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Continuous Theta Burst Stimulation of the Posterior Medial Frontal Cortex to Experimentally Reduce Ideological Threat Responses. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Decades of behavioral science research have documented functional shifts in attitudes and ideological adherence in response to various challenges, but little work to date has illuminated the neural mechanisms underlying these dynamics.
Gordon, Chelsea L   +2 more
core  

The flexible, the stereotyped and the in‐between: putting together the combinatory tool use origins hypothesis

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tool use research has long made the distinction between tool using that is considered learned and flexible, and that which appears to be instinctive and stereotyped. However, animals with an inherited tool use specialisation can exhibit flexibility, while tool use that is spontaneously innovated can be limited in its expression and facilitated
Jennifer A. D. Colbourne   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reading hominin life history in fossil bones and teeth: methods to test hypotheses regarding its evolution

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human life history is derived compared to that of our closest living relatives, the great apes. It has been suggested that these derived traits are causally related to aspects of our ecology, social behaviour and cognitive abilities. However, resolving this requires that we know the evolutionary trajectory of our distinctive pattern of growth,
Paola Cerrito   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development and validation of a picture-based measure of prosociality

open access: yesActa Psychologica
Current measures of prosociality primarily utilize text-based scales that can be susceptible to response bias. To enhance the ecological validity of such measures and provide a more intuitive assessment of prosociality, we developed and validated a ...
Duo Li   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Moral objectivism and a punishing God [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Many moral philosophers have assumed that ordinary folk embrace moral objectivism. But, if so, why do folk embrace objectivism? One possibility is the pervasive connection between religion and morality in ordinary life. Some theorists
Phelan, Mark, Sarkissian, Hagop
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The Interrelations Between Social Class, Personal Relative Deprivation, and Prosociality. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
We propose that personal relative deprivation (PRD)-the belief that one is worse off than similar others-plays a key role in the link between social class and prosociality. Across multiple samples and measures (total N = 2,233), people higher in PRD were
Callan, Mitchell J   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

Do Governance Structures Drive Green Building Adoption? A Machine Learning Approach With Random Forests

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the determinants of firms' propensity to adopt green buildings in the Euro Stoxx 300 and the S&P 500 indices, during 2012–2023. Using random forest binary classifiers, we assess the relative importance of financial, sectoral, geographic, and climate governance predictors and uncover nonlinear relationships often overlooked ...
María del Carmen Valls Martínez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustaining Circular Innovation Under Volatile Market Conditions: The Critical Role of Industry Platforms

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While industry platforms are widely recognized as enablers of circular innovation, we still know little about how they evolve to scale and sustain innovation as economic conditions tighten and circular economy funding schemes become more selective.
Eva Qi Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Evolutionary Model of the Environmental Conditions that Shape the Development of Prosociality

open access: yesEvolutionary Psychology, 2014
The current review presents a model for how prosocial development is driven by sociocognitive mechanisms that have been shaped by natural selection to translate critical environmental factors into locally adaptive levels of prosociality.
Daniel Tumminelli O'Brien
doaj   +1 more source

Class Precarity and Solidarity in Education Social Value Co-creation and Non-ownership Social Infrastructures

open access: yesPRISM, 2018
This paper builds on my previous work in this journal (Hafiz, 2017) on the potentialities of prosociality as a remedy and response to widespread precarity.
Abdul Aziz Hafiz
doaj   +1 more source

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