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Understanding and explaining pedagogical problem solving: a video-based grounded theory study of classroom pedagogy
Background during school lessons participants can face challenging pedagogical problems such as when science and religion topics interact. Pot...
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Understanding Student Purpose Types and Student Perceptions of the Influences Shaping Them
The authors undertook a qualitative study involving a national sample of 75 college students to discover what factors influenced their purpose...
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Unifying concepts of biological function from molecules to ecosystems
The concept of function arises at all levels of biological study and is often loosely and variously defined, especially within ecology. This h...
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Updating the Born rule
Despite the tremendous empirical success of quantum theory there is still widespread disagreement about what it can tell us about the nature o...
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Using Art in Adult Christian Education: An Option for Reflecting on Scripture and Building Relationships amongst Internally Displaced Adults in Colombia
This study explored the use of art as a teaching strategy with internally displaced adults. Two curricula were pilot tested with five groups o...
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Validation of the Spanish version of the Prosocial Behavior toward Different Targets Scale
The objective of this article was to validate the Spanish version of a prosociality scale that evaluates prosociality toward family members, f...
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Vocal accommodation in penguins ( Spheniscus demersus ) as a result of social environment
The ability to vary the characteristics of one's voice is a critical feature of human communication. Understanding whether and how animals cha...
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Ways to prepare future teachers to teach science in multicultural classrooms
Roussel De Carvalho uses the notion of superdiversity to draw attention to some of the pedagogical implications of teaching science in multicultural schools in cosmopolitan cities such as London...
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What are “The Hilbert Problems” in the Study of Religion?
David Hilbert lived from 1862–1943 and is regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of the late 19th/early 20th century. Among his pionee...
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What can bouncing oil droplets tell us about quantum mechanics?
A recent series of experiments have demonstrated that a classical fluid mechanical system, constituted by an oil droplet bouncing on a vibrati...
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What Caused What? A Quantitative Account of Actual Causation Using Dynamical Causal Networks
Actual causation is concerned with the question: “What caused what?” Consider a transition between two states within a system of interacting e...
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What Contributes to College Students’ Cheating? A Study of Individual Factors
To better understand the multiple individual factors that contribute to college cheating, we undertook a multivariate analysis of a national s...
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Project: Positive Design to Promote Gratitude and Wellbeing in Schools, from Children’s Points of View
What gratitude looks like from Colombian children’s perspectives
This study aimed to explore Colombian fifth-graders views about people, events, and situations involved in their gratitude experiences. The sa...
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What is Paradoxical About ‘Fermi’s Paradox’?
In this review of Milan Ćirković’s The Great Silence: Science and Philosophy of Fermi’s Paradox, we attempt to reconstruct the logic of Fermi’s paradox...
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What Universities Can Be: A New Model for Preparing Students for Active Concerned Citizenship and Ethical Leadership
Sternberg’s What Universities Can Be provides a thorough and thought-provoking consideration of how to prepare students to ACCEL, an acronym f...
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When Does Metacognition Evolve in the Opt-out Paradigm?
Using an evolutionary model, this study explores the conditions under which metacognition (awareness of one’s own knowledge) would be expected to evolve in the opt-out paradigm, a common experimental method used to study metacognition. In such experiments, individuals must choose between opting-in and attempting a task with a large reward or opting-out and receiving a smaller guaranteed payoff. Two evolving traits – bias and metacognition – jointly determine whether individuals opt-in. Overall, the results support predictions implicating uncertainty in the evolution of metacognition but suggest metacognition may also evolve in conditions where metacognition can be used to identify cases where an otherwise inaccessible high payoff is easy to acquire. |
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Why developmental niche construction is not selective niche construction: and why it matters
In the last decade, niche construction has been heralded as the neglected process in evolution. But niche construction is just one way in whic...
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Why do great and little traditions coexist in the world’s doctrinal religions?
Anthropologists and historians of religion have commonly contrasted “great” (literate, authoritative, and centrally regulated) traditions with...
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Project: Understanding Spiritual Intelligence: Psychological, Theological and Computational Approaches
WILL WE KNOW THEM WHEN WE MEET THEM? HUMAN CYBORG AND NONHUMAN PERSONHOOD
Abstract In this article, I assess (1) whether some cyborgs and AI robots can theoretically be considered persons; and (2) how we will know if...
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Young frigatebirds learn how to compensate for wind drift
Compensating for wind drift can improve goalward flight efficiency in animal taxa, especially among those that rely on thermal soaring to trav...
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