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In this Stage 2 Registered Report, Blume et al. report results of a study on the contribution of colour vision mechanisms to circadian modulation by light.
Using eye-tracking and representational geometry analyses, Linde-Domingo and Spitzer find that, even when requested to maintain fixation, humans produce involuntary miniature gaze patterns that encode visuospatial information and change over time to reflect the underlying mental process.
Evidence from genetics, skeletal remains and dietary isotopes indicates that sex-specific height disparities in Early Neolithic Europe can be linked to culture, more than environment or genetics. This suggests that a cultural preference for males may have had biological effects 7,000 yr ago.
The authors linked data from non-European Union migrants and resettled refugees to the national COVID-19 vaccination dataset in England, demonstrating disparities in vaccination timing and coverage.
Spampatti et al. examined the efficacy of six psychological inoculation strategies and discovered that these strategies had close to no protective effects against climate disinformation across 12 different countries.
Doctorate recipients with disabilities experienced early in life (at age <25 yr) working in STEM at academic institutions earned US$10,580 less per year than non-disabled workers and were underrepresented in higher academic positions.
This eye-tracking study of ~500 5-month-old infant twins indicates that individual preferences for faces versus non-social objects like cars and phones are associated with genetic variation.
Mumford et al. examine how response time differences can lead to confounds in functional MRI analyses, and they propose a new time-series model to account for response time effects.
Yildirim et al. present a computational model of shape perception that integrates intuitive physics to explain how shape can be inferred from the deformations it causes to other objects.
Effective government partly depends on effective communications to citizens. Over six studies in three different policy contexts, Linos et al. identify a counter-intuitive formality effect: citizens are more likely to respond to formal government communications than informal ones.
The authors construct a model that captures both health and economic aspects of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, and uncover trade-offs between epidemic and economic outcomes both when individuals change their behaviour due to fear of infection and when non-pharmaceutical interventions are imposed.
de Vries et al. map civic opportunity across America, demonstrating that it is highly correlated with pro-social community behaviours, but is unequally distributed, and underrepresented in public dialogue—suggesting it may warrant greater attention.
Findings from an umbrella review of more than 100 meta-analyses suggest that screen time can have both positive and negative associations with educational and health outcomes for youth, but effect sizes are small.
A three-wave survey conducted before and after a major leaked and official ruling by the US Supreme Court shows that the ruling shifted views on abortion legality, had a contrasting effect on norm perceptions and polarized perceptions of the Court’s legitimacy and support for reform.
The authors conducted a genome-wide meta-analysis on anxiety disorders and identified new risk loci, as well as variants and genes that may be causal. This provides insights into the genetic architecture of anxiety disorders and potential therapeutic targets.
Four labs discovered and replicated 16 novel findings with practices such as preregistration, large sample sizes and replication fidelity. Their findings suggest that with best practices, high replicability is achievable.
Coventry et al. show that spatial demonstratives—such as ‘this’ and ‘that’ in English—are selected on the basis of whether the speaker is able to reach the object or not, across 29 diverse languages.