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    "Examinations commonly use either free-response (FR) or multiple-choice (MC) response formats, each with its advantages and disantvantages. Despite frequent reports of high construct equivalence between them, certain group differences based on differing person characteristics still need to be explained." Prof. Dr. Tuulia M. Ortner et al. "aimed to investigate how test takers´ characteristics and behavior - particularly test anxiety, risk propensity, conscientiousness, lecture attendance, and study time - impact test scores in exams with FR and MC format." The authors report in ´Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling´ (1/24):

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    Managers in international companies need to be transculturally competent to realise synergies available from cultural diversity and to communicate and integrate effectively across differences, Prof. Claude-Helene Mayer and Dr. Christian Martin Boness emphasize in their manual „Creating mental health across cultures – Coaching and training for managers“:

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    The male Y chromosome in humans is evolving faster than the X. Scientists have now discovered the same trend in six species of primate.

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    A woman kept ending up in the emergency room with excessive sleepiness, slurred speech and the scent of alcohol on her breath, but she had not ingested a drop of liquor. It turns out that microbes in her gut were brewing their own booze — and making her drunk.

     

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    "In Europe in the 21st century, nightlife drug use spaces became normalised due to two major changes that took place in the last decades: the rises of capitalism and liberalism," Kostas Skliamis explains (in: Normalisation-re-visited - Drugs in Europe in the 21st century).

     

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    With the nature of the universe's two most elusive components up for debate, physicists have proposed a radical idea: Invisible particles called tachyons, which break causality and move faster than light, may dominate the cosmos.

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    Global life expectancy had been on the rise since 1950, but this historical trend was reversed between 2019 and 2021, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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    "The ownership of sex dolls has become an increasingly controversial social issue in recent years, with many people calling for the criminalization of such dolls. At the root of these calls is the assumption that sex doll ownership contributes to increases in deviant sexual offense risks among doll owners." Craig A. Harper and Rebecca Lievesley (Nottingham/UK) compared the psychological characteristics and comparative sexual aggression proclivities of sex doll owners and a non-owner comparison group using anonymous survey designs.

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    A new book by Otto Laske, known as a high-level developmental coach and team facilitator, has appeared at W. Pabst Science Publisher in German and English.

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    "Drug normalisation seeks to go beyond opposing binaries of whether drug consumption is a public health or a criminal issue. The problem of social acceptability for the drug normalisation thesis is its difference from the United Nations Drug Classification. But at the same time the drug normalisation thesis is replicated within European countries ´drug policies," the new textbook for social drugs research reports.

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