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Money Giveth, Money Taketh Away: The Dual Effect of Wealth on Happiness
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This study provides the first evidence that money impairs people's ability to savor everyday positive emotions and experiences. In a sample of working adults, wealthier individuals reported lower savoring ability (the ability to enhance and prolong positive emotional experience). Moreover, the negat...
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What Do You Mean by "European"? Evidence of Spontaneous Ingroup Projection
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The ingroup projection model posits that group members project ingroup features onto a superordinate category. The present research aimed at isolating the cognitive underpinnings of this process. If ingroup projection is a spontaneous cognitive process, a superordinate category prime should facilita...
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DIAL - Dépôt Institutionnel de l'Académie Louvain
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Religiousness as a Cultural Adaptation of Basic Traits: A Five-Factor Model Perspective
Author(s) :
Saroglou, Vassilis
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Individual differences in religiousness can be partly explained as a cultural adaptation of two basic personality traits, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness. This argument is supported by a meta-analysis of 71 samples (N = 21,715) from 19 countries and a review of the literature on personality and ...
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English
Threatened or Empowered? The Impact of Neighborhood Context on Community Involvement in Antwerp, Belgium
Author(s) :
Loopmans, Maarten
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Using a citywide register of community involvement, this article tests two competing theories for explaining active citizenship through neighborhood context: one that emphasizes the opportunities available in the neighborhood, whether at the level of the individual, the social environment, or the ph...
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DIAL - Dépôt Institutionnel de l'Académie Louvain
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English
Unexpected Pulseless Disease Associated With Recurrent Venous Thromboembolisms
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Morelle, Johann
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Hermans, Cédric
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Tintillier, Michel
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Martinot, Jean-Benoit
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Moortgat, Stéphanie
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Venous thromboembolic disease is a well-documented complication of Klinefelter's syndrome, even if mechanisms Underlying this prothrombotic state have not been conclusively established. On the contrary, arterial thrombosis is Far less frequent, and a case of a patient with Klinefelter's syndrome pre...
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DIAL - Dépôt Institutionnel de l'Académie Louvain
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English
Origins and Consequences of Schools' Organizational Culture for Student Achievement
Author(s) :
Dumay, Xavier
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Purpose: Most studies on the impact of school culture focus only on teachers' average perceptions and neglect the possibility that a meaningful increment to the prediction of school effectiveness might be provided by the variance in teachers' culture perceptions. The objectives of this article are t...
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English
The benefits of justice for temporary workers
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This study tested a multidimensional model of organizational justice in the context of contingent employment. Based on previous conceptual and empirical research, the authors generated the following predictions. First, they predicted that the data would be consistent with a four-factor model of orga...
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DIAL - Dépôt Institutionnel de l'Académie Louvain
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English
Institutional vulnerability to social constructions - Federalism, target populations, and policy designs for assisted reproductive technology in six democracies
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This article contributes to efforts to integrate power-based, institutionalist, and constructivist perspectives on policy making. Using an analysis of policy designs for assisted reproductive technology, the authors argue that jurisdictional federations are more vulnerable to social constructions ba...
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English
Factor structure of the French version of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-III
Author(s) :
Gregoire, Jacques
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The standardization of the French version of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-III) was conducted after carefully adapting the French version from the U.S. version and extensive field testing. The standardization sample was composed of 1,104 participants from 16 to 89 years. To assess the ...
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Same-gender marriage: A European view
Author(s) :
Rigaux, François
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The recent development of family relations has created doubts on the reliability of the concepts of family law. Today, family law has become a controversial field in nearly every country. Contraception, abortion, new modes of procreation, same gender cohabitation, and the specter of same-gender marr...
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DIAL - Dépôt Institutionnel de l'Académie Louvain
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English