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A Comparative Approach to the Study of Cumulative Cultural Evolution: Where Are We Now, and Where Do We Go? (2024)
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Evidence for cumulative cultural evolution (CCE) in nonhumans remains rare. Here, we suggest that this results partly from methodological challenges involved in comparative CCE. We discuss two core challenges researchers in the field face: our sample... Read More about A Comparative Approach to the Study of Cumulative Cultural Evolution: Where Are We Now, and Where Do We Go?.

Scaling Up and Scaling Out of Darkness: Elucidating the Influences of Institutional Dysfunction in Scaling Up Solar PV in Sub-Saharan Africa (2024)
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Although researchers increasingly recognize the significant impact of institutional dysfunction on emerging economies, there remains a major gap regarding its influence on firms' upstream and downstream activities in scaling up renewable efforts. Dra... Read More about Scaling Up and Scaling Out of Darkness: Elucidating the Influences of Institutional Dysfunction in Scaling Up Solar PV in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Climate Change, Energy Transition, and the Global South: Learnings from the International Framework on the Ozone Layer (2024)
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The pursuit of climate action to meet net-zero targets has triggered the call for a global energy transition from fossil fuels to clean energy sources. However, this global energy transition does not entirely recognise all countries’ social, economic... Read More about Climate Change, Energy Transition, and the Global South: Learnings from the International Framework on the Ozone Layer.

Making soft skills ‘stick’: a systematic scoping review and integrated training transfer framework grounded in behavioural science (2024)
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Soft skills training often does not yield the desired behaviour changes at work – a phenomenon known as the soft skills transfer problem. Meanwhile, behavioural science interventions have proven successful in changing behaviours in various contexts.... Read More about Making soft skills ‘stick’: a systematic scoping review and integrated training transfer framework grounded in behavioural science.

Dispositional empathy and personality as predictors of contact quality: The mediating roles of contact self-efficacy and effort towards contact (2024)
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While the prejudice-reduction effect of intergroup contact has been extensively demonstrated, research identifying antecedents of positive contact and underlying mechanisms is limited. Two studies, in Italy (N = 239 Italian adolescents) and the UK (N... Read More about Dispositional empathy and personality as predictors of contact quality: The mediating roles of contact self-efficacy and effort towards contact.

Psychometric Evaluation of Aurora-a: An Augmented Assessment of Analytical, Practical, and Creative Abilities in Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence (2024)
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The Theory of Successful Intelligence defines intelligence as the integrated set of abilities and competencies in specific domains needed to attain success in life. Informed by this theory, we examined the dimensionality, reliability, and validity of... Read More about Psychometric Evaluation of Aurora-a: An Augmented Assessment of Analytical, Practical, and Creative Abilities in Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence.

Epistemic injustice and neo-racism: How Zhihu users portray ‘Chinese doctoral supervisors’ working in Western academia (2024)
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The image of Chinese doctoral supervisors working in Western academia is riddled with stereotypes in urban myths but little research to date has been conducted on these portrayals of Chinese supervisors. Drawing on postcolonial theories, including no... Read More about Epistemic injustice and neo-racism: How Zhihu users portray ‘Chinese doctoral supervisors’ working in Western academia.