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Experiencing Digital Nature: A VR-Based Intervention to Improve Waste Minimization Behavior in Indonesia
No full textAs civilization progresses, humans disconnect from nature, commodify them, and thus result in numerous environmental issues (i.e., climate change). These environmental issues are complex and diverse, making regionally tailored solutions crucial. As a growing economic powerhouse in the developing Global South, the Indonesian population detaches from nature and faces a severe waste issue with insufficient waste management systems. Minimizing waste is a pressing behavior change goal in Indonesia. Studies found that nature-based intervention is one way to improve nature connectedness which associates with pro-environmental behaviors. However, real nature is getting more scarce and accessing virtual nature can be an alternative. Most past studies were conducted in the Global North and often used only self-report measurements. This study proposes to fill the knowledge gap by investigating the effectiveness of VR-based nature intervention on waste minimization behaviors in Indonesia, through nature connectedness pathways
Kelvin Smith Library Roman Coin Collection RTI #1-26
No full textReflectance transformation imaging data from the Kelvin Smith Library's collection of Roman Coin
Pointing over gaze: how saliency, proximity, and context shape Spatial attention to embodied cues
No full textRecent work suggests that the pointing hand on an outstretched arm is possibly a more powerful cue than the gaze-cue, suggesting these social cues are not equal. The aim of this study is to investigate differences between gaze- and pointing-cue, looking specifically at saliency, spatial proximity, and trial context
From distrust and stress to conspiracy beliefs
No full textCOVID-19 created a fertile ground for the expansion of conspiracy beliefs (CB), with a substantial body of evidence (Cippoleta & Ortu, 2021; Filip et al., 2022; Šrol et al., 2021) illustrating how the individual hardships, such as feelings of vulnerability, powerlessness, and reduced personal control, may play a pivotal role in the endorsement of these beliefs. After a brief period of relative stability and social adjustment, Europe faced another wave of profound disruption. The war in Ukraine proved to be particularly prominent, vivid and present in the public atmosphere of the Czech Republic. From the outset, it raised doubts, uncertainty, fear, and the spectre of global conflict in the minds of many citizens. We take advantage of this natural experiment and conduct semi-structured interviews with people who believe in conspiracy theories in the context of the current war. This situation will allow us to capture how they currently experience the situation and how they understand the war in a broader (conspiratorial) sense.
Personal construct theory (PCT) was used to investigate these questions. PCT looks at people through their essential need to understand the world and actively make sense of the events around them. We assume that war events disrupt the meaningful view of one`s life and can be so threatening to the individual (through the potential to complete disruption of the personal construct system) that he chooses to deny them and tries to maintain the status quo (= hostility; term in PCT; a strategy that prevents the construct system from invalidation). Conspiracy beliefs may thus be viewed as a result of the effort to maintain a meaningful view of one`s life (i.e., a structure of personal constructs) through the hostile extortion of its validity, e.g. COVID is not a threatening virus that can profoundly change the way of my life or the war in Ukraine is not a war where people die and suffer. This perspective refers to the individual level of our study, in which we want to investigate how people explain the cause of the war in Ukraine, how they understand the current situation (and how they deal with counter-information to their understanding) and how they cope with the feeling of threat or the possible outbreak of war.
Moreover, the effort to maintain personal meaning in a hostile way also includes the social dimension of conspiracy beliefs. Insisting on a particular construction of events can make one vulnerable to disruption when one encounters differing construction, potentially increasing one's hostility. When various individuals or groups are disturbed by each other and mutual hostility escalates, they engage in relationships characterized by decreasing sociality (an inability to construe another person's construction processes) (Kovář et al., 2023). This dynamic process of mutual hostile construing forms a group pattern of maladaptive sociality associated with conflict, mistrust and polarization. This appears to be an important aspect in the development of CB, given the research findings that conspiracy believers tend to form an in-group community and define themselves against other groups (a particular source of information, institutions or even wider society) (Franks et al., 2017; Harambam & Aupers, 2016), which may increase their sense of detachment from society and entrenchment in their views.
We investigate this social level of CB in our study, specifically we focus on how people perceive their own identity/in-group identity and how they perceive their out-group: 1) how they construct them (content of personal construct) and to what extent they are able to understand their perspective and their needs (sociality); 2) to what extent they are able to perceive them in a complex and differentiated way (complexity of construction); 3) to what extent the polarization between in-group and out-group is accentuated (polarization)
Predicting symptom clusters of post-traumatic stress disorder among combatants of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces
No full textmilitary personnel, combat stress, trauma exposure, psychiatric rehabilitation, psychodiagnostics, assessment, predictive modelling
A register approach to negative concord versus negative polarity items in English
No full textNegative concord (NC) is used in many non-standard English varieties but usually considered ungrammatical in standard contemporary English, where negative polarity items (NPIs) are used. In this paper, we take a novel experimental approach to the use of NC vs. NPI constructions, in relation to register, i.e., intra-individual variation based on situational and functional parameters. We report two rating experiments with American and British English participants using interlocutor relations as a formality manipulation. Results show that across both samples, NC constructions were rated less appropriate than NPI associates, with a register effect in the American English data in
that NC was rated less appropriate in formal than informal contexts. Our study is the first which provides experimental evidence for the register-sensitivity of NC constructions in American English
Emotional and Social Dimensions of Abstract concepts meet with interoception in Right Anterior Insula
No full textData, stimuli and analysis scripts associated to the paper "Emotional and Social Dimension of Abstract Concepts Meet with Interoception in Right Anterior Insula" (https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0238-25.2025
Demotivated but Still Attentive: Text Disfluency Does Not Affect Mind-Wandering and Reading Comprehension, but Reduces Motivation
No full textThis project aims to investigate the relationship between perceptual disfluency and mind wandering during reading