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The concept of social axiom represents generalized beliefs regarding individuals, agencies and other social institutions, and the spiritual world. The relationship between social axioms and social and mental well-being has not been widely investigated. The aim of this research i…

The main aim of this thesis is to investigate how environmental preference for the built environment, either in-situ or based on visual representations (e.g. visualisations of final architectural design), may be affected by three distinct variables. One of them is emotion, opera…

Conflicts between groups are affected by myriad historical and situational factors. Yet people are rarely overwhelmed by this complexity and are able to adopt a coherent depiction of the conflict, often with an unequivocal allocation of blame to one group. A person's final judgm…

The purpose of this study was to understand the role that self-concept, peer support, and family support play in relation to openness to secular knowledge among American Modern Orthodox Jewish high school students studying for the year in Israel. The change in openness to secula…

During the middle grades, children typically first encounter discipline-specific instruction delegated to specialist teachers, and teachers incorporate “close reading” of increasingly complex texts to achieve the goal of preparing students for what they will encounter in seconda…

Introduction: People with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) often have problems with social communication, reduced contact with friends, and less satisfying social relationships than adults without history of TBI. Impaired abilities in perspective-taking may underl…