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Project: Testing the "Morality and (Mis)Perception Model of Polarization" Across Cultures and Contexts
National Politics Ignites More Talk of Morality and Power Than Local Politics
Politics and the media in the United States are increasingly nationalized, and this changes how we talk about politics. Instead of reading the local news and discussing local events, people are more often consuming national media and discussing national issues. Unlike local politics, which can rely on shared concrete knowledge about the region, national politics must coordinate large groups of people with little in common. To provide this coordination, this research finds that national-level political discussions rely upon different themes than local-level discussions, using more abstract, moralized, and power-centric language. The higher prevalence of abstract, moralized, and power-centric language in national vs. local politics was found in political speeches, politician Tweets, and Reddit discussions. These national-level linguistic features lead to broader engagement with political messages, but they also foster more anger and negativity. These findings suggest that the nationalization of politics and the media may contribute to rising partisan animosity. |
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Neural control of body-plan axis in regenerating planaria
Control of axial polarity during regeneration is a crucial open question. We developed a quantitative model of regenerating planaria, which el...
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Neural correlates of mystical experience
Mystical experiences, or subjectively believed encounters with a supernatural world, are widely reported across cultures and throughout human ...
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Neural networks reveal emergent properties of collective learning in democratic but not despotic groups
Collective learning, the improvement of behaviours through experience of collective actions, is an area of animal learning that has received l...
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Neurocomputational Mechanisms Involved in Adaptation to Fluctuating Intentions of Others
Humans frequently interact with agents whose intentions can fluctuate between competition and cooperation over time. It is unclear how the brain adapts to fluctuating intentions of others when the nature of the interactions (to cooperate or compete) is not explicitly and truthfully signaled. Here, model-based fMRI and a task in which participants thought they were playing with another player are used. |
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Neurotype-Matching, but Not Being Autistic, Influences Self and Observer Ratings of Interpersonal Rapport
The Double Empathy Theory suggests that communicative difficulties between autistic and non-autistic people are due to bi-directional differen...
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No Evidence for Biased Attention Towards Emotional Scenes in Bornean Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus)
Attention may be swiftly and automatically tuned to emotional expressions in social primates, as has been demonstrated in humans, bonobos, and...
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Non-causal Explanations in the Humanities: Some Examples
Abstract The humanistic disciplines aim to offer explanations of a wide variety of phenomena. Philosophical theories of explanation have focus...
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Non-Markovian momentum computing: Thermodynamically efficient and computation universal
Practical, useful computations are instantiated via physical processes. Information must be stored and updated within a system's configuration...
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Non-numerical strategies used by bees to solve numerical cognition tasks
We examined how bees solve a visual discrimination task with stimuli commonly used in numerical cognition studies. Bees performed well on the ...
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Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and optimal prediction of partially-observed complex systems
Abstract Only a subset of degrees of freedom are typically accessible or measurable in real-world systems. As a consequence, the proper settin...
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Novelty and imitation within the brain: a Darwinian neurodynamic approach to combinatorial problems
Efficient search in vast combinatorial spaces, such as those of possible action sequences, linguistic structures, or causal explanations, is a...
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Old and New Approaches to Animal Cognition: There Is Not “One Cognition”
Using the comparative approach, researchers draw inferences about the evolution of cognition. Psychologists have postulated several hypotheses...
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On Biotechnology, Theology, and the Human Sciences
There may be very good Christian theological reasons to oppose human biotechnological enhancement. It is, however, difficult to discern what t...
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On keeping our adversaries close, preventing collateral damage, and changing our minds. Comment on Clark et al.
Comments on the original article by Clark et al. regarding adversarial collaborations to improve behavioral science.
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On the thermodynamical cost of some interpretations of quantum theory
Recently, Cabello et al. (2016) claim to have proven the existence of an empirically verifiable difference between two broad classes of quantu...
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Optimising collective accuracy among rational individuals in sequential decision-making with competition
Theoretical results underpinning the wisdom of the crowd, such as the Condorcet Jury Theorem, point to substantial accuracy gains through aggr...
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Optogenetically induced cellular habituation in non-neuronal cells
Habituation, defined as the reversible decrement of a response during repetitive stimulation, is widely established as a form of non-associati...
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Orangutan mothers adjust their behaviour during food solicitations in a way that likely facilitates feeding skill acquisition in their offspring
Immature orangutans acquire their feeding skills over several years, via social and independent learning. So far, it has remained uninvestigat...
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Pareto-Optimal Data Compression for Binary Classification Tasks
The goal of lossy data compression is to reduce the storage cost of a data set X while retaining as much information as possible about somethi...
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