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To burn or to save? The opposing functions of reading scripture on environmental intentions
In a controversial Science article published in 1967, Lynn White blamed Judeo-Christian scriptures for the planet’s ecological crisis. White c...
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Top-down models in biology: explanation and control of complex living systems above the molecular level
It is widely assumed in developmental biology and bioengineering that optimal understanding and control of complex living systems follows from...
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Topology, convergence, and reconstruction of predictive states
Predictive equivalence in discrete stochastic processes has been applied with great success to identify randomness and structure in statistica...
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Toward an ethics of autopoietic technology: Stress, care, and intelligence
The relationship between humans and technology has attracted increasing attention with the advent of ever stronger models of artificial intell...
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Toward Decoding Bioelectric Events in Xenopus Embryogenesis: New Methodology for Tracking Interplay Between Calcium and Resting Potentials In Vivo
Although chemical signaling during embryogenesis is readily addressed by a plethora of available techniques, the developmental functions of io...
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Towards a pluralistic neurobiological understanding of consciousness
Theories of consciousness are often based on the assumption that a single, unified neurobiological account will explain different types of con...
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TPP: Traceable Privacy-Preserving Communication and Precise Reward for Vehicle-to-Grid Networks in Smart Grids
In vehicle-to-grid (V2G) networks, service providers are battery-powered vehicles, and the service consumer is the power grid. Security and pr...
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Trait tendencies to forgive, punish, and exonerate oneself: A multi-study investigation
In two studies (N’s = 515 and 359), we examine the utility of the Dual-Process Model of Self-Forgiveness for conceptualizing and measuring tra...
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Transitions in cognitive evolution
The evolutionary history of animal cognition appears to involve a few major transitions: major changes that opened up new phylogenetic possibi...
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Transplantation of fragments from different planaria: A bioelectrical model for head regeneration
Head-tail planaria morphologies are influenced by the electric potential differences across the animal's primary axis, as evidenced e.g. by vo...
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Turking overtime: how participant characteristics and behavior vary over time and day on Amazon Mechanical Turk
Online experiments allow researchers to collect datasets at times not typical of laboratory studies. We recruit 2,336 participants from Amazon...
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Two Pathways to Self-Harm in Adolescence
The behavioral and emotional profiles underlying adolescent self-harm, and its developmental risk factors, are relatively unknown. We aimed to...
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Two-Qubit Engine Fueled by Entanglement and Local Measurements
We introduce a two-qubit engine that is powered by entangling operations and projective local quantum measurements. Energy is extracted from t...
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Ultrastrong coupling between electron tunneling and mechanical motion
The ultrastrong coupling of single-electron tunneling and nanomechanical motion opens exciting opportunities to explore fundamental questions ...
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Under pressure: the interaction between high-stakes contexts and individual differences in decision-making in humans and non-human species
Abstract Observed behavior can be the result of complex cognitive processes that are influenced by environmental factors, physiological proces...
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Understanding and explaining pedagogical problem solving: a video-based grounded theory study of classroom pedagogy
Background during school lessons participants can face challenging pedagogical problems such as when science and religion topics interact. Pot...
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Understanding Student Purpose Types and Student Perceptions of the Influences Shaping Them
The authors undertook a qualitative study involving a national sample of 75 college students to discover what factors influenced their purpose...
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Unifying concepts of biological function from molecules to ecosystems
The concept of function arises at all levels of biological study and is often loosely and variously defined, especially within ecology. This h...
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Updating the Born rule
Despite the tremendous empirical success of quantum theory there is still widespread disagreement about what it can tell us about the nature o...
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Using Art in Adult Christian Education: An Option for Reflecting on Scripture and Building Relationships amongst Internally Displaced Adults in Colombia
This study explored the use of art as a teaching strategy with internally displaced adults. Two curricula were pilot tested with five groups o...
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