School of Applied Social Sciences
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Materialising the perfect egg 'donor': examining the work of screening technologies in clinical, commercial and counselling practices
(Conference)Within Europe, fertility treatment using donor eggs is increasing, with demand coming from a diverse and growing number of recipients, including older women and gay male couples. Within the EU, the practice is governed by ... -
Genetics, heritability and family histories: materialising the healthy egg donor in clinical screening practices
(Conference)Media reporting of a small number of high profile cases in which serious genetic conditions have been inadvertently passed from donor to offspring serve to generate ideas about the potential for genetic risk in donor ... -
Teaching virtues through literature: learning from the ‘Narnian Virtues’ Character Education research
(Article)Character education through curriculum subjects has taken increasing political importance in England after its inclusion in the school inspection framework. Here we present a pedagogical approach to developing virtue ... -
Representing 'altruistic donation' in Europe: an analysis of fertility clinic websites in the UK, Belgium and Spain
(Conference)European regulation on advertising for egg providers makes clear the need to ensure that principles of voluntary and unpaid donation (VUD) are upheld at the country level (ref). Across Europe this requirement is differently ... -
Theories of Punishment
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The Influence of Encoding and Testing Directions on Retrieval of Spatial Information in Explored and Described Environments
(Article)The verbal descriptions of an environment elicit a spatial mental model, in which the linear disposition of the described objects might be related to the properties of the description. In particular the direction from which ... -
Slow and fast beat sequences are represented differently through space
(Article)The Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC) suggests the existence of an association between number magnitude and response position, with faster left-hand responses to small numbers and faster right-hand ... -
Exposure to the IPCC special report on 1.5°C global warming is linked to perceived threat and increased concern about climate change
(Article)This article investigates the influence of exposure to the IPCC special report on 1.5°C global warming on climate change attitudes. Among a nationally representative sample of the Norwegian public, we found that exposure ... -
Social media impacts the relation between interpersonal conflict and job performance
(Article)Previous research has predominantly focused on the effects of cognitive and emotional reactions on the relation between interpersonal conflict and job performance. The effects of behavioral reactions, however, have been ... -
The effect of subgroup homogeneity of efficacy on contribution in public good dilemmas
(Article)This paper examines how to maximize contribution in public good dilemmas by arranging people into homogeneous or heterogeneous subgroups. Past studies on the effect of homo- geneity of efficacy have exclusively manipulated ... -
True versus strategic fairness in a common resource dilemma: Evidence from the dual-process perspective
(Article)Common resource dilemmas involve collectively coordinating individual choices to promote group efficiency. Equal division represents one of the most important coordination rules. Previous research suggests that individuals ... -
How Belief in a Just World Benefits Mental Health: The Effects of Optimism and Gratitude
(Article)Past research suggests that individuals’ belief in a just world (BJW) is closely connected with their mental health. To clarify the underlying mechanism, the current study proposes that BJW encourages optimism and gratitude ... -
Up or Down? How Culture and Color Affect Judgments
(Article)In the Mainland China stock market, an upmarket is represented by the color red, whereas a downmarket is represented by the color green. Elsewhere, including the Chinese Hong Kong stock market, the color representations ... -
Perceived Family Life Quality in Junior Secondary School Students in Hong Kong
(Article)The present longitudinal study examined perceived family functioning and related socio-demographic correlates from the perspective of adolescents in Hong Kong. Results showed that adolescent perceptions of family functioning ... -
Can you forgive? It depends on how happy you are
(Article)This paper examined how individual group status and happiness influence forgiveness. In Study 1, happiness was treated as a trait difference: highly happy people, compared with very unhappy people, were found to be more ... -
To Be or Not To Be Humorous? Cross Cultural Perspectives on Humor
(Article)Humor seems to manifest differently in Western and Eastern cultures, although little is known about how culture shapes humor perceptions. The authors suggest that Westerners regard humor as a common and positive disposition; ... -
The centrality of taxation to social policy
(Article)The article reviews the limited existing social policy literature on taxation and sets out a case for the incorporation of the study of taxation into the accepted remit of social policy. Social policy has historically been ... -
A Environmental Harm Perspective to examine our understanding of UK Nuclear Energy Expansion
(Article)Uranium makes up 95% of the compounds used in the nuclear energy industry in the United Kingdom (UK). In 2018, the UK had 15 nuclear reactors which generate up to 21% of the UK’s electricity, however, the UK government ...
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