📄 social_science

Visualizing Semantic Similarity in Political Discourse: A Comparative Analysis of Word Embeddings in Trump’s 2016 and 2024 Campaign Speeches

This study employs Word2Vec, K-Means clustering, and t-SNE visualization to demonstrate that while Donald Trump's 2016 and 2024 campaign speeches share core populist themes, the 2024 discourse exhibits a profound structural shift from an economically integrated framework to a fragmented, identity-driven narrative focused on political legitimacy and domestic conflict.

Issam iyrot, Aysam Airout2026-09-02
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Perceived Empathy in AI Interaction: The Role of Relational Beliefs and Response Style

This study demonstrates that users' beliefs about AI as a relational partner enhance emotional regulation outcomes (negative emotion reduction and coping self-efficacy) by increasing perceived anthropomorphism and empathy, whereas the AI's response style (emotion-focused vs. solution-focused) had no significant impact.

HeeJun Lee, YeRim Kim, Jinwon Kang, Hyeontaek OH, Choi Ah Rin, Yoonkyung Jeong2026-09-02
📄 social_science

The Formation of Chinese Public Ethical Intuitions on Genomic Technologies: How Situated Prudence Emerges from a Layered Cognitive Architecture

This paper analyzes the formation of Chinese public ethical intuitions regarding genomic technologies, revealing that their characteristic "situated prudence" arises from a layered cognitive architecture of scientific, cultural, communal, and personal factors, and proposes a "cognitive scaffolding" governance framework to align regulatory interventions with these preexisting moral structures.

Yao Wu, Bin Zhao2026-09-02
📄 social_science

Contribution of Conceptual Understanding, Creativity Skill and Motivation to Student’s Problem-Solving Skill in Learning Plane Geometry Based on Visually Assisted with Guided Discovery Based Learning Model

This quasi-experimental study involving 96 Grade 10 students in Ethiopia demonstrates that conceptual understanding, creativity, and motivation significantly contribute to problem-solving skills in plane geometry when taught through a visually assisted, guided discovery-based learning model.

Abebe Zeleke, Mulugeta, Adem2026-09-02
📄 social_science

The Brightest Physician in the Room: AI, Professional Recognition, and the Experience of Knowing

This essay explores how generative AI disrupts the traditional link between visible clinical performance and professional recognition by enabling physicians to rapidly acquire expertise without the accompanying years of experiential formation, thereby challenging colleagues and the physicians themselves to evaluate the depth and durability of understanding through long-term adaptation rather than isolated successful episodes.

andrea mangiameli2026-09-02
📄 social_science

Thinking with Beauvoir about Objectification in Childbirth

This paper utilizes Simone de Beauvoir's nuanced conceptualizations of objectification to distinguish between the morally neutral, practical "thingly objectification" inherent in medical care and the dehumanizing "objectification as othering" that constitutes obstetric violence, while also exploring the potential for self-objectification to be either oppressive or empowering in the context of childbirth.

Sara Cohen Shabot2026-09-02