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A Chance for Attributable Agency
Can we sensibly attribute some of the happenings in our world to the agency of some of the things around us? We do this all the time, but ther...
A comparative approach to affect and cooperation
A central premise of the science of comparative affect is that we can best learn about the causes and consequences of affect by comparing affe...
A comparative perspective on the human sense of justice
Humans are not the only species that cares about inequality; individuals in some other species also respond negatively when a social partner r...
A computational model of planarian regeneration
Regeneration of complex anatomical structures is an emergent phenomenon arising from complex interplay between various underlying cellular com...
A CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEBATE ON SCIENCE AND FAITH BY CHRISTIAN STUDENTS FROM ABIDJAN
Abstract The science and faith debate is dominated by Western voices. In order to enrich this debate, the authors study the discourses of diff...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A niche for the genome
In their considered reviews both Thomas Pradeu and Lindell Bromham introduce important topics not sufficiently covered in our book...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...