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International scientific collaborative activities and barriers to them in eight societies
Scientific research increasingly requires international collaboration among scientists. Less is known, however, about the barriers that impede...
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Interpersonal and Individual Effects of an App-Based Christian and Islamic Heart Meditation Intervention in Healthy Adults: Protocol of a Stratified Randomised Controlled Trial
This trial aims to test the effects of an app-based Christian and Islamic meditation, compared to secular mindfulness and a waitlist, using a randomised controlled trial. If the results yield positive outcomes, this study will support the efficacy of these contemplations, offering practitioners a way to enhance their well-being within their religious framework. |
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Interpersonal synchrony affects performers’ sense of agency
We investigated if interpersonal synchrony can lead to a sense of agency over another’s movement (extended self-agency). In Experiment 1, we f...
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Intervention and experiment
The received view of scientific experimentation holds that science is characterized by experiment and experiment is characterized by active intervention on the system of interest. Although versions of this view are widely held, they have seldom been explicitly defended... |
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Introduction: Evolution and historical explanation
• Special issue examines historical dimensions of evolutionary biology. • Cross-disciplinary perspectives from historians, philosophers, biolo...
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Project: A Science of Global Risk
Introduction: Population and Ethics: Difficult Questions, Global Challenges
Undoubtedly, many of the most pressing problems of our age relate to changes in human population. Population growth and demographic transition...
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Investigating Markers of Rapport in Autistic and Nonautistic Interactions
Autism is considered to entail a social impairment whereby autistic people experience difficulty interpreting others' mental states. However, ...
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Investigation of mirror-self recognition in ravens (Corvus corax).
Large-brained birds, such as corvids and parrots, tend to fail tests for self-recognition (mirror self-recognition [MSR]), but the limited pos...
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Is the Market Perceived to be Civilizing or Destructive? Scientists’ Universalism Values and Their Attitudes Towards Patents
Is the market civilizing or destructive? The increased salience of science commercialization is forcing scientists to address this question...
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Project: The Personal Consequences of Religion: A 20-year Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study
Is the racial composition of your surroundings associated with your levels of social dominance orientation?
We investigate the extent to which minority group members are surrounded by outgroup members in their immediate environment as a predictor of ...
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Project: Understanding Spiritual Intelligence: Psychological, Theological and Computational Approaches
Is There ‘Spiritual Intelligence’? An Evaluation of Strong and Weak Proposals
The debate about whether, and in what sense, there is ‘spiritual intelligence’ remains unresolved. We suggest it will be helpful to make a dis...
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Is there a window of opportunity for religiosity? Children and adolescents preferentially recall religious-type cultural representations, but older adults do not
Is there a sensitive period in childhood and adolescence for acquiring religiosity? Does a cultural group’s familiarity with religious-type re...
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It Is Movement All the Way Down: Broken Rhythms and Embodied Selfhood in Depersonalization
From the moment we are born, and even before, in the womb, and until our last breath, our bodies move all the time. Adaptive behaviors necessarily depend not only on the successful integration of multisensory bodily signals but also on how we move our bodies in the world. This paper considers the notion of embodied selfhood... |
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It just feels right: an account of expert intuition
Abstract One of the hallmarks of virtue is reliably acting well. Such reliable success presupposes that an agent (1) is able to recognize the ...
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Project: The Personal Consequences of Religion: A 20-year Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study
Janus-faced nature of colorblindness: Social dominance orientation moderates the relationship between colorblindness and outgroup attitudes
Colorblindness is a popular diversity ideology promoted as a means to intergroup harmony in ethnically diverse nations. While some research su...
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Joyful by nature: approaches to investigate the evolution and function of joy in non‐human animals
The nature and evolution of positive emotion is a major question remaining unanswered in science and philosophy. The study of feelings and emo...
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Project: Flourishing Despite Disadvantage: Understanding Resilience in Children Growing up in Poverty
Just a phase? Mapping the transition of behavioural problems from childhood to adolescence
Abstract Purpose Young people change substantially between childhood and adolescence. Yet, the current description of behavioural problems doe...
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Just environments foster character: A longitudinal assessment of school climate
Justice is at the center of many definitions of character across various lines of research, yet there is little empirical research on how the ...
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Project: Play, Humor, and Joy in Great Apes
Just kidding: the evolutionary roots of playful teasing
Accounts of teasing have a long history in psychological and sociological research, yet teasing itself is vastly underdeveloped as a topic of ...
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Project: The Personal Consequences of Religion: A 20-year Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study
Kiwi Diwali: a longitudinal investigation of perceived social connection following a civic religious ritual
Religious rituals are ubiquitous. Recent research indicates they can powerfully affect social connection, increasing collective sentiments and...
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