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Paper Collection—Award Winning Papers in Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities

23 July 2025

We are pleased to announce that 20 papers in the field of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities have been selected as the 2024 Best Paper Award winners.

Behavioral Sciences:
Cluster B versus Cluster C Personality Disorders: A Comparison of Comorbidity, Suicidality, Traumatization and Global Functioning
by Laura Y. Massaal-van der Ree, Merijn Eikelenboom, Adriaan W. Hoogendoorn, Kathleen Thomaes and Hein J. F. van Marle
Behav. Sci. 2022, 12(4), 105; https://doi.org/10.3390/bs12040105

Child–Dog Attachment, Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology: The Mediating Role of Positive and Negative Behaviours
by Roxanne D. Hawkins, Charlotte Robinson and Zara P. Brodie
Behav. Sci. 2022, 12(4), 109; https://doi.org/10.3390/bs12040109

Education Sciences:
Reshaping Sustainable University Education in Post-Pandemic World: Lessons Learned from an Empirical Study
by Hussan Munir
Educ. Sci. 2022, 12(8), 524; https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12080524

Online and Hybrid Teaching and Learning: Enhance Effective Student Engagement and Experience
by Kelum A. A. Gamage, Achini Gamage and Shyama C. P. Dehideniya
Educ. Sci. 2022, 12(10), 651; https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12100651

Principles of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in STEM Education: Using Expert Wisdom and Research to Frame Educational Practice
by Kathy Smith, Nicoleta Maynard, Amanda Berry, Tanya Stephenson, Tabetha Spiteri, Deborah Corrigan, Jennifer Mansfield, Peter Ellerton and Timothy Smith
Educ. Sci. 2022, 12(10), 728; https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12100728

Training and Preparing Tomorrow’s Workforce for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
by Michael Max Bühler, Thorsten Jelinek and Konrad Nübel
Educ. Sci. 2022, 12(11), 782; https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12110782

Genealogy:
Regimes beyond the One-Drop Rule: New Models of Multiracial Identity
by Sarah Iverson, Ann Morning, Aliya Saperstein and Janet Xu
Genealogy 2022, 6(2), 57; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy6020057

‘This Society Has Taken Me.’ Intensive Parenting and Fragile Belonging among Second-Generation Minority Danish Parents
by Laura Gilliam
Genealogy 2022, 6(3), 63; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy6030063

Humanities:
Beowulf and the Hunt
by Francis Leneghan
Humanities 2022, 11(2), 36; https://doi.org/10.3390/h11020036

Jane Austen: The Musician as Author
by Gillian Dooley
Humanities 2022, 11(3), 73; https://doi.org/10.3390/h11030073

Journal of Intelligence:
Students Can (Mostly) Recognize Effective Learning, So Why Do They Not Do It?
by Stephany Duany Rea, Lisi Wang, Katherine Muenks and Veronica X. Yan
J. Intell. 2022, 10(4), 127; https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence10040127

Languages:
Cultural Experience Influences Multisensory Emotion Perception in Bilinguals
by Peiyao Chen, Ashley Chung-Fat-Yim and Viorica Marian
Languages 2022, 7(1), 12; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7010012

Segmental and Prosodic Evidence for Property-by-Property Transfer in L3 English in Northern Africa
by John Archibald
Languages 2022, 7(1), 28; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7010028

Multilingual Children’s Motivations to Code-Switch: A Qualitative Analysis of Code-Switching in Dutch-English Bilingual Daycares
by Nina-Sophie Sczepurek, Suzanne P. Aalberse and Josje Verhagen
Languages 2022, 7(4), 274; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7040274

Philosophies:
Human Rights and Democracy—Obligations and Delusions
by Hans Kolstad
Philosophies 2022, 7(1), 14; https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7010014

On Falsifiable Statistical Hypotheses
by Konstantin Genin
Philosophies 2022, 7(2), 40; https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7020040

Societies:
Doulas, Racism, and Whiteness: How Birth Support Workers Process Advocacy towards Women of Color
by Juan L. Salinas, Manisha Salinas and Megan Kahn
Societies 2022, 12(1), 19; https://doi.org/10.3390/soc12010019

Diversity Competence in Healthcare: Experts’ Views on the Most Important Skills in Caring for Migrant and Minority Patients
by Sandra Ziegler, Camilla Michaëlis and Janne Sørensen
Societies 2022, 12(2), 43; https://doi.org/10.3390/soc12020043

Systems:
Developing an IoT Identity Management System Using Blockchain
by Sitalakshmi Venkatraman and Sazia Parvin
Systems 2022, 10(2), 39; https://doi.org/10.3390/systems10020039

The Integration of Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability into Model-Based Systems Engineering
by Kyle Diatte, Bryan O’Halloran and Douglas L. Van Bossuyt
Systems 2022, 10(4), 101; https://doi.org/10.3390/systems10040101