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Refining Landauer’s Stack: Balancing Error and Dissipation When Erasing Information
Nonequilibrium information thermodynamics determines the minimum energy dissipation to reliably erase memory under time-symmetric control prot...
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Regenerative Adaptation to Electrochemical Perturbation in Planaria: A Molecular Analysis of Physiological Plasticity
Anatomical homeostasis results from dynamic interactions between gene expression, physiology, and the external environment. Owing to its compl...
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Relationships between religion, risk behaviors and prosociality among secondary school students in Peru and El Salvador
How young people spend time out of school is important for their character development. In this article we explore the relationships between a...
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Religious Homogamy Affects the Connections of Personality and Marriage Qualities to Unforgiving Motives: Implications for Couple Therapy
In Ghana, collectivism holds people together in marital relationships, even if partners are religiously different. Married partners still hurt...
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Replication and trustworthiness
This paper explores various relations that exist between replication and trustworthiness. After defining “trust”, “trustworthiness”, “replicab...
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Replication Studies in the Netherlands: Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Funders, Publishers and Editors, and Universities
The team first identifies a variety of benefits of doing replication studies. Next, they argue that it is often necessary to improve aspects of the original study, even if that means deviating from the original protocol. Thirdly, they argue that replication studies highlight the importance of and need for more transparency of the research process, but also make clear how difficult that is. Fourthly, they underline that it is worth trying out replication in the humanities. They finish by formulating recommendations regarding reproduction and replication research, aimed specifically at funders, editors and publishers, and universities and other research institutes |
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Reply to Rourk, C. Comment on “Albantakis et al. Computing the Integrated Information of a Quantum Mechanism. Entropy 2023, 25, 449”
In response to a comment by Chris Rourk on our article Computing the Integrated Information of a Quantum Mechanism, we briefly (1) consider th...
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Researchers’ Perceptions of a Responsible Research Climate: A Multi Focus Group Study
Abstract The research climate plays a key role in fostering integrity in research. However, little is known about what constitutes a responsib...
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Researchers’ perceptions of research misbehaviours: a mixed methods study among academic researchers in Amsterdam
Abstract Background There is increasing evidence that research misbehaviour is common, especially the minor forms. Previous studies on researc...
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Responding to Richard: Celebrity and (mis)representation of science
Drawing on 48 in-depth interviews conducted with biologists and physicists at universities in the United Kingdom, this study examines scientis...
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Project: A Science of Global Risk
Responsible artificial intelligence in agriculture requires systemic understanding of risks and externalities
Global agriculture is poised to benefit from the rapid advance and diffusion of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. AI in agriculture c...
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Restoring the Past, Forging the Present: Scapegoating and Redemption in Calvaire and These Are The Names
This article is a comparison of two works of fiction, a film and a novel, that both address the question of how people deal with intense memor...
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Reversible time travel with freedom of choice
General relativity allows for the existence of closed time-like curves, along which a material object could travel back in time and interact w...
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Revisiting the Assessment Context: A Call to Interfaith Assessment
Nearly a decade ago, Alyssa Rockenbach, the editor of the Journal of College & Character’s “Spirituality on Campus” section, issued a call to ...
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Rewarding the good and punishing the bad: The role of karma and afterlife beliefs in shaping moral norms
Moralizing religions encourage people to anticipate supernatural punishments for violating moral norms, even in anonymous interactions. This i...
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Ritual Forms and Ritual Stuff: Implications of Lawson and McCauley's Ritual Form Hypothesis for Material Culture
Abstract Lawson and McCauley's ritual form hypothesis (RFH) appeals to natural cognition to capture several commonly observed features of reli...
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Ritual morphospace revisited: the form, function and factor structure of ritual practice
Human rituals exhibit bewildering diversity, from the Mauritian Kavadi to Catholic communion. Is this diversity infinitely plastic or are ther...
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Project: Understanding Spiritual Intelligence: Psychological, Theological and Computational Approaches
ROWAN WILLIAMS ON ATTENTION AND MEMORY IN THE SPIRITUAL LIFE
Abstract In a series of recent articles, including his Boyle Lecture, Rowan Williams has developed a theology of the role of intelligence and ...
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Safeguarding human–wildlife cooperation
Abstract Human–wildlife cooperation occurs when humans and free‐living wild animals actively coordinate their behavior to achieve a mutually b...
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Scale‐Free Biology: Integrating Evolutionary and Developmental Thinking
Abstract When the history of life on earth is viewed as a history of cell division, all of life becomes a single cell lineage. The growth and ...
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