<p>Volume 30, Issue 6, December 2023, Page 356-361<br />. </p>
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<p>Volume 26, Issue 2, February 2023, Page 131-150<br />. </p>
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<h3 class="a-plus-plus">Abstract</h3>
<p class="a-plus-plus">Professional association football functions as a fetish which disavows both the foundational loss inherent to subjectivity and more subsidiary forms of symbolic castration produced by contemporary capitalism. This article analyses the various forms of castration and its disavowal inherent to the game and its fandom, and argues that football ritualises and reinforces the ideological illusion of the subject as an active rational agent within an actuality of passivity and loss.</p>
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<h2>Abstract</h2>
<h2>Objectives</h2>
<p>To investigate the role of Brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in the psychotic symptoms in first-episode patients with schizophrenia and whether BDNF levels were associated with the improvement of psychotic symptoms after risperidone treatment.</p>
<h2>Methods</h2>
<p>89 schizophrenia patients and 90 healthy controls were recruited, the schizophrenia patients were assigned into early response or early non-response groups at 2 weeks based on improvement in the positive and negative symptoms scale (PANSS) total score. All patients were treated with risperidone for 2 weeks, their serum BDNF levels were compared at baseline and after 2 weeks treatment.</p>
<h2>Results</h2>
<p>We found that patients had lower BDNF levels, compared to controls at baseline. After 2 weeks of treatment of risperidone, BDNF levels were significantly increased and psychotic symptoms were decreased in early response group. Correlation analysis showed that the change of BDNF levels after treatment was correlated with the change of PANSS total score. Further regression analysis showed that the change in BDNF levels was an independent predictor for the improvement in psychotic symptoms.</p>
<h2>Conclusions</h2>
<p>Our findings reveal that the level of BDNF was lower in first-episode schizophrenic patients, moreover, the changes in serum BDNF levels may have a predictive effect on the early improvement in psychotic symptoms in the first 2 weeks.</p>
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<p>Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print. <br />In July 2020, rapper Megan Thee Stallion was shot by her then boyfriend Tory Lanez, a fellow rapper. The incident brought to the surface (again) a long, ongoing conversation about the experiences of Black women survivors of intimate partner violence, much like other high-profile cases (e.g., Tina Turner) have done before. Specifically, these cases show how Black men particularly can uphold patriarchal violence in intimate or romantic contexts. Moreover, these cases show the tensions that can arise when survivors seek help from law enforcement. For example, the idea of racial loyalty and not calling the police on a Black man and how this affects the options available to Black women. In other words, Black women often have nowhere to turn for help when they experience violence. In this article, I employ Black Feminist Autoethnography as a methodological framework to analyze a personal instance of road rage where I was attacked, to explore how Black women survivors make meaning of their experiences, the thought process behind their decision to involve the police, how Black men uphold patriarchal violence in non-intimate contexts, and how Black women resist or refuse to accept the violence. This analysis reveals the raced and gendered components underlying the private/public nature of interpersonal violence experienced by Black women and the relationship between intimate and non-intimate interpersonal violence. Implications for qualitative social work research and practice include the use of Black Feminist Autoethnography as a methodological framework to identify areas of empowerment, strength, and support for survivors of violence.</p>
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<p>Youth Justice, Ahead of Print. <br />Since the early 2000s, Turkey’s youth justice system has undergone extensive reforms. However, it is centred around high-security remand imprisonment. Based on the research conducted between 2014 and 2015 to comprehend how high-security remand imprisonment has acquired such a central role, this article provides an analysis on the ways in which the system has diverted into a peculiar ‘managerialism’. Certain themes emerged revealing the turn to ‘managerialism’: (1) lack of coordination between different professional units and lack of evidence-based policymaking, (2) prioritization of speed and technology, (3) peripheral role of social work officials and (4) the importance of prisons.</p>
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Weapons of Mass Persuasion: Tracing the Story of Psychological Targeting on Social Media
By Sander van der Linden
The million dollar question, van der Linden writes, is whether psychological targeting effects users on platforms like Facebook. Until recently, the effects remained opaque. But new experiments are starting to clear up the picture, as van der Linden explains in the excerpt below
They seem to believe a lot of nonsense. So i wouldnt take their claims for much.
That said while there is a clinical difference between physically and psychological addiction I personally vouch for a more open approach that different people can experience and suffer from addiction in multiple ways. There is also some evidence that similar to allergies some rare people can be physically addicted to anything.
<h3 class="a-plus-plus">Abstract</h3>
<p class="a-plus-plus">The negative and harmful impact that discrimination causes in a human society is that through discrimination human rights and freedoms are violated, foreseen by domestic legislation and international legal acts. The key objective of this research is to analyze the domestic and international legal regulations in the field of discrimination, as well as to address the level of applicability of the law on protection from discrimination in practice. Likewise, in discrimination as a phenomenon, types of unequal treatment such as direct discrimination and indirect discrimination shall be handled. To what extent has Kosovo managed to harmonize domestic legislation with international legislation, as well as how much has it achieved in terms of implementing in practice? The research uses the deduction method, the purpose of which is to elaborate the problem from general to specific arguments. The results of this research indicate the different types of discrimination and the constitutional and legal provisions which guarantee protection from discrimination, as well as the harmonization of domestic legislation with international legislation. Hence, as a precondition when it comes to protection of human rights in terms of non-discrimination, Kosovo must make continuous efforts in the applicability of the legislation in practice.</p>
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GOP's good at brainwashing stupid and / or dysfunctional people. It's also good at attracting one issue voters who only care about guns, abortion, immigration, low taxes, etc.
Many people (if not most) are not that smart or caring. If you give them the one thing they want, they'll support you. Many people (if not most) are also bigots, and hate one group or another and you won't get them to change their minds by any means.
Republicans know this (they have psychological and media experts on their team who are smart, unlike their voting base) and use their knowledge to manipulate people with lies, and it works, just due to how human nature is.
Democrats also know this, which is why they don't seriously fight Republicans by compromising on some of their principles or also pandering just enough to get elected in purple / weak red areas. It's honestly just a power sharing agreement to keep things split 50 / 50 so the corpo donors can get what they want done while the average person gets distracted by the very public binary fight these 2 "parties" are always engaging in.
The only real answer is ranked choice voting and the formation of 2 additional parties. One that's fiscally and environmentally liberal and socially conservative, and another that's socially liberal, but fiscally liberal, and hopefully environmentally at least moderate.
People forget that most places on the internet are left-leaning or flat out liberal bubbles. Especially FOSS communities like Lemmy / Kbin. If you go out and engage people in real life, it's easy to quickly realize that people will keep voting in climate denying, polluting jackasses so they can keep their guns, or make sure abortion's illegal, etc.
Our best hope is young GOP voters who believe in climate change and want to do something about it, because they're growing up in this world, and will have to live in it too. Hopefully that Hawaii fire made even the rich realize that shit like that could happen to them during their vacation, and it'll make them give a shit. Anyhow, our best bet is to try to make deals with the next generation of Republicans, and also introduce ranked choice voting which can create parties and coalitions built around compromise and getting things done as opposed to ideological purity tests, which keep losing us the house and / or senate, even if we win the presidency.
<p>Publication date: 15 October 2023</p>
<p><b>Source:</b> Journal of Affective Disorders, Volume 339</p>
<p>Author(s): Hong Li, Lingzhi Hou, Dong Wang, Qijin Wu, Haijin Li, Wen He, Sheng Li, Jianyue Pang, Yanyan Zhang, Quangang Ma, Cai Li, Jun Cheng</p>
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<p>“Christopher Rufo, a leading figure behind the rising tide of educational censorship, announced last month that ‘the accreditors are the next target.’”</p>
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<h2>Abstract</h2>
<p>Using grounded theory methodology, authors utilized four online focus groups to explore counselor trainees’ understanding of diversity in a mental health diagnosis course. Four overarching themes, each embodied by two subthemes, emerged from the data. Implications for counselor educators teaching diversity in diagnosis to counselor trainees are provided.</p>
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<p>Publication date: 15 October 2023</p>
<p><b>Source:</b> Journal of Affective Disorders, Volume 339</p>
<p>Author(s): Alina Patel, Alexander R. Daros, Samantha H. Irwin, Parky Lau, Ingrid M. Hope, Stephen J.M. Perkovic, Judith M. Laposa, M. Ishrat Husain, Robert D. Levitan, Stefan Kloiber, Lena C. Quilty</p>
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<p>Administration &Society, Ahead of Print. <br />Research on intersectionality in public administration reveals the diversity of marginalized groups and provides greater understanding of the ways intersecting identities influence inter- and intra-communal relationships. This article highlights the nuances that exist at the intersection of LGBTQIA+ and Jewish identities and how intersectionality can inform public service and engagement with minoritized populations in public and nonprofit organizations. The authors use LGBTQIA+ Jewish communities to construct four tenets of intersectionality—multiple and mutually constitutive identities, dynamic processes in managing multiple identities, discrimination within identities, and intersectional organizations—and discuss their relevance to public administration.</p>
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<h2>Abstract</h2>
<p>To assemble a high-quality test, psychometricians rely on subject matter experts (SMEs) to write high-quality items. However, SMEs are not typically given the opportunity to provide input on which content standards are most suitable for multiple-choice questions (MCQs). In the present study, we explored the relationship between perceived MCQ suitability for a given content standard and the associated item characteristics. Prior to item writing, we surveyed SMEs on MCQ suitability for each content standard. Following field testing, we then used SMEs’ average ratings for each content standard to predict item characteristics for the tests. We analyzed multilevel models predicting item difficulty (<i>p</i> value), discrimination, and nonfunctioning distractor presence. Items were nested within courses and content standards. There was a curvilinear relationship between SMEs’ ratings and item difficulty such that very low MCQ suitability ratings were predictive of easier items. After controlling for item difficulty, items with higher MCQ suitability ratings had higher discrimination and were less likely to have one or more nonfunctioning distractors. This research has practical implications for optimizing test blueprints. Additionally, psychometricians may use these ratings to better prepare for coaching SMEs during item writing.</p>
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So nothing backing up your claim. 1 lawyer claimed psychologist had been hired but with zero proof. I think you are taking rumors and running with them.
Psychs don’t have anything specific to add to gambling. Gambling is easy enough to replicate without any special traits psychs could add.
Try to refrain from calling into disrepute the psychological profession. It’s bad enough without this shit
German government approves controlled legalization of cannabis use (www.marca.com)
Hey guys, why is it getting warmer? Did y'all leave the stove on? (reddthat.com)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2021_Survey_on_existence_of_global_warming_and_responsibility_for_climate_change_-_bar_chart.svg
In 2023, console video game players will spend $21B on in-game items and subscriptions, as "live service games" make the market more akin to mobile (www.ft.com)
Games console industry tries to adapt to rise of free-to-play titles...