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Washing your hands reduced your guilt: Evidence with an implicit semantic task
No full textQuesto studio verte sulla relazione tra pulizia fisica e morale (“Effetto Macbeth”). I partecipanti dovevano lavare le mani o manipolare un cubo, leggere un brano riguardante una situazione immorale/neutra e infine valutare l’associazione semantica tra coppie di parole. Le coppie contenevano un termine relativo alla morale e uno alla pulizia (es. colpa – sapone), un termine relativo a morale/pulizia e uno generico, o altri termini di controllo. I risultati mostrano che nel compito di associazione i TR erano più veloci nella condizione manipolazione dopo la storia morale, mentre nella condizione “pulizia” non c’erano differenze tra tipi di storia. Il lavaggio delle mani potrebbe dunque aver reso la storia immorale “neutra” come quella di controllo.This study explores the relationship between physical and moral cleanliness («Macbeth Effect»). Participants had to wash their hands or to manipulate a cube, then to read a story about an immoral or a neutral situation and at last to evaluate the semantic association between pairs of words. The pairs either included a term related to morality and one to cleanliness (e.g. guilt-soap), or a term related to morality/cleanliness and a general one, or other control terms. In the manipulation condition RTs were faster with the immoral story, while in the washing condition there was no difference between the two kinds of story. Therefore, the act of physical washing had likely rendered the immoral story «neutral» similarly to the control story
The TECo Database: Insights on The Semantic Organization of The Ecological Domain.
No full textContrasting the climate change emergency represents one of
the major challenges of modern times. Knowing how people
represent ecology-related phenomena is crucial to inform
interventions aimed at promoting more effective proenvironmental
behaviors. Despite this, literature on the topic is
still scarce. To fill this gap, we asked 340 participants to rate
200 concepts—among which Ecological (N = 50, e.g.,
deforestation)—on numerous semantic dimensions (N = 39),
drawing insights from the literature on conceptual
organization. A Principal Component Analysis on our dataset
revealed the presence of three major components explaining
overall the variability of our set of concepts. Interestingly,
Ecological concepts had a major role in all of them. Indeed,
when compared to other conceptual categories—both related
(i.e., Natural—e.g., water—and Geographical/Geopolitical—
e.g., ocean, city) and not related (i.e., Technological—e.g.,
Internet) to the green domain—they figured among the most
abstract (Component 1), impacting our political, social, and
personal spheres (Component 2), scientific, emotionally
charged, and evoking sensorimotor experiences (Component 3)
concepts. Overall, our study has a threefold relevance. On a
theoretical side, it can contribute to enriching theories on
concepts by investigating a new semantic domain that
jeopardizes the concrete-abstract dichotomy; on a scientific
side, it might broaden categorization research by providing
semantic norms for new conceptual domains (the TECo
Database); on a societal side, it can enhance politics on these
timely themes
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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