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Human cooperation is strong among individuals but fragile between groups | Nature Reviews Psychology
14+ hour, 33+ min ago (1782+ words) Nature Reviews Psychology (2026) Cite this article only $4. 92 per issue Zagefka, H. & James, T. The psychology of charitable donations to disaster victims and beyond. Soc. Issues Policy Rev. 9, 155192 (2015). Wilson, J. Volunteering. Annu. Rev. Sociol. 26, 215240 (2000). Fehr, E. & Fischbacher, U. Third-party punishment and social norms. Evol. Hum. Behav....
Turning on the "for you" feed on X shifted political opinions, but turning it off did not
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (273+ words) Receive 52 print issues and online access only $3. 83 per issue Figure 1 is published under a CC BY-NC-ND 4. 0 licence. Rose-Stockwell, T. Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy " And What We Can Do About It (Hachette Books, 2023). Persily, N. & Tucker, J. A. (eds) Social Media…...
Novel rewiring mechanism for restoration of the fragmented social networks after attacks - Scientific Reports
2+ week, 3+ day ago (114+ words) Scientific Reports (2026) Cite this article Open access funding provided by Shiv Nadar University. Open access funding is expected to be supported and facilitated by Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi-NCR, India. Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University, Bangalore,…...
Daily briefing: How the "Enhanced Games" could expose flaws in the sporting world
3+ week, 3+ day ago (76+ words) The ‘steroid Olympics’ could highlight cracks in the anti-doping system. Plus, AI brain implants are headed for real-world use in China and the progress on treatments for the virus at the centre of the Ebola outbreak. The ‘steroid Olympics’ could…...
Young children build consensus in networks with local information - Nature Human Behaviour
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (709+ words) Nature Human Behaviour (2026)Cite this article Mc Kelvey, R. D. & Palfrey, T. R. Playing in the Dark: Information, Learning, and Coordination in Repeated Games (California Institute of Technology, 2001). Ioannou, C. A. & Romero, J. A generalized approach to belief learning in repeated games. Game Econ. Behav. 87, 178203 (2014). Dal B,…...
The emerging disenchantment with retrospective meta-analysis - Nature Human Behaviour
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (240+ words) Nature Human Behaviour (2026)Cite this article School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK James E. Kennedy&Caroline Watt Correspondence to Caroline Watt. Nature Human Behaviour thanks Elizabeth Tipton for their contribution to the peer review of…...
Replication games" test the robustness of social-science studies
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (308+ words) This is a summary of: Brodeur, A. et al. Reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science research. Nature 652, 151156 (2026). "Expert opinion" is published under a CC BY 4. 0 licence. Christensen, G. & Miguel, E. J. Econ. Lit. 56, 920980 (2018). Camerer, C. F. et al. Science 351, 14331436 (2016). Camerer, C. F. et al. Nature Hum....
The potential of social-ecological networks for urban ecology - npj Urban Sustainability
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1530+ words) Third, although we focused on SENs, research on social-technological networks (STNs)15, 51 and social-ecological-technological systems in urban ecology2 is expanding. While we considered technological elements as part of the social dimension, integrating SENs and STNs into a three-layer network remains a possible…...
Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (341+ words) A massive seven-year project exploring 3, 900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding: researchers could replicate the results of only half of the studies that they tested1. Read a related News & Views: "Huge meta-research project puts claims in social-science papers to…...
The economics of social mobility
11+ mon, 6+ day ago (106+ words) Research is invited on a range of themes, including but not limited to:" Submissions may include empirical studies, theoretical models, policy evaluations, historical analyses, or applied research relevant to the economic, social, or policy dimensions of social mobility." University of…...