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Behavioral Sciences, Volume 16, Issue 4

2026 April - 8 articles

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Articles (8)

  • Article
  • Open Access
Behav. Sci.2026, 16(4), 483;https://doi.org/10.3390/bs16040483 
(registering DOI)

24 March 2026

Emotional labor is inherently intensive in preschool teaching, and it is often conceptualized as resource loss, which may heighten burnout and hinder early childhood education quality-improvement initiatives. Accordingly, this study shifts attention...

  • Article
  • Open Access
Behav. Sci.2026, 16(4), 482;https://doi.org/10.3390/bs16040482 
(registering DOI)

24 March 2026

Third-party punishment involves bystanders voluntarily incurring costs to punish norm violators, thereby maintaining social norms and cooperation. While prior research shows reduced punishment when the bystander and violator are friends, less is know...

  • Article
  • Open Access

A Victims’ Coping Strategies Model of School Bullying Coping: A Grounded Theory Study of Chinese Students’ Retrospective View

  • Jiaying Wang,
  • Qianqian Zhang,
  • Tiantian Yu,
  • Zhongping Zhao,
  • Zhanhong Zhu and
  • Jielei Jiang
Behav. Sci.2026, 16(4), 481;https://doi.org/10.3390/bs16040481 
(registering DOI)

24 March 2026

Coping serves as a protective function in students’ responses to school bullying. Previous studies have proposed several models to explain how victims cope with school bullying, but most of these frameworks were developed in Western contexts. G...

  • Article
  • Open Access

Ketamine Use in Self-Described Therapeutic Contexts: A Thematic Analysis of Reddit Posts

  • Jared Kendrick,
  • Ghonwa Ahmad,
  • Audrey Wood,
  • Samuel Stumo,
  • Aarav Sehgal,
  • Douglas B. Matthews and
  • Pravesh Sharma
Behav. Sci.2026, 16(4), 480;https://doi.org/10.3390/bs16040480 
(registering DOI)

24 March 2026

The use of ketamine for the management of neuropsychiatric conditions outside clinical settings has rapidly expanded, creating a critical need to understand diverse individual experiences. We conducted a qualitative content analysis of posts from the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
Behav. Sci.2026, 16(4), 479;https://doi.org/10.3390/bs16040479 
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24 March 2026

Workplace harassment of transgender employees remains pervasive and understudied. In this narrative review of 63 studies over the past 25 years, we summarize the literature on transgender workplace harassment. We focus on its prevalence and forms. In...

  • Article
  • Open Access

An Inspectorate Perspective on Serious Youth Violence and Criminal Exploitation

  • Oliver Kenton,
  • Robin Moore,
  • Andrea Brazier,
  • Helen Mercer and
  • Helen Davies
Behav. Sci.2026, 16(4), 478;https://doi.org/10.3390/bs16040478 
(registering DOI)

24 March 2026

HM Inspectorate of Probation is committed to building and utilising the evidence base for high-quality youth justice services, and to promoting excellence and having a positive impact upon those inspected and the wider sector. Research evidence and i...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
Behav. Sci.2026, 16(4), 477;https://doi.org/10.3390/bs16040477 
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24 March 2026

Our paper presents an intuitive model of bystander intervention to workplace mistreatment. Drawing on the literature on moral intuition, our paper proposes (1) that bystanders match an observed conduct to mistreatment descriptions (the first type of...

  • Article
  • Open Access

24 March 2026

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and the continuous reform of English education in China have greatly reshaped the professional requirements for college English teachers. In contrast to the predominance of general teacher perspec...

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