Social sciences, psychology, economics and the humanities.
Dutch newspapers used 331 metaphors in coverage of quantum science and technology from 2010 to March 2024. The metaphors followed recurring patterns, linking difficult quantum ideas to familiar objects, physical phenomena and existing technologies.
Rural U.S. counties expressed higher life satisfaction, while urban counties expressed greater momentary happiness, according to an analysis of 2.6 billion geolocated tweets from 2014 to 2022. The findings suggest that where people live may relate differently to reflective judgments about life and to day-to-day feelings.
A meta-analysis of 175 studies involving 418,528 young people found no overall increase in subclinical emotional and behavioral symptoms from 1981 to 2019. Instead, some problems became less common while others, including anxiety and depression in teenagers, showed increases in particular reports.
AI gateways and the Model Context Protocol can manage connections, identities and traffic, but they do not necessarily create evidence that a specific agent action was authorized before it happened. The paper proposes criteria for producing and independently checking that evidence in regulated settings.
A study of selected Norwegian municipalities found that lowering the voting age from 18 to 16 in 2011 was associated with smaller local-government budget surpluses. The estimated reduction was about NOK 600, or €60, per person, with larger effects in some political settings.
A study of images from more than 200 cities found geographic differences in how multimodal AI systems detected objects and assessed urban scenes. When location information was added, scores for qualities such as “Wealthy” and “Beautiful” fell sharply for African cities but rose in parts of Asia and North America.
Arabic Education graduates teaching non-Arabic subjects in Bongao, Tawi-Tawi, Philippines, reported difficulties linked to the mismatch between their training and classroom assignments. In interviews, they described limited subject knowledge, insufficient support and training, and problems they associated with teaching effectiveness and student learning.
In a study of 159 emerging adults, efforts to increase positive emotions were linked to improved emotions, while efforts to reduce them were linked to the opposite pattern. People used these strategies more when their emotions were more intense, whether positive or negative.
China’s expansion in electric vehicles illustrates the goals and progress of its Dual Circulation Strategy, according to a study in Asia Europe Journal. The authors conclude that the European Union needs a multilayered industrial strategy, including more production and innovation at home, to compete with China.
A study found that increases in online mentions of the Benadryl Challenge were followed by a significant rise in adolescent-related calls to US poison centers about diphenhydramine. Those calls remained elevated for more than 25 days after the first spike in online mentions.
Five daylong recordings offer a detailed look at young children’s language environments, while also showing the practical and theoretical difficulties of studying them. The researchers outline a workflow for manual transcription and annotation and report four insights that could shape future research methods.
An exploratory survey of 63 people in the United States identified six kinds of challenges reported by people in polyamorous relationships. They included familiar relationship struggles, difficulties linked to having multiple partners, and pressure from stigma and expectations that relationships should be monogamous.
In a national US study, adolescents and young adults exposed to a suicide attempt within their social networks had higher odds of a later suicide attempt and higher depressive symptoms over time. The exposure was not linked to the onset of suicidal thoughts.
A study of 984 U.S. adults found that fears about economic insecurity and technology were each associated with greater support for political violence. The link with economic fears appeared among people with low and middle socioeconomic status, while technology-related fears were linked to support among people with low and high socioeconomic status.
A systematic review of 18 quantitative studies found that responsiveness was the governance practice most consistently associated with public trust in local governments. Transparency and formal accountability had more conditional relationships, with service delivery, perceived performance and effectiveness helping shape how people judged local authorities.
