Coping with COVID‑19: An Examination of the Role of (Non) Religiousness/(Non)Spirituality

Psychological distress and coping strategies employed during collective trauma events may vary for theists and atheists, as well as others along the (non)religious spectrum. The present study explored these differences via data collected from a US-based sample during the COVID-19 pandemic. Statistical models suggested relationships between maladaptive coping and distress for all participants and potential differences in coping and, in turn, distress between participants high and low in institutional religiousness and individual spirituality. Additionally, all participants, though especially nonreligious participants, appeared less able to engage in adaptive emotion-focused coping strategies. Implications for future research are provided

The Internationalization of Climate Damages Litigation

The annual global costs of climate change in 2010 were estimated at nearly $700 billion. As the costs continue to escalate, discussion is necessarily shifting to who should pay for mitigation and adaption. Many scholars argue that policy considerations and principles of tort law support holding greenhouse gas producers responsible for the costs of climate change. However, legal claims against greenhouse gas producers in the United States have thus far proven unsuccessful. This Article explores two previously overlooked potentialities that could significantly and rapidly alter the landscape for climate change litigation: (1) the emergence of transnational climate change litigation coupled with the possible enforcement of foreign judgments in U.S. courts; and (2) the enactment of legislation altering the rules around climate change liability. This Article then quantifies the contribution of major U.S. fossil fuel companies to the costs and damages of climate change to illustrate the potential financial impacts of successful litigation or legislative change

The Impact of Trade with Mexico on US Manufacturing Industries in Light of Production Networks

In 1994, with NAFTA going into effect, many people were concerned that increased import competition from Mexico would harm US industry, especially in manufacturing. In reality this didn’t manifest for the most part, and it is largely thought that NAFTA had a small positive effect on the US economy. However, the vast majority of past work on the topic has ignored sectoral linkages when considering the question, which past work on the topic has shown can have a major effect on the results. Here I reconsider the impact of trade with Mexico after NAFTA’s passage through the lens of production networks by looking at how this affected the employment, value-added, and labor productivity of US manufacturing industries from 1994 to 2018 (note that it is not, however, the effect of NAFTA, as no data from before its passage is included). Additionally, I will only be considering trade between the US and Mexico, as Canada’s economy has a very similar structure to that of the US (and hence there was little threat of major rearrangements of industry in the US due to increased contact with them), and because the US and Canada largely already had free trade before NAFTA came into effect.Bachelor of Scienc

The moss family Octoblepharaceae A.Eddy ex Menzel in Australia

This is the first treatment of the family Octoblepharaceae for Australia. The sole Australian species, Octoblepharum albidum Hedw., is described and illustrated, and a map of its known and potential distribution in Australia is included

The moss family Calymperaceae (Bryophyta) in Australia. Part 1: Introduction and key to genera

This is the first of five papers constituting a synopsis of the family Calymperaceae for Australia. An expanded concept of the family is followed, including Arthrocormus, Exostratum and Leucophanes as well as the traditional genera Calymperes, Mitthyridium and Syrrhopodon. A key to genera is provided

The family Calymperaceae (Bryophyta) in Australia. Part 5: The genus Syrrhopodon

Twenty species of the moss genus Syrrhopodon Sw. ex F.Weber are known from Australia. Each species is described and illustrated in detail, and a key to species and distribution maps are provided

Psychological Distress and Behavioral Vigilance in Response to Minority Stress and Threat among Members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander Community during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Stigmatization, hostility, and violence towards the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community have increased sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is important to conduct research to promote understanding of the effects of such stigmatization on the AAPI community. Accordingly, the present study used a combined minority stress and integrated threat framework to examine whether factors related to AAPI identity would moderate the relationship between stigmatization/threat associated with AAPI identity and increased psychological distress and behavioral vigilance. AAPI individuals were recruited online from both Turk Prime and Reddit and completed measures of perceived stigmatization; integrated threat; depression, anxiety, and stress; and behavioral vigilance. Perceptions of stigmatization and threat predicted relevant outcomes both as individual predictors and in multivariate analyses. However, factors relating to the strength of AAPI identification did not moderate the effects of stigmatization and threat on psychological distress and behavioral vigilance, which is a result that failed to support this aspect of the broader conceptual model on which this project was based. Instead, these proposed moderators were themselves predicted by stigmatization and threat variables. The implications of these findings for effective interventions to alleviate the negative consequences of anti-Asian stigmatization are discussed

Overcoming Innocents’ Naiveté: Pre‐interrogation Decision‐making Among Innocent Suspects

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