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Mind perception – the inference of mind in others – is foundational for social cognition and interaction, but previous research on its underlying dimensions has so far only produced mixed findings. In a prominent study, H.M. Gray et al. (2007) identified two dimensions of mind perception – Agency and Experience –, while more recent work instead suggests three dimensions similar to Body, Heart, and ...
In:
Cognition
265 (2025), 106231
| Nele J. Bögemann, Lasana T. Harris, Steffen Nestler
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Technological change and globalization have caused unprecedented transformations of labour markets, resulting in a growing division between workers who perform cognitive vs non-cognitive tasks. To date, only few studies have addressed the fertility effects of these long-term structural changes. This study fills that gap. We measure the cognitive task content of occupations using data from the Employment ...
In:
Population Studies
79 (2025), 2, 225–251
| Honorata Bogusz, Anna Matysiak, Michaela Kreyenfeld
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Analyses of income distributions across households crucially depend on equivalence scales. They define income increments necessary to keep a household's living standard constant as it is joined by additional adults or children. Such scales have frequently been estimated using income satisfaction data, yet under the assumption that household income, size, and structure are exogenous. The present ...
Berlin:
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP),
2025,
(SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research No. 1234)
| Melanie Borah, Susanne Elsas
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We introduce and adopt the concept of exchange-rate pass-through (ERPT) to the flow of remittances to discern whether remittance flows appear to be defined in home or host currencies. We use Poisson estimation on the German socio-economic longitudinal panel for migrants living in Germany concerning eight remittance corridors. We find that ERPT is complete for Germany-based migrants originating in Romania, ...
In:
Review of World Economics
(2025),
| Fernando Borraz, Nicolás González Pampillón, Susan Pozo
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The impostor phenomenon (IP) refers to individual differences in difficulties in internalizing positive feedback and success, and fear of being exposed as an intellectual fraud. The 2015 wave of the SOEP-IS study included five of the 20 items of the German-language Clance Impostor Phenomenon Scale. This study analyzed the psychometric properties and validity of the IP measure used in the SOEP-IS data ...
In:
Psychological Test Adaptation and Development
7 (2026), 64–72
| Kay Brauer
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The Impostor Phenomenon (IP) describes individual differences in self-perceptions of intellectual fraudulence despite evidence of capability. The IP relates to reduced mental health and the “Impostor cycle” suggests that the IP is interdependent with depressiveness and anxiety in a maintaining fashion. The present study used three waves of data (2012, 2015, and 2018) from the German Socioeconomic Panel-Innovation ...
In:
Journal of Affective Disorders
405 (2026), 121585
| Kay Brauer
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The Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) is a standard screening instrument for depression and anxiety. Based on its short length it is frequently used in large panel studies. While there is robust evidence for several aspects of the PHQ-4's reliability and validity, the knowledge about its temporal stability is very limited, with few studies only providing findings that are affected by small ...
In:
Journal of Affective Disorders
404 (2026), 121516
| Kay Brauer, René T. Proyer
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Do long-term improvements in air quality influence children’s educational outcomes? This paper investigates the impact of Low Emission Zones (LEZs), which restrict access to designated areas for emission-intensive vehicles, on the educational achievement of elementary school students in Germany. Using school-level data from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, we exploit the staggered ...
In:
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
132 (2025),
| Johannes Brehm, Nico Pestel, Sandra Schaffner, Laura Schmitz
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Educational attainment is vital in social science research for analysing socioeconomic inequalities, labour market outcomes, and health disparities. Harmonisation schemes such as the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) and its survey-specific adaptation EDULVLB aim to standardise educational classifications across countries, enabling international comparability. Despite their ...
In:
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
12 (2025), 1, 1651
| Roberto Briceno-Rosas
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ABSTRACT Introduction Most people want two or more children, but many do not realize their fertility desires. At the same time, recent studies suggest that up to 15% of parents regret having children. To investigate how fertility mismatch relates to well-being (i.e., affect balance, life satisfaction, family life satisfaction, and work satisfaction), this preregistered study used nationally representative ...
In:
Journal of Personality
(online first) (2026),
| Laura Buchinger, Michael D. Krämer, Manon A. van Scheppingen, Denis Gerstorf