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The body electric 2.0: recent advances in developmental bioelectricity for regenerative and synthetic bioengineering
Breakthroughs in biomedicine and synthetic bioengineering require predictive, rational control over anatomical structure and function. Recent ...
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The challenge of synthetic biology. Synthetic Darwinism and the aperiodic crystal structure
‘Grand Challenges’ offer ways to discover flaws in existing theory without first needing to guess what those flaws are. Our grand challenge he...
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The Cognitive Lens: a primer on conceptual tools for analysing information processing in developmental and regenerative morphogenesis
Brains exhibit plasticity, multi-scale integration of information, computation and memory, having evolved by specialization of non-neural cell...
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The complementarity of humility hypothesis: Individual, relational, and physiological effects of mutually humble partners
We report two studies of romantic couples that examine the interactive effects of actor and partner humility on individual, relational, and ph...
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The Computational Boundary of a “Self”: Developmental Bioelectricity Drives Multicellularity and Scale-Free Cognition
All epistemic agents physically consist of parts that must somehow comprise an integrated cognitive self. Biological individuals consist of su...
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The ConTraSt database for analysing and comparing empirical studies of consciousness theories
Understanding how consciousness arises from neural activity remains one of the biggest challenges for neuroscience...
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The Development of Identity Fusion
The fusion of personal and group identities can lead to self-sacrificial progroup behavior, from acts of charity to violent extremism. Two pat...
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Project: Social and Moral Intelligence: How Do Animals Understand and Perceive the Rules of Social Life?
The development of sex differences in play in wild white‐faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus)
Many mammalian species display sex differences in the frequency of play behavior, yet the animal literature includes few longitudinal studies ...
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Project: Center for Conflict and Cooperation
The Differential Impact of Climate Interventions Along the Political Divide in 60 Countries
A major barrier to climate change mitigation is the political polarization of climate change beliefs. In a global experiment conducted in 60 countries, the differential impact of eleven climate interventions across the ideological divide is assessed. |
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The Distribution of Optimism Across Sociodemographic Groups in 22 Countries
This study presents a cross-national exploration of optimism, and its variations across sociodemographic groups. Using a sample of 202,898 adults from 22 diverse countries... |
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The ecology and evolution of human‐wildlife cooperation
Abstract Human‐wildlife cooperation is a type of mutualism in which a human and a wild, free‐living animal actively coordinate their behaviour...
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The Effect of Common Signals on Power, Coherence and Granger Causality: Theoretical Review, Simulations, and Empirical Analysis of Fruit Fly LFPs Data
When analyzing neural data it is important to consider the limitations of the particular experimental setup. An enduring issue in the context ...
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The effects of listening on speaker and listener while talking about character strengths: an open science school-wide collaboration
A growing literature suggests that listening well can support a deep connection and sense of wellbeing within speakers as they share important thoughts, emotions and experiences with their conversation partners, though less is known about the impact on the listeners themselves. This pre-registered study explores whether the quality of listening can enhance both speakers’ and listeners’ experiences as they discuss a topic selected to stimulate personal and consequential real-life conversations: their character strengths |
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The Emergence of Informative Higher Scales in Complex Networks
The connectivity of a network contains information about the relationships between nodes, which can denote interactions, associations, or depe...
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The Epistemic Status of Evolutionary Theory
The theory of evolution continues to be a bone of contention among certain groups of theistic believers. This paper aims to bring some light t...
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The exceptions that prove the rule? Spontaneous helping behaviour towards humans in some domestic dogs
Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) are skilled at reading and correctly responding to human communicative gestures to locate hidden food. Whethe...
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Project: Understanding Everyday Love: Do Increases in Positivity Resonance Increase Virtuous Behavior?
The goods in everyday love: Positivity resonance builds prosociality.
The positivity resonance theory of coexperienced positive affect (Fredrickson, 2016) identifies the emotion of love as a collective state. Thi...
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Project: Argumentation in Science and Religious Education: An Interdisciplinary Study in British Schools
The Impact of Collaboration Between Science and Religious Education Teachers on Their Understanding and Views of Argumentation
Abstract Teachers’ understanding and teaching of argumentation is gaining more attention in science education research. However, little is kno...
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The impact of species-neutral stage structure on macroecological patterns
Despite its radical assumption of ecological equivalence between species, neutral biodiversity theory can often provide good fits to species a...
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Project: Social and Moral Intelligence: How Do Animals Understand and Perceive the Rules of Social Life?
The Importance of Representative Sampling for Home Range Estimation in Field Primatology
Abstract Understanding the amount of space required by animals to fulfill their biological needs is essential for comprehending their behavior...
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