Alcoholism and Conditional Reasoning: Difficulties in Specific Mental Domains or in the General Use of Heuristics? by Miguel López Astorga

“…That is the aim of this paper, which will be based mainly on the dual-process theory and which will offer a critical review of both the Social contracts theory and the hazard management theory.…”
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Barking Mosque and Quintessential Insight: Overcoming the Problematic Government/Community Counterterrorism Partnership in the UK by Weeks, Douglas

“…Last, the article profiles a holistic counterradicalization response undertaken by Quintessential Insight and the Barking Mosque whereby social vulnerability is reduced, individuals and communities are empowered, social and political agency is maximized, social contracts are restored, and resilience to radicalization is increased.…”

Smart Contract Relations in e-Commerce: Legal Implications of Exchanges Conducted on the Blockchain by Philippa Ryan

“…Little has been written to address how the blockchain’s trust protocol can enable the kind of social contracting that characterized the way exchanges were conducted before the Internet. …”
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Fairness in access to higher education in a global perspective: reconciling excellence, efficiency, and justice by Chankseliani, M

“…The book’s chapters consider how different national communities channel access to higher education, what their “implicit social contracts” are, and what outcomes are produced by different policies and methods. …”

Not Allowed: Practicing Process by Ugorji, Amanda

“…If we make better work when we are full and present, what do we need to be full and present? If the social contracts we hold outside of architecture education spaces are constantly violated, what new social contracts must we build? …”
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Bomb or Boon: Linking Population, People and Power in Fragile Regions; Comment on “The Pill Is Mightier Than the Sword” by Raymond Gilpin

“…Concomitant steps must also be taken to foster inclusivity, guarantee broader rights for all, particularly women, rebuild social contracts and ensure that all citizens have equal access to economic opportunity. …”
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The Functions of Language: An Experimental Study by Gina Redhead, R. I. M. Dunbar

“…We test between four separate hypotheses (social gossip, social contracts, mate advertising and factual information exchange) for the function(s) of language using a recall paradigm. …”
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Determinants and background of the educational and social pact in Spain by Santiago Esteban Frades

“…After a revision of the education regulations that emerged out of agreements, this article describes some political and social contracts on Education.…”
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The Functions of Language: An Experimental Study by Redhead, G, Dunbar, R

“…We test between four separate hypotheses (social gossip, social contracts, mate advertising and factual information exchange) for the function(s) of language using a recall paradigm. …”

Meaningful disinformation: Narrative rituals and affective folktales by Marco Bastos, Marc Tuters

“…We review seminal contributions to information and communication studies to foreground disinformation as de facto alternative social contracts that organize the overflow of information in meaningful narratives. …”
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Institutional settings in a rice cluster: Assessing the effects of social capital on learning in Malaysia by Ng, B.K., Magli, A.S., Wong, C.Y., Govinda, V.C.

“…Thus, agricultural cluster development policies must address the 'soft' elements of the cluster in fostering cooperative relationships and "social contracts" among the cluster actors. Findings also indicate that the cluster's learning processes take place mainly in the form of informal learning and learning by doing, in which the effects of social cohesiveness, trust and connectedness are particularly important. …”
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Medical Assistance in Dying: A Review of Canadian Health Authority Policy Documents by Robyn Thomas, Barbara Pesut, Gloria Puurveen, Sally Thorne, Carol Tishelman, Betsy Leimbigler

“…Overall, these policies addressed important risk mitigation strategies, acknowledged important social contracts, and supported ethical practice. Collectively, these policies outline important considerations in the evolving Canadian context for other jurisdictions seeking to create policy around assisted death.…”
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China’s engagement with Kazakhstan and Russia’s : Why is Nur-Sultan incurring regional power hedging? by Maximilian Ohle, Richard J. Cook, Zhaoying Han

“…Lake, this paper outlines how Nur-Sultan’s interests and preferences are acknowledged by the respective dominants, as a basis for social contracting processes to generate a dual hierarchical order in Central Asia.…”
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Social dynamics

“…Epstein, and Young); and the breakdown of social contracts (Ken Binmore). Durlauf is Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin. …”

Women who are Deterritorialisated by Mouring: Antigone by Burcu Dabak Özdemir

“…The claim of this study is that Antigone, a female rebellious character remains at the liminal state, and as a result of this, she gains the skills to design destructive acts by being liberated from all social contracts and identities. This destructive state provides a new possibility of reading on social tensions observed during the time of transformation.…”
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7000-year-old evidence of fruit tree cultivation in the Jordan Valley, Israel by Dafna Langgut, Yosef Garfinkel

“…We hypothesize that established horticulture contributed to more elaborate social contracts and institutions since olive oil, table olives, and dry figs were highly suitable for long-distance trade and taxation.…”
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How Does Self-Efficacy in Communication Affect the Relationship Between Intercultural Experience, Language Skills, and Cultural Intelligence by Miroslav Jurasek, Petr Wawrosz

“…Our study anticipates that intercultural social contracts, travel experience and knowledge of foreign languages affect CQ. …”
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Evidence of an Alternative Currency for Altruism in Laboratory-Based Experiments by Daniel Farrelly, Emma Moan, Kristi White, Sarah Young

“…All experiments showed that the task was successful, as participants were more likely to altruistically punish violators of social contracts than other scenarios (Experiments 1 and 2), and also incur more costs to behave altruistically towards others when feeling empathic than different emotional states (Experiment 3). …”
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Distributed Ledger Technology for Smart Cities, the Sharing Economy, and Social Compliance by Pietro Ferraro, C. King, Robert Shorten

“…This paper describes how distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) can be used to enforce social contracts and to orchestrate the behavior of agents trying to access a shared resource. …”
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Policies and Practices of Family Friendliness. Time and Employment Relations in Knowledge Work by Tove Håpnes, Bente Rasmussen

“…Using the concept of social contracts in em- ployment and a relational concept of time, we found that it was more difficult to realise the reduced hours in the organisation that took responsibility for the career and welfare of their employees in a long-term perspective because of the mutual trust and obligations in this relationship.The women in the organisation with more transactional relations where their employment was dependent upon the market and their short-term economic performance, were able to use their accounting system to reduce their hours.The young fathers in the same organisation who were not yet established as experts, could not use the accounting system to limit their hours like the senior women.They needed to work long hours on scientific publications to qualify as researchers to secure their employment. …”
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