In many world regions students with certain immigrant backgrounds underperform in educational settings. Theory and research suggest that this achievement gap could be partially explained by stereotype threat. Stereotype threat is a detrimental psychological state that inhibits individuals who belong to a negatively stereotyped group at times of learning and performance. The aim of this work was...

The film ‘Don't look up’ engages a woman science advisor, historically very male-dominated role. Because the character of scientist Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) cannot be easily transformed into commodity, she is side-lined as scientific voice attempts to warn Earth coming apocalypse. For marginalised scientists, their value depends on how identity markers are used. satire audience apathy,...

New biotechnologies developed over the past three decades, together with changes in the public discourse around reproductive and reparative medicine, have led to an accelerated deconstruction of the notion of the human. Whereas biological, anthropological, philosophical and sociolegal definitions of human identity before this period were hardly consonant with each other, they were all constrain...

We used event-related functional MRI to investigate the neural bases of two categories of mental processes believed to contribute to performance of an alphabetization working memory task: memory storage and memory manipulation. Our delayed-response tasks required memory for the identity and position-in-the-display of items in two- or five-letter memory sets (to identify load-sensitive regions) ...

This study extends previous media equation research, which showed that interdependence but not identity leads to team affiliation effects with computers. The current study used an identity manipulation that more closely replicated the manipulation used in traditional team and group formation research than the original media equation research in this area. The study also sought further evidence ...

This paper investigates the susceptibility of a futures market to manipulation in a twoperiod model with imperfect information and delivery-settled contracts. A large trader is assumed to have private information on his own type, while other traders' information regarding the large trader's identity is imperfect. Under certain mild assumptions, the model shows that a “corner’ or ‘squeeze’ can o...

based on the fact the manipulation of fine nanoclusters calls for more precise modeling, the aim of this paper is to conduct an atomistic investigation for interaction analysis of particle-substrate system for pushing and positioning purposes. in the present research, 2d molecular dynamics simulations have been used to investigate such behaviors. performing the planar simulations can provide a ...

the present study addresses the influence of iran’s post-revolution political structure on the formation of the country’s translated literature system. it examines the translated anglo-american novels pub-lished under two administrations in power after the islamic revolution: 1) the reformist administra-tion, which was a more liberal, leftist administration, seeking to improve iran’s relations ...

it has been reported previously that modulatory effects of pleasant and unpleasant slides on the human acoustic reflex are observed only if startle probes are presented to the left ear or with binaural presentation. the present study examined the effects of the left and the right ear stimulation on modulated startle reflex (as indexed by eyeblink component, measured at the right eye) employing ...