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The main objectives were to investigate the prevalence of ED and associated risk factors among medical students in Romania, as well as to determine which variables may predict ED and to explore the differences between medical students and the general population.

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Eating disorders in medical students: prevalence, risk factors, comparison with the general population.

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Motorga R; Ionescu M; Nechita F; Micu D; Băluțoiu I; Dinu MM; Nechita D

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This study looked at how common eating disorders are among medical students in Romania and what might cause them. It also compared medical students to other people to see if there are any differences in eating disorders.

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pubmed id: 39850973 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Existing research has primarily focused on the influence of the native language on second language (L2) acquisition and processing, with less attention given to whether L2 acquisition affects native language processing. This study examines Chinese learners of Japanese, focusing on the orthographic and phonological similarities between two-character words in Chinese and Japanese. It investigates how these similarities affect native Chinese lexical processing at intermediate and advanced stages of Japanese learning and explores the predictive effect of L2 lexical processing efficiency on native language lexical processing efficiency at different stages of L2 learning. Through a comparison with native Chinese speakers who have not learned Japanese, the results indicate that L2 Japanese acquisition significantly impacts native Chinese lexical processing for Chinese learners of Japanese. Additionally, although there are some indications of the effects of orthographic and phonological similarities between Chinese and Japanese on native Chinese processing, the overall impact appears to be relatively weak. Moreover, the impact of L2 proficiency on lexical processing is influenced by L2 lexical processing efficiency, with both factors being closely related and jointly affecting lexical processing. Based on these results, this study proposes a potential pathway for native Chinese lexical processing among Chinese learners of Japanese.

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Japanese-as-a-foreign-language acquisition affects native Chinese lexical processing among Chinese learners.

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Cai F; Fei X; Song Q

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Learning Japanese can change how Chinese people understand words in their own language. The study shows that knowing Japanese affects how well Chinese speakers process words in Chinese, especially if the Japanese words are similar.

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pubmed id: 39850971 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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We aimed to assess the role of weight stigma and social support in depression, anxiety, and loneliness controlling for sociodemographic and clinical variables. A total of 189 adults with overweight/obesity were included. Participants were recruited from outpatient clinics by general practitioners which covered all regions of Slovakia. Correlation analyses and multiple linear regression were used to analyze the data. Participants experienced weight-related teasing (40.4%), unfair treatment (18.0%), and discrimination (14.1%). We found an association between lower age, female sex and psychological distress. No role of obesity indicators in psychosocial distress was identified, except for a small association between body mass index and depression in correlation analyses. Significant associations between experienced weight stigma/self-stigmatization and psychosocial distress weakened when variables related to the social support system were added to the linear regression. Poor social support was strongly associated with depression, anxiety, and loneliness. The explained variance in the final regression models was 42, 44, and 54%, respectively. Weight stigma negatively affects mental health and a sense of belonging while it seems to be a more significant contributor to psychosocial distress compared to obesity per se. Interventions targeting weight-related self-stigmatization and social relationships may mitigate the negative impact of weight stigma on psychosocial well-being.

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Psychosocial distress in people with overweight and obesity: the role of weight stigma and social support.

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Timkova V; Mikula P; Nagyova I

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This study looked at how feeling bad about being overweight and having friends can affect feelings of sadness, worry, and being alone. They found that being teased for weight can cause more sadness and worry, but having good friends helps a lot. Helping people feel better about themselves and having good social support can improve their mood.

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pubmed id: 39845561 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Socioeconomic status (SES) has received great attention in learning a second or foreign language (SL/FL). However, little research has investigated the association between SES and SL/FL pragmatic learning, let alone the influencing pathways of SES on SL/FL pragmatic awareness (PA). Therefore, this research aimed to address the link between learners' SES and PA with the mediating effects of learning motivation based on the L2 motivation self-system (L2MSS) theory by surveying 292 Chinese EFL university students. Structural equation modeling analyses indicated that: (1) SES had no significant effect on ought-to L2 self and intended learning efforts; (2) ought-to L2 self and intended learning efforts had significant predictive effects on PA; (3) SES positively and directly predicted EFL learners' PA; and (4) ideal L2 self, attitudes toward L2 community, and attitudes toward learning English mediated the relationship between SES and Chinese EFL learners' PA significantly.

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The mediating role of English learning motivation between socioeconomic status and pragmatic awareness.

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Hui X; Chen Y

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This study looked at how family wealth affects learning English in Chinese college students. The research found that money doesn't change how much students think they should study but can help them improve their English skills if they really want to learn and like the language. Students' attitudes about the English-speaking community and learning English also play a big role in how well they learn.

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pubmed id: 39845560 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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In five studies, we document the development and validation of the Non-verbal Communication Questionnaire (NVCQ). This eight-item measurement tool assesses how people perceive non-verbal cues across two dimensions of effective communication. These two dimensions, encouraging and discouraging non-verbal cues, are based on Khan and Zeb's (2021) version of the 10-part model of non-verbal communication. Study 1 reports the development of the NVCQ and provides initial support for the factorial structure of the measure in a Pakistani sample. Studies 2 and 3 confirmed the factorial structure and demonstrated the construct validity of the NVCQ. A preregistered Study 4 confirmed the factorial structure in a Polish sample, and provided additional support for the construct validity of the measure, while Study 5 demonstrated its adequate test-retest reliability. We conclude that the NVCQ is a psychometrically sound instrument for assessing effective communication that incorporates non-verbal aspects in every domain of life, from clinical to research settings.

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Non-verbal communication questionnaire: a measure to assess effective interaction.

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Khan M; Zeb S; Batool R; Gasiorowska A

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Researchers created a new tool called the Non-verbal Communication Questionnaire (NVCQ) to help understand body language better. It looks at how people see helpful and unhelpful signals in communication. After testing it in different places, they found it works well.

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pubmed id: 39845558 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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For university students, who are often under significant stress to perform well, sleep is particularly important, playing roles in learning and academic performance. Research demonstrates a relationship between hope and sleep quality. However, most work concerns Western samples, and the hope construct has been criticized for a Western bias. No research investigates sleep quality's relationship to "negotiable fate," a construct more relevant to Asian cultures. Whereas hope involves the individualistic expectancy that goals are achievable through personal action, negotiable fate involves the more collectivist-informed belief that control can be exercised over goals within limits of fate (family, community, society, other external factors). We investigated the relationship of hope and negotiable fate with sleep quality in 160 university students in Hong Kong, administering measures of hope, negotiable fate, sleep quality, depression, anxiety, stress, and life satisfaction. Lower hope was associated with poorer self-reported sleep quality. In addition, consistent with past research, mental health variables (particularly stress) accounted for significant variance in this relationship. Negotiable fate, however, did not relate to sleep quality.

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Testing the relationships of hope and negotiable fate with sleep quality among university students in Hong Kong.

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Chan HI; Feldman DB; Shu TM

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University students need good sleep to do well in school, and hope can help with better sleep. This study checked if "negotiable fate," a belief more common in Asian cultures, also affects sleep, but it found that only hope and stress levels were linked to how well students slept in Hong Kong.

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pubmed id: 39845557 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Many recent approaches to identity share a foundational similarity with ecological psychology, namely, to place identity in its context. That is, they explicitly place identity in its physical and social environments. Yet, we can distinguish at least two different approaches that diverge fundamentally with regards to the role that this "context" has in identity. We refer to these approaches as "reflective identity" and "situated identity" approaches. While the reflective-identity approach views context and individual as separate entities with a bi-directional relationship, the situated-identity approach views context and individual as inherently intertwined and inseparable. While these approaches have emerged as independent from each other, we see potential for these two approaches to become comprehensively coordinated. To set the stage for such a coordination in future research, we provide a short overview of these different approaches to identity and describe where they align and diverge with regards to viewing identity as contextualized. After providing an overview of the key differences and similarities, we outline a possibility for integration and offer ideas for future lines of research that we see as fruitful for developing a comprehensive and coordinated approach to identity that takes context seriously.

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Understanding identity development in context: comparing reflective and situated approaches to identity.

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Van Der Gaag MAE; Gmelin JOH; De Ruiter NMP

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There are two ways to think about identity in context. One sees identity and its surroundings as separate yet connected, and the other sees them as completely mixed together. The paper talks about trying to combine these ideas for future research.

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pubmed id: 39845555 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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This systematic review explores the multifaceted psychological impact of advertising on women's self-perception, examining traditional advertising, femvertising, and the emerging effects of digital transformation. By synthesizing evidence from 95 peer-reviewed studies, this review examines the relationship between media portrayals of women and key psychological outcomes, including body image, self-esteem, self-objectification, and gender role attitudes. Our analysis reveals that traditional advertising, which often features idealized and stereotypical portrayals of femininity, continues to be associated with negative psychological outcomes such as increased body dissatisfaction and self-objectification. These effects appear to be intensifying in digital contexts, where exposure is more frequent and pervasive. Femvertising-advertising that aims to challenge gender stereotypes and empower women-shows promise in promoting positive psychological outcomes, but its effectiveness is contingent on perceived authenticity and individual viewer characteristics. The digital transformation of advertising has created new dynamics in how women encounter and process advertising messages, with social media platforms enabling both new forms of feminist messaging and new risks of superficial appropriation. Our findings suggest that understanding advertising's impact requires consideration of platform-specific features, user characteristics, and content types. The review highlights the need for advertising practices that prioritize genuine representation and empowerment of women, while also addressing the unique challenges and opportunities presented by digital platforms. This work contributes to a deeper psychological understanding of advertising's impact on women's self-perception and calls for updated theoretical frameworks and practical approaches that can address both traditional and emerging forms of advertising exposure.

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The impact of advertising on women's self-perception: a systematic review.

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Dai Y; Zhu Z; Yuan Guo W

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This paper looks at how advertising affects how women see themselves. It shows that regular ads can make women feel bad about their bodies and themselves, but ads that try to challenge stereotypes can help if they seem real. The study also talks about how digital ads and social media change these effects and what needs to be done to support women better through advertising.

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pubmed id: 39845552 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Urban parks are the primary places where urban residents reconnect with natural environments. Numerous studies have shown that natural landscape features benefit human mental health and promote perceived restoration. However, few studies have explored the extent to which natural landscape features in urban parks can mitigate or compensate for the negative effects of artificial landscape features on emotions and restoration. This study employed a field survey method, collecting questionnaire data from 599 participants in four urban parks in Hangzhou, China. The DeepLabV3+ semantic segmentation tool was employed to identify and extract landscape features from panoramic images. Data were statistically analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) to explore the potential moderating effects of different natural landscape features in various environmental contexts on emotions and restoration. The results from the SEM model indicate that the R values for emotional state (ES) and perceived restorative scale (PRS) are 0.359 and 0.643, respectively, demonstrating an acceptable level of explanatory power and fit for the model. The results revealed that not all artificial landscape features negatively affect emotions and restoration. Although Pavement showed a significant negative impact on Perceived Restoration ( = -0.155,  = 0.004), their effect on emotions was not significant ( = 0.111,  = 0.115). Additionally, the study demonstrated that certain natural landscape features, such as the sky and trees, had a significant moderating effect in alleviating the negative emotions caused by artificial landscape features. However, for Perceived restoration, the moderating effect of these natural landscape features was not significant and, in some cases, even exhibited a negative moderating effect. These findings specifically explore how different natural landscape features can offset the adverse effects of artificial landscape features and, to varying degrees, enhance positive emotional responses and improve perceived restoration. The results contribute to understanding the complex dynamics between landscape features, emotions, and restoration in urban parks, offering strategic recommendations for planning, management, and design to create healthier and more restorative urban park environments.

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Remedies from nature: exploring the moderating mechanisms of natural landscape features on emotions and perceived restoration in urban parks.

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Li Y; Li W; Liu Y

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This study looked at how natural things like trees and the sky in parks help people feel better, even when there's a lot of concrete and buildings around. They found that trees and the sky can make people feel happy, even if the roads in the park aren't nice. But, these nature parts didn’t always help people feel rested.

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pubmed id: 39845549 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Alexithymia is a psychological trait characterized by difficulty expressing emotions. Previous studies reported that individuals with higher alexithymia have a decreased sense of interoception, which is the sense of monitoring and controlling internal organs. Thus, we hypothesized that internal organ activity (cardiac activities in the present study) was easily affected by false feedback in individuals with severe alexithymia. Therefore, we investigated whether the effects of fake heart rate feedback on real cardiac activities differ depending on the severity of alexithymia as assessed by the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20). Fake heart rate feedback was presented as if it were occurring in the individual's hand through a virtual reality system at various speeds. Changes in cardiac activities were evaluated by the root-mean-square-successive difference (RMSSD, high value indicates greater parasympathetic tone) of the heartbeat interval. Our findings revealed a negative correlation between externally oriented thinking, a subscale of the TAS-20 score, and the RMSSD change ratio elicited by fake heart rate feedback. These findings indicate that individuals with higher alexithymia might be particularly susceptible to external fake feedback.

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Influence of alexithymia severity in the healthy population on the susceptibility to false interoceptive feedback.

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Ikarashi H; Otsuru N; Takahashi S; Nagasaka K; Hara M; Onishi H

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The study looked at people who have trouble expressing emotions, called alexithymia, and how their heart activities react to fake heart rate feedback. The researchers found that people with more alexithymia might be more affected by fake information about their heart rates.

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pubmed id: 39845548 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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The increasing generational diversity in modern teams has sparked an ongoing debate about its impact on team performance. Grounded in decision-making and social identity theories, this study explores the multifaceted relationship between generational diversity and team innovation performance, examining the mediating roles of cognitive and affective conflicts and the moderating role of shared leadership. The findings from a three-wave survey of five multi-generational teams in a Chinese organization reveal that generational diversity predicts both cognitive and affective conflicts, which subsequently exert opposing effects on team innovation. Shared leadership positively moderates the relationship between cognitive conflict and team innovation, amplifying the indirect positive effect of generational diversity. However, shared leadership does not moderate the relationship between affective conflict and team innovation. These results offer a more nuanced understanding of the dual role of generational diversity in team innovation and underscore the importance of shared leadership in harnessing its potential benefits.

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Generational diversity and team innovation: the roles of conflict and shared leadership.

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Wang L; Duan X

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This study looked at teams with people from different generations to see how their differences affect new ideas. It found that having a mix of generations can sometimes cause disagreements, but strong leadership can help the team use these differences to be more creative. When leaders help guide the team, it makes it easier to turn differences into positive results.

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pubmed id: 39845533 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Autistic people experience more mental health conditions like depression or anxiety than non-autistic people. They are also more likely to experience difficulties in accessing mental health supports Clinicians have published suggestions on how to improve therapy for autistic people. However, whether these ways to adapt (i.e. adaptations) therapy for autistic people are seen as helpful by autistic people themselves has not been investigated. We recruited 130 autistic adults to complete an online survey. They rated 55 adaptations to therapy from "Not at all helpful" to "Extremely helpful." We also asked for ideas of additional adaptations. Adaptations classified as neurodiversity affirming (e.g. having a therapist that embraces differences in brains and provides support to affirm neurodivergent identity) were rated highest. Approximately half of adaptations were rated positively at a group level. However, for almost every adaptation at least one person rated it as not at all helpful and at least one rated it as extremely helpful. Additional adaptations were around general good practice, financial cost, neurodiversity-affirming practices, practical, sensory/environmental, structure, and therapy style/techniques. Our findings add how helpful autistic people themselves rate adaptations to therapy and similarities and differences to clinicians. This is important to consider how these perspectives can differ. Findings also identify additional suggestions that clinicians could use in their practice and ideas for future research. Findings can help autistic adults in advocating for adaptations to therapy that address their needs by providing a list of possible adaptations. Furthermore, findings may help clinicians to better support their autistic clients.

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How can we make therapy better for autistic adults? Autistic adults' ratings of helpfulness of adaptations to therapy.

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Paynter J; Sommer K; Cook A

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Autistic people often face more mental health challenges and have trouble getting the right help. A study asked 130 autistic adults to rate therapy changes, with many liking adaptations that support their unique brain differences. The results can guide therapists to better assist autistic individuals by using these helpful changes.

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pubmed id: 39840840 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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The Bergen Facebook addiction scale (BFAS) is a screening instrument frequently used to evaluate Facebook addiction. However, its reliability varies considerably across studies. This study aimed to evaluate the reliability of the BFAS and its adaptation, the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (BSMAS), and to identify which study characteristics are associated with this reliability. We performed a reliability generalization meta-analysis involving 173,641 participants across 127 articles, which reported 147 Cronbach's alpha values for internal consistency. The random-effects model revealed that the pooled Cronbach's alpha values were 0.8535 (95% CI [0.8409, 0.8660]) for the BFAS and 0.8248 (95% CI [0.8116, 0.8380]) for the BSMAS. Moderator analyses indicated that the mean and standard deviation of the total scores accounted for 10.06 and 36.7% of the total variability in the BFAS alpha values, respectively. For the BSMAS, the standard deviation of the total scores and sample size accounted for 13.54 and 10.22% of the total variability alpha values, respectively. Meta-ANOVA analyses revealed that none of the categorical variables significantly affected the estimated alpha values for either the BFAS or BSMAS. Our findings endorse the BFAS and BSMAS as reliable instruments for measuring social media addiction.

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The Bergen Facebook addiction scale: a reliability generalization meta-analysis.

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Ma JL; Jin Z; Liu C

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The study checked how reliable some tools are for finding out if people are too into Facebook or social media. They looked at data from many studies and found these tools are pretty good at showing if someone might have an addiction. The study supports using these tools to check for social media addiction.

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pubmed id: 39839946 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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In many languages, it is common to use masculine-only forms when all genders are meant or gender is irrelevant to the actual statement. This practice is criticized for making women and members of other genders, their achievements and interests, less visible. Gender-fair language is intended to represent all genders equally. Recently introduced forms such as the glottal stop and the gender star are intended to also represent people outside the male-female dichotomy on the linguistic surface. However, it is often argued that gender-fair language would make texts less comprehensible and less aesthetically appealing. The critics' assumptions were tested in an experiment with 272 participants. Subjects watched a screencast on self-regulated learning and were randomly assigned to either a version using masculine-only forms or a version using the glottal stop and the gender star. Subsequently, participants rated the comprehensibility and aesthetic appeal of the video they had watched. Structural equation models show no statistically significant influence of the use of gender-fair language on the comprehensibility ( = -0.13) or the aesthetic appeal ( = -0.16) of the videos. The critics' assumptions are therefore not supported. But further studies are needed, especially regarding the corresponding singular forms and with non-academic participants.

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Comprehensibility of gender-fair language in German-language video lectures.

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Friedrich MCG; Krenz B

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The research looked at how using fair language that includes all genders affects how people understand and like a video. They found that using gender-fair language did not make the video harder to understand or less nice to watch. More research is needed to explore this further.

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pubmed id: 39839941 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Metaverse integrates people into the virtual world, and challenges depend on advances in human, technological, and procedural dimensions. Until now, solutions to these challenges have not involved extensive neurosociological research. The study explores the pioneering neurosociological paradigm in metaverse, emphasizing its potential to revolutionize our understanding of social interactions through advanced methodologies such as hyperscanning and interbrain synchrony. This convergence presents unprecedented opportunities for neurotypical and neurodivergent individuals due to technology personalization. Traditional face-to-face, interbrain coupling, and metaverse interactions are empirically substantiated. Biomarkers of social interaction as feedback between social brain networks and metaverse is presented. The innovative contribution of findings to the broader literature on metaverse and neurosociology is substantiated. This article also discusses the ethical aspects of integrating the neurosociological paradigm into the metaverse.

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The neurosociological paradigm of the metaverse.

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Maslova O; Shusharina N; Pyatin V

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This research looks at how studying the brain can help us understand how people interact in the virtual world, called the metaverse. By using new technology, scientists can learn more about how our brains connect when we are online. The study also talks about the ethical thoughts we should have when using this technology.

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pubmed id: 39839940 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Bed rest (BR) studies are primarily designed to investigate the effects of weightlessness on the human body, but they are also used to study the effects of physical inactivity. For this purpose, participants are typically recruited from the general population without requiring specialized training, which contrasts with the selection process for cosmonauts. The BR study environment is often characterized as highly stressful, highlighting the importance of understanding coping mechanisms and adaptation strategies among participants, as well as the role of their daily interactions. This review aims to determine whether interpersonal relationships and the concept of social connectedness (SC) have been explored within the context of BR studies. For the search strategy, the definition of exclusion criteria, and the initial screening, PRISMA 2020 statement was followed. The PEO framework was used to generate keywords, and thematic synthesis was applied for data extraction, analysis, and synthesis. An initial search did not uncover any studies examining the concept of SC in the context of BR as an environment with extreme conditions, suggesting that SC in this context has not yet been investigated. While findings of thematic synthesis indicate that interpersonal relationships play a significant role in coping with and adapting to the extreme conditions of BR studies. As results showed these relationships can have both positive and negative effects. Interpersonal relationships also serve as a crucial support mechanism among participants. Additionally, how participants make sense of their involvement in such studies remains underexplored, and further research in this area is recommended in the discussion.

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Interpersonal relationships as coping mechanisms during bed rest: a thematic synthesis literature review.

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Cikač A; Pišot S

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This research paper is about bed rest (BR) studies which look at how not moving around much affects people, like being in space. It talks about how important friends and connections are when people are in these studies because those relationships can help or sometimes not help. The paper says more research is needed to understand how people think about being in these studies.

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pubmed id: 39839934 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Crossmodal correspondences, or widely shared tendencies for mapping experiences across sensory domains, are revealed in common descriptors of musical timbre such as , , and . Two experiments are reported in which participants listened to recordings of musical instruments playing major scales, selected colors to match the timbres, and rated the timbres on crossmodal semantic scales. Experiment A used three different keyboard instruments, each played in three pitch registers. Stimuli in Experiment B, representing six different orchestral instruments, were similar to those in Experiment A but were controlled for pitch register. Overall, results were consistent with hypothesized concordances between ratings on crossmodal timbre descriptors and participants' color associations. Semantic ratings predicted the lightness and saturation of colors matched to instrument timbres; effects were larger when both pitch register and instrument type varied (Experiment A) but were still evident when pitch register was held constant (Experiment B). We also observed a weak relationship between participant ratings of musical stimuli on the terms and and the warmth-coolness of selected colors in Experiment B only. Results were generally consistent with the hypothesis that instrument type and pitch register are related to color choice, though we speculate that these associations may only be relevant for certain instruments. Overall, the results have implications for our understanding the relationship between music and color, suggesting that while timbre/color matching behavior is in many ways diverse, observable trends in strategy can in part be linked to crossmodal timbre semantics.

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Color and tone color: audiovisual crossmodal correspondences with musical instrument timbre.

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Reymore L; Lindsey DT

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The study looked at how people relate different musical sounds to colors. They found that people often pick similar colors for certain kinds of music sounds, like those from different instruments and pitches. The findings help us understand how our senses of hearing and seeing might be connected in interesting ways.

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pubmed id: 39839933 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Emotional mimicry-the imitation of others' emotions-is an empathic response that helps to navigate social interactions. Mimicry is absent when participants' task does not involve engaging with the expressers' emotions. This may be because task-irrelevant faces (i.e., faces that participants were instructed to ignore) are not processed. To assess whether processed task-irrelevant faces are also not mimicked, we conducted three studies [Study 1:  = 74 participants (27 men;  = 26.9 years); Study 2:  = 53 participants (20 men;  = 25.8 years); Study 3:  = 51 participants (7 men;  = 26.8 years)] using an affective priming paradigm in which one face was task-relevant and one was to be ignored, as a framework to explore the impact of disregarded yet still perceptually processed faces on mimicry. We found that even though both faces were processed, only task-relevant faces were mimicked. Hence, our studies suggest that emotional mimicry depends not only on emotional processing but also on the way participants prioritize one piece of information over another. Further, task-irrelevant faces interfered with the mimicry of task-relevant faces. This suggests that even though incongruent task-irrelevant faces do not elicit an empathic (mimicry) response, they still may provide a context that can change the meaning of task-relevant faces and thus impact on the mimicry response.

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Task-irrelevant emotional expressions are not mimicked, but may modulate the mimicry of task-relevant emotional expressions.

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Mauersberger H; Blaison C; Hess U

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This research paper explores how people imitate others' emotions by focusing on important faces in a task. It showed that people only mimic emotions from faces they find important for their task, even if they see other faces too. Also, faces that aren't important can change how people mimic the important ones.

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pubmed id: 39839930 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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