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The digital readiness paradox in luxury hospitality: Psychological tensions in contactless guest experiences

This study of the Kigali Marriott Hotel reveals a "digital readiness paradox" in luxury hospitality, where guests' appreciation for contactless efficiency is undermined by psychological tensions like anxiety and emotional detachment, necessitating a balanced approach that integrates "digital emotional labor" and human choice to preserve the emotional core of the luxury experience.

Gilbert TUGANEYEZU2026-10-01

📄 social science

Sea Turtles at Risk: Blue Precarities, the Indian Ocean and Chandani Lokuge’s Turtle Nest

This article employs blue humanities to critique how neoliberal tourism and the blue economy generate "blue precarities" that threaten Indian Ocean sea turtle habitats, using Chandani Lokuge's *Turtle Nest* to illustrate the resulting disappearance of turtles from Sri Lankan coasts.

ABHISEK GHOSAL2026-10-01

📄 social science

Who Answers for AI? Epistemic Visibility, Responsibility, and Error Repair in Collaborative Learning

This study demonstrates that making AI provenance visible in collaborative learning strengthens verification processes, balances participation, and improves error repair and outcomes, suggesting that responsible AI integration depends more on the ability to inspect and contest claims than on universal access.

Chenxi Luo2026-10-01

📄 social science

Generative AI as an epistemic mirror: six cognitive operations in future-oriented reasoning

This paper proposes that generative AI functions as an "epistemic mirror" that transforms human future-oriented reasoning by externalizing and statistically reconfiguring six cognitive operations, offering a new theoretical framework for understanding how AI alters anticipation and diverging from traditional reflective media.

Hayoun Won2026-10-01

📄 social science

The Kept Men? Exploring Mankeeping, Masculinity, and Men’s Help-Seeking Patterns

This study of 395 Irish men reveals that while reliance on female partners for emotional support is a primary help-seeking strategy, it is driven more by the quality of close relationships and adherence to masculine norms than by the sheer size of one's social network, offering initial quantitative evidence for the "mankeeping" phenomenon.

Donagh Seaver O'Leary, Darina Scully2026-10-01

📄 social science

Adoption behavior of cultivated land ecological protection among family farms from the AMO theory perspective: A fuzzy-set QCA approach

Using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) within the AMO framework, this study reveals that family farms' adoption of cultivated land ecological protection is driven by two distinct synergistic pathways—"ability-opportunity" and "ability-motivation"—rather than any single factor, highlighting the critical roles of peer effects and the substitutability between organizational support and self-efficacy.

Zhou Liping, Wei Siqi, Hu Sihan, Su Hong2026-10-01

📄 social science

Israel in Gaza: The Impact of Conflict Classification on Criminal Accountability

This paper analyzes how the International Criminal Court's dual classification of the Gaza conflict as both an International and Non-International Armed Conflict creates legal fragmentation and uneven criminal accountability between Israel and Hamas due to disparities in the Rome Statute's war crimes provisions, ultimately advocating for a harmonized IHL framework with a unified list of war crimes.

Arianna Vita2026-10-01

📄 social science

Evidentiary Asymmetry in Criminal Adjudication: A Unified Theory of Burdens, Standards, Access, and Error Allocation

This article proposes the Theory of Evidentiary Asymmetry, a unified normative framework that reconciles the state's superior investigative power with the imperative to prevent wrongful convictions by integrating defendant-protective burdens of proof with institutional counter-measures ensuring full disclosure and access, a model which reveals critical gaps in Indonesia's new Criminal Procedure Code regarding the explicit allocation of uncertainty and remedies for withheld evidence.

M.H. Amir S.H., Andi Muhammad Sofyan, Amir Ilyas2026-10-01

📄 social science

Digital Empowerment-Induced Alienation Risks and Regulatory Strategies in Sport Tourism: A Socio-Technical Systems Perspective

Drawing on socio-technical systems theory, this study identifies four core alienation risks arising from digital empowerment in sport tourism and proposes corresponding regulatory strategies to balance technological advancement with humanistic values.

shuai wang, fang zheng2026-10-01

📄 social science

Revelation as a Legitimate Epistemic Source: Rethinking the Limits of Contemporary Epistemology

This paper argues that revelation should be recognized as a legitimate epistemic source within contemporary philosophy by subjecting it to the same critical standards of justification applied to other knowledge sources, culminating in the proposal of the Maku Model of Epistemic Pluralism (MMEP) to integrate revelation with reason, perception, and other faculties without compromising rational inquiry.

Samuel Maku2026-10-01

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