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Social representations of odors: case study in the Ñuble region, Chile (2019–2023)

Published in Frontiers in Social Psychology

Introduction The objective of this article is to analyze the social representation of odors and the identity of the population in the Ñuble region between 2019 and 2023. The research focuses on how industrialization and urban and rural development have altered the olfactory landscape of this region. This study seeks to understand how changes in the...

Laughing your vote off: the impact of candidates’ humor on voters’ emotions and intentions

Published in Frontiers in Political Science

Both the Theory of Affective Intelligence and the Expectancy Violation Theory suggest emotions are crucial in supporting political candidates. However, despite the considerable existing evidence on this topic, the impact of humor-induced emotions has been less explored. In this study, we examine whether positive and negative emotions mediate the ef...

The economics of ethnic marriages: Endogamy and the social status of minority groups.

This study examines the relationship between ethnic endogamy and socioeconomic status (SES) within the socioeconomically divergent Jewish and Native-Chilean Mapuche communities of Santiago, Chile. By leveraging the Hispanic naming convention to analyze dual ethnic surnames, we trace endogamy patterns across comprehensive datasets that go back to 18...

Human dynamics in the Southern Puna of Chile (25°-27°s) during the Late Holocene: abandonment, re-occupation and diversi...

Published in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology

We discuss the process of human re-occupation of the Southern Puna (25°-27°S) during the Late Holocene through a variety of lines of evidence, such as ceramics, faunal bones, lithic technology, sources of raw materials like obsidian, and rock art, and their integration with spatial analyses using least-cost paths. Our results indicate a process in ...

Enriching cross-sectoral collaboration to foster inclusive cultures in schools: a Model to address the needs of diverse ...

Published in Frontiers in Psychology

Inclusive education involves the interaction of diverse actors from different societal sectors, such as education, health, and policy. Inclusion laws and regulations in Chile are relatively new and have been taken as a regional model. However, the efforts to implement them have revealed some structural difficulties that must be discussed. This conc...

Protective factors for the risk of suffering intimate partner violence in help-seeking women survivors from a social org...

Published in Frontiers in Sociology

Objective Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a major public health problem in Latin America. The present study investigates the protective factors that contribute to minimizing the risk of exposure to IPV analyzing different variables in a sample of Chilean women victims of IPV. Methods We used data from the Cicatrices Foundation, a nonprofit Chile...

General dry trends according to the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index in mainland Chile

Published in Frontiers in Earth Science

Droughts are one of the main challenges affecting humanity in a global change context. Due to its spatial configuration, Chile experiences droughts of different severities, from arid to humid climates, ranging from sea level to elevations above 6,000 m above sea level (a.s.l.), but it is still unknown how this phenomenon behaves in distribution, du...