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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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Project: Play, Humor, and Joy in Great Apes
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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Mechanism Integrated Information
The Integrated Information Theory (IIT) of consciousness starts from essential phenomenological properties, which are then translated into pos...
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