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Melton ZJ, Chaffin R, Kangas-Dick K et al. · 2023 · Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)
The causal relationship of interpersonal liking affecting interpersonal synchrony is inconsistently documented. This study tests whether (a) interpersonal liking increases both behavioural and perceived synchrony and (b) people will…
View details →Lee MK, El Sergani AM, Herrick N et al. · 2025 · Orthodontics & craniofacial research
Objective Torus Palatinus (TP) is a common trait with an unclear aetiology. Although prior studies suggest a hereditary component, the genetic factors that influence TP risk remain unknown. The purpose of this study is to identify genetic…
View details →Tengku Kamalden TMI, Azali MZ, Chong LC et al. · 2022 · The Medical journal of Malaysia
Introduction Many factors are associated with cochlear implant (CI) outcomes and various methods of assessment for auditory and speech performance outcomes in CI are available globally. The objective of this study is to identify factors…
View details →Burch CL, Romanchuk A, Kelly M et al. · 2022 · Preprint
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a major contributor to bacterial genome evolution, generating phenotypic diversity, driving the expansion of protein families, and facilitating the evolution of new phenotypes, new metabolic pathways, and…
View details →Wengler K, Baker SC, Velikovskaya A et al. · 2024 · JAMA psychiatry
Importance The link between psychosis and dopaminergic dysfunction is established, but no generalizable biomarkers with clear potential for clinical adoption exist. Objective To replicate previous findings relating neuromelanin-sensitive…
View details →Van J, Nielsen SE, Kirwan CB · 2022 · Preprint
Common research practices in neuroimaging studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging may produce outcomes that are difficult to replicate. Results that cannot be replicated have contributed to a replication crisis in psychology,…
View details →Oberauer K · 2021 · Preprint
Some theorists argue that working memory is limited to a discrete number of items, and additional items are not encoded at all. Others assume that all items are represented with variable quality. Adam, Vogel, and Awh (2017) presented…
View details →MAKINDE AI, Abiodun BJ, James R et al. · 2022 · Preprint
Abstract The West African westerly jet (WAWJ) plays a crucial role in Sahel precipitation, yet there is no information on how well climate models simulate the jet and its contribution to Sahel precipitation. This study examines the…
View details →Kooij KL, Andreani NA, Keller L et al. · 2025 · The International journal of eating disorders
Objective Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a complex psychiatric disorder characterized by persistent dieting and reduced food intake, leading to significantly low body weight. Dysbiosis in the gut microbiome of patients with AN has been suggested…
View details →Kotb A, Wagdy S, Sharaf H et al. · 2025 · Scientific reports
Preeclampsia is a multi-factorial disease, with both genetic and environmental factors contributing to its development. The genetic susceptibility in preeclampsia has been determined to be around 50%. STORKHEAD_BOX1 PROTEIN 1 (STOX1), is…
View details →Long SK, Lee J, Yamani Y et al. · 2022 · Applied ergonomics
Trust is a critical factor that drives successful human-automation interaction in a myriad of modern professional environments. One seminal work on human-automation trust is Muir and Moray (1996) showing that human-machine trust evolves…
View details →Qi J, Yin Z, Peng Y et al. · 2025 · Journal of pharmaceutical policy and practice
Background Polymyxin B is increasingly used to treat infections caused by multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria; however, its widespread clinical use is hindered by the high incidence of nephrotoxicity. Antioxidants, such as vitamin…
View details →Rotella A, Sparks AM, Mishra S et al. · 2021 · Preprint
Some evidence suggests that people behave more cooperatively and generously when observed or in the presence of images of eyes (termed the ‘watching eyes’ effect). Eye images are thought to trigger feelings of observation, which in turn…
View details →Alton LA, Kutz T, Bywater CL et al. · 2024 · Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Metabolic cold adaptation, or Krogh's rule, is the controversial hypothesis that predicts a monotonically negative relationship between metabolic rate and environmental temperature for ectotherms living along thermal clines measured at a…
View details →Asher MW, Hecht CA, Harackiewicz JM et al. · 2025 · Motivation science
According to expectancy-value theories of motivation, individuals choose to pursue tasks that they expect to succeed at and find personally valuable. Historically, researchers have often suggested that these two factors interact to…
View details →Eshraghi N, Jayervand F, Hashemi N et al. · 2025 · BMC pregnancy and childbirth
Background To determine whether the combination of vaginal progesterone and cervical pessary initiated during the second trimester reduces the incidence of preterm birth and enhance neonatal outcomes among women diagnosed with singleton…
View details →Sulfaro AA · 2026 · Psychonomic bulletin & review
Vividness judgements are intended to capture variance in the axis that uniquely separates the experience of a mental image from other unambiguously sensory perceptual experiences, and from a completely non-sensory experience of one's…
View details →Petkova YP, Johnston JD, Collins AL · 2026 · Food science & nutrition
There is controversy regarding the differential metabolic effects of proteins from plant and animal sources. Existing literature focuses on a limited range of plant proteins consumed just before, or as part of, a mixed meal, resulting in…
View details →Ventura GC, Ryan H, Yu HN et al. · 2026 · World journal of clinical pediatrics
Children born with fetal growth restriction (FGR) or small for gestational age (SGA) face an increased risk of motor and cognitive impairments, although prevalence and severity vary across studies due to differences in definitions,…
View details →Rotondo F, Biddle K, Chen J et al. · 2022 · Neuroscience
The prospect of exploiting memory reconsolidation to treat mental health disorders has received great research interest, particularly following demonstrations that the β-adrenergic receptor antagonist propranolol, which is safe for use in…
View details →Bakare AB, Lee Y, Hong J et al. · 2026 · Health care science
Background Assess ChatGPT and Bard's effectiveness in the initial identification of articles for Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery systematic literature reviews. Methods Three PRISMA-based systematic reviews (Jabbour et al. 2017, Wong…
View details →Elmahdy A, Krasnikova M, Jha A et al. · 2025 · Scientific reports
Ischemic preconditioning (PreC), remote perconditioning (PerC), and postconditioning (PostC) are known to reduce myocardial infarct size, but their relative efficacy and potential additive effects remain unclear. This study compared the…
View details →Lalonde RJ, Keller A, Huq S · 2021 · International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics
Purpose/objective(s) Previous studies have suggested that the dose immediately outside the PTV may impact the incidence of distant metastases after stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for patients with early-stage non-small cell…
View details →Lorenz S, Bartusch L, Heusler C et al. · 2026 · Clinical neurophysiology practice
Objective To investigate whether transcranial static magnetic stimulation (tSMS) exerts inhibitory effects on the human motor cortex and whether these effects differ between dominant and non-dominant hemispheres. Methods Participants…
View details →Batra D, Chen M, Meis J et al. · 2025 · Neurological research and practice
Background Endovascular thrombectomy (EVT)-often combined with intravenous thrombolysis-is the standard of care for acute ischemic stroke (AIS) secondary to large vessel occlusions (LVO). While indications keep expanding, the feasibility…
View details →Asiimwe R, Welch T, Dwanyen L et al. · 2026 · Family process
The influence of father positive parenting and involvement on children's mental health outcomes is underexplored in many sub-Saharan African countries, such as Uganda, despite research showing that fathers play a critical role in shaping…
View details →Griffioen G, Tangen Ä, Veldman E et al. · 2026 · EJNMMI research
BACKGROUND: Social cognition is impaired across multiple psychiatric disorders and varies dimensionally in the general population. Studying healthy adults can therefore inform mechanisms relevant for social cognition. This study aimed to…
View details →Cariveau T, La Cruz Montilla A · 2022 · Behavior modification
Differential reinforcement of a target response is a necessary component of stimulus control transfer procedures. Recent research has further considered the timing (i.e., onset) of differential reinforcement of unprompted correct…
View details →Bicona D, Mountford HS, Bridges EC et al. · 2025 · Behavior genetics
Literacy is a significant predictor of important life outcomes, such as attained education and income (Ritchie and Bates in Psychol Sci 24(7):1301-1308, 2013. 10.1177/0956797612466268) yet difficulties in reading and spelling are common.…
View details →De Luca A, Verschoor S, Hommel B · 2022 · Experimental psychology
Mood has been argued to impact the breadth of human attention, but the empirical evidence supporting this claim remains shaky. Gable and Harmon-Jones (2008) have attributed previous empirical inconsistencies regarding the effect of mood on…
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