A new project led by Johannes Fahrenfort at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam aims to introduce a new statistical framework for establishing unconscious cognition in the brain and/or in behavior. The study will test the validity of the procedures used by the contrastive method.

A new study will assess the relationships between the dynamic qualities of consciousness, personality characteristics, and higher-order cognition. Researchers will use visual aids and machine learning to measure these relationships in virtual reality settings.

A team from Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion leads a workshop to take place during Templeton World Charity Foundation’s First Annual Global Scientific Conference on Human Flourishing that aims to create a durable and diverse community of researchers, funders, and innovators that will work together to advance intersubjective understanding of flourishing across cultures and disciplines.

A project led by Stephen Fleming at University College London, co-directed by Axel Cleeremans at Université Libre de Bruxelles aims to harness the power of adversarial collaboration to test between distinct predictions of higher-order theories. It will focus on two “axes” of disagreement between HOT variants.

Hundreds of researchers worldwide will collaborate to understand the causal effect of social media on polarization in countries other than the US or UK.