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A Cross-national Analysis of Sociodemographic Variation in Suffering Across 22 Countries
Suffering has been identified as an important public health issue worthy of closer attention. This preregistered study takes an initial step toward developing an epidemiology of suffering by exploring the distribution of suffering... |
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A cross‐linguistic approach to children's reasoning: Turkish‐ and English‐speaking children's use of metatalk
When collaboratively solving problems, children discuss information reliability, for example, whether claims are based on direct or indirect o...
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A Decision Architecture for Safety Computations
Survival decisions often hinge on the perception that one is safe. Without safety, defensive behaviors are prioritized at the expense of other...
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Project: The Personal Consequences of Religion: A 20-year Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study
A Dual Process Model of attitudes toward immigration: Predicting intergroup and international relations with China
We integrate the Dual Process Model of Ideology and Prejudice to examine the motivations associated with attitudes toward intergroup relations...
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A foundation beam for studying morality from a personological point of view: Are individual differences in moral behaviors and thoughts consistent?
Morality is a topic of burgeoning scientific interest, and the relevance of personological factors to moral behavior has interdisciplinary imp...
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A framework for values-based assessment in promotion,tenure, and other academic evaluations
Recent years have seen a growing dissatisfaction with how academics and their scholarly work are evaluated, and a corresponding global proliferation of initiatives dedicated to assessment reform. A... |
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A general framework for characterizing optimal communication in brain networks
Efficient communication in brain networks is foundational for cognitive function and behavior. However, how communication efficiency is defined depends on the assumed model of signaling dynamics, e.g., shortest path signaling, random walker navigation, broadcasting, and diffusive processes... |
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A general spectral decomposition of causal influences applied to integrated information
Quantifying interactions among many neurons is fundamental to understanding system-level phenomena such as attention, learning and even consci...
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A mean field model for competition: from neutral ecology to the Red Queen
Abstract Individual species are distributed inhomogeneously over space and time, yet, within large communities of species, aggregated patterns...
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A measure for intrinsic information
We introduce an information measure that reflects the intrinsic perspective of a receiver or sender of a single symbol, who has no access to t...
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A Multimodal Neural Signature of Face Processing in Autism within the Fusiform Gyrus
Atypical face processing is commonly reported in autism. Its neural correlates have been explored extensively across single neuroimaging modalities within key regions of the face processing network, such as the fusiform gyrus (FFG). Nonetheless, it is poorly understood how variation in brain anatomy and function jointly impacts face processing and social functioning. A large multimodal sample was leveraged to study the cross-modal signature of face processing within the FFG across four imaging modalities in 204 autistic and nonautistic individuals aged 7–30 years (case–control design). Two methodological innovations—normative modeling and linked independent component analysis—were combined to integrate individual-level deviations across modalities and assessed how multimodal components differentiated groups and informed social functioning in autism... |
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Project: The Personal Consequences of Religion: A 20-year Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study
A national-scale typology of orientations to religion poses new challenges for the cultural evolutionary study of religious groups
Religious groups differ in theology, ritual, and modes of self-governance. However, the extent to which such differences capture the variation...
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A neuromorphic model of active vision shows how spatiotemporal encoding in lobula neurons can aid pattern recognition in bees
Bees’ remarkable visual learning abilities make them ideal for studying active information acquisition and representation. Here, we develop a biologically inspired model to examine how flight behaviours during visual scanning shape neural representation in the insect brain, exploring the interplay between scanning behavior... |
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A niche for the genome
In their considered reviews both Thomas Pradeu and Lindell Bromham introduce important topics not sufficiently covered in our book...
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A pluralistic framework for the psychology of norms
Social norms are commonly understood as rules that dictate which behaviors are appropriate, permissible, or obligatory in different situations...
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A Simple, interpretable method to identify surprising topic shifts in scientific fields
This paper proposes a text-mining framework to systematically identify vanishing or newly formed topics in highly interdisciplinary and divers...
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A Single Deoxynucleoside Kinase Variant from Drosophila melanogaster Synthesizes Monophosphates of Nucleosides That Are Components of an Expanded Genetic System
Deoxynucleoside kinase from D. melanogaster (DmdNK) has broad specificity; although it catalyzes the phosphorylation of natural pyrimidine mor...
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Project: Agency and (Quantum) Physics
A Stochastic Process Model for Free Agency under Indeterminism
The aim of this paper is to establish that free agency, which is a capacity of many animals including human beings, is compatible with indeter...
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Project: Researching and Promoting Character Education in Central and South American Secondary Schools
A study of moral reasoning among secondary students in a public co-educational and private girls school in Mexico
Proponents of character education claim cultivating virtues during schooling helps students, schools and society flourish but critics argue ch...
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A Technical Critique of Some Parts of the Free Energy Principle
We summarize the original formulation of the free energy principle and highlight some technical issues. We discuss how these issues affect rel...
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