies suggest that unique hydrogen bonds play a special role in biology.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Izabela Kazmierczak, Justyna Sarzynska-Wawer, Aleksander Wawer, Malgorzata Chadzynska
Summary: Information on personality development and its linguistic predictors among depressive patients after a critical life event is limited. This study aimed to verify two hypotheses: (1) Depressed individuals tend to use concrete language to describe their recent critical life event and its psychological consequences, and (2) The higher the level of abstract language used, the higher the level of personality development. The results showed that depressed patients preferred using concrete language, and higher levels of language abstractness were associated with higher levels of personality development.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Neurosciences
Karen Meersmans, Gerrit Storms, Simon De Deyne, Rose Bruffaerts, Patrick Dupont, Rik Vandenberghe
Summary: This study used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the effects of attention on the semantic representations of word meaning. The results showed that orienting attention to different dimensions of word meaning influences the neural activity patterns, particularly in peripheral brain regions.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Jinfeng Ding, Panpan Liang, Xinyu Guo, Yufang Yang
Summary: This study investigated the impact of abstract and concrete concepts on reading acquisition and semantic memory. It was found that abstract novel words were more difficult to acquire during contextual reading, while concrete novel words were better remembered in memory tasks. The results suggest that both abstract and concrete novel words can be integrated into semantic memory through thematic relations.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Lv Ying, Ruyang Ye, Chuanbin Ni, Yeqing Wang, Liu Qing, Zhou Yufan, Gao Fei
Summary: This study established the Affective Norms for Chinese Words (ANCW) and provided reliable and standardized stimulus materials for further research involving emotional language processing.
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS
(2023)
Review
Psychology, Educational
Amber H. Beisly
Summary: Approaches to Learning (AtL) is a concept that encompasses children's attitudes, habits, and learning styles in the context of learning. However, previous research on AtL has suffered from inconsistencies in definitions, operationalizations, and measurements. This paper focuses on the inconsistencies in studying AtL in prekindergarten children and identifies the issues of a jingle fallacy and a jangle fallacy. The paper concludes by proposing strategies to reduce the conceptual clutter surrounding AtL.
EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY REVIEW
(2023)
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Gabriele Oettingen, Anton Gollwitzer, Jiin Jung, Irmak Olcaysoy Okten
Summary: This study examines conspiracy beliefs in the context of misplaced certainty, which predicts and results in antisocial outcomes. The introduction of the concept of misplaced certainty to conspiracy theories research helps identify when and why conspiracy theories lead to deleterious behavioral outcomes.
CURRENT OPINION IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Elif Altin, Nurdem Okur, Esra Yalcin, Asude Firdevs Eracikbas, Asli Aktan-Erciyes
Summary: This study investigates the relationship between L2-English proficiency and L1-Turkish lexical property evaluations. The results show that L2 proficiency affects the lexical properties of Turkish words, particularly in terms of imageability ratings for low-frequency words and later acquired words.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Yanli Song, Xin Chen, Shanshui Zhou, Tao Du, Feng Xie, Haifeng Guo
Summary: The study used exergy analysis method to analyze the interaction between ground source heat pump and passive double effect tower model, proposing the concept of time misplaced exergy to accurately describe energy utilization of heat storage and release equipment at different times. Experimental data showed that time misplaced exergy can evaluate system energy more accurately compared to traditional exergy analysis, providing guidance for analyzing energy utilization and energy saving potential of systems with heat storage and release at different times.
