Franziska Baumeister, Pauline Wolfer, Ehsan Solaimani, Moritz M. Daum, Stephanie Durrleman
{"title":"On the impact of exposure to different languages on Theory of Mind in neurotypical and autistic children","authors":"Franziska Baumeister, Pauline Wolfer, Ehsan Solaimani, Moritz M. Daum, Stephanie Durrleman","doi":"10.1017/s136672892510031x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s136672892510031x","url":null,"abstract":"Exposure to multiple languages may support the development of Theory of Mind (ToM) in neurotypical (NT) and autistic children. However, previous research mainly applied group comparisons between monolingual and bilingual children, and the underlying mechanism of the observed difference remains unclear. The present study, therefore, sheds light on the effect of bilingualism on ToM in both NT and autistic children by measuring language experiences with a continuous operationalization. We measure ToM with a behavioral, linguistically simple tablet-based task, allowing inclusive assessment in autistic children. Analyses revealed no difference between monolingual and bilingual NT and autistic children. However, more balanced exposure to different languages within contexts positively predicted first-order false belief understanding in NT children but not autistic children. Mediation analysis showed that the impact in NT children was a direct effect and not mediated via other cognitive skills.","PeriodicalId":8758,"journal":{"name":"Bilingualism: Language and Cognition","volume":"41 1","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144766101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Erin D Solomon, Alison L Antes, Shih-Ying Cheng, Nikia Crollard, Yi-Lun Chiu, James M DuBois, Tristan McIntosh
{"title":"Seeking help as a strategy for ethical and professional decision-making in research: Perspectives of researchers from East Asia and the United States.","authors":"Erin D Solomon, Alison L Antes, Shih-Ying Cheng, Nikia Crollard, Yi-Lun Chiu, James M DuBois, Tristan McIntosh","doi":"10.1080/08989621.2024.2360945","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08989621.2024.2360945","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Background</b>: A person's cultural background shapes how they interpret and navigate problems. Given that large numbers of international researchers work and train in the U.S. we sought to better understand how researchers use the decision-making strategy of seeking help to navigate ethical and professional challenges.<b>Methods</b>: Participants (<i>N</i> = 300) were researchers working or training in the U.S. who were born in East Asia (EA) or born in the U.S. They completed a screening survey; then a subset completed think-aloud interviews (<i>n</i> = 66) focused on how they would respond to three hypothetical research scenarios.<b>Results</b>: Thematic analysis of the transcripts showed that seeking help was a commonly endorsed strategy, with some nuances between groups. Themes included seeking help in the form of getting advice, seeking someone to help solve the problem, and gathering information. Endorsement of the seeking help strategy frequently depended on participants' relationships; desiring to seek help from people they trusted. Notably, EA participants tended to prefer seeking help in ways that avoided reputational harm to others.<b>Conclusion</b>: A better understanding of how researchers from different cultural backgrounds use decision-making strategies can inform how to make educational programs more inclusive and comprehensive to more effectively develop researchers' ethical and professional decision-making skills.</p>","PeriodicalId":50927,"journal":{"name":"Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance","volume":" ","pages":"963-985"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11612029/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141201123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Should we express gratitude in human-AI interaction: The online public's moral stance toward artificial intelligence assistants in China.","authors":"Yuqi Zhu, Jianxun Chu","doi":"10.1177/09636625251314337","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09636625251314337","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The ethical dimensions of human-AI (artificial intelligence) interaction demand attention. As artificial intelligence assistants become more anthropomorphized, will the public interact with AI as humans morally? This study applied content analysis to data from an online question-and-answer platform in China (<i>N</i> = 287) to explore the public's judgments of gratitude toward artificial intelligence assistants. The findings revealed the majority supports expressing gratitude, while a significant minority disagrees, indicating diverse ethical judgments. By further analyzing people's reasoning, this study found that supporters attribute gratitude to moral autonomy driven by virtue ethics, moral responsibility for responsible AI, and the perceived source identity of anthropomorphized AI as human, aligning with the Computers-are-Social-Actors paradigm. In contrast, opponents doubt AI's moral agency, highlighting the perceived source of AI as machines, and they judge that treating it with human manners is useless and potentially dangerous. These insights enhance the understanding of the public's view of ethical considerations regarding AI assistants, contribute to gratitude research in the context of human-AI interaction, extend the moral dimension of the Computers-are-Social-Actors paradigm, and emphasize the importance of moral and responsible AI use. Suggestions for future research based on the exploratory findings are also discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"717-733"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143415922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The case for universal artificial intelligence declaration on the precedent of conflict of interest.","authors":"Alex Glynn","doi":"10.1080/08989621.2024.2345719","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08989621.2024.2345719","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50927,"journal":{"name":"Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance","volume":" ","pages":"1046-1047"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140868156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Write your paper on the motherland?","authors":"Shuo Wang, Shotaro Kinoshita, Hiromi M Yokoyama","doi":"10.1080/08989621.2024.2347398","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08989621.2024.2347398","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>'Write your paper on the motherland' is an influential Chinese slogan encouraging researchers to focus on domestic issues and prioritize local applications of their work, though interpretations differ. The 2024 'International Journal Early Warning List' update sparked renewed debate over the slogan's meaning. This letter argues that misinterpreting this slogan as merely promoting domestic journal submissions could lead to a more conservative submission behavior and a more closed academic system. This reflects a common challenge among non-English-speaking countries to balance international reach with local contributions in publications.</p>","PeriodicalId":50927,"journal":{"name":"Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance","volume":" ","pages":"1050-1052"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140861141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Mills, Sefika Mertkan, Gulen Onurkan Aliusta
{"title":"'Special issue-ization' as a growth and revenue strategy: Reproduction by the \"big five\" and the risks for research integrity.","authors":"David Mills, Sefika Mertkan, Gulen Onurkan Aliusta","doi":"10.1080/08989621.2024.2374567","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08989621.2024.2374567","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The exponential growth of MDPI and Frontiers over the last decade has been powered by their extensive use of special issues. The \"special issue-ization\" of journal publishing has been particularly associated with new publishers and seen as potentially \"questionable.\" Through an extended case-study analysis of three journals owned by one of the \"big five\" commercial publishers, this paper explores the risks that this growing use of special issues presents to research integrity. All three case-study journals show sudden and marked changes in their publication patterns. An analysis of special issue editorials and retraction notes was used to determine the specifics of special issues and reasons for retractions. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse data. Findings suggest that these commercial publishers are also promoting special issues and that article retractions are often connected to guest editor manipulation. This underlies the threat that \"special issue-ization\" presents to research integrity. It highlights the risks posed by the guest editor model, and the importance of extending this analysis to long-existing commercial publishers. The paper emphasizes the need for an in-depth examination of the underlying structures and political economy of science, and a discussion of the rise of gaming and manipulation within higher education systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":50927,"journal":{"name":"Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance","volume":" ","pages":"1027-1045"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141555855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language SciencesPub Date : 2025-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2025.101746
Pinky Moni Gayan, Arup Kumar Nath
{"title":"Productivity of Assamese derivational suffixes","authors":"Pinky Moni Gayan, Arup Kumar Nath","doi":"10.1016/j.langsci.2025.101746","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langsci.2025.101746","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Numerous languages, especially Indo-European, have made major strides in the study of morphological productivity as a result of the advent of digital technologies in recent decades. However, Indo-Aryan languages have received comparatively little attention from a quantitative perspective, primarily due to the lack of sufficient digital corpora and resources. This research attempts to investigate the productivity status of a few Assamese suffixes, addressing the challenges of obtaining resources and data collection techniques due to the lack of fully developed, substantial digital corpora. The study employs two manually curated samples, derived from digital texts and a dictionary of the language, to investigate this issue. While some of the suffixes exhibit consistency of productivity across various measuring methods in both samples, other suffixes present a contrastive picture indicating gaps and non-alignment between measuring methods and sampling approaches. It determines the overall productivity of suffixes using different measurement methods and shows that shifting the focus to various elements or functions of the suffixes may reveal fluctuations in their productivity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51592,"journal":{"name":"Language Sciences","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 101746"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144763762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SystemPub Date : 2025-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2025.103793
Belle Li , Zhuo Zhang , Victoria Lowell , Chaoran Wang , Curtis J. Bonk
{"title":"Development and validation of the PA-SDA Scale: Measuring personal attributes in AI-integrated self-directed language learning","authors":"Belle Li , Zhuo Zhang , Victoria Lowell , Chaoran Wang , Curtis J. Bonk","doi":"10.1016/j.system.2025.103793","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.system.2025.103793","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study introduces the Personal Attributes for Self-Directed AI Learning (PA-SDA) Scale. This 44-item instrument measures key personal attributes of language learners who use generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT. An initial pool of items was constructed through an extensive literature review, pilot testing, and expert review. We validated the scale with 699 global language learners, and the sample was divided into two independent subsamples for exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses to achieve cross-validation of the factorial structure. The final scale comprises five primary constructs: Attitude (perceived usefulness, ease of use, understanding limitations), Strategy Use (behavioral, cognitive/meta-cognitive, overall), Motivation, Self-efficacy, and Resource Use. Each primary construct contains subconstructs. The PA-SDA scale represents the first validated instrument for measuring personal attributes in AI-integrated SDL contexts, advancing theory by operationalizing qualitative insights, providing researchers with a reliable assessment tool, and offering educators means to evaluate learners’ AI-learning readiness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48185,"journal":{"name":"System","volume":"133 ","pages":"Article 103793"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144750557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Social Value Misconception in Clinical Research.","authors":"Jake Earl, Liza Dawson, Annette Rid","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2024.2371119","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15265161.2024.2371119","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Clinical researchers should help respect the autonomy and promote the well-being of prospective study participants by helping them make voluntary, informed decisions about enrollment. However, participants often exhibit poor understanding of important information about clinical research. Bioethicists have given special attention to \"misconceptions\" about clinical research that can compromise participants' decision-making, most notably the \"therapeutic misconception.\" These misconceptions typically involve false beliefs about a study's purpose, or risks or potential benefits for participants. In this article, we describe a misconception involving false beliefs about a study's potential benefits for non-participants, or its expected social value. This social value misconception can compromise altruistically motivated participants' decision-making, potentially threatening their autonomy and well-being. We show how the social value misconception raises ethical concerns for inherently low-value research, hyped research, and even ordinary research, and advocate for empirical and normative work to help understand and counteract this misconception's potential negative impacts on participants.</p>","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":" ","pages":"61-77"},"PeriodicalIF":20.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141617521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scholarship, not politics.","authors":"Charles Donovan","doi":"10.1080/08989621.2024.2345720","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08989621.2024.2345720","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50927,"journal":{"name":"Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance","volume":" ","pages":"1048-1049"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140874951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}