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Both Random and Guided
Abstract This paper argues, first, that biological evolution can be both random and divinely guided at the same time. Next it discusses the id...
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Brazil's football warriors: Social bonding and inter-group violence
Football-related violence (hooliganism) is a global problem. Previous work has proposed that hooliganism is an expression of social maladjustm...
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Bumblebees retrieve only the ordinal ranking of foraging options when comparing memories obtained in distinct settings
Are animals' preferences determined by absolute memories for options (e.g. reward sizes) or by their remembered ranking (better/worse)? The on...
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Project: The Epistemic Insight Initiative
Can a robot be a scientist? Developing students’ epistemic insight through a lesson exploring the role of human creativity in astronomy
Abstract Artificial intelligence is transforming the practice of science worldwide. Breakthroughs in machine learning are enabling, for exampl...
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Project: Understanding Everyday Love: Do Increases in Positivity Resonance Increase Virtuous Behavior?
Can an Algorithm Tell How Spiritual You Are? Using Generative Pretrained Transformers for Sophisticated Forms of Text Analysis
Text analysis is a form of psychological assessment that involves converting qualitative information (text) into quantitative data. We tested whether automated text analysis using Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs) can match the “gold standard” of manual text analysis, even when assessing a highly nuanced construct like spirituality... |
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Project: The Personal Consequences of Religion: A 20-year Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study
Can honest signaling theory clarify religion’s role in the evolution of social inequality?
Vivid coloration, pungent odors, strident alarms, and crippling stings have co-evolved in many lineages as mechanisms that conspicuous...
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Can moral case deliberation in research groups help to navigate research integrity dilemmas? A pilot study
There is an increased focus on fostering integrity in research by through creating an open culture where research integrity dilemmas can be di...
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Project: Social and Moral Intelligence: How Do Animals Understand and Perceive the Rules of Social Life?
Capuchin monkey rituals: an interdisciplinary study of form and function
Many white-faced capuchin monkey dyads in Lomas Barbudal, Costa Rica, practise idiosyncratic interaction sequences that are not part of the sp...
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Causal Composition: Structural Differences among Dynamically Equivalent Systems
The dynamical evolution of a system of interacting elements can be predicted in terms of its elementary constituents and their interactions, o...
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Causal reductionism and causal structures
Causal reductionism is the widespread assumption that there is no room for additional causes once we have accounted for all elementary mechanisms within a system...
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Causal specificity and the instructive–permissive distinction
I use some recent formal work on measuring causation to explore a suggestion by James Woodward...
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Causation and Time Reversal
What would it be for a process to happen backwards in time? Would such a process involve different causal relations? It is common to understan...
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Cell Systems Bioelectricity: How Different Intercellular Gap Junctions Could Regionalize a Multicellular Aggregate
Electric potential distributions can act as instructive pre-patterns for development, regeneration, and tumorigenesis in cell systems. The bio...
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Certification and Quantification of Multilevel Quantum Coherence
Quantum coherence, present whenever a quantum system exists in a superposition of multiple classically distinct states, marks one of the funda...
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Changes in Character Virtues are Driven by Classroom Relationships: A Longitudinal Study of Elementary School Children
Abstract The purpose of this study is to understand the role of school relationships in shaping students’ character development in middle chil...
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Project: The Personal Consequences of Religion: A 20-year Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study
Charity explains differences in life satisfaction between religious and secular New Zealanders
This study investigated whether differences in subjective well-being between religious and non-religious people could be partially accounted f...
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Childhood Experiences and Adult Prayer or Meditation in 22 Countries Around the World
Few studies have examined how childhood experiences and characteristics shape daily prayer or meditation in adulthood across countries around the world using nationally-representative data. The current study addresses this limitation by analyzing data... |
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Childhood Predictors of Adults’ Belief in God, Gods, and Spiritual Forces Across 22 Countries
Religion is an integral part of everyday life for billions of people, yet little is known about the developmental antecedents of religious belief outside of Western cultures. Using data from over 200,000 individuals across 22 countries, we evaluate several childhood predictors of belief in God, gods, and spiritual forces in adulthood... |
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Childhood Predictors of Belief in Life After Death Across 22 Countries
Belief in life after death is one of the oldest and most widespread spiritual convictions, and it has been shown to offer various psychological benefits. Understanding the predictors of afterlife beliefs is crucial for gaining insight into religious tenets... |
