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Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 24 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02553-xAn analysis of 194,631 social science articles found causal overclaiming in 46% of cases, increasing over time. This language shaped reader interpretations; AI-generated summaries often amplified overstatement, although a guardrail prompt reduced it.

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02456-xBasarkod et al. synthesize evidence from 92 randomized controlled trials, finding that interventions in naturalistic education settings effectively improve students’ moral outcomes.

Before the 2020 and 2024 US Presidential elections, several scientific journals publicly endorsed the Democratic candidates or opposed the Republican candidate....

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Analyses of deidentified data reveal complex interactions that quantify success at elite general science journals.

Drawing on empirical evidence and evolutionary theory, we argue that biological sex is most coherently defined as a binary classification of reproductive strategies rooted in anisogamy (the productio...

– by Hossein Samani & Ashley J. Thomas It may be easy for many readers to assume that romantic kissing (lip-to-lip contact between romantic partners) is universal. While romantic kissing is common aro...

Traditional peer review is often slowed by delays in identifying willing reviewers and waiting for completed review reports. In a 2024 pilot on the journal Biology Open, we showed that Fast & Fair pee...

Scientific Reports - The power of many small sex differences in cognition, personality, and interests

In this Comment, the authors argue that understanding the genetic basis of adaptation requires considering the genetic architecture and ecological properties of traits under selection. They ...

Two research branches in evolutionary psychology can make similar predictions about treatment expectations in contexts of conflict of interest, where, for those involved, costs and benefits are at sta...

An early claim in developmental psychology was that young children are prone to magical thinking about causation. However, a century of research has c…

Twenty-five years after the prenatal sex steroid theory of autism was first proposed, the authors of the original theory discuss the current state of evidence and new lines of research.

Twenty-five years after the prenatal sex steroid theory of autism was first proposed, the authors of the original theory discuss the current state of evidence and new lines of research.

From an adaptationist perspective, most of psychology's concepts that form the basis of empirical inquiry, such as memory, attention, consciousness, i…

While biological motion processing has been extensively studied, little is known about the top-down impact of expectations in this context. We tested whether expectations about the likelihood of encountering a human walker influence the detection of biological motion in point-light displays, particularly when perceptual information is unreliable. Seventy-four participants completed a signal detection task, responding to stimuli featuring either a human walker or scrambled biological motion, each masked with one of four levels of visual noise. Participants were randomly assigned to the high or low expectations group and were told that 75% or 25% of the displays would feature a human walker, although the actual proportion was 50%. Participants in the high expectation group showed a greater tendency to respond “yes,” with the largest group difference emerging at the highest level of noise. These findings suggest that expectations can bias biological motion detection, particularly under conditions of sensory unreliability. The results also support the predictive processing model of agency detection, which proposes that false-positive perceptions of (supernatural) agents arise from expectations combined with ambiguous input.

The phrase Man the Hunter is associated with disparate meanings across communities of scholars, journalists, and the public, which has led to unnecess…

Dear HBES colleagues, Below find important information for the HBES conference: Registration: The registration for the 2026 meeting in Rabat, Morocco, is now open! Please visit the website for informa...

Nominations for the University of Michigan's Evolution & Human Adaptation Program award: Evolution in the Public Eye Nomination deadline: January 31, 2026 Award Description: This award honors outsta...

People overaccept information that supports their identity and underaccept information that opposes their identity—a phenomenon known as partisan bias. Although...

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Abstract Balancing insecticide use and the conservation of the honey bee Apis mellifera in...

– by Marius Stavang Imagine you’re on a movie date with someone. Everything seems to be going great. The conversation flows easily, you laugh together, you exchange smiles—there’s chemistry. After…

There is a robust statistical relation between ideology and research findings when researchers test a policy-relevant hypothesis.