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Psychological Correlates of Cyber Behaviour and the Role of AI-Driven Brain–Computer Interfaces in Enhancing Mental Wellbeing among University Students in Delhi NCR

This cross-sectional study of 300 university students in Delhi NCR reveals that while cyber awareness and privacy concerns are moderate-to-high, insecure online behaviors are the strongest predictor of cybercrime victimization, highlighting the need for future research to validate the potential of AI-driven Brain-Computer Interfaces in enhancing digital mental wellbeing.

Kiran Rani Panwar2026-09-14

📄 social science

Governing with precision: A framework to close the implementation gap in Kuala Lumpur’s urban housing regeneration

This paper diagnoses Kuala Lumpur's urban housing regeneration failures as stemming from three interlocking governance deficits—constitutional ambiguity, procedural illegitimacy, and institutional fragmentation—and proposes the Precision Urban Housing Regeneration (PUHR) framework, a five-pillar, data-informed governance system designed to close the implementation gap and ensure sustainable, equitable outcomes.

Chee Peng Chin, Anuar Alias, Omar Hamdan Alkharabsheh, Jia-Fan Sun2026-09-14

📄 social science

Large Language Models and the Personalization into Sameness

This paper argues that large language models create a "dual convergence" of axiological and epistemic homogenization through the very mechanisms of personalization and convenience, forming a collective action problem where individual choices reinforce a shared cultural baseline that threatens pluralism and democratic autonomy.

M. Z. Naser2026-09-13

📄 social science

Colonial History as a Lens: A Comparison of Higher Education Internationalization in China and South Korea

Drawing on historical institutionalism, this study argues that the divergent internationalization strategies of China and South Korea are fundamentally shaped by their distinct colonial legacies, where China's history of fragmented sovereignty fostered a defensive autonomous opening while Korea's experience of cultural erasure drove a proactive cultural export strategy.

Yuhao Zhang2026-09-13

📄 social science

She is fake, but it still feels like betrayal: How an online community negotiates the moral boundaries of AI intimacy within marriage

This study employs a mixed-methods analysis of Reddit discourse to demonstrate how an online community collectively constructs and enforces moral boundaries around AI intimacy in marriage, revealing that the artificial nature of the companion intensifies rather than mitigates perceptions of betrayal by challenging core marital norms of reciprocity and otherness.

Anurag Shekhar, Thulile Ngonyama-Ndou2026-09-12

📄 social science

Sustainable Development in Schools Through Ecological Leadership Enhancing Teachers Eco Motivation and Competence

This study of 447 vocational teachers in West Sumatra demonstrates that school principals' ecological leadership significantly enhances teachers' environmental motivation and competence, thereby driving sustainable development in schools.

Ermita Ermita, Ahmad Sabandi, Novriyanti Achyar, Tia Ningrum, Mahaliza Mansor, Michael Boakye-Yiadom2026-09-12

📄 social science

Beyond royalties: a multidimensional equity framework for deep-seabed mining under the common heritage of humankind

This paper argues that achieving equitable benefit-sharing from deep-seabed mining under the common heritage of humankind requires moving beyond simple revenue distribution to a comprehensive six-stage institutional framework that integrates value capture, environmental protection, and public accountability throughout the entire governance process.

Wanping Zeng2026-09-12

📄 social science

Higher agency may explain why Latin America outperformed Eastern Europe in COVID-19 vaccination and life expectancy

This paper argues that Latin America's superior COVID-19 vaccination rates and life expectancy compared to Eastern Europe, despite lower socioeconomic indicators, can be attributed to a higher "Agency Index" reflecting greater civic participation and autonomous decision-making capacity fostered by distinct historical trajectories.

Barbara Pasamonik, Miriam Lipniacka, Dagmara Szczepańska, Tomasz Lipniacki2026-09-12

📄 social science

From Moral Inclusion to Moral Exclusion: Psychological Pathways between Democracy and Totalitarianism

This article proposes a conceptual framework analyzing democracy and totalitarianism as competing moral-psychological ecologies, arguing that the transition from moral inclusion to exclusion is driven by ordinary cognitive and emotional processes like dehumanization and authoritarianism, thereby framing democratic resilience as a fragile achievement requiring the continuous cultivation of empathy, critical agency, and shared humanity.

Riccardo Sartori, Federica Sartori2026-09-12

📄 social science

Ethics of Cultured Meat - A Systematic Philosophical Approach to Assessing the Ethics of your future cultured meat

This paper proposes an Ethical Common-Basis Assessment (ECBA) framework to systematically evaluate the ethics of cultured meat by anchoring moral judgments to specific production configurations rather than broad categories, thereby shifting the ethical focus from slaughter and breeding to the sustainability, safety, and governance of the production process.

Katharina Julia Brenner2026-09-12

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