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Bar plots depicting the relationship between all variables manipulated and controlled for in the study and the frequency of sellers’ honest/dishonest behavior. Credit: PLOS ONE (2024). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0296746 The limited number of shoppers during the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to the unfavorable behavior of sellers toward buyers. The fewer shoppers in the shop, the more likely the sellers were to keep their change,…

(a and b) Predicted probabilities of explanations of the cause mental health by views of science-religion and race-ethnicity. Credit: Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World (2024). DOI: 10.1177/23780231231225543 Beliefs about the relationship between religion and science may be a key factor in people's views on mental health conditions like anxiety and depression, especially in minority racial communities, according…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A study published in the International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management has provided new insights into the influence of cultural values and ethnic identity on consumer attitudes towards global brands in India. Harsandaldeep Kaur and Pranay Moktan of the University School of Financial Studies at Guru Nanak Dev University in Amritsar, Punjab, hoped to fill the gaps in our…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Young men are more likely than older men to think that feminism has done more harm than good, according to a new survey, suggesting a backward step in attitudes to gender equality. Young women aged 16-29 are also slightly more likely than women aged 30–59 to say that feminism has done more harm than good. The survey,…

Arkadii Nepytaliuk grew up in a small village in Ukraine’s Khmelnytskyi region under the control of the Soviet Union. “As a child, I did not know about the existence of LGBT people at all. I learned about them in Kyiv when I was studying … and they scared me a lot. I was scared to imagine that a guy could fall in love with another guy.”Nepytaliuk, now 56, is a film director whose latest film Lessons of Tolerance hopes to challenge Ukrainian people to rethink how they treat others in society. Inspired by Igor Bilyts’ 2017…

Confirmatory factor analyses of the brief Spanish version of the Gender-Specific Binegativity Scale (GSBS), women’s and men’s subscales. Credit: Sexuality Research and Social Policy (2023). DOI: 10.1007/s13178-023-00912-1 A team from the Department of Psychology at the UCO has translated into Spanish and validated a scale to evaluate binegativity with a gender perspective and developed a reduced version that makes it more…

Study 4 Stimuli: Vintage Typography and Safety Information. Credit: Journal of Marketing (2023). DOI: 10.1177/00222429231215357 Researchers from University of Newcastle–Australia have published a new Journal of Marketing study that examines how brands can use references to the past via vintage typography to establish emotional bonds with today's consumers. …

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Young people's attitudes to masculinity and women's equality show signs of an emerging gender divide, with the views of men and women often differing more within younger, rather than older, generations, according to a new report. The findings, from King's College London's Policy Institute and Global Institute for…

Associations between user’s demographic attributes and their user experience after chatting with GPT-3 on climate change (A) and on BLM (B). Note: Each plot in a panel represents an aggregated summary for one user demographics (e.g., minority status in opinion) and its performance in the six different linear regression models for six user experience variables (e.g., satisfaction with the chatbot). The bars represent the coefficient values, while the…

Prevalence of community beliefs about the necessity of corporal punishment by age groups across the community and by parental status. Credit: Australian Journal of Social Issues (2023). DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.301 Australia should join 65 other nations that have passed laws against corporal punishment of children in all settings to advance its goal of reducing all forms of violence against children, QUT researchers say.…