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From transactional use to reflective engagement: Higher education students’ evolving understandings of academic integrity and generative AI

This qualitative longitudinal study reveals that undergraduate and postgraduate students' understandings of academic integrity evolve from viewing Generative AI as a mere efficiency tool to engaging with it more reflectively and ethically through sustained interaction, suggesting that universities should prioritize educational approaches fostering critical reflection over detection-oriented policies.

Sehrish Javed, Selena Firmin, Jerry Maroulis2026-10-14

📄 social science

Reshaping Sports Disciplinary Processes: Lessons for all sports governing bodies from the Quinlan Report ten years on.

This paper analyzes the legal implications of the 2016 British Horseracing Authority disciplinary scandal and the subsequent Quinlan Review to demonstrate how its recommended reforms serve as a vital blueprint for ensuring procedural fairness and legal robustness across all Sports Governing Bodies.

Richard Davison, Jonathan Glen Merritt2026-10-14

📄 social science

Who gets to verify AI? Provenance, authority and accountability in digital government

This paper argues that effective AI-content governance requires moving beyond isolated labeling or provenance tools by adopting a holistic framework that distinguishes between public legibility, infrastructural verifiability, and institutional answerability across the content lifecycle to ensure genuine accountability rather than mere symbolic compliance.

Shuai Wang, Suqin Wei, Peilin Li, Sai-Keong Chan, Yibing Liu2026-10-14

📄 social science

The Common Ground in Sebatik: Lessons Learned for Border Policy Making

Drawing on an ethnographic study of Aji Kuning Village, this paper argues that border policy between Indonesia and Malaysia should prioritize sociocultural integration and shared historical ties over purely physical-geographical factors to transform potential conflicts into sustainable cooperation.

Endang Rudiatin, Faiza Husnayeni Nahar, Gatot Supangkat Samidjo2026-10-14

📄 social science

How Learning Reshapes Aesthetic Evaluation of AI-generated and Traditional Xilankapu Patterns: Evidence from a Longitudinal Intervention Study

This longitudinal study demonstrates that structured cultural learning shifts aesthetic evaluation of Xilankapu patterns from sensory-driven to concept-driven judgments, significantly improves the recognition of traditional designs, and reinforces the preference for human-involved AI generation over fully automated alternatives.

Shiyuan Zhu, Jinxia Hu, Ziyue Cheng, Yanyou Hu, Jiahao Sun2026-10-14

📄 social science

The scientific impotence excuse as a bounded defence against unwelcome evidence

Through eight preregistered experiments involving over 4,000 participants, this study validates the "scientific impotence excuse" as a generalizable mechanism where individuals devalue the potency and pertinence of science to resolve belief-evidence conflicts, even while simultaneously adjusting their beliefs in response to that evidence.

Holger Futterleib, Eva Thomm, Guido Mehlkop, Johannes Bauer2026-10-14

📄 social science

Occupational Underutilization and the Social Concentration of Political Disaffection

Using four waves of Dutch panel data, this study finds that while recurrent skill underuse is strongly associated with political disaffection across individuals, it does not significantly cause political attitude changes within individuals, suggesting that occupational underutilization serves more as a marker of a politically distinctive social location than as a direct mechanism converting workplace disadvantage into political grievance.

PASQUALE COLLOCA2026-10-14

📄 social science

Ability Level Differences in Learning Performance of Electrical and Electronic Technology Education Students in Virtual Reality Based Learning

A study of 62 Electrical and Electronic Technology Education students in North Eastern Nigeria found that exposure to virtual reality-based learning significantly improved their performance, shifting the majority from medium and low ability levels to high ability levels.

A. Abdulaziz, A. E. Okonkwo-Umeh, T. M. Saba, O. A. Ojerinde2026-10-14

📄 social science

Investigating ESL University Teachers’ Views on the role of ChatGPT in English Teaching and Learning

This study explores Pakistani ESL university teachers' perceptions of ChatGPT in English education, revealing a dual perspective that acknowledges its potential for professional development and personalized learning while raising concerns about student misuse and accuracy, ultimately recommending ethical training and policy adjustments to guide its effective integration.

Khalid Ahmed, Aasia Nusrat, Syed Waqar Ali, Tursunova Dilfuza Shavkatovna, Ayyaz Qadeer, Ruqia Saba Ashraf, Nurmuma Kama (…)2026-10-14

📄 social science

Psychological support in palliative care: A reflexive thematic analysis of relational space, awakening and meaningful living

This study utilizes reflexive thematic analysis of ten interviews to demonstrate that effective psychological support in palliative care relies on a holistic, relational hospice environment that fosters safety and meaningful living, while highlighting the need to overcome barriers related to gratitude and perceived resource limitations to ensure equitable access.

Maria Davies-Edwards, Rachel Evans2026-10-14

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