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Perceptions of Women's Roles between Traditionalism and Modernity in Qatar
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Taylor and Francis Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
Women's participation in public life in the Arabian Peninsula is affected by tradition and limits their opportunities for socio-economic development. This study focuses on the social structures that impose gender inequality. ...
Effects of perceived social support and family demands on college students' mental well-being: A cross-cultural investigation
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
, 2015 , Article)
The effects of perceived social support and family demands on college students' mental well-being (perceived stress and depression) were assessed in 2 samples of Jordanian and Turkish college students. Statistically ...
Tell about yourself to improve your autobiographical memory: A study of Korsakoff's syndrome
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Elsevier Ireland Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
Korsakoff's syndrome (KS) has been associated with a difficulty to retrieve specific autobiographical memories. We investigated whether this difficulty can be alleviated after the retrieval of statements describing ...
Child Poverty and Youth Unemployment in Jordan
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Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
The main purposes of this article were to investigate the extent and depth of child poverty and youth unemployment in Jordan. In addition, it investigates the sociocultural connotation of child poverty and youth unemployment ...
Trust in development: some implications of knowing in indigenous knowledge
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
, 2010 , Article)
The indigenous knowledge (IK) initiative in development has met with limited success. The cultural relativity of knowledge � i.e. what qualifies as justified belief � may partly explain why. Drawing on New Guinea Highlands' ...
Coping styles and symptomatic manifestation of first-episode psychosis: Focus on cognitive performance
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Elsevier Ireland Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
Cognitive deficits are widely observed in patients with psychosis and represent one of most important determinants of functional outcomes. It has been shown that patients with psychosis prefer maladaptive coping strategies ...
Not all drugs are created equal: impaired future thinking in opiate, but not alcohol, users
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Springer Verlag
, 2018 , Article)
Episodic future thinking refers to the ability to travel forward in time to pre-experience an event. Although future thinking has been intimately linked with self and identity, to our knowledge, no prior research has ...
The interactive effect of valence and context on reversal learning in individuals with Parkinson's disease
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Elsevier Ireland Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
Cognitive deficits in Parkinson’s disease (PD) have increasingly been recognized over the last decade and reversal learning in particular has received a great deal of attention. In a classical reversal-learning paradigm, ...
Factors underlying risk taking in heroin-dependent individuals: Feedback processing and environmental contingencies
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2018 , Article)
Evidence suggests that factors influencing risk-taking include whether decisions are made based on emotions (affective systems) or cognitions (deliberative systems), the processing of feedback (e.g., deciding to attend a ...
Parcellating cognitive heterogeneity in early psychosis-spectrum illnesses: A cluster analysis
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2018 , Article)
Cognitive impairment is argued to represent a core feature of psychosis-spectrum illnesses. However, within-diagnosis heterogeneity is common, and risk factors for poor cognition remain to be examined after statistically ...