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3 Citations
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9 May 2023

Existing studies have focused on the effect of emotion on attention, and the role of attention on emotion has largely been underestimated. To further determine the mechanisms underlying the role of attention on emotion, the present study explored the...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,082 Views
15 Pages

Perception of the Figure of the Social Educator in Rural Contexts in Spain

  • María García-Garrido,
  • Teresa Amezcua-Aguilar and
  • Samuel P. León

23 March 2023

Social education is a relatively new and expanding area of knowledge. This means that there are few studies that attempt to analyze its impact on society. This study aims to build knowledge using mixed research methods to analyze the perception held...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,862 Views
14 Pages

Although the relationship between environment and public depression has aroused heated debate, the empirical research on the relationship between environmental quality perception and public depression is still relatively insufficient. This paper aims...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Social Determinants of Mental Health)
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  • Open Access
62 Citations
11,376 Views
15 Pages

Residents’ Perception of the Impact of Sports Tourism on Sustainable Social Development

  • Rómulo Jacobo González-García,
  • Gabriel Mártínez-Rico,
  • Francesc Bañuls-Lapuerta and
  • Ferran Calabuig

21 January 2022

The analysis of the social perception of citizens and evaluations of the impact of sport tourism and their support for tourism development can be of great use in the formulation of policies aimed at social cohesion and local development. These action...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sport-Based Entrepreneurship, Sport Management, and Sustainable Development Goals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,234 Views
14 Pages

28 November 2022

The influence of matching between robots’ social cues on users’ social perceptions should be investigated systematically to better fit robots to their occupational roles. In this study, an experiment with 69 older and middle-aged particip...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,106 Views
19 Pages

5 November 2025

Institutions hold a crucial influence over human behavior and economic development. Using 3791 agricultural land transfer-out households from the 2021 Chinese Social Survey (CSS) data as the research sample, this study employs Logit, IV-Probit, and H...

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  • Open Access
127 Citations
11,710 Views
17 Pages

Social distancing is one of the most recommended policies worldwide to reduce diffusion risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on a risk management perspective, this study explores the mechanism of the risk perception effect on social distancing in...

(This article belongs to the Section Public Health Statistics and Risk Assessment)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,024 Views
13 Pages

6 September 2022

Background: This randomized trial’s objective was to investigate the impact of social network content on the perception of smiles among specialists, doctors, students of dental medicine, and laypeople. Method: A sample of 360 respondents was sh...

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  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,481 Views
18 Pages

14 March 2021

The occupational injury death rate and mortality ratio owing to cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases in the construction industry are the highest among all industries in Taiwan. Reducing work stress and improving safety behavior is a must for...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Construction Safety Management Practices)
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  • Open Access
41 Citations
9,257 Views
24 Pages

Climate Change and Social Perception: A Case Study in Southern Italy

  • Loredana Antronico,
  • Roberto Coscarelli,
  • Francesco De Pascale and
  • Dante Di Matteo

27 August 2020

The consequences of climate change can involve various ambits and be very severe. For this reason, the social perception of climate change is a fundamental issue since it can influence the decisions of the policymakers, by encouraging or discouraging...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainability in Geographic Science)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,866 Views
15 Pages

12 October 2022

The purpose of this study was to investigate the key factors for creating a positive visual perception response evaluation for social media video communication. The aim of this study was to determine what factors of light sources impact visual percep...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Education for Sustainable Development: Toward Quality and Inclusive Education for All)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,408 Views
35 Pages

Social networking platforms connect people from all around the world. Because of their user-friendliness and easy accessibility, their traffic is increasing drastically. Such active participation has caught the attention of many research groups that...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,216 Views
24 Pages

Social Media Use and Digital Self-Perception in University Students

  • Albert Marquès-Donoso,
  • Rafael Carrasco Polaino,
  • Ana Martínez-Hernández and
  • Patricia Revuelta Mediavilla

11 December 2025

This study examines how social media use relates to university students’ digital self-perception within the framework of sustainable education and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs 3 and 4). A quantitative, cross-sectional design was appl...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,500 Views
23 Pages

25 December 2025

This study employs Gaussian kernel principal component analysis to construct a composite indicator of environmental behavior willingness from nine dimensions. Using multiple categorical ordered linear regression models and their interaction models, i...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,806 Views
17 Pages

A Multimodal Perception Framework for Users Emotional State Assessment in Social Robotics

  • Lorenzo Cominelli,
  • Nicola Carbonaro,
  • Daniele Mazzei,
  • Roberto Garofalo and ,
  • Alessandro Tognetti and
  • Danilo De Rossi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

In this work, we present an unobtrusive and non-invasive perception framework based on the synergy between two main acquisition systems: the Touch-Me Pad, consisting of two electronic patches for physiological signal extraction and processing; and th...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,744 Views
23 Pages

Eating in Season—A Lever of Sustainability? An Interview Study on the Social Perception of Seasonal Consumption

  • Faustine Régnier,
  • Anne-Laure Dalstein,
  • Clémence Rouballay and
  • Louis Chauvel

29 April 2022

Seasonality is a lever of sustainability. However, very little is known about the social perceptions of “in season” food consumption. We aimed to explore different French social groups’ perceptions of seasonality, “in season&r...

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  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,849 Views
13 Pages

A Survey on Socially Assistive Robotics: Clinicians’ and Patients’ Perception of a Social Robot within Gait Rehabilitation Therapies

  • Denniss Raigoso,
  • Nathalia Céspedes,
  • Carlos A. Cifuentes,
  • Antonio J. del-Ama and
  • Marcela Múnera

A growing interest in Socially Assistive Robotics in Physical Rehabilitation is currently observed; some of the benefits highlight the capability of a social robot to support and assist rehabilitation procedures. This paper presents a perception stud...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Neurotechnologies in People with Walking Disabilities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
11,944 Views
13 Pages

Adverse human health effects ranging from skin lesions to internal cancers as well as widespread social and psychological problems caused by arsenic contaminated drinking water in Bangladesh may be the biggest arsenic calamity in the world. From an a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Drinking Water and Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,079 Views
19 Pages

22 August 2021

Today, the role of universities in the education of future managers who promote the principles of social responsibility (SR) and CSR in business practice is pivotal. Properly educated management staff of organizations can disseminate knowledge on thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability in Higher Educational Institutions: Incorporating Environment, Society and Economy Spheres in Education, Research and Campus Life)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,549 Views
28 Pages

15 March 2023

Innovations like autonomous delivery vehicles (ADV) have the potential to transform last-mile delivery to make it more sustainable and human-centered. Yet only if these technologies are socially acceptable can they live up to their potential. Using t...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,490 Views
14 Pages

This research aims to capture the interplay between risk perception and social media posting through a case study of COVID-19 in Wuhan to support risk response and decision making. Dividing users on Sina Weibo into the government, the media, the publ...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Communication and Informatics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,921 Views
28 Pages

26 July 2022

The paper presents the results of a literature review on how social media can impact on disaster risk perception and vulnerability and how these two aspects are interconnected, trying to understand what factors have consequences especially on informa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geo-Hazards and Risk Reduction Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,673 Views
17 Pages

Social Perception of the Ecosystem Services of Prunus serotina subsp. capuli in the Andes of Ecuador

  • Juan Carlos Carrasco Baquero,
  • Luis Felipe Lema Palaquibay,
  • Carlos Renato Chávez Velásquez,
  • Verónica Caballero-Serrano and ,
  • Rachel Itle and
  • Dario J. Chavez
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 May 2023

Ecosystem services (ES) refer to the benefits that people obtain from the ecosystem. In this sense, Prunus serotina is associated with the provision of ES; however, these services have been scarcely studied. The objective of this research was to dete...

(This article belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,035 Views
12 Pages

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a novel infectious disease which has had a great impact on the public. Further investigations are, therefore, needed to investigate how the public copes with COVID-19. This study aimed to develop a model to esti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue COVID-19 Outbreak and Beyond: Psychological and Behavioral Responses and Future Perspectives)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,538 Views
15 Pages

Assessment by Competences in Social Sciences: Secondary Students Perception Based on the EPECOCISO Scale

  • José-María Álvarez-Martínez-Iglesias,
  • Francisco-Javier Trigueros-Cano,
  • Pedro Miralles-Martínez and
  • Jesús Molina-Saorín

2 December 2020

The purpose of this work is to find out the students’ perception of the level of development of competences in the area of Social Sciences, Geography, and History. It has been developed taking into account what has been learned in the area, the...

(This article belongs to the Collection Education, Innovation and Training for Sustainable Development in the Context of COVID-19)
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  • Open Access
66 Citations
10,059 Views
17 Pages

Social Identity and Risk Perception Explain Participation in the Swiss Youth Climate Strikes

  • Adrian Brügger,
  • Moritz Gubler,
  • Katharine Steentjes and
  • Stuart B. Capstick

18 December 2020

Since late 2018, young people around the world have united to demand greater action on climate change. Aside from their stated concerns and demands, however, very little is known about why young people have been joining this growing movement. Using a...

(This article belongs to the Section Psychology of Sustainability and Sustainable Development)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,625 Views
20 Pages

Does Internet Use Affect Citizens’ Perception of Social Safety? A Cross-Sectional Survey in China

  • Zicheng Wang,
  • Huiting Liu,
  • Lijuan Zhou,
  • Wei Zhang and
  • Mingxing Zhou

24 November 2022

Since the advent of the Internet has changed how risk information develops and disseminates, citizens’ risk perception alters correspondingly. Although extant studies have explored the impacts of Internet use on citizens, only a few have focuse...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Communication for the Digital Media Age)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,682 Views
23 Pages

The entrepreneurship of college students is an important issue related to the harmony and sustainable development of society as a whole. At present, the existing research in the industry pays less attention to the influence mechanism of non-cognitive...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
738 Views
24 Pages

20 March 2026

In the field of environmental governance, where responsibility boundaries and governance effectiveness are relatively ambiguous, a clear and systematic theoretical explanation and an empirical test on the internal transmission mechanism of social cap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability Management Strategies and Practices—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
8,041 Views
17 Pages

Social Perception of Ecosystem Services in a Coastal Wetland Post-Earthquake: A Case Study in Chile

  • Octavio Rojas,
  • María Zamorano,
  • Katia Saez,
  • Carolina Rojas and ,
  • Claudio Vega,
  • Loretto Arriagada and
  • Corina Basnou
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 October 2017

Natural disasters can cause abrupt disturbances in coastal wetlands, affecting the social perception of ecosystem services (ES). The Tubul-Raqui coastal wetland is one of the most important wetlands in south-central Chile. Rich in biodiversity, these...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social-Ecological Restoration for Coastal Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,410 Views
20 Pages

Oil spills cause socioeconomic and ecological damage to the marine environment and local communities. Implementing policies to effectively cope with such incidents is a challenging task due to the negative public perceptions about governmental respon...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical Oceanography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,712 Views
12 Pages

3 March 2023

Livelihood strategies are a combination of activities and actions that individuals undertake to accomplish their desired goals. The current study aimed to examine the impacts of livelihood strategies on business performance. This study explored socia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation Management and Organizational Networks: Digital Innovation in Circular Economy)
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  • Open Access
75 Citations
9,799 Views
18 Pages

The activation of norm perception can promote pro-environmental behavior. How does media, as important variables in activating norm perception, affect pro-environmental behavior? Through an online survey of 550 randomly selected Chinese citizens, thi...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
803 Views
26 Pages

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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Cognition and Cooperative Behavior)
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  • Open Access
700 Views
18 Pages

The Relationship Between Social–Emotional Skills and the Perception of School Violence Among Chilean Children and Adolescents

  • Flavio Muñoz-Troncoso,
  • Ricardo García-Hormazábal,
  • Enrique Riquelme-Mella,
  • Rhys Allardice and ,
  • Isabel Cuadrado-Gordillo and
  • Gerardo Muñoz-Troncoso
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 July 2026

This study examines the relationship between social–emotional skills (SES) and perceptions of school violence among primary school students (3rd through 8th grade), considering both associations and heterogeneity in social–emotional profi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Socio-Emotional Competencies and School Adjustment in Adolescence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,876 Views
31 Pages

The relationships between accountants’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) awareness and their perceptions of organisational risk are examined in this study. The emphasis is on the operational, strategic, financial and compliance risks o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Featured Papers in Finance and Society Wellbeing—in Honor of Professors Joe Gani and Chris Heyde)
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  • Open Access
429 Views
12 Pages

4 August 2026

Background/Objectives: Traumatic birth perception has been associated with adverse psychological outcomes during the postpartum period, including postpartum depressive symptoms. Perceived social support may be related to both traumatic birth percepti...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,258 Views
13 Pages

26 July 2023

This study examines the effect of consumers’ perceptions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on their anti-consumer awareness. Specifically, this study aims to uncover the mechanisms through which the consumer’s CSR perception relate...

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  • Open Access
56 Citations
7,157 Views
17 Pages

Perception of Risk, Self-Efficacy and Social Trust during the Diffusion of Covid-19 in Italy

  • Pierluigi Diotaiuti,
  • Giuseppe Valente,
  • Stefania Mancone,
  • Lavinia Falese and ,
  • Fernando Bellizzi,
  • Daniela Anastasi,
  • Elisa Langiano,
  • Fábio Hech Dominski and
  • Alexandro Andrade
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

The Coronavirus pandemic has affected the lives of people all over the world. The perception of risk and people’s consequent behaviour during a pandemic are very complex and are affected by multiple cultural and psychological factors. The aim of this...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Environmental Research and Public Health--Public Health Issues in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,299 Views
17 Pages

Tourism Stakeholder Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility in Serbia: The Perception of Hotel Employees

  • Maja Mijatov Ladičorbić,
  • Aleksandra S. Dragin,
  • Tamara Jovanović,
  • Milica Solarević and ,
  • Olja Munitlak Ivanović,
  • Vladimir Stojanović,
  • Kristina Košić,
  • Anđelija Ivkov Džigurski,
  • Slavica Tomić and
  • Aleksandra Stoiljković
  • + 11 authors+ 6 authors

22 February 2023

Individual values shaped in the early years of each individual might be reflected in the perception of the business environment. Therefore, this research explored whether there are significant differences in employees’ perceptions of the establ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Comparative Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs))
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
8,069 Views
12 Pages

5 March 2022

The article considers the social perception of artificial intelligence (AI) as an essential factor having an impact on the digitization, transfer, and popularization of cultural heritage. The article aims at the theoretical comprehension of the digit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies in Digitizing Cultural Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,623 Views
21 Pages

3 July 2020

People often base their mobility decisions on subjective aspects of travel experience, such as time perception, space usage, and safety. It is well recognized that different groups within a population will react differently to the same trip, however,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Improving Quality of Service and Safety Perception in Public Transport Systems)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,892 Views
13 Pages

13 June 2023

Based on the interaction of person-affect-cognition-execution model, this study examined the association between stress perception and problematic social network use among Chinese college students and explored the mediating effect of the fear of miss...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,828 Views
8 Pages

Social Odour Perception and Stress Responses in Women’s Quality of Partner Relationship and Attachment Style

  • Giulia Piraino,
  • Omar Carlo Gioacchino Gelo,
  • Andrea Schito,
  • Lydia Giménez-Llort and
  • Sara Invitto

9 March 2023

The perception of body and social odours (SOP) is crucial for interpersonal chemosensory signalling and mate choice, yet little is known about the role of the SOP on the quality of partnerships and the attachment style. The aim of this study was to i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,360 Views
15 Pages

17 October 2020

Corporate social responsibility refers to the voluntary promises made by an enterprise to achieve sustainable development. When enterprises conduct prosocial activities, they must consider the feelings of their employees including employees’ se...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Comparative Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs))
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,491 Views
16 Pages

28 December 2023

Electric vehicles have gained significant popularity in the market, with sales increasing yearly. The introduction of new policies and reforms aimed at promoting environmental sustainability, coupled with the release of more advanced electric vehicle...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
10,313 Views
18 Pages

Perceived risk of environmental threats often translates into psychological stress with a wide range of effects on health and well-being. Petrochemical industrial complexes constitute one of the sites that can cause considerable pollution and health...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social and Economical Determinants of Health)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
9,661 Views
14 Pages

31 October 2023

The effects of disinformation in the media and social networks have been extensively studied from the perspective of reception studies. However, the perception of this media phenomenon expressed by different types of audiences in distant geographic l...

(This article belongs to the Collection Encyclopedia of Social Sciences)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,028 Views
21 Pages

Nudging Consumer Behavior with Social Marketing in Portugal: Can Perception Have an Influence over Trying Insect-Based Food?

  • Rocsana Bucea-Manea-Țoniș,
  • Oliva M. D. Martins,
  • Laura Urdeș,
  • Ana Sofia Coelho and
  • Violeta-Elena Simion

12 June 2023

Social marketing campaigns are widely used to inform, educate, communicate, and promote healthy behaviors that add benefits to the individual, but also to society and the environment. Considering the low cost and high quality of insect-based food, th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Insects and Their Derivatives for Human Practical Uses 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,624 Views
13 Pages

Social Anxiety, Risk Perception, and Problematic Use of Mobile Phones and Video Games: A Gender Perspective

  • Rosario Ruiz-Olivares,
  • Valentina Lucena Jurado,
  • Antonio Ruiz-García and
  • Antonio Félix Raya Trenas

7 November 2025

Background: Adolescents spend much of their leisure time using technological devices, especially mobile phones and video games, making their use susceptible to becoming problematic. Objectives: This study aims to examine the relationship between soci...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mental Health, Innovative Therapies and Assessment in Adolescents and Young Adults and Related Contexts)

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