Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling,&...

Counterfactual thinking — considering what could have come of choosing the other path — can facilitate inference. Previous studies have demonstrated t…

ALT: a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application

Nature Communications - Normative theory predicts that feedback should not affect decisions under risk, but past findings disagree. Here, the authors show that feedback shifts risk-taking by...

Nature Mental Health - This Perspective outlines evidence on existing platform trials in mental health and discusses key challenges and strategies to overcome barriers in order to maximize the...

The course introduces the use of open-source large language models (LLMs) from the Hugging Face ecosystem for research in the behavioral and social sciences. - Zak-Hussain/LLM4BeSci_Ljubljana2025

If you’ve had even a passing glance at tech journalism over the past few months, you know the top buzzword for AI in 2025 is agentic. Agentic AI (according to many think pieces and press releases a…

Adolescent passions shape our future selves, and can be every bit as powerful – and perilous – as adult relationships

Translational Psychiatry - A computational signature of self-other mergence in Borderline Personality Disorder

When faced with danger, human beings respond with a repertoire of defensive behaviors, including freezing and active avoidance. Previous research has revealed a pattern of physiological responses, cha...

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Lifespan developmental theories and research suggest a positive effect of adult age on prosociality. However, this effect lacks consistency, with many…

Official measurements have found that Paris is rapidly becoming a city of cyclists.

The authors examined how family experiences are linked to the development of trust in adolescence and young adulthood. They show that trust increases over time but self-reported family adversity can h...

This cluster randomised controlled trial examined the effectiveness of universal school-based mindfulness training (MT; vs. passive control) to lower …

Inhibitory control is a fundamental mechanism underlying flexible behavior and features in theories across many areas of cognitive and psychological s…

At the beginning of October, our second RTG Summer School took place at the beautiful monastery of Schöntal. Our members met for three days to expand their knowledge, exchange experiences but also to...