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Infant emotional expressions perceived by adults
No full textThis exploratory study investigates the meaning that adults attribute to the facial expressions of neonates and young infants using different types of scales, and tries to assess whether adult judgments get more precise as the infants get older. We videotaped longitudinally six infants' facial expressions in 5 everyday life situations at 3 days, 1 month, and 3 months old. Untrained adult decoders had to assess the activation and pleasure/displeasure levels signaled by the isolated videotaped facial expressions, recognize the stimulus situations, and attribute a verbal label to each expression. Our results showed that inter-decoder agreement was higher when the babies' facial expressions were considered as signals of activation or of plea-sure/displeasure, and decreased significantly when the expressions had to be interpreted as signals of specific situations or when a verbal label had to be ascribed. The specificity and the accuracy of the answers, and inter-decoder agreement, were higher for the older infants
La percezione delle espressioni facciali di neonati e lattanti: Le madri sono “giudici” esperti?
No full textThis study was aimed to analyze the meaning that mothers with recent vs. past experience of infants attribute to neonates’ and infants’ facial expressions. Six infants’ facial expressions were videotaped at 3 days, 1 and 3 months, in five different eliciting situations. One hundred and thirty-two mothers (66 mothers with children under 3 vs. 66 mothers with children over 12) were asked to judge the videotaped facial expressions in relation to the activation and pleasure/displeasure dimensions, the recognition of the eliciting situations, and the attribution of a verbal label to each expression. Results indicate that neonates’ and young infants’ facial expressions were more easily interpreted as signals of activation and pleasure/displeasure, rather than as signals of specific emotional states and/or specific eliciting situations. The frequency of correct recognitions of the eliciting situations by the mothers with recent experience of infants was significantly higher than that by the other mothers, but only for the expressions videotaped at 3 months
Development and validation of the perception of housing quality scale (PHQS)
No full textIn this study, we aimed to develop and validate the Perception of Housing Quality Scale (PHQS), a multi-item, multi-factorial measure of perceived housing quality focused on peoples homes as the unit of analysis and based on individuals perceptions of how much the physical aspects of their home environments fulfill their daily needs. The instrument was developed by a multidisciplinary team comprising psychologists and architects for the identification of the main factors describing the perceived quality of the physical features of home environments. Confirmatory factor analysis performed on the data, collected from a quota sample comprising 285 Italian adults aged between 25 and 65 (women = 52.3%, Mage = 42.81, SD = 12.73), confirmed the hypothesis that two correlated factors define perceived housing quality: "Indoor environment and architectural design" and "Outdoor stressors." These factors revealed the expected correlations with home ownership and the discrepancy between the actual and the ideal home. The implications of this scale in housing research are discussed
Comparison of reinforced concrete beams strengthened with FRP pre-cured laminate systems and tested under flexural loading
No full textLa percezione delle espressioni facciali di neonati e lattanti: Le madri sono “giudici” esperti?
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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
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