We add to a growing literature suggesting that demographic grade gaps should be attributed biases embedded in the courses themselves. Changes structure of two different introductory physics classes were made while leaving topics covered and level coverage unchanged. First, class where conceptual issues studied before doing any complicated calculations had zero final exam gap between students fr...

BACKGROUND Detection and attribution of health impacts caused by climate change uses formal methods to determine a) whether the occurrence of adverse health outcomes has changed, and b) the extent to which that change could be attributed to climate change. There have been limited efforts to undertake detection and attribution analyses in health. OBJECTIVE Our goal was to show a range of appro...

People typically evaluate their in-groups more favorably than out-groups and themselves more favorably than others. Research on infrahumanization also suggests a preferential attribution of the "human essence" to in-groups, independent of in-group favoritism. The authors propose a corresponding phenomenon in interpersonal comparisons: People attribute greater humanness to themselves than to oth...

Abstract. Decadal sea-level variability masks longer-term changes due to natural and anthropogenic drivers in short-duration records increases uncertainty trend acceleration estimates. When making regional coastal management adaptation decisions, it is important understand the of these account for periods reduced or enhanced change. The variance decadal trends about global mean quantified mappe...

This article aims to approach the phenomenon of cringe in four steps: First, from a sociological perspective, distinction between shame and embarrassment is discussed working definition developed that conceives this difference as situational rather than essential. In second step, will be used examine more closely how actors’ self-representation decomposed reality format Wife Swap what role crin...