Plastic pollution through small particles, so-called microplastics, is acknowledged as an
environmental problem of global dimension by both politicians, and the public. An …

Attempts to detect socially desirable responding bias have mainly focused on studies that
explore sensitive topics. However, researchers concur that the sensitive character of the …

Background Social desirability bias is one of the oldest forms of response bias studied in
social sciences. While individuals may feel the need to fake good or bad answers in …

The aim of this work is to evaluate the attitudes, behaviours, and knowledge of health
workers employed at an Italian University Hospital on the topic of vaccinations and in regard …

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics has created unprecedented opportunities for China's
commercial ice rinks, where improving consumers' repurchase intention is essential for their …

Introduction This study aimed to assess patients' preferences of nonsurgical treatments for
chronic low back pain (CLBP). Method We conducted a discrete choice experiment (DCE) in …

Accounts of empathy distinguish between cognitive (attribution of mental states to a social
target) and emotional (sharing of emotions with a social target) empathy. To date, however …

Food and sleep are critical for human survival. However, for individuals with eating
disorders, they face two critical disruptions in terms of abnormal feeding patterns as well as …

Objectives We aimed to elicit preferences of the French-speaking Quebec population
regarding a COVID-19 vaccination program and to characterize individuals with respect to …

Prior studies on physical appearance-related norms, particularly for women, have
demonstrated that expectations and standards of the ideal body type–thin and slender–have …