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📄 social_science

Between common language and disciplinary difference: Secondary teachers talking about writing across the curriculum

This qualitative case study of Australian secondary teachers reveals that while school-wide writing initiatives benefit from shared terminology, effective cross-curricular literacy development requires acknowledging disciplinary differences in how concepts like evidence and analysis are constructed, using student artefacts to make these distinct expectations explicit rather than enforcing uniform standards.

Michael D. Carey2026-09-08
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Cultural Norms in Food Cognition: Development and Cross-Cultural Validation of the Culinary Violation Task

This study validates the Culinary Violation Task by demonstrating that Chinese and Italian adults exhibit significantly stronger disgust and lower appropriateness judgments toward food pairings that violate their own cultural norms compared to those violating other cultures' norms, highlighting the role of culturally shared knowledge in organizing affective and evaluative cognition.

Roberto Filippi, Paola Bonifacci, Liang Hu, Olivia Yang, Lam Yuen Sun, Yinuo Tian, Tong Wu, Elisa Pappalardo, Maria Fran (…)2026-09-08
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Scam Compounds and Virtual-Asset Laundering: A Structured Case Analysis of the Alleged Chen Zhi/Prince Group Network

This documentary case analysis employs a "Scam-Compound Organisational Matrix" to examine the alleged Chen Zhi/Prince Group network, illustrating how scam compounds integrate coerced labor, industrialized fraud, and virtual-asset laundering while emphasizing the critical need to distinguish allegations from verified facts for effective asset restitution and victim safety.

Raymond L.M. Tang, Bo Wen2026-09-08
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Dark Personality Traits and the Big Five Personality Traits of Fathers in Relation to Sons’ Self-Confidence, Self-Esteem, and Attachment Style: The Moderating Role of Fathers’ Life Strategy and Reproductive Value

This study of 200 male participants reveals that fathers' personality traits, particularly neuroticism and conscientiousness, and their supportive behaviors significantly influence sons' self-esteem and attachment styles, with these relationships further moderated by the fathers' mate value.

Diana Iordache2026-09-08
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Student attitudes towards disclosure of GenAI in academic writing: A multidisciplinary study of undergraduate students in Nigerian universities

This multidisciplinary study of Nigerian undergraduates reveals that while students generally hold favorable attitudes toward disclosing generative AI use in academic writing, inconsistent institutional policies and fear of punitive consequences hinder the translation of this ethical awareness into consistent practice.

Lukman Abiodun Oyebode, Ify Evangel Obim, Esther David Josiah Okai, Bridget Enuwa Abah, Edidiong Essienita Nkang, Isaac (…)2026-09-08
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Governance Quality, Political Patronage, and Social Safety Net Effectiveness: Micro-level Evidence from Bangladesh

This mixed-methods study in Meherpur, Bangladesh, reveals that while social safety net effectiveness is moderate and varies significantly by administrative unit and programme type, expressed political patronage remains low due to constrained candour rather than its absence, suggesting that patronage persists independently of incumbency and necessitates governance reforms grounded in neo-patrimonial theory.

Md. Maruf Hossain Mamun2026-09-08
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Beyond the Bunsen burner: science teacher portrayals in visual media as cultural artifacts shaping public understanding of science education

Drawing on Wartofsky's artifact theory and an integrated theoretical framework, this paper analyzes science teacher portrayals in visual media from 1990 to 2023 to reveal how the "heroic exception" trope and evolving boundary figures create a significant representation-reality gap that shapes public understanding, expectations, and support for science education.

Serhiy O. Semerikov, Pavlo P. Nechypurenko, Tetiana A. Vakaliuk, Iryna S. Mintii2026-09-08
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Cultural Sovereignty in the Age of AI: A Postcolonial Critique of Intellectual Property Frameworks for Indonesian Traditional Arts

This article employs a postcolonial critique to argue that Indonesia's current intellectual property frameworks, rooted in colonial-era individualism, fail to protect traditional cultural expressions from AI exploitation, and proposes a culturally sovereign regulatory model based on community licensing, benefit-sharing, and Free, Prior and Informed Consent to achieve epistemic justice.

Muhammad Ilman Abidin2026-09-08
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Academic Procrastination, Digital Addiction, and General Achievement Expectancy in University Students: Profile Delineating via Hierarchical Cluster Analysis

Through hierarchical cluster analysis of 508 university students, this study identifies two distinct profiles—the "Procrastinating-Digital Addicted" group with low achievement expectancy and the "Digital Balanced-Success Oriented" group with high achievement expectancy—revealing significant variations by department and age to advocate for targeted, profile-specific educational interventions.

Ali Kirksekiz, Onur Isbulan, Emre Cam, Mubin Kiyici2026-09-08