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Adinugroho I, Bentall R, Stafford T · 2025 · Preprint
This is the first study to attempt replication of Banas et al (2023) on inoculation messages. The original experiment demonstrated that inoculation messages could stimulate resistance to anti-vaccine conspiracy theories. However, a gap was…
View details →Adinugroho I, Bentall R, Stafford T · 2025 · Preprint
This is the first study to attempt replication of Banas et al (2023) on inoculation messages. The original experiment demonstrated that inoculation messages could stimulate resistance to anti-vaccine conspiracy theories. However, a gap was…
View details →Nguyen A, Scheltienne M, Thiam S et al. · 2025 · Preprint
Flow is a state where individuals are fully focused on a task, know what to do and perform at full capacity. Despite this intense engagement, flow is not experienced as tiring; instead, it is intrinsically rewarding and promotes…
View details →Remouchamps R, Majerus S, Kowialiewski B · 2025 · Preprint
In verbal working memory (WM), the second occurrence of an item in a memory list generally leads to impaired recall performance, a phenomenon called the “Ranschburg effect”. One explanation for this effect is response suppression, by which…
View details →Slis A, Parrell B · 2025 · Preprint
Sensory errors, mismatches between predicted sensory outcomes of movement and reafferent sensory feedback, drive changes in the feedforward control of future motor behavior that correct for those errors. Across a wide variety of motor…
View details →Maylott SE, Zeng G, Leung TS et al. · 2025 · Journal of neuroscience research
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)-the sudden and unexplained death of a seemingly healthy infant, < 1 year old-may be associated with abnormalities in the brain regions that underlie breathing and arousal during sleep. While post-mortem…
View details →Evans ND, Fetterman AK · 2026 · Public understanding of science (Bristol, England)
Admitting that one's research findings are wrong involves admitting a potential instance of incompetence, which can keep scientists from engaging in wrongness admission. However, wrongness admission can yield favorable perceptions. In five…
View details →Meier M, Gurri L, Beck K et al. · 2025 · Preprint
Childhood maltreatment (CM) has long-lasting effects on physical and mental health with CM type specific effects being reported. Epigenetic processes, like deoxyribonucleic acid methylation (DNAm), might mediate this link, and CM types…
View details →Frizado AP, O'Reilly MA · 2025 · Physics in medicine and biology
Objective. Although less established than transcranial focused ultrasound (FUS), transvertebral FUS is being developed to treat spinal cord pathologies. Transvertebral sonication of the spinal cord for microbubble-mediated drug delivery…
View details →Appel H, Carmen-Orozco RP, Santiago CP et al. · 2025 · Preprint
The RNA-binding protein Ptbp1 has been proposed as a master regulator of neuronal fate, repressing neurogenesis through its effects on alternative splicing and miRNA maturation. While prior studies using RNA interference suggested that…
View details →Van der Snickt T, Ailliet S, Bassini S et al. · 2025 · Preprint
Enzyme-free isothermal amplification methods offer a promising alternative to enzymatic assays for nucleic acid detection, particularly in low-resource settings. The nonenzymatic isothermal strand displacement and amplification (NISDA)…
View details →Walleczek J, von Stillfried N, Schmidt S et al. · 2025 · Preprint
This metascientific project studied the replicability of Bem Experiment 1, which had claimed a precognitive effect, i.e., the ability to successfully guess the outcome of future random events (Bem. J Pers Soc Psychol. 2011;100: 407-25).…
View details →Li L, Wang Y, Du Z et al. · 2026 · Metabolism: clinical and experimental
Background and aims Targeting key enzymes in hepatic de novo lipogenesis (DNL) presents a promising strategy for treating hypercholesterolemia. However, the precise regulatory mechanisms governing hepatic DNL remain incompletely…
View details →Petersen Dias A, Orsel K, Gammariello CS et al. · 2025 · Research in veterinary science
Digital dermatitis (DD) is a polymicrobial, multifactorial hoof disorder with an undefined etiology, and existing animal models fail to induce a fast, standardized infection in bovine skin. This study explored bacterial inoculation methods…
View details →Willroth EC, Young G, Ford BQ et al. · 2025 · Psychological science
Certain emotion-regulation strategies (e.g., reappraisal) are associated with better well-being and are therefore seen as adaptive (health-promoting) strategies. However, it is unlikely that any strategy is adaptive regardless of context.…
View details →Argenbright CM, Scully IF, Flores D et al. · 2025 · The journal of pain
Pain is a multidimensional phenomenon, encompassing affective-motivational, cognitive-evaluative, and sensory-discriminative domains. Understanding these components is crucial for effective diagnosis and management, particularly in…
View details →Goldberg SB, Baldwin SA, Flynn AWP et al. · 2026 · Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science
While it is known that therapists vary in effectiveness, it is unclear what therapist-level characteristics predict this variation. We conducted a large-scale, preregistered study ( n = 97 therapists from the United States and Canada, n =…
View details →Adinugroho I, Bentall R, Stafford T · 2025 · Preprint
This is the first study to attempt replication of Banas et al (2023) on inoculation messages. The original experiment demonstrated that inoculation messages could stimulate resistance to anti-vaccine conspiracy theories. However, a gap was…
View details →Kakeya H, Umeno Y · 2025 · Preprint
Background Kayano et al. estimated the potential number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in Japan from February 17 to November 30, 2021, in a counterfactual scenario where no vaccination was implemented. Their model predicted 63.3 million…
View details →Stawiany K, Kozak K, Sokołowska Z · 2025 · Preprint
The study explores the hypothesis that individuals show greater sympathy towards coherent name-face pairs compared to incoherent pairs, replicating the effect observed by Barton and Halberstadt. A structured questionnaire was designed…
View details →Beldi L, Dong Y, Volet C et al. · 2025 · Preprint
Secondary bile acids, generated through microbial transformation of primary bile acids secreted in bile, play a role in shaping intestinal microbial communities, modulating host immunity, and regulating energy metabolism. In vitro studies…
View details →Dang YL, Esnault K, Leroi MJ et al. · 2025 · Epilepsy & behavior : E&B
Objective Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) seropositivity has been reported to have up to a five-fold increased risk for epilepsy. However, substantial heterogeneity in methodology exists across these studies. Furthermore, other studies…
View details →Vaz F, Silva T, Silva E et al. · 2025 · Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part H, Journal of engineering in medicine
Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) limits people's quality of life and is quite common in women, especially with advancing age. As cases increase, there is an urgent need for alternative treatments, especially for severe POP, where options remain…
View details →Pachunka A, Jeffries JB, Karr L et al. · 2024 · Preprint
Interacting with animals can improve health and well-being across the lifespan. Some programs such as 4-H and FFA center around youth interacting with animals, potentially enhancing youth development. Mueller (2014) investigated whether…
View details →Mazza A, Voorrips E, Hughes G et al. · 2024 · Preprint
Daily, we perform activities in the presence of others (e.g., office work). While it's well-established that the mere presence of others can influence our performance, it is less clear whether others' performance, rather than just their…
View details →Tavernier N, Wisniewski D, Brass M · 2024 · Preprint
Over the last 15 years, researchers in psychology asserted that manipulating laypeople’s free will beliefs (FWB) has an impact on various downstream social behaviors (such as cheating). More recently, however, many of these findings failed…
View details →Román-Caballero R, Martín-Arévalo E, Martín-Sánchez PDC et al. · 2024 · Consciousness and cognition
Entrainment theories propose that attention inherently oscillates between moments of attentional enhancement and disengagement. Consequently, perceptual and response benefits have been reported in tasks with a rhythmic structure. In the…
View details →Oddleifson C, Kilgus S, Klingbeil DA et al. · 2025 · Journal of school psychology
The purpose of this study was to conduct a conceptual replication of Pendergast et al.'s (2018) study that examined the diagnostic accuracy of a nomogram procedure, also known as a naive Bayesian approach. The specific naive Bayesian…
View details →Tal A, Mudrik L · 2024 · Journal of experimental psychology. General
The field of consciousness studies has yielded various-sometimes contradicting-accounts regarding the function of consciousness, ranging from denying it has such function to claiming that any high-level cognitive function requires…
View details →Romeas T, Goujat M, Faubert J et al. · 2025 · Psychology of sport and exercise
The impact of domain-general cognitive 'brain' training on improving sports performance is highly debated. This study sought to follow-up on research that showcased the benefits of perceptual-cognitive 3D-Multiple Object Tracking (3D-MOT)…
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