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📄 social science

Leader–Employee Trust (In)Congruence and Illegitimate Tasks: The Mediating Role of Leader–Member Exchange

Based on multi-source data from Chinese organizations, this study reveals that the congruence between leader and employee trust influences perceptions of illegitimate tasks through the mediating role of Leader–Member Exchange (LMX), with LMX quality being highest when both parties trust each other highly or when employees trust their leaders more than the leaders trust them.

Guangya Ma, Chunying Cui, Junhan Ji, Lei Lu2026-09-28
📄 social science

Value as semiotic representation or abstract wealth? Revisiting Turner’s Marxist theory

This article critiques Terence Turner's Marxist theory for misinterpreting value as a transcultural framework of valuation rather than a historically specific form of abstract wealth, arguing instead that ritual labor among the Mebêngôkre produces a sociocultural equivalent of abstract wealth, thereby revealing beauty as a bourgeois category rather than a universal form of value.

Ignacio S. Marmolejo2026-09-28
📄 social science

Emotional and Sensory Drivers of Food Choices in Albania and Kosovo

This study utilizes the MindSense framework and structural equation modeling on survey data from over 590 respondents in Albania and Kosovo to reveal how emotions, mindful consumption, and sensory sensitivity interact to influence food choices, demonstrating that negative moods and heightened sensory cues drive unhealthy, ultra-processed selections while positive moods can be moderated by mindful consumption, thereby offering targeted policy strategies to promote sustainable diets in the Western Balkans.

Elena Kokthi, Arbenita Hasani, Kaltrina Kelmendi, Matilda Belalla, Aleksia Meshini2026-09-28
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Resolution Relativity: Sign Language and the Grain of Languaging

This paper reframes linguistic relativity as a matter of "resolution relativity"—the varying conventional grains at which languaging communities segment articulatory flow—by demonstrating through sign language evidence that linguistic diversity arises from distinct resolutions of analysis rather than fixed categorical inventories, thereby challenging universalist assumptions and shifting the focus from representational content to the historical processes of embodied languaging.

Luis Escobar L.-Dellamary2026-09-28
📄 social science

Discrimination and mental health in Germany– Evidence from a comparative cross-sectional study

This 2025 cross-sectional study of 2,500 participants in Germany demonstrates that racialized individuals face significantly higher levels of everyday and healthcare-related discrimination, which are strongly associated with poorer mental health outcomes, thereby highlighting racism as a critical social determinant of mental health that requires urgent structural and clinical interventions.

Miriam Nicolai, Fatima Nöske, Helena Dieterle, Sebastian Fischer, Sören Kliem, Mita Banerjee, Elmar Brähler, Manfred Beu (…)2026-09-28
📄 social science

What the Rules Cannot Show: Cabinet Governance in 34 Parliamentary Democracies, 2005–2021

This article introduces the first annual, time-series–cross-sectional dataset of cabinet governance across 34 parliamentary democracies from 2005 to 2021, utilizing expert-assessed behavioral indicators to reveal frequent shifts in executive decision-making models that formal institutional rules fail to capture, thereby highlighting the dynamic nature of democratic accountability.

Detlef Jahn2026-09-28
📄 social science

Does the climate crisis reshape meat and vegetarian preferences? Climate-change appraisals moderate the association between value orientations and meat and dietary preferences

Based on a survey of 1,970 South Korean adults, this study reveals that while specific value orientations and climate-change appraisals independently predict meat and vegetarian preferences, climate-change appraisals also function as moderating conditions that shape how these values translate into dietary choices.

Joo Sung Hwang, Seoyong Kim, Kyungmin Lee2026-09-28