Article
Psychology, Biological
Tal Yarkoni
Summary: Most theories and hypotheses in psychology are verbal in nature, yet their evaluation overwhelmingly relies on inferential statistical procedures. However, many applications of statistical inference in psychology fail to meet the basic condition of closely aligning verbal and statistical expressions, which results in limited generalizability of results, increased false-positive rates, and researchers drawing sweeping verbal generalizations without meaningful connection to statistical quantities.
BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Longqi Yang, David Holtz, Sonia Jaffe, Siddharth Suri, Shilpi Sinha, Jeffrey Weston, Connor Joyce, Neha Shah, Kevin Sherman, Brent Hecht, Jaime Teevan
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a rapid increase in full-time remote work, causing collaboration networks to become more static and fragmented. Asynchronous communication has increased while synchronous communication has decreased, making it more challenging for employees to acquire and share new information.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2022)
Review
Psychology, Biological
Christopher D. Chambers, Loukia Tzavella
Summary: Registered Reports were introduced a decade ago to improve the rigour and credibility of confirmatory research by peer reviewing study proposals before research is undertaken. While they are not a universal solution for irreproducibility, early evidence suggests that Registered Reports are working as intended and are promoting reproducibility, transparency, and self-correction across disciplines. The policies and practices surrounding Registered Reports are evolving to address limitations and adapt to new challenges.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Roland Imhoff, Felix Zimmer, Olivier Klein, Joao H. C. Antonio, Maria Babinska, Adrian Bangerter, Michal Bilewicz, Nebojsa Blanusa, Kosta Bovan, Rumena Buzarovska, Aleksandra Cichocka, Sylvain Delouvee, Karen M. Douglas, Asbjorn Dyrendal, Tom Etienne, Biljana Gjoneska, Sylvie Graf, Estrella Gualda, Gilad Hirschberger, Anna Kende, Yordan Kutiyski, Peter Kreko, Andre Krouwel, Silvia Mari, Jasna Milosevic Dordevic, Maria Serena Panasiti, Myrto Pantazi, Ljupcho Petkovski, Giuseppina Porciello, Andre Rabelo, Raluca Nicoleta Radu, Florin A. Sava, Michael Schepisi, Robbie M. Sutton, Viren Swami, Hulda Thorisdottir, Vladimir Turjacanin, Pascal Wagner-Egger, Iris Zezelj, Jan-Willem van Prooijen
Summary: This study finds that conspiracy mentality is more prevalent at both ends of the political spectrum than the center, particularly on the political right. Previous research yielded inconsistent findings, but this study found evidence for both linear and quadratic relationships, with small and heterogeneous effects across countries.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2022)
Letter
Psychology, Biological
Mohamed Behnassi, Mahjoub El Haiba
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Jessica L. Schleider, Michael C. Mullarkey, Kathryn R. Fox, Mallory L. Dobias, Akash Shroff, Erica A. Hart, Chantelle A. Roulston
Summary: This study tested the effects of online single-session interventions on adolescents with depression symptoms during COVID-19, finding that both active SSIs were effective in reducing depressive symptoms, decreasing hopelessness, increasing agency, and reducing restrictive eating. These results suggest that free online interventions are useful for high-symptom adolescents, even in the high-stress context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Yang Ye, Qingpeng Zhang, Xuan Wei, Zhidong Cao, Hsiang-Yu Yuan, Daniel Dajun Zeng
Summary: Despite broad agreement on the negative consequences of vaccine inequity, the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines remains imbalanced. A recent study using mathematical modeling shows that equitable vaccine allocation strategies can effectively curb the spread of new strains, while vaccine inequity only provides limited and short-term benefits to high-income countries. Therefore, making immediate and generous vaccine donations to low- and middle-income countries is a practical pathway to protect everyone.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Simone Battaglia, Stefano Orsolini, Sara Borgomaneri, Riccardo Barbieri, Stefano Diciotti, Giuseppe di Pellegrino
Summary: Understanding the transient dynamics of the autonomic nervous system during fear learning is crucial for the treatment of fear-related disorders. In this study, a novel frequency-domain analysis of heart rate was performed to investigate the physiological processes underlying fear learning. The results revealed that fear learning led to a transient heart rate deceleration and increased parasympathetic (vagal) activity, indicating the involvement of cardiac vagal dynamics in fear learning.
Review
Psychology, Biological
Benjamin K. Sovacool, Peter Newell, Sanya Carley, Jessica Fanzo
Summary: This review examines the impact of low-carbon technological and behavioral innovations on inequality and discusses how to ensure a sustainable and equitable low-carbon future.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2022)
Review
Psychology, Biological
Bastian A. Betthaeuser, Anders M. Bach-Mortensen, Per Engzell
Summary: This study, consisting of a meta-analysis of 42 studies, reveals that the learning progress of school-aged children has slowed down during the COVID-19 pandemic. The impact is more significant for children from low socio-economic backgrounds and in lower-income countries. Additionally, the learning deficit in mathematics is larger compared to reading.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Jonas Schoeley, Jose Manuel Aburto, Ilya Kashnitsky, Maxi S. Kniffka, Luyin Zhang, Hannaliis Jaadla, Jennifer B. Dowd, Ridhi Kashyap
Summary: In 2021, there were diverging impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancies in different regions, with vaccination rates negatively correlated with life expectancy deficits. Generally, countries in western Europe saw improvements in life expectancy, while those in eastern Europe and the United States experienced sustained deficits.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Tilmann von Soest, Michal Kozak, Ruben Rodriguez-Cano, Dirkje H. Fluit, Laura Cortes-Garcia, Vidar S. Ulset, E. F. Haghish, Anders Bakken
Summary: During the COVID-19 pandemic, Norwegian adolescents reported increased depressive symptoms and decreased optimism, while alcohol and cannabis use decreased. Girls, younger individuals, and those from low socio-economic backgrounds displayed more adverse changes.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Alexander Karaivanov, Dongwoo Kim, Shih En Lu, Hitoshi Shigeoka
Summary: Proof-of-vaccination mandates for public venues and non-essential businesses significantly increased COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Canada, France, Italy, and Germany. The announcement of the mandate led to a rapid surge in new vaccinations, resulting in cumulative gains in vaccination rates.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Jelle Bruineberg, Krzysztof Dolega, Joe Dewhurst, Manuel Baltieri
Summary: The free energy principle is an important framework in computational neuroscience and theoretical neurobiology, ensuring adaptive exchanges between living systems and their environment by minimizing the objective function of variational free energy. Markov blankets, a core concept of the free energy principle, have been used to address philosophical debates. This paper suggests distinguishing between "Pearl blankets" and "Friston blankets" to differentiate the different uses of Markov blankets in Bayesian inference and the free energy framework.
BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Vicente Javier Clemente-Suarez, Ana Isabel Beltran-Velasco, Domingo Jesus Ramos-Campo, Juan Mielgo-Ayuso, Pantelis A. Nikolaidis, Noelia Belando, Jose Francisco Tornero-Aguilera
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted physical activity, exercise habits, dietary patterns, and mental health of individuals. These factors play a role in exacerbating COVID-19 symptoms, increasing the risk of death from SARS-CoV-2, and affecting vaccine effectiveness. Physical activity interventions have been shown to be valuable in preventing and treating COVID-19 by improving body composition, cardiovascular health, metabolic health, mental health, and enhancing antibody responses to vaccines.
PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Allison C. Morgan, Nicholas LaBerge, Daniel B. Larremore, Mirta Galesic, Jennie E. Brand, Aaron Clauset
Summary: This study finds that faculty members in the US academia are much more likely to have parents with Ph.D. degrees compared to the general population, indicating a higher representation of socioeconomically privileged individuals in the professoriate. This disparity is likely to shape their scholarship and reproduction, limiting efforts to diversify the professoriate.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Chatrin Suksasilp, Sarah N. Garfinkel
Summary: Interoception is commonly assessed through behavioral tests, self-report measures, or neural signal analysis. Recent research has expanded the concept of interoception to include attention and interpretation of interoceptive signals. However, current assessment methods focus on individual dimensions and fail to capture the complexity of interoception. Comprehensive assessment across dimensions can provide a better understanding of overall interoceptive function, revealing differences in processing across dimensions and bodily axes. Future research can explore the relationship between interoceptive measures and different types of processing. Comprehensive interoceptive assessment can help identify selective disruptions in clinical conditions.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Editorial Material
Psychology, Biological
Nick Chater, George Loewenstein
Summary: There is a misconception in behavioral science that many societal problems can be addressed at the individual level without modifying the overall system. This individual frame of thinking has led to a neglect of systemic policies and actions, thereby restricting the contribution of behavioral scientists to public policy.
BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES
(2023)
Review
Psychology, Biological
Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Lisa Oswald, Stephan Lewandowsky, Ralph Hertwig
Summary: The impact of digital media on democracy varies depending on the specific political variables and the stage of development of the country, with both positive and negative associations observed.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Jianghao Wang, Yichun Fan, Juan Palacios, Yuchen Chai, Nicolas Guetta-Jeanrenaud, Nick Obradovich, Chenghu Zhou, Siqi Zheng
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has had unprecedented effects on people's physical health and subjective well-being. This study uses social media data and machine learning techniques to develop a global dataset of expressed sentiment indices, allowing for real-time tracking of affective states. The findings show that global sentiment declined sharply during the COVID-19 outbreak and exhibited asymmetric, slower recoveries, while the effects of lockdown policies on sentiment varied greatly across countries.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2022)
