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    Citation contexts of papers citing Merton's work "Social Theory and Social St...

    Citation contexts of papers citing Merton's work "Social Theory and Social Structure" based on MAG. Please see also: https://aka.ms/msracad Arnab Sinha, Zhihong...
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    The ‘Dark Side’ and ‘Bright Side’ of Personality: When Too Much Conscientious...

    Theory suggests that personality traits evolved to have costs and benefits, with the effectiveness of a trait dependent on how these costs and benefits relate to the present...
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    Compassion Fade: Affect and Charity Are Greatest for a Single Child in Need

    Charitable giving in 2013 exceeded $300 billion, but why do we respond to some life-saving causes while ignoring others? In our first two studies, we demonstrated that valuation...
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    Exploring collective emotion transmission in face-to-face interactions

    Collective emotion is the synchronous convergence of an effective response across individuals toward a specific event or object. Previous studies have focused on the...
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    The "new normal": Adapting doctoral trainee career preparation for broad care...

    : Doctoral recipients in the biomedical sciences and STEM fields are showing increased interest in career opportunities beyond academic positions. While recent research has...
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    Interest and learning in informal science learning sites: Differences in expe...

    This study explored topic interest, perceived learning and actual recall of exhibit content in 979 children and adolescents and 1,184 adults who visited informal science...
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    Beyond a dichotomous view of the concepts of 'sex' and 'gender' focus group d...

    Introduction: The concepts of 'sex' and 'gender' are both of vital importance in medicine and health sciences. However, the meaning of these concepts has seldom been discussed...
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    Universities scale like cities.

    Recent studies of urban scaling show that important socioeconomic city characteristics such as wealth and innovation capacity exhibit a nonlinear, particularly a power law...
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    Impact of Tobacco-Related Health Warning Labels across Socioeconomic, Race an...

    Background: The U.S. Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 requires updating of the existing text-only health warning labels on tobacco packaging with nine...
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    Strategic science communication as planned behavior: Understanding scientists...

    : Strategic science communicators need to select tactics that can help them achieve both their short-term communication objectives and long-term behavioral goals. However,...
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    Building the Field of Health Policy and Systems Research: An Agenda for Action

    The first paper in this series on building the field of Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) [1] outlined the scope and...
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    Does increased interdisciplinary contact among hard and social scientists hel...

    Scientists across disciplines must often work together to address pressing global issues facing our societies. For interdisciplinary projects to flourish, scientists must...