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Validating exploratory visuals as concept elicitation tools: A semiotic analysis of agreement and interpretive diversity in the My Story Cards wellbeing instrument

This study employs a social semiotic analysis of 100 psychology students' responses to validate the "My Story Cards" visual instrument, finding that while the visuals effectively elicit rich, autobiographical, and metaphorical interpretations with generally high conceptual recognition, concrete images yield greater agreement than abstract ones, suggesting specific design refinements are needed to optimize communicative clarity.

Jude Page, Timothy Broady, Margo Barr, Evelyne de Leeuw2026-10-11

📄 social science

Culturally embedded Chinese idiom priming influences charitable giving and task-specific prioritization of prosocial cues: two within- participant experiments

Two within-participant experiments with Chinese university students demonstrate that priming with culturally embedded Chinese idioms containing prosocial and regulatory meanings transiently enhances incentive-compatible charitable giving, improves emotional states, and increases attentional prioritization of prosocial cues compared to neutral idioms.

Xiaojin Wang, Fang Hao, Fenghua Zhang, Jin Yang2026-10-11

📄 social science

Beyond placement: inclusive early childhood education as multi-level service- system capacity in decentralised education systems

This conceptual article argues that meaningful inclusion of young children with disabilities in decentralized systems like Indonesia requires moving beyond mere legal enrollment to build distributed multi-level system capacities across five domains that enable progression through an inclusion chain from formal access to developmental support.

M. A. Muazar Habibi, Abdul Kadir Jaelani, Ika Rachmayani2026-10-11

📄 social science

Building Disaster Resilience in Early Childhood with Special Needs: A Systematic Review of Psychological Preparedness in Inclusive Early Childhood Education and Special Schools in Indonesia

This systematic review synthesizes evidence from 28 studies to identify five key factors—institutional readiness, teacher competence, inclusive curriculum, family/community support, and local wisdom—that enhance psychological disaster preparedness for children with special needs in Indonesia, ultimately proposing a culturally grounded, trauma-informed framework for building resilience.

MA Muazar Habibi, Jundu Muhammad Mufakkirul Islami2026-10-11

📄 social science

When AI Fails: Hallucination Exposure, Verification, and Critical AI Literacy

Drawing on survey data from 314 respondents, this study reveals that while most users have encountered AI hallucinations, few understand the concept, yet those who do experience failures are more likely to verify information, leading the authors to define Critical AI Literacy as an epistemic adaptation that prioritizes critical distance and verification over mere technical fluency.

Lukasz Nowacki, Agata Ewa Wrochna2026-10-10

📄 social science

The Manifold Mismatch: Topological Constraints and Non-Human Agency in Complex Adaptive Urban Systems

This paper critiques the anthropocentric foundations of traditional urban planning by introducing the concept of "Manifold Mismatch" to argue for a posthumanist framework where cities are redefined as co-produced, multi-species assemblages driven by non-human agencies such as algorithms, sensing infrastructures, and ecological forces.

Arda Arın2026-10-09

📄 social science

How To Interpret Interpretivism?

This paper redefines peripheral behaviorism as an epistemic rather than metaphysical thesis to argue that, contrary to McLaughlin & O'Leary-Hawthorne's critique, Dennett's interpretivism is best understood as a form of molecular behaviorism that resolves problematic cases through this new epistemic framework.

Gabriel Malagutti2026-10-09

📄 social science

Teacher Education Curriculum Relevance and Community Development Needs in Ethiopia: An Assessment of Alignment, Implementation, and Stakeholder Perspectives

This mixed-methods study assesses the alignment between teacher education curricula and community development needs in Ethiopia, finding that while the curricula have potential, they require stronger implementation, more practical community engagement, and deeper integration of indigenous knowledge to effectively prepare teachers for local development challenges.

Tsalafo Chaka Chame2026-10-09

📄 social science

Dear Shameless Death and Wees Onzichtbaar (Be Invisible) in the Context of Coming-of-Age and Culture

This study compares Latife Tekin's *Dear Shameless Death* and Murat Işık's *Wees Onzichtbaar* to demonstrate how their protagonists, Dirmit and Metin, navigate the transition from childhood to adulthood amidst cultural displacement and familial oppression, ultimately achieving self-realization and identity through romantic awakening and the interplay of traditional and foreign social codes.

Nazli Gündüz2026-10-09

📄 social science

Patterns of Emotional and Behavioral Responses to Racial-Ethnic Discrimination and Youth Well-Being: A Latent Class Analysis

This study utilized latent class analysis on 268 youth to identify four distinct patterns of emotional and behavioral responses to racial-ethnic discrimination, revealing that while these patterns vary significantly in their association with depressive and anxiety symptoms, high future orientation and multifaceted coping can coexist with substantial psychological distress.

Tyia Wilson, Patrece L. Joseph, Casey Hanner, Daniela Brissett, Aniruddh Ajith, Alison Culyba2026-10-09

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