Publications by authors named "W K Lutz"

Unlabelled: Among the individual determinants of attitudes toward immigration, the liberalising role of education is well known-those with higher levels of education tend to be more in favour of immigration. However, recent socioeconomic changes and idiosyncratic differences between European countries prompt us to reassess the role of education, given these contextual differences. Does it still apply, and is it universal? Moreover, does this relationship apply to both cultural and economic attitudes toward immigration? Using data from the European Social Survey, we analyse the role of education and socioeconomic changes in shaping economic and cultural attitudes toward immigration in 15 European countries over 16 years using a hierarchical model with cross-classified random effects.

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The predictive power of movement and electrodermal activity (EDA) synchrony has been demonstrated in various studies. Although most studies have examined each synchrony modality separately, a growing interest in the simultaneous investigation of multiple modalities has emerged. Previous research has demonstrated the importance of disentangling within and between-dyad effects, however within and between-therapist effects have yet to be investigated.

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Article Synopsis
  • The article discusses the evolution of practice-based evidence in psychological therapies, emphasizing the need for assessments in routine care to support clinical decisions and gather valuable data for researchers.
  • A European initiative aims to create a consortium capable of collecting extensive patient data each year to enhance understanding and implementation of psychological therapies.
  • Challenges include a wide variety of existing measures, with efforts underway to standardize these using a proposed single-item measure, the Emotional and Psychological Outcome (EPO-1), which is being translated into multiple languages for broader use.
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Objective: Therapists' interpersonal skills play a significant role in outcome differences between therapists. Similarly, the strength of the therapeutic alliance is influenced by therapist characteristics. Therefore, the aim of this study was to capture therapist differences in the alliance and to examine the effect of therapists' interpersonal skills on the therapeutic alliance.

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