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Fatherhood, egalitarianism, and child health in two small-scale societies in the Republic of the Congo (2019)
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Boyette, A. H., Lew-Levy, S., Sarma, M. S., Valchy, M., & Gettler, L. T. (2020). Fatherhood, egalitarianism, and child health in two small-scale societies in the Republic of the Congo. American Journal of Human Biology, 32(4), Article e23342. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23342

Objectives The study goals were to (a) characterize the cultural model of fatherhood among the BaYaka, a community of egalitarian foragers in the Republic of the Congo; (b) test if BaYaka fathers' quality in relation to the cultural model predicts t... Read More about Fatherhood, egalitarianism, and child health in two small-scale societies in the Republic of the Congo.

Power and aggression: making sense of a fickle relationship (2019)
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Weick, M. (2020). Power and aggression: making sense of a fickle relationship. Current Opinion in Psychology, 33, 245-249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.10.003

‘Power’ and ‘aggression’ are two constructs that seem like a natural fit. After all, why should people in power not deploy aggression to get their way? Yet, when looking at empirical studies, the relationship between power and aggression is fickle at... Read More about Power and aggression: making sense of a fickle relationship.

Epigenetic aging in children from a small-scale farming society in The Congo Basin: Associations with child growth and family conflict (2019)
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Gettler, L. T., Lin, D. T. S., Miegakanda, V., Lew-Levy, S., Eick, G. N., Snodgrass, J. J., …Boyette, A. H. (2020). Epigenetic aging in children from a small-scale farming society in The Congo Basin: Associations with child growth and family conflict. Developmental Psychobiology, 62(2), 138-153. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.21935

Developmental environments influence individuals' long-term health trajectories, and there is increasing emphasis on understanding the biological pathways through which this occurs. Epigenetic aging evaluates DNA methylation at a suite of distinct Cp... Read More about Epigenetic aging in children from a small-scale farming society in The Congo Basin: Associations with child growth and family conflict.

Dwelling on simple stimuli in visual search (2019)
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Horstmann, G., Becker, S. I., & Grubert, A. (2020). Dwelling on simple stimuli in visual search. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 82(2), 607-625. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01872-8

Research and theories on visual search often focus on visual guidance to explain differences in search. Guidance is the tuning of attention to target features and facilitates search because distractors that do not show target features can be more eff... Read More about Dwelling on simple stimuli in visual search.

Do humans possess an autonomous system justification motivation? A Pupillometric test of the strong system justification thesis (2019)
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Owuamalam, C. K., & Spears, R. (2020). Do humans possess an autonomous system justification motivation? A Pupillometric test of the strong system justification thesis. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 86, Article 103897. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103897

To investigate the existence of an autonomous system justification motive that guides human behavior, we tested the dissonance-inspired strong system-justification thesis: that the cognitive effort expended to justify societal systems on which people... Read More about Do humans possess an autonomous system justification motivation? A Pupillometric test of the strong system justification thesis.

Participatory arts interventions promote interpersonal and intergroup prosocial intentions in middle childhood (2019)
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Van de Vyver, J., Abrams, D., Spinner, L., Pelletier, J., Ali, S., & Kapantai, I. (2019). Participatory arts interventions promote interpersonal and intergroup prosocial intentions in middle childhood. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 65, Article 101069. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2019.101069

We report the results of two experiments which test the potential of arts engagement for promoting prosocial intentions. Experiment 1 (N = 216) tested the impact of a participatory arts intervention (vs. a control condition) on children's empathy and... Read More about Participatory arts interventions promote interpersonal and intergroup prosocial intentions in middle childhood.

Intentions, efficacy, and norms: The impact of different self-regulatory cues on reducing engine idling at long wait stops (2019)
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Mahmood, L., Abrams, D., Meleady, R., Hopthrow, T., Lalot, F., Swift, H., & Van de Vyver, J. (2019). Intentions, efficacy, and norms: The impact of different self-regulatory cues on reducing engine idling at long wait stops. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 66, Article 101368. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.101368

Idling engines contribute significantly to air pollution and health problems. In a field study at a busy railway crossing we used the Theory of Planned Behavior to design persuasive messages to convince car drivers (N = 442) to turn off their engines... Read More about Intentions, efficacy, and norms: The impact of different self-regulatory cues on reducing engine idling at long wait stops.

Coding Locations Relative to One or Many Landmarks in Childhood (2019)
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Negen, J., Bou Ali, L., Chere, B., Roome, H., Park, Y., & Nardini, M. (2019). Coding Locations Relative to One or Many Landmarks in Childhood. PLoS Computational Biology, 15(10), Article e1007380. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007380

Cognitive development studies how information processing in the brain changes over the course of development. A key part of this question is how information is represented and stored in memory. This study examined allocentric (world-based) spatial me... Read More about Coding Locations Relative to One or Many Landmarks in Childhood.

Retinotopic-like maps of spatial sound in primary 'visual' cortex of blind human echolocators (2019)
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Norman, L., & Thaler, L. (2019). Retinotopic-like maps of spatial sound in primary 'visual' cortex of blind human echolocators. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1912), Article 20191910. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1910

The functional specializations of cortical sensory areas were traditionally viewed as being tied to specific modalities. A radically different emerging view is that the brain is organized by task rather than sensory modality, but it has not yet been... Read More about Retinotopic-like maps of spatial sound in primary 'visual' cortex of blind human echolocators.

Learning own- and other-race facial identities: Testing implicit recognition with event-related brain potentials (2019)
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Tüttenberg, S. C., & Wiese, H. (2019). Learning own- and other-race facial identities: Testing implicit recognition with event-related brain potentials. Neuropsychologia, 134, Article 107218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107218

Exposure to varying images of the same person can encourage the formation of a representation that is sufficiently robust to allow recognition of previously unseen images of this person. While behavioural work suggests that face identity learning is... Read More about Learning own- and other-race facial identities: Testing implicit recognition with event-related brain potentials.

The flexible Action System: Click-based Echolocation may replace certain visual Functionality for adaptive Walking (2019)
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Thaler, L., Zhang, X., Antoniou, M., Kish, D., & Cowie, D. (2020). The flexible Action System: Click-based Echolocation may replace certain visual Functionality for adaptive Walking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46(1), 21-35. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000697

People use sensory, in particular visual, information to guide actions such as walking around obstacles, grasping or reaching. However, it is presently unclear how malleable the sensorimotor system is. The present study investigated this by measuring... Read More about The flexible Action System: Click-based Echolocation may replace certain visual Functionality for adaptive Walking.

Gender-Typed and Gender-Segregated Play Among Tanzanian Hadza and Congolese BaYaka Hunter-Gatherer Children and Adolescents (2019)
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Lew-Levy, S., Boyette, A. H., Crittenden, A. N., Hewlett, B. S., & Lamb, M. (2020). Gender-Typed and Gender-Segregated Play Among Tanzanian Hadza and Congolese BaYaka Hunter-Gatherer Children and Adolescents. Child Development, 91(4), 1284-1301. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13306

Few data exist on gender-typed and gender-segregated play in hunter-gatherer societies, despite their unique demographic and cultural features which may influence children’s gendered play. Using naturalistic observations of Hadza (N = 46, 41% female)... Read More about Gender-Typed and Gender-Segregated Play Among Tanzanian Hadza and Congolese BaYaka Hunter-Gatherer Children and Adolescents.

Insoluble Aβ overexpression in an App knock-in mouse model alters microstructure and gamma oscillations in the prefrontal cortex, and impacts on anxiety-related behaviours (2019)
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Pervolaraki, E., Hall, S., Foresteire, D., Saito, T., Saido, T., Whittington, M., …Dachtler, J. (2019). Insoluble Aβ overexpression in an App knock-in mouse model alters microstructure and gamma oscillations in the prefrontal cortex, and impacts on anxiety-related behaviours. Disease Models and Mechanisms, 12(9), Article dmm040550. https://doi.org/10.1242/dmm.040550

We studied a new App knock-in mice model of Alzheimer’s disease (AppNL-G-F), containing the Swedish KM670/671NL mutation, the Iberian I716F mutation and the Artic E693G mutation, which generates elevated levels of Aβ40 and Aβ42 without the confounds... Read More about Insoluble Aβ overexpression in an App knock-in mouse model alters microstructure and gamma oscillations in the prefrontal cortex, and impacts on anxiety-related behaviours.

Universal norm psychology leads to societal diversity in prosocial behaviour and development (2019)
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House, B. R., Kanngiesser, P., Barrett, H. C., Broesch, T., Cebioglu, S., Crittenden, A. N., …Silk, J. B. (2020). Universal norm psychology leads to societal diversity in prosocial behaviour and development. Nature Human Behaviour, 4, 36-44. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0734-z

Recent studies have proposed that social norms play a key role in motivating human cooperation and in explaining the unique scale and cultural diversity of our prosociality. However, there have been few studies that directly link social norms to the... Read More about Universal norm psychology leads to societal diversity in prosocial behaviour and development.

Siblings of children with Williams syndrome: Correlates of psychosocial adjustment and sibling relationship quality (2019)
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Cebula, K., Gillooly, A., Coulthard, L., Riby, D., & Hastings, R. (2019). Siblings of children with Williams syndrome: Correlates of psychosocial adjustment and sibling relationship quality. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 94, Article 103496. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2019.103496

Previous research has examined adjustment in parents of children with Williams syndrome (WS), but little is known about sibling outcomes. Aims: To explore sibling adjustment and relationship quality, and their demographic, psychological and behaviour... Read More about Siblings of children with Williams syndrome: Correlates of psychosocial adjustment and sibling relationship quality.

Modality-general and modality-specific processes in hallucinations (2019)
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Fernyhough, C. (2019). Modality-general and modality-specific processes in hallucinations. Psychological Medicine, 49(16), 2639-2645. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291719002496

There is a growing recognition in psychosis research of the importance of hallucinations in modalities other than the auditory. This has focused attention on cognitive and neural processes that might be shared by, and which might contribute distinctl... Read More about Modality-general and modality-specific processes in hallucinations.

Inter-and intra-cultural variation in learning-through-participation among Hadza and BaYaka forager children and adolescents from Tanzania and Congo (2019)
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Lew-Levy, S., Crittenden, A. N., Boyette, A. H., Mabulla, I. A., Hewlett, B. S., & Lamb, M. E. (2019). Inter-and intra-cultural variation in learning-through-participation among Hadza and BaYaka forager children and adolescents from Tanzania and Congo. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 29(4), 309-318. https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2019.1647957

We examined cross-cultural variation in children’s learning-through-participation in economic work in two forager societies; the Hadza of Tanzania and the BaYaka of the Republic of Congo. We used observational data from 46 Hadza (41% female) and 65 B... Read More about Inter-and intra-cultural variation in learning-through-participation among Hadza and BaYaka forager children and adolescents from Tanzania and Congo.