This project will explore the ways in which a contemplative-based, anti-oppressive, and healing-centered curriculum developed by the Courage of Care Coalition and the Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies can support individuals, who are already engaged in climate change mitigation and/or adaptation initiatives, to continue their climate work in a sustainable and hopeful manner. Specifically, we will assess the potential efficacy of our updated pilot intervention in supporting participants’ psycho-social health and sustaining their climate-related engagement....

This paper explores the concept of suitability within applications of Ideal Distribution Models (IDMs). Specifically, we investigate the effectiveness of single measures of suitability in contexts where diverse local populations practiced a range of subsistence strategies with different environmental requirements and sociocultural consequences. To do so, we draw on legacy survey data from northern Afghanistan, within the historic region of Bactria. This region of Central Asia has a rich history of nomadic pastoralism as well...

Descriptive representation is not increased through candidacies alone, but also through voters responding favorably to candidates’ platforms. This study investigates voters’ reactions to the motivations for running for office presented by women candidates in primary elections using evidence from a survey experiment.

Broadly, we seek to understand trust in agents. Specifically, we aim to create and validate a trust measurement tool (the Multi-Dimensional Measure of Trust, MDMT) and seek to validate both our conception of trust and the items that constitute the measure. We posit five dimensions of trust (reliable, competent, ethical, transparent, benevolent), and the MDMT has five subscales corresponding to those dimensions. The current study tries to show that these subscales are differentially sensitive to...

Momentary Assessment of Cognitive Bias and its Relation to Adolescent Alcohol Use

Momentary Assessment of Cognitive Bias and its Relation to Adolescent Alcohol Use

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This study aims to explore the relationship between individuals' experience of whether different mental states feel pleasant or unpleasant and preference.

This registration includes a Pre-Analysis Plan for a project between The Policy Lab and the Providence Public Schools District, to conduct descriptive analysis on the District's Kindergarten Enrollment Data to explore the potential impact of the District's adjustment of its school choice program in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the 2020-21 school year.

To investigate the expression and sources of high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) protein in the maternal–fetal interface of patients with unexplained recurrent spontaneous abortion (URSA), and further to verify the role of HMGB1 in the etiology of URSA. 55 women at early pregnancy with URSA and 55 women undergoing selective termination of normal early pregnancy as control were included. The abortion tissues including villi and decidua were collected. The expression of HMGB1, CD45, CK7,...

A new aryltetralin lignan, bupleroid A (1), along with ten known analogues (2–11) were isolated from Bupleurum marginatum. The structures of these isolates were determined by 1D and 2D NMR, HRESIMS, and ECD data analysis. In addition, the DPPH radical scavenging capacities of all compounds were evaluated. Compound 6 exhibited good DPPH radical scavenging activity at a concentration of 50 μM.

From Wason's selection task to the literature on Dual Systems in reasoning, psychology has a long-standing tradition of demonstrating that people's everyday reasoning does not adhere to logical principles. Linguistics, on the other hand, has a long-standing tradition of attributing a high degree of logical sophistication to all linguistic humans: in mustering notions such as entailment directionality in explanations of, say, negative polarity items, it presupposes the availability of highly complex logical reasoning. The goal...

Open data for Psychological Science Article - Anxiety Impedes Adaptive Social Learning Under Uncertainty (Lamba, Frank, FeldmanHall, 2020).

This project is examining how different types of threat, particularly status threat and resource threat, relate to one another, and how they may impact evaluations of both immigrants and robots.

This study aims to explore the relationship between individuals' experience of whether different mental states feel open or closed and preference.

Providence Talks attempts to close the word gap that occurs among children of differing socioeconomic backgrounds. It uses LENA devices, home visiting, play groups, etc. to help parents speak more with their children. The Policy Lab is coordinating a multi-site evaluation between the five cities participating in the Providence Talks Replication Initiative. This document contains the initial version of our evaluation plan.

Includes the scenarios used in each experiment. Three dependent variables: extent Answered, common Cause, Treatability extent Answered:To what extent did the response “because he has campsismus” answer Aliyah’s question about why the patient showed the symptom? common Cause: How strongly do you agree or disagree with the idea that there is a common cause of the symptoms that is shared by all and only people with campsismus (whether or not we know what that cause...

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From Wason's selection task to the literature on Dual Systems in reasoning, psychology has a long-standing tradition of demonstrating that people's everyday reasoning does not adhere to logical principles. Linguistics, on the other hand, has a long-standing tradition of attributing a high degree of logical sophistication to all linguistic humans: in mustering notions such as entailment directionality in explanations of, say, negative polarity items, it presupposes the availability of highly complex logical reasoning. The goal...

The purpose of this project is to examine whether people's negative sentiments toward the perpetrator of a microaggression (compared to the perpetrator of a generic norm violation) extend to the entire social group that the violator belongs to. To begin we will focus on gender microaggressions, committed by men on women. We manipulate the kind of norm violation participants are exposed to (a man's microaggression or other norm violation, pretested to be of equal badness...