scholarly journals Effects of an 8-Week Mindfulness Course on Affective Polarization

Mindfulness ◽  
2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Otto Simonsson ◽  
Olivier Bazin ◽  
Stephen D. Fisher ◽  
Simon B. Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Control Design ◽  
Open Science ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Waitlist Control ◽  
Intergroup Biases ◽  
Science Framework ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Objectives The European Union Brexit referendum has split the British electorate into two camps, with high levels of affective polarization between those who affiliate with the Remain side (Remainers) and the Leave side (Leavers) of the debate. Previous research has shown that a brief meditation intervention can reduce affective polarization, but no study has thus far investigated the effects of an 8-week mindfulness program on affective polarization. This is what will be examined in this study. Methods The present study used a randomized waitlist control design (n = 177) with a 1-month post-intervention follow-up to investigate whether an 8-week mindfulness program delivered online would have an effect on affective polarization among Remainers and Leavers. Results Results showed significantly greater reductions in affective polarization over time for participants in the mindfulness condition relative to participants in the waitlist control condition (time X group B =  − 0.087, p = .024). Conclusions Taken together, the findings highlight the potential of mindfulness training as a means to reduce intergroup biases in political contexts. Trial Registration Preregistered on the Open Science Framework at https://osf.io/px8m2.

scholarly journals Open Science Framework: Media for Researchers

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fetnani Cecilia
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Scientific Practice ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Open Science ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
Science Framework

Open Science Framework is encouraged by the European Union and many other political and scientific institutions, but scientific practice is proving slow to change. We have chosen articles from one author that will provide a resource to change scientific research into open scientific research and commit to open science principles.

scholarly journals A Short Highlight of Open Science Framework based on One Author

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anggi Cecilia Safaningrum
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Scientific Practice ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Open Science ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
Science Framework

Open Science Framework is encouraged by the European Union and many other political and scientific institutions, but scientific practice is proving slow to change. We have chosen articles from one author that will provide a resource to change scientific research into open scientific research and commit to open science principles.

scholarly journals Elevated triglycerides and low HDL cholesterol predict coronary heart disease risk in patients with stable angina

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (Supplement_3) ◽  
Author(s):  
C Caselli ◽  
R De Caterina ◽  
JEFF Smit ◽  
M El Mahdiui ◽  
R Ragusa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Risk Score ◽  
Stable Angina ◽  
Disease Risk ◽  
Lipid Lowering ◽  
Atherogenic Dyslipidemia ◽  
Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: Public grant(s) – EU funding. Main funding source(s): The EVINCI study was supported by a grant from the European Union FP7-CP-FP506 2007 project (GA 222915). The SMARTool study was supported by a grant from the European Union H2020-PHC-30-2015 (GA 689068). This study was also partially supported by a grant from AMGEN (Protocol N. 20167781, 2017). Background. High triglycerides (TG) and low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol  (HDL-C) characterize an atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CAD) risk condition defined as atherogenic dyslipidemia. Aim. To assess whether atherogenic dyslipidemia defined by TG/HDL-C ratio predicts CAD related outcomes in patients with stable angina, independently of other risk factors and treatments. Methods. We studied 355 patients (60 ± 9 y, 211m) with stable angina from the EVINCI Outcome study. Patients were characterized for clinical, bio-humoral and imaging profiles, managed clinically, and followed for 4.5 ± 0.9 years. A computed tomography angiography (CTA) coronary risk score was obtained at baseline in all patients, and at follow-up in 154 of them. The primary composite outcome was all-cause mortality and non-fatal myocardial infarction. CTA scan was repeated at follow-up in 154 patients to assess CAD progression. Results. The median value of TG/HDL-C ratio was 2.095 (2.079IQR). At baseline, the proportion of males, smoking, diabetes and metabolic syndrome, as well as circulating bio-markers of abnormal glucose metabolism and myocardial damage progressively increased across quartiles of TG/HDL-C ratio. The CTA score was significantly higher in the IV quartile of the TG/HDL-C ratio and both were the only independent predictors of the primary (CTA Score: HR 1.06, 95%CI 1.03-1.09, p = 0.001; TG/HDL-C IV quartile: HR 2.85, 95%CI 1.30-6.26, p < 0.01). In the 154 patients re-evaluated at follow-up, TG/HDL-C ratio associated cardio-metabolic disorder, systemic inflammation and CTA risk score progressed over time despite increased use of lipid-lowering drugs, anti-diabetics and other cardioactive medications and reduction in LDL-C levels. Conclusions. In patients with stable angina, the TG/HDL-C ratio expresses a cardio-metabolic atherogenic disorder which is progressive over time and is associated with CAD related outcomes independently of LDL-C levels and treatments.

scholarly journals Elaborating Author’s Work on Open Science Framework

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azka Felicia Rianzi
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Scientific Practice ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Open Science ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
Science Framework

Open Science Framework is encouraged by the European Union and many other political and scientific institutions, but scientific practice is proving slow to change. We have chosen articles from one author that will provide a resource to change scientific research into open scientific research and commit to open science principles.

scholarly journals Open Science Framework as An Media for Early Career Researchers

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adib Rifqi Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Scientific Practice ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Early Career ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
Science Framework

Open Science Framework is encouraged by the European Union and many other political and scientific institutions, but scientific practice is proving slow to change. We have chosen articles from one author that will provide a resource to change scientific research into open scientific research and commit to open science principles.

scholarly journals The crisis of European spatial development policy

2005 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dejan Djordjevic ◽  
Tijana Dabovic
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Specific Point ◽  
Policy Document ◽  
Spatial Policy ◽  
Development Perspective

Although the European Union has no formal authority in the area of spatial policy, in sectoral policies can have a clear spatial impact. In this sense it conducts a de facto - and usually uncoordinated - form of spatial policy. An informal policy document produced six years ago sought to remedy this by offering an embryonic form of European spatial policy: the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP). So far, no follow-up has been produced. Is this because the current document is sufficient for addressing Europe's spatial issues or because interest in this endeavor has waned? Or are we simply in a period of transition towards a new ESDP? This brief review deals with those dilemmas, from a specific point of view of the observers, both curious and worried.

Self-other agreement of leadership

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 245-259
Author(s):  
Rebecca Mosson ◽  
Henna Hasson ◽  
Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz ◽  
Anne Richter
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Line Managers ◽  
Common Component ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Leadership Intervention ◽  
Over Time

Purpose A common component in leadership interventions is the provision of feedback on leadership behaviors. The assumption is that, when there is a discrepancy in this feedback between managers’ and others’ ratings of leadership, this will increase managers’ self-awareness and motivate them to close this gap. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how agreement between managers and their subordinates changes over time as a result of a leadership intervention. Design/methodology/approach Questionnaire data were collected from line managers (N=18) and their subordinates (N=640) at pre-intervention, post-intervention and at a six-month follow-up. The managers participated in a leadership intervention that aimed to increase their knowledge and skills related to the leadership behaviors described in the Full-Range Leadership Model. Inter-rater agreement and reliability were calculated to justify aggregating the subordinates’ ratings. The managers and their subordinates were grouped according to three agreement categories: in agreement, managers’ over-rating and managers’ under-rating based on the managers’ views of their leader behaviors in relation to their subordinates’. Findings Manager-subordinate agreement on the managers’ leadership increased between pre-intervention and post-intervention but then decreased at the six-month follow-up (17, 61 and 44 percent, respectively). Most managers (n=15) changed agreement categories over time, and only three managers remained in the same agreement category throughout. The subordinates’ mean leadership ratings changed more than the managers’ mean ratings. Originality/value This is the first study to explore how manager-subordinate agreement changes when managers participate in a leadership intervention in a health care context. It shows that an intervention that includes upward feedback, by which managers self-rating of their leadership is compared with their subordinates’ ratings, can be an effective way to increase agreement.

Neoliberals against Europe

2019 ◽  
pp. 89-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quinn Slobodian ◽  
Dieter Plehwe
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
European Politics ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Explanatory Framework ◽  
European Debt Crisis ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Eu

Since the advent of the European debt crisis in 2009, it has become common to hear descriptions of the European Union as a neoliberal machine hardwired to enforce austerity and to block projects of redistribution or solidarity. Yet by adopting an explanatory framework associating neoliberalism with supranational organizations like the EU, NAFTA, and the WTO against the so-called populism of its right-wing opponents, many observers have painted themselves into a corner. The problems with a straightforward compound of “neoliberal Europe” became starkly evident with the success of the “leave” vote in the Brexit referendum in 2016. If the EU was neoliberal, were those who called to abandon it the opponents of neoliberalism? If the EU is indeed the “neoliberalism express,” then to disembark was by definition a gesture of refusal against neoliberalism. To make sense of the resurgent phenomenon of the far right in European politics, then, our chapter tracks such continuities over time and avoids misleading dichotomies that pit neoliberal globalism—and neoliberal Europeanism—against an atavistic national populism. The closed-borders libertarianism of nationalist neoliberals like the German AfD is not a rejection of globalism but is a variety of it.

Part VI Global Approach of State Aid Law—WTO Law and EU Trade Defence Instruments, 2 Anti-subsidy Law and Practice of the European Union

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kreuschitz Viktor ◽  
Nehl Hanns Peter
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Global Approach ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
The Past ◽  
Export Subsidies ◽  
Very High ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Eu

This concluding chapter explores EU's anti-subsidy instruments, which are designed to address subsidization by other WTO members. After a hesitant start, the EU since 1995 has progressively used the AS instrument to act against subsidization by third-country governments. While initially focusing on relatively clear-cut export subsidies, over time the EU has more and more also countervailed domestic subsidy programmes. This is clearest in the AS cases initiated against China during the past five years, where the majority of the countervailed programmes have consisted of domestic subsidies. In this context, it is important to note that the findings of specificity reached by the EU in cases concerning China are largely based on the use of facts available, resulting from the imposition of very high burdens of proof on the Chinese government that domestic subsidies in fact are not specific.

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