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    How to Debunk Myths Effectively: A Look At and Behind the Educational Myths Refutation Canvas
    Educational myths—widely held but flawed beliefs about learning and teaching—persist across contexts, often shaping educational practice and policy in misleading ways. Refuting these myths requires more than counter-factual correction; it demands structured, evidence-informed reasoning. This article introduces the Educational Myths Refutation Canvas, a tool designed to support educators, researchers, and science communicators in systematically dismantling such misconceptions. Grounded in cognitive psychology, science communication, and educational theory, the Canvas scaffolds the refutation process through modular sections addressing myth prevalence, origin, persistence, and consequences. It promotes the triangulation of theoretical, empirical, and practical evidence, while encouraging reflective engagement with one's own assumptions. Use cases span faculty development, educational research, and science communication. Strengths include its clarity, transparency, and adaptability; limitations involve the cognitive demand required for its effective use. Ultimately, the Canvas functions both as an analytical instrument and a catalyst for deeper epistemic reflection—helping users not only debunk myths, but develop stronger habits of critical inquiry and evidence-based dialogue.
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    What a Wonderful World!? A World With or Without Myths in and About Sustainability Education
    In this text, I contrast two vastly different worlds—one free of educational myths and the other plagued by them—and invites reflection on their implications.
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    AI-Enabled Platforms: Exploring Strategic Value Creation through a Strategy-as-Practice Lens
    (2025-07-25)
    Schadl, Adrian
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    Schäfer, Björn
    Platform organizations are pioneering the development and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), yet AI poses substantial challenges by disrupting organizational capabilities and threatening competitive advantages. AI reshapes processes and products, influences ecosystem coordination, and foster inter-departmental collaboration. Recognizing its potential, businesses invest heavily in AI, but numerous applications fail to deliver significant value. Surprisingly, even though AI’s influence spans internal and external functions and capabilities, most studies focus on specific contexts and rarely examine the actual business outcomes of AI applications. This paper studies the empirical impact of AI on platform organizations’ value creation. Thus, we adopt a multi-study approach grounded in a Strategy-as-Practice perspective, investigating how AI integration transforms strategic practices. Study 1 draws on currently 45 interviews with platform organizations and develops a holistic framework that classifies AI applications according to their internal and external value creation and focus, enabling us to understand AI’s organizational impact on platform value-creation mechanisms. Study 2 will employ an event-study method and aims to assess the shareholder value impacts of these applications, empirically demonstrating AI’s business value. Preliminary insights from Study 1 indicate that platforms use AI to develop innovation platforms, introduce novel services, optimize ecosystem orchestration, and foster co-creation. By offering a holistic perspective on AI applications and empirically linking practices to shareholder value, this research contributes to both theory and practice. It clarifies how AI can function as a strategic capability within platform organizations, extending our understanding of micro-level strategic practices while guiding managers seeking to realize AI’s potential.
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    “We don’t need no thought control”: dealing with faculty members spreading conspiracy theories
    (Springer Nature (Switzerland), 2025-07-15) ; ;
    Martin H. Daumiller
    Recent studies reveal that a significant proportion of the population in various countries endorses at least some form of conspiracy theory (CT). Notably, there have been instances of faculty members spreading CTs, despite their pedagogical obligations to foster academic and scientific thinking. While the existing literature has predominantly focused on student populations, an examination of less-studied cohorts such as faculty members seems necessary. This theoretical article delves into the prevalence, underlying factors, and ramifications of CTs within the context of higher education. The present analytic article distinguishes CTs from scientific theories, elucidates the detrimental consequences for individuals and the broader society engendered by the uncritical propagation of CTs, and scrutinizes the responsibilities of students and faculty in mitigating the dissemination of misinformation. Moreover, the article posits potential solutions from both student and faculty standpoints to counteract the proliferation of CTs in higher education.
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    Haptic Rewards: How Mobile Vibrations Shape Reward Response and Consumer Choice
    (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2025-04-25) ;
    People spend a large portion of their day interacting with vibrating mobile devices, yet how consumers psychologically respond to haptic feedback from these devices and their effect on consumer decision-making is largely unknown. Integrating recent work on human–computer interaction and reward processing, the current research examines: (1) the relationship between vibration duration and reward response, (2) to what extent rewarding vibrations influence consumer choice, (3) the process by which this effect occurs, and (4) how the effect differs compared to other forms of feedback (visual and audio). We find that mobile vibrations evoke a reward response that is distinct from other forms of feedback, which in turn boosts purchasing in online shopping environments (increased item adds and higher basket totals), and that impulsive consumers tend to be more responsive to mobile vibrations. We examine the impact of mobile vibrations on consumer decision-making in a variety of experimental settings, drawing on a diverse participant pool, leveraging both controlled experiments, and a country-wide field experiment to assess important boundary conditions. These findings have important implications for the ethical design of haptic interfaces in the marketplace and the role of mobile vibrations as a novel form of reward.

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