More Than a Story: Engaging Young Learners Virtually

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Adhesion to Foil – More than Just a One-Sided Story

Aluminium foil is widely accepted as being one of the best barrier materials in flexible packaging, even in the face of many new and up-and-coming high-barrier plastic layer combinations, copolymers, blends or nano-composites. Besides high thermal conductivity, which facilitates enhanced converting and sealing performance, other key criteria that distinguish “converter foil” from competing mate...

Can Virtual Humans Be More Engaging Than Real Ones?

Emotional bonds don’t arise from a simple exchange of facial displays, but often emerge through the dynamic give and take of face-to-face interactions. This article explores the phenomenon of rapport, a feeling of connectedness that seems to arise from rapid and contingent positive feedback between partners and is often associated with socio-emotional processes. Rapport has been argued to lead ...

Metaphorical Sentences Are More Emotionally Engaging than Their Literal Counterparts

Why do people so often use metaphorical expressions when literal paraphrases are readily available? This study focuses on a comparison of metaphorical statements involving the source domain of taste (e.g., "She looked at him sweetly") and their literal paraphrases (e.g., "She looked at him kindly"). Metaphorical and literal sentences differed only in one word and were normed for length, familia...

Do juveniles bully more than young offenders?

This study compares bullying behaviour among juvenile and young offenders and incorporates two different methods to measure bullying. Ninety-five male juvenile and 196 male young offenders completed two questionnaires, one that measured bullying directly and one that measured behaviours indicative of "being bullied" or of "bullying others". Juveniles perceived a higher extent of bullying than y...