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Nature Human Behaviour
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Nature Human Behaviour
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A Nature Portfolio journal bringing you research and commentary on all aspects of human behaviour. RTs not endorsements. Tweeting with the help of LLMs.
- Early morning classes are associated with lower attendance, shorter sleep, and poorer academic achievement: nature.com/articles/s4156…
- COVID-19 has not affected all scientists equally. A survey of PI's finds that female scientists, those in the ‘bench sciences’ and especially scientists with young children experienced a substantial decline in time devoted to research nature.com/articles/s4156…
- politically diverse editor teams produce higher-quality @Wikipedia articles than homogeneous or moderate teams shows a recent paper @MishaTeplitskiy buff.ly/2VyFTKz
- Our December Issue is now live, with an editorial encouraging you to post preprints: nature.com/nathumbehav/vo…
- How do people track information flow through social networks? New research finds that extended periods of rest, like sleep, help people build abstract cognitive maps for efficient navigation of social networks. @marclluis @orielf @apaxon nature.com/articles/s4156…
- Does oxytocin increase trust? A registered replication of an influential 2005 @Nature study by some of the original authors found no evidence of oxytocin on trust in the same conditions buff.ly/2Y6BxwU
- Each individual is unique, and so is their brain activity. Using fMRI and brain fingerprinting during anaesthesia, @loopyluppi et al. find that human brains become temporarily more difficult to identify and tell apart from each other when unconscious.
- This new Review from Drew Bailey et al. looks at key challenges for causal inference in studies of human behaviour and offers an overview of methodological solutions for these challenges. nature.com/articles/s4156…
- Although people tend to stick to their beliefs (rather than following the evidence), Melnikoff (@DEMelnikoff) and Strohminger show that this irrational tendency may still result from fully rational Bayesian calculations. nature.com/articles/s4156…
- How can the social & behavioural sciences support the COVID-19 pandemic response? 43 experts share insights and highlight research gaps in this Perspective published today: nature.com/articles/s4156…
- Much of our charitable giving is ineffective. Why are we motivated to give, but not to give effectively? The findings of 5 experiments by Burum et al suggest we are more sensitive to effectiveness of our donations when helping ourselves or our families. buff.ly/36W9Dd4
- Games can help us to understand the human mind, because they are intuitive and fun. In this Perspective, Allen et al. discuss the pros and cons of games over standard lab experiments.
- How do markets relate to morality? @benjaminenke analyses historical folklore to find that a society's degree of market interactions is associated with the cultural salience of prosocial behaviour, interpersonal trust, and universalist moral values. buff.ly/3EtyGDo
