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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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
LAWS IN ECOLOGY: DIVERSE MODES OF EXPLANATION FOR A HOLISTIC SCIENCE
Abstract Ecology's reputation as a holistic science is partly due to widespread misconceptions of its nature as well as shortcomings in its me...
Lessons learned from conducting mental health intervention research in schools in the global south: Our experiences in South Africa and Kenya
Most of the world's population of young people live in lower-and middle-income countries (LMICs; (Weine, Horvath Marques, Singh, & Pringle, 20...
Leveling the playing field in studying cumulative cultural evolution: Conceptual and methodological advances in nonhuman animal research.
Cumulative cultural evolution (CCE), the improvement of cultural traits over generations via social transmission, is widely believed to be uni...
Leveraging artificial intelligence to improve people’s planning strategies
SignificanceMany bad decisions and their devastating consequences could be avoided if people used optimal decision strategies. Here, we introd...
Live imaging of intracellular pH in planarians using the ratiometric fluorescent dye SNARF-5F-AM
Abstract Physiological parameters such as resting potential and pH are increasingly recognized as important regulators of cell activity and ti...
Long-term health outcomes of adolescent character strength interventions: 3- to 4-year outcomes of three randomized controlled trials of the Shamiri program
Adolescents in low- and middle-income countries in need of mental health care often do not receive it due to stigma, cost, and lack of mental ...
Long-Term, Stochastic Editing of Regenerative Anatomy via Targeting Endogenous Bioelectric Gradients
We show that regenerating planarians' normal anterior-posterior pattern can be permanently rewritten by a brief perturbation of endogenous bio...
Longitudinal increases in childhood depression symptoms during the COVID-19 lockdown
Objective There has been widespread concern that so-called lockdown measures, including social distancing and school closures, could negativel...
Looking like a smoker, a smokescreen to racism? Māori perceived appearance linked to smoking status
Objectives: Māori, the indigenous peoples of Aotearoa (New Zealand), continue to exhibit the highest rate of smoking of any ethnic group in th...
Low relationship quality predicts scratch contagion during tense situations in orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus)
Abstract Primates show various forms of behavioral contagion that are stronger between kin and friends. As a result, behavioral contagion is t...
Material insecurity predicts greater commitment to moralistic and less commitment to local deities: a cross-cultural investigation
The existential security hypothesis predicts that in the absence of more successful secular institutions, people will be attracted to religion...
Maternal mental health mediates links between socioeconomic status and child development
The impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on early child development is well-established, but the mediating role of parental mental health is p...
Mathematics and the Brain: A Category Theoretical Approach to Go Beyond the Neural Correlates of Consciousness
Consciousness is a central issue in neuroscience, however, we still lack a formal framework that can address the nature of the relationship be...
Mechanism Integrated Information
The Integrated Information Theory (IIT) of consciousness starts from essential phenomenological properties, which are then translated into pos...