Category: Social Sciences
Mass opinion shows little ideological structure
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Analysis of six million responses to Belgium’s Voting Advice Application reveals voters lack ideological coherence while elites maintain consistent ideological structures.
Indigenous oral traditions encode ecological knowledge and norms
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Indigenous oral traditions encode ecological governance, environmental ethics, and resource management frameworks that challenge anthropocentric legal paradigms and offer relational approaches to.
School climate and belonging were linked to academic achievement
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Turkish secondary school study examines how school climate, peer relationships, and psychological belonging influence academic achievement through mediation pathways.
Arts-based research may enrich hydrogeology engagement
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Perspective proposing integration of arts-based research methods into hydrogeology to strengthen community engagement and cultural understanding of groundwater challenges.
GPT-4o shows partial understanding of science and GenAI-influenced science
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Study examines GPT-4o’s capacity to represent the nature of science and epistemic dimensions of AI-influenced scientific knowledge production for educational contexts.
Voters use ideological labels to infer candidate policy positions
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Study reveals voters in multiparty systems use left-right ideology labels to infer candidate positions, even when their own ideology misaligns with their policy preferences.
Reddit showed mixed views of the APA Goldwater Rule
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Analysis of Reddit discourse on the Goldwater Rule from 2016-2024 reveals public skepticism about psychiatric ethics guidelines, with 57.77% expressing neutral or negative views on restricting.
Most K-3 teachers used AI, but worried about student use
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Study of 107 K-3 teachers reveals 80% use AI for instructional materials but express concerns about student writing tasks due to developmental readiness and creativity loss.
Swiss COVID-19 discourse framed misinformation differently across media
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Explore how Swiss COVID-19 discourse defines misinformation versus disinformation using NLP analysis. Discover how public narratives reflect societal tensions and information literacy’s role in.
Community practices reduced gender’s role in dividing paid and unpaid work
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Ethnographic study of how institutional practices—uniform pay, shared childcare, gender quotas—reshape gender divisions in paid and unpaid labour at community level.
