Category: Social Sciences

Employment and hours relate differently to happiness by gender and cohort
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Longitudinal panel analysis of employment status and working hours effects on married individuals’ subjective well-being in Taiwan, revealing gendered and cohort-specific associations with happiness.

Transformer method measures inter-party communication
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Transformer-based approach for automated measurement of inter-party communication in representative democracies, with applications to coalition signals and negative campaigning analysis.

Congressional budget hearings used four politeness strategies
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Examine how Philippine congressional budget hearings use politeness strategies to balance authority, accountability, and institutional hierarchy in legislative proceedings.

Negara kesatuan is framed as rooted in folk religious sensibility
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Analysis of negara kesatuan as a unitary state concept grounded in Indonesian folk religious theology rather than Western political theory, centered on the mystical metaphor of divine-human unity.

Contextual heuristics are linked to cognitive bias in online emergencies
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Structural examination of how situational heuristics shape cognitive biases in online emergencies through adaptive expectations and implicit attributions, with demographic variation analysis.

Separate physics and chemistry marks may improve admissions decisions
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Study examines benefits of reporting Physics and Chemistry separately on South African Grade 12 certificates, using ten-year longitudinal data to show improved student placement and targeted.

Kahuzi-Biega conservation conflicts with Indigenous land rights
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Explore how indigenous Pygmy land rights and biodiversity conservation can coexist in Kahuzi-Biega National Park through participatory governance and formal co-management frameworks in eastern DR.

E-court reform outcomes varied by institutional and technological context
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Comparative study of e-court reforms in Italy and Indonesia examining how judicial digitalization affects access to justice, procedural transparency, and efficiency across different institutional.

Sovereignty violations can trigger emotional multilateral responses
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Analysis of sovereignty violations as dignity denials, examining performative emotionality in multilateral responses to state-led kidnappings through Argentine and Japanese case studies.

Ordinary Germans adopted democratic habits without full democratic meaning
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Examines how ordinary Germans engaged with democratization during Allied occupation, revealing democracy functioned as performative rituals before becoming authentic political consciousness.










