📄 social science

Same Facts, Different Meanings: Factual Information, Interpretation, and Attitude Change.

This paper demonstrates that while factual information reliably corrects specific beliefs, its impact on downstream political attitudes is limited because individuals often reinterpret the meaning of facts—such as viewing inaccurate claims by favored politicians as figurative—through adjacent belief dimensions in ways that align with their preexisting predispositions.

Martín Opertti2026-09-17
📄 social science

Separating the Inseparable: Dimension Linkage in Experimental Vignettes

This paper argues that while experimental vignettes can identify a universal penalty for atypical attribute combinations, they cannot observationally distinguish combination-specific reactions from preferences over the attributes themselves, meaning that respondents' self-reported awareness of atypicality does not necessarily translate into measurable effects on their choices.

Florian Sichart, Markus Wagner2026-09-17
📄 social science

Gender, power orientation, and moral disengagement among elite volleyball athletes in Taiwan: A near-census multilevel analysis of individual and coaching predictors

This near-census multilevel study of elite Taiwanese volleyball athletes reveals that while men exhibit higher moral disengagement than women, this gender difference is fully explained by a stronger endorsement of power-oriented masculine traits rather than biological sex, suggesting that targeting power orientation is a key strategy for preventing interpersonal harm in sport.

Cheng-Wei Teng, Hsin-Hung Ho, Hung-Chun Huang, Jia-Kai Quan, Yaw-Feng Lin, I-Chun Isabelle Chen, Hsin-Tzu Lin2026-09-17
📄 social science

A Stakeholder-Theoretical Reading of Avicenna's Tadbīr al-Manzil: A Tripartite Analysis for Contemporary Business Ethics

This paper employs Stakeholder Theory's tripartite framework to conduct a comparative analysis of Avicenna's classical Islamic concept of household management (*tadbīr al-manzil*) and modern business ethics, revealing both shared emphases on relational justice and foresight while highlighting fundamental divergences in their hierarchical structures, ultimate goals, and normative foundations.

Farah Ramin2026-09-17
📄 social science

Relationships Between Parental Mindfulness, Parents’ Beliefs About Children’s Emotions, and Their Responses to Their Children’s Emotions

This study of 1,223 parents reveals that specific facets of parental mindfulness influence how they respond to their children's negative emotions, primarily through the mediating role of parents' beliefs about children's emotions, though these relationships vary significantly in direction and magnitude across different mindfulness facets.

Joanna Violet Moy, Zsofia Garai-Takacs, Karen Goodall2026-09-17
📄 social science

Self-compassion and self-regulation: A multilevel meta-analysis at composite, component, and individual subscale levels

This multilevel meta-analysis of 107 studies reveals that self-compassion is significantly associated with adaptive and maladaptive self-regulation, with positive components acting as unique regulatory resources while negative components function collectively as a unified uncompassionate orientation, and these relationships are moderated by gender and age but not clinical status.

Lin Guo, Yu Wu2026-09-17
📄 social science

Organizational Technology Adoption and Unintended Employee Reactions among Family Businesses: Moderated Mediation Analysis

This study utilizes a moderated mediation analysis of 319 family business employees to demonstrate that organizational technology adoption triggers unintended reactions like cynicism and resistance through perceived skill obsolescence, a process that is buffered by the moderating influence of future work self-salience.

Bayuasi Nammel Luki, Ethel Yiranbon Annor-Tenkorang, Gladys Nkrumah, Michelle Afrifah, Prince Addai2026-09-17
📄 social science

Framing Community Happiness in Korean National and Local Newspapers: A Longitudinal Text-Mining Analysis, 2016–2025

This longitudinal text-mining analysis of over 62,000 Korean newspaper articles from 2016 to 2025 reveals that community happiness is publicly constructed through two complementary frames—an institutional-national perspective in national media and a relational-local perspective in local media—both of which experienced crisis-induced agenda compression during the COVID-19 pandemic followed by post-crisis diversification.

Ji-Hyun Jang2026-09-17
📄 social science

Kū, Lono, and the Voices That Contend for Them: Interpreting Identity and Divinity in Hoʻomana Hawaiʻi

By examining the theological puzzle of Kū's multiple manifestations and applying it to the historical debate over Captain Cook's identification as the god Lono, this article argues that Hawaiian divine identity cannot be categorized by Western labels like polytheism or monism until the specific logic of how a stranger could become a god is understood.

Alan C. Herbert2026-09-17