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Una misura della tendenza a sperimentare disgusto: costruzione e validazione del Disgust Propensity Questionnaire
No full textThe relationship between trait guilt, disgust propensity, and contamination fear
No full textBoth increased disgust propensity and trait guilt have demonstrated associations with OCD symptoms. Disgust propensity and guilt cognitions both can include moral components of their negative evaluations. In particular, when the offending stimulus is the self, individuals may evaluate themselves as committing an error, resulting in feelings of guilt and disgust. While relations between disgust and guilt have independently been examined in relation to OCD symptoms, the present study examines disgust propensity as a mediator between trait guilt and contamination-related OCD symptoms in a community sample (N = 480). Results supported hypotheses, demonstrating correlations between both trait guilt and disgust propensity with contamination fears. Additionally, disgust propensity is supported as a partial mediator between trait guilt and contamination fears. Clinical implications of findings and suggestions for future research are presented
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
Contamination fear in OCD: the relation between guilt and disgust sensitivity
No full textIntroduction:Research has demonstrated the role of disgust
sensitivity in contamination-related OCD, particularly in patients
who are not afraid of specific threatening consequences which
might follow becoming contaminated. The relation between the
fear of guilt and obsessive-compulsive symptoms has also been
supported: many patients are afraid of being responsible for
harming themselves or someone else because of their own
carelessness or negligence. It remains unclear whether these two
pathways that lead to the genesis of OCD are independent or not.
Our hypothesis is that disgust sensitivity is strongly related to guilt
and that the preservation of a self-image of moral integrity may
be underlying all forms of OCD. When OCD sufferers do have
experiences that threaten this self-image, even if only imaginative,
they feel extremely guilty, mentally contaminated and disgusted
by themselves. The sense of moral dirt manifests itself with an
increase in disgust sensitivity that triggers the onset of a
consequent contamination fear.
Method:More than 450 non-clinical subjects were asked to
complete a battery of self-report questionnaires (Guilt Inventory,
Disgust Scale Revised, Contamination subscale of Vancouver
Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory, Beck Depression Inventory-II).
Structural equation modelling assessed the relationships among
disgust sensitivity, guilt and contamination fears, controlling for
depression.
results:Even if preliminary results are still not available, we
expect that guilt (moral dirt), disgust sensitivity and contamination
fear will be strongly related, even when controlling for depressive
symptoms. Otherwise, we expect that the model will support our
hypothesis that disgust sensitivity has a mediating role between
guilt, loss of a self-image of moral integrity and contamination
fear.
Discussion and Conclusion: The findings will be discussed in
comparison to previous studies about the role of guilt and disgust
sensitivity in contamination-related OCD and its implications in
clinical setting
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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