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The ‘Dark Side’ and ‘Bright Side’ of Personality: When Too Much Conscientious...
Theory suggests that personality traits evolved to have costs and benefits, with the effectiveness of a trait dependent on how these costs and benefits relate to the present... -
The relationship between diver experience levels and perceptions of attractiv...
Artificial reefs are increasingly used worldwide as a method for managing recreational diving since they have the potential to satisfy both conservation goals and economic... -
Global and Local Concerns: What Attitudes and Beliefs Motivate Farmers to Mit...
In response to agriculture's vulnerability and contribution to climate change, many governments are developing initiatives that promote the adoption of mitigation and adaptation... -
Association of the ACTN3 R577X (rs1815739) polymorphism with elite power spor...
Objective The special status accorded to elite athletes stems from their uncommon genetic potential to excel in world-class power sports (PS). Genetic polymorphisms have been... -
Citizen Science and the Urban Ecology of Birds and Butterflies - A Systematic...
Citizen science has gained widespread currency as a tool for ecological research over the\ud past decade. However, in the discipline of urban ecology, the existing contributions... -
Linguistic Traces of a Scientific Fraud: The Case of Diederik Stapel
When scientists report false data, does their writing style reflect their deception? In this study, we investigated the linguistic patterns of fraudulent (N = 24; 170,008... -
Going smoke-free: University staff and students’ qualitative views about smok...
Background Despite many Australian universities introducing smoke-free policies on campus, there is little information about staff and students understanding of smoking on... -
Separating conditional and unconditional cooperation in a sequential Prisoner...
Most theories of social exchange distinguish between two different types of cooperation, depending on whether or not cooperation occurs conditional upon the partner’s previous... -
Replicating and extending the effects of auditory religious cues on dishonest...
Although scientists agree that replications are critical to the debate on the validity of religious priming research, religious priming replications are scarce. This paper... -
Heterogeneous groups overcome the diffusion of responsibility problem in soci...
Social norms promote cooperation in everyday life because many people are willing to negatively sanction norm breakers at a cost to themselves. However, a norm violation may... -
Participation shifts explain degree distributions in a human communications n...
Human interpersonal communications drive political, technological, and economic systems, placing importance on network link prediction as a fundamental problem of the sciences.... -
A Place to Hide in the Home-Cage Decreases Yolk Androgen Levels and Offspring...
International audience; An animal's emotional responses are the result of its cognitive appraisal of a situation. This appraisal is notably influenced by the possibility of an... -
Cigarette smoking as a risk factor for diabetic nephropathy: A systematic rev...
BACKGROUND: Observational studies suggested that tobacco smoking was associated with diabetic nephropathy (DN). However, the results were conflicting and inconsistent. In the... -
iPad-Assisted Measurements of Duration Estimation in Psychiatric Patients and...
Handheld devices with touchscreen controls have become widespread in the general population. In this study, we examined the duration estimates (explicit timing) made by patients... -
Independent re-analysis of alleged mind-matter interaction in double-slit exp...
A two year long experimental dataset in which authors of Radin, et al., 2016 claim to find evidence of mind-matter interaction is independently re-analyzed. In this experiment,... -
The looks matter; aggression escalation from changes on phenotypic appearance...
Domestic fowl in small groups are assumed to establish hierarchical systems based on individual recognition. Conversely, interactions in large groups are modulated by badges of... -
Characteristics of Retractions from Korean Medical Journals in the KoreaMed D...
Background Flawed or misleading articles may be retracted because of either honest scientific errors or scientific misconduct. This study explored the characteristics of... -
The Design Help Desk: A collaborative approach to design education for scient...
: Visual design, learning sciences, and nanotechnology may be strange bedfellows; yet, as this paper highlights, peer interaction between a designer and a scientist is an... -
Weekday Affects Attendance Rate for Medical Appointments: Large-Scale Data An...
The financial cost of missed appointments is so great that even a small percentage reduction in Did Not Attend (DNA) rate could save significant sums of money. Previous studies... -
Confirmation Bias in Studies of Nestmate Recognition: A Cautionary Note for R...
: Confirmation bias is a tendency of people to interpret information in a way that confirms their expectations. A long recognized phenomenon in human psychology, confirmation...
