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Miles-Novelo A, Anderson CA · 2025 · Aggressive behavior
While numerous meta-analyses, reviews, and task forces from various scientific bodies have linked violent media use to aggression, some studies report null effects and claim that such a relationship is non-existent. Several scholars have…
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Juković M, Stošić S, Kostić D et al. · 2026 · Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Background and Objectives : Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory and neurodegenerative disease that progressively leads to brain atrophy and the accumulation of disability over time. In this study, we used FreeSurfer to…
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Sevigny JP, Schrank S, Donka RM et al. · 2026 · eNeuro
Synaptic physiology experiments are fundamental to neuroscience research. Consequently, accurate detection of synaptic currents is crucial for conducting high-quality experiments. Traditionally, detecting inhibitory and excitatory…
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Laguna Camacho A · 2024 · Food Quality and Preference.
Recall of recent eating episodes is a versatile approach to test influences on amount eaten of specific food. The present experiment explored if reminding current food intake prompts awareness for eating more healthy food. In a randomised…
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Mameno K, Suzuki T, Yamaguchi S et al. · 2026 · Pest management science
Background An economic incentive scheme is utilized to enhance citizens' support for managing invasive non-native species. However, the effectiveness of the incentive scheme in the outcomes of the management remains unclear. This study…
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Lantian A, Rose M · 2024 · Scandinavian journal of psychology
Transhumanism is a movement that emphasizes the improvement of the human condition by developing technologies and making them widely available. Conspiracy theories regularly refer to the allegedly transhumanist agenda of elites. We…
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Lamba S, Friedman J, Kandpal E · 2025 · Health policy and planning
A long-standing concern suggests that performance-based financing (PBF) may undermine the intrinsic motivation of health workers by heightening extrinsic motivation concerns via the novel introduction of financial incentives. However, the…
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Xie Y, Choi T, Al-Aly Z · 2026 · BMJ medicine
Objectives To assess whether initiation of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) rather than sulfonylureas is associated with all cause acute pancreatitis and cause specific acute pancreatitis and to characterise temporal…
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Hou J, Zhao S, Shi J et al. · 2026 · European journal of medical research
Background Frailty is notably prevalent in individuals aged 50 and older and has been associated with metabolic dysfunction. The triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index is a reliable surrogate marker for insulin resistance. This study aimed to…
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Bona SD, Vicovaro M · 2024 · Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)
When a subjective experience of difficulty is associated with a mental task, people tend to engage in systematic and deliberative reasoning, which can reduce the usage of intuitive and effortless thinking that gives rise to cognitive…
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Zeng S, Cheng W · 2026 · Medicine
The association between viral infections and subacute thyroiditis (SAT) has been recognized, yet whether a genetic causal relationship exists between them remains unclear. To address this, we conducted a two-sample Mendelian randomization…
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Liu Z, Pan H, Lei H et al. · 2026 · Brain sciences
Objectives: Females are often underrepresented in preclinical fear research due to concerns over estrous cycle related variability. This study examined whether there were differences between female and male C57BL/6J mice in terms of fear…
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Schell C, Godinho A, Cunningham JA · 2026 · Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy
BACKGROUND: Invitation letters can be the first point of contact between research staff and potential participants and a number of modifiable variables have been studied to improve their effectiveness. The aim of this analysis was to…
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Dong J, Leger K, Lee AJ et al. · 2024 · Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior
Many researchers have proposed that women perceive men with masculine face shapes to be less suitable as parents and long-term partners than men with feminine face shapes, causing women to find masculine men more attractive for short-term…
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Severijnen GGA, Bosker HR, McQueen JM · 2025 · Psychonomic bulletin & review
Speech is highly variable in rate, challenging the perception of sound contrasts that are dependent on duration. Listeners deal with such variability by perceiving incoming speech relative to the rate in the surrounding context. For…
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Mark S, Schwartenbeck P, Hahamy A et al. · 2026 · eLife
Humans' ability for generalization is outstanding. It is flexible enough to identify cases where knowledge from prior tasks is relevant, even when many features of the current task are different, such as the sensory stimuli or the size of…
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Floridi G, Gargiulo M, Aburto JM · 2026 · Population research and policy review
Since 2006, Mexico has experienced a surge in homicides due to national policies and international influences on drug trafficking activities. Although the effects of the so-called "Drug War" have been extensively studied in demography and…
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Grossman A · 2026 · Frontiers in neuroscience
Background Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) prevalence has increased markedly across high-income countries, including Norway, yet environmental drivers remain poorly understood. We hypothesized that historical lead exposure may inversely…
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Sesay FA, Oware K, Violette LR et al. · 2026 · The Journal of infectious diseases
Doxycycline treats and prevents several bacterial and parasitic infections and has been proposed as a possible treatment for Trichomonas vaginalis. Nested in a trial of doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis among cisgender women in Kenya,…
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Hu C, Xiao Q, Mei JJ et al. · 2026 · Medicine
The aim of this study was to use Mendelian randomization (MR) method to deeply explore the possible causal association between depression and rotator cuff injury. Using pooled data from genome-wide association studies covering large-scale…
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Guitard D, Neath I, Surprenant AM · 2026 · Memory & cognition
The word-length effect refers to the finding that memory on many short-term/working memory tasks is better for words with fewer syllables than words with more syllables. The standard account attributes this result to a combination of decay…
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Kipping R, Anne Simpson S, Hannam K et al. · 2026 · The Lancet regional health. Europe
Background Early childhood education and care (ECEC) provision is widespread. NAPSACC UK is an intervention in ECECs designed to improve nutrition and physical activity policies, practice and provision through ECEC staff workshops,…
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Huang S, Zhang D, Zhuang J · 2026 · Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)
Prosocial risk-taking is defined as engagement in altruistic behaviors that may have personal costs. Emerging research indicates that testosterone-a gonadal steroid hormone-is linked to behaviors aimed at promoting one's social status. In…
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Mingolo S, Prpic V, Cipora K et al. · 2026 · Psychological research
The SNARC effect indicates that numbers are mapped from left to right as in a mental number line. Accumulating evidence suggests that it could be attributed both to the magnitude or to the order of numbers, but the role of these two…
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Manippa V, Brancucci A, Rivolta D et al. · 2023 · Food Quality and Preference.
Displaying foods congruently with the healthy-left/unhealthy-right (HL/UR) horizontal mental representation could, through self-control facilitation, lead to healthier food choices. Here, by using two versions of the same on-line menu, we…
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Smirnova I, Shannon A, Teplitskiy M · 2025 · Research policy
In many industries trainees often seek careers different from their mentors. For example, many PhD students seek non-academic careers. Anecdotally, mentors invest less in different-career trainees, but causal evidence is lacking. To fill…
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Greenburgh A, Zamperetti L, Bell V et al. · 2024 · Royal Society open science
Paranoia is associated with variation in social behaviour, such as lower inclination to trust others or to behave generously in economic game settings. Such variation may stem, in part, from a reduced tendency to socially identify with…
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Howes MT, King J, Rosengren RJ · 2025 · Nutrients
Background/objectives Metabolic (dysfunction)-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), the hepatic consequence of metabolic syndrome, affects 30% of the global population. Studies in animals and humans investigating the effect of…
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Taylor LM, Parsons J, Moyes SA et al. · 2024 · Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
Objectives To investigate the effect of an exercise program on falls in intermediate and high-level long-term care (LTC) residents and to determine whether adherence, physical capacity, and cognition modified outcomes. Design Randomized…
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Hassan M, Al Balah O, Hegazy A et al. · 2026 · Journal of the Saudi Heart Association
Background Transcranial photobiomodulation (TPBM) using near-infrared (NIR) light is a novel, non-invasive neuromodulation strategy with potential to enhance neurorecovery. While preclinical studies are promising, clinical evidence in…
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