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Antony et al. examine the link between multi-event long-term surprises and memory formation. Combined analysis of basketball fan questionnaires and public NBA data shows that surprising events are associated with better memory across timescales.
Data suggest an inverse relationship exists between where plant diversity occurs in nature and where it is housed. This disparity persists across physical and digital botanical collections despite overt colonialism ending over half a century ago.
Natural disasters affect a region’s human capital as well as its physical capital, reducing both student achievement and educational attainment. These effects are persistent, and when monetized are of a similar magnitude as property damage.
This systematic review examines the evidence on whether and how hormone therapy for transgender people influences psychosocial functioning. Overall, the strongest evidence was found for reductions in depressive symptoms and psychological distress after hormone therapy.
Citizens often vote against the democracies they claim to cherish. Braley et al. find that in the United States, voters’ misperceptions about opposing partisans’ commitment to democracy may unintentionally contribute to this democratic backsliding.
Blair and Weintraub evaluate a military policing programme in Cali, Colombia. They find little to no evidence that the programme reduced crime, improved citizens’ perceptions of safety or mitigated human rights abuses.
In an experiment using publicly available New York City traffic camera feeds, Sands and Dietrich find that pedestrians tend to avoid Black men more than white non-Hispanic men by leaving more space when passing.
The authors use information on 14 traits and create a representative pseudo-sample of the UK Biobank population, showing that participation bias distorts behavioural genome-wide association study and Mendelian randomization findings.
Boda et al. find that refugee adolescents in Germany have fewer friends and are more often rejected in school. However, ethnic diversity supports social integration, with majority group peers building more positive ties to refugees in more diverse settings.
Schaffner et al. show that early stages of sensory processing in humans and machines encode environmental stimuli to promote fitness maximization and not necessarily perceptual accuracy.
The authors use data on the entire Finnish population to develop a machine learning model for predicting COVID-19 vaccination uptake. Important predictors are proxies of socio-economic status, and those at high risk for COVID-19 consequences are less likely to get vaccinated.
Algorithmic gender and race/ethnicity inference tools based on author names have very high error rates in marginalized communities. This may result in misleading results in many computational social science and sociology projects.
Moore et al. find that fewer Americans visited misinformation websites during the 2020 election compared with the 2016 election. However, demographic groups more likely to be exposed to misinformation in 2016 remained more likely to be exposed in 2020.
Reading performance is associated with nine measures of brain structure in the left hemisphere, including regions of the reading network. This relationship is partially mediated by genetic factors for two surface area measures: total area and superior temporal gyrus.
Botvinik-Nezer et al. identify robust preference effects on updating of fraud beliefs related to the 2020 US election, across both political parties. Computational models explain these effects as rational updates from a system of biased prior beliefs.
Humans use supernatural beliefs as tools for explanation. These explanations are more likely to focus on natural phenomena than social phenomena, according to this quantitative analysis of ethnographic text across 114 societies.