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Mind over Matter: Target states, not simulus characteristics, determine information processing in minority influence
No full textMajority and minority influence : societal meaning and cognitive elaborationN
Authoritarianism, prejudice and COVID-19: the moderating role of cultural liberalism
Full text linkΗ πανδημία COVID-19 έχει θέσει μια τεράστια πρόκληση σε ιατρικό, οικονομικό και πολιτικό επίπεδο τους τελευταίους μήνες. Η απειλή της ασθένειας, οι περισσότερο ή λιγότερο αυταρχικές βιοπολιτικές των κρατών, η έννοια της κοινωνικής απόστασης, υπαγορεύουν τη διερεύνηση των συνεπειών της πανδημίας σε ιδεολογικό επίπεδο. Χρησιμοποιώντας τα δεδομένα που προέκυψαν από μια έρευνα που διεξήχθη πριν την πανδημία (N = 82) ως σημείο αναφοράς, ο στόχος της παρούσας μελέτης ήταν να ελέγξει εμπειρικά την υπόθεση ότι ο δεξιόστροφος αυταρχισμός (Αυταρχισμός - Συντηρητισμός - Παραδοσιακρατία; ACT; Duckitt et al., 2010) αυξάνεται υπό συνθήκες απειλής (Adorno et al., 1950; Sales, 1973). Παράλληλα, διερευνάται ο πιθανός ρυθμιστικός ρόλος του πολιτισμικού φιλελευθερισμού. Επιπλέον, εξετάζεται η υπόθεση ότι η απειλή προβλέπει την προκατάληψη, όπως μας υποδεικνύουν σχετικά ευρήματα (π.χ. Florack et al., 2003). Πραγματοποιήθηκε συλλογή δεδομένων κατά τις εξής τρεις φάσεις της πανδημίας στην Ελλάδα: τις πρώτες εβδομάδες (N = 85), την απαγόρευση κυκλοφορίας (N = 131) και την άρση των περιοριστικών μέτρων (N = 126). Οι υποθέσεις επιβεβαιώθηκαν: υπήρξε αύξηση του Συντηρητισμού και της Παραδοσιοκρατίας, ιδίως μεταξύ των λιγότερο φιλελεύθερων συμμετεχόντων, ενώ οι φιλελεύθεροι φαίνεται να εκφράζουν μειωμένα επίπεδα δεξιόστροφου αυταρχισμού κατά την άρση των περιοριστικών μέτρων σε σύγκριση με την προ COVID-19 περίοδο. Βρέθηκε, επίσης, μια βαθμιαία έκφραση προκατάληψης, με τον πολιτισμικό φιλελευθερισμό να παίζει έναν περιορισμένο, αλλά και πάλι ρυθμιστικό ρόλο. Συζητούνται οι επιπτώσεις της πανδημίας στο ιδεολογικό επίπεδο.The COVID-19 pandemic has posed an enormous challenge in medical, economic, and political terms during the past months. The threat of disease, the more or less authoritarian biopolitics of the states, the concept of social distancing, dictate the need to examine the consequences of the pandemic on an ideological level. Making use of data collected before the pandemic (N = 82) as a point of reference, the aim of the present study was to test the hypothesis that right-wing authoritarianism (Authoritarianism – Conservatism – Traditionalism; ACT; Duckitt et al., 2010) increases under conditions of threat salience (Adorno et al., 1950; Sales, 1973), while appraising the possible moderating role of cultural liberalism. Furthermore, the hypothesis that threat predicts prejudice (e.g., Florack et al., 2003) was examined. Data were collected during three phases of the pandemic in Greece: the first weeks (N = 85), the lockdown (N = 131) and the lifting of the lockdown measures (N = 126). Results confirmed our hypotheses. An increase was found in Conservatism and Traditionalism, especially among less liberal participants, whereas more liberals appeared to express reduced levels of right-wing authoritarianism during the lifting of lockdown measures compared to the pre-COVID-19 period. A progressive expression of prejudice was also found, with cultural liberalism playing a limited but still moderating role in all three phases. Implications of the pandemic for the ideological level are discussed
ΨΥΧΟΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΟΙ ΚΙΝΔΥΝΟΙ ΕΡΓΑΣΙΑΣ ΣΤΙΣ ΑΣΤΙΚΕΣ ΣΥΓΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΕΣ: ΔΙΕΡΕΥΝΗΤΙΚΗ ΠΡΟΣΕΓΓΙΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΥΠΑΡΧΟΥΣΑΣ ΑΝΤΙΛΗΨΗΣ ΑΠΟ ΑΤΟΜΑ ΕΥΘΥΝΗΣ ΤΩΝ ΟΡΓΑΝΙΣΜΩΝ = WORKPLACE PSYCHOSOCIAL RISKS IN URBAN TRANSPORT: AN EXPLORATORY APPROACH OF THE EXISTING PERCEPTION OF KEY STAKEHOLDERS WITHIN TRANSPORT ORGANIZATIONS
No full textΗ παρούσα ερευνητική εργασία αποτέλεσε μιαν αρχική αποτύπωση της παρούσας κατάστασης σε σχέση με τους ψυχοκοινωνικούς κινδύνους στον επαγγελματικό χώρο των ελληνικών αστικών συγκοινωνιών. Βασικοί στόχοι ήταν η διερεύνηση της αντίληψης των Ψυχοκοινωνικών Κινδύνων Εργασίας (ΨΚΕ) και των πολιτικών διαχείρισής τους εκ μέρους των εμπλεκόμενων ατόμων ευθύνης εντός των οργανισμών που εκτελούν αστικές συγκοινωνίες. Στην έρευνα συμμετείχαν επτά συμμετέχοντες, οι οποίοι επιλέχθηκαν με σκόπιμη δειγματοληψία, λόγω της θέσης/ρόλου ευθύνης που κατείχαν στον οργανισμό τους. Ακολουθήθηκε ποιοτική μέθοδος και τα δεδομένα αναλύθηκαν θεματικά. Στα ευρήματα περιλαμβάνονται οι θεωρούμενοι επικρατέστεροι ΨΚΕ για το επάγγελμα του οδηγού. Επισημαίνεται ταυτοχρόνως ότι για κάποιους από αυτούς τους κινδύνους η εκδήλωση και ο τρόπος επίδρασής τους διαφοροποιούνται ουσιωδώς ανά εργασιακό πλαίσιο. Αναδείχθηκε ειδικότερα το ζήτημα της βίας και παρενόχλησης στην εργασία, το οποίο ερμηνεύεται και ως ξεχωριστός ΨΚΕ και ως αποτέλεσμα των υπαρχόντων ΨΚΕ. Η εργασία συζητά επίσης τη μέχρι τώρα εφαρμογή πρόσφατων νομικών διατάξεων από τους οργανισμούς αστικών συγκοινωνιών σε σχέση με την πρόληψη και αντιμετώπιση των ΨΚΕ.Τhis research project was an initial recording of the present situation in the professional field of Greek urban transport in relation to the workplace psychosocial risk factors. The aim was to investigate the perception of workplace psychosocial risks and the respective management policies by key stakeholders within urban transport organizations. There were seven participants who were selected through purposeful sampling based on their role/position within their organization. A qualitative method was used, and thematic analysis was implemented. The findings include the most prevalent perceived psychosocial risks for drivers. For some of them, their manifestation and impact are differentiated depending on workplace. Workplace violence and harassment were especially highlighted. This was interpreted both as an independent psychosocial risk and as an outcome of other existing psychosocial risks. The paper also discusses the extent to which the recent legal framework on psychosocial risk management has been implemented by the Greek urban transport organizations
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
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