Ethical reasoning versus empathic bias: a false dichotomy?
Trends Cogn Sci. 2023 Nov 13:S1364-6613(23)00264-4. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.10.006. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDoes empathy necessarily impede equity in altruism? Emerging findings from cognitive and affective science suggest that rationality and empathy are mutually compatible, contradicting some earlier, prominent arguments that empathy impedes equitable giving. We propose alternative conceptualizations of relationships among empathy, rationality, and equity, drawing on interdisciplinary advances in altruism research.PMID:37968204 | DOI:10.1016/j.tics.2023.10.006 (Source: Trends Cogn Sci)
Source: Trends Cogn Sci - November 15, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Kyle Fiore Law Paige Amormino Abigail A Marsh Brendan Bo O'Connor Source Type: research
In silico exploration of < i > Serratia < /i > sp. BRL41 genome for detecting prodigiosin Biosynthetic Gene Cluster (BGC) and in vitro antimicrobial activity assessment of secreted prodigiosin
by Farhana Boby, Md. Nurul Huda Bhuiyan, Barun Kanti Saha, Subarna Sandhani Dey, Anik Kumar Saha, Md Jahidul Islam, Mahci Al Bashera, Shyama Prosad Moulick, Farhana Jahan, Md. Asad Uz Zaman, Sanjana Fatema Chowdhury, Showti Raheel Naser, Md. Salim Khan, Md. Murshed Hasan Sarkar
The raising concern of drug resistance, having substantial impacts on public health, has instigated the search of new natural compounds with substantial medicinal activity. In order to find out a natural solution, the current study has utilized prodigiosin, a linear tripyrrole red pigment, as an a ctive ingredient to control bacterial proliferation...
Source: PLoS One - November 15, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Farhana Boby Source Type: research
Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history
Trends Cogn Sci. 2023 Nov 2:S1364-6613(23)00259-0. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.10.001. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPsychology is crucial for understanding human history. When aggregated, changes in the psychology of individuals - in the intensity of social trust, parental care, or intellectual curiosity - can lead to important changes in institutions, social norms, and cultures. However, studying the role of psychology in shaping human history has been hindered by the difficulty of documenting the psychological traits of people who are no longer alive. Recent developments in psychology suggest that cultural artifacts reflec...
Source: Trends Cogn Sci - November 10, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Nicolas Baumard Lou Safra Mauricio Martins Coralie Chevallier Source Type: research
When expert predictions fail
Trends Cogn Sci. 2023 Nov 8:S1364-6613(23)00263-2. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.10.005. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWe examine the opportunities and challenges of expert judgment in the social sciences, scrutinizing the way social scientists make predictions. While social scientists show above-chance accuracy in predicting laboratory-based phenomena, they often struggle to predict real-world societal changes. We argue that most causal models used in social sciences are oversimplified, confuse levels of analysis to which a model applies, misalign the nature of the model with the nature of the phenomena, and fail to consider f...
Source: Trends Cogn Sci - November 10, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Igor Grossmann Michael E W Varnum Cendri A Hutcherson David R Mandel Source Type: research
When expert predictions fail
Trends Cogn Sci. 2023 Nov 8:S1364-6613(23)00263-2. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.10.005. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWe examine the opportunities and challenges of expert judgment in the social sciences, scrutinizing the way social scientists make predictions. While social scientists show above-chance accuracy in predicting laboratory-based phenomena, they often struggle to predict real-world societal changes. We argue that most causal models used in social sciences are oversimplified, confuse levels of analysis to which a model applies, misalign the nature of the model with the nature of the phenomena, and fail to consider f...
Source: Trends Cogn Sci - November 10, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Igor Grossmann Michael E W Varnum Cendri A Hutcherson David R Mandel Source Type: research
Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history
Trends Cogn Sci. 2023 Nov 2:S1364-6613(23)00259-0. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.10.001. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPsychology is crucial for understanding human history. When aggregated, changes in the psychology of individuals - in the intensity of social trust, parental care, or intellectual curiosity - can lead to important changes in institutions, social norms, and cultures. However, studying the role of psychology in shaping human history has been hindered by the difficulty of documenting the psychological traits of people who are no longer alive. Recent developments in psychology suggest that cultural artifacts reflec...
Source: Trends Cogn Sci - November 10, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Nicolas Baumard Lou Safra Mauricio Martins Coralie Chevallier Source Type: research
Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history
Trends Cogn Sci. 2023 Nov 2:S1364-6613(23)00259-0. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.10.001. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPsychology is crucial for understanding human history. When aggregated, changes in the psychology of individuals - in the intensity of social trust, parental care, or intellectual curiosity - can lead to important changes in institutions, social norms, and cultures. However, studying the role of psychology in shaping human history has been hindered by the difficulty of documenting the psychological traits of people who are no longer alive. Recent developments in psychology suggest that cultural artifacts reflec...
Source: Trends Cogn Sci - November 10, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Nicolas Baumard Lou Safra Mauricio Martins Coralie Chevallier Source Type: research
When expert predictions fail
Trends Cogn Sci. 2023 Nov 8:S1364-6613(23)00263-2. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.10.005. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWe examine the opportunities and challenges of expert judgment in the social sciences, scrutinizing the way social scientists make predictions. While social scientists show above-chance accuracy in predicting laboratory-based phenomena, they often struggle to predict real-world societal changes. We argue that most causal models used in social sciences are oversimplified, confuse levels of analysis to which a model applies, misalign the nature of the model with the nature of the phenomena, and fail to consider f...
Source: Trends Cogn Sci - November 10, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Igor Grossmann Michael E W Varnum Cendri A Hutcherson David R Mandel Source Type: research
Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history
Trends Cogn Sci. 2023 Nov 2:S1364-6613(23)00259-0. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.10.001. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPsychology is crucial for understanding human history. When aggregated, changes in the psychology of individuals - in the intensity of social trust, parental care, or intellectual curiosity - can lead to important changes in institutions, social norms, and cultures. However, studying the role of psychology in shaping human history has been hindered by the difficulty of documenting the psychological traits of people who are no longer alive. Recent developments in psychology suggest that cultural artifacts reflec...
Source: Trends Cogn Sci - November 10, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Nicolas Baumard Lou Safra Mauricio Martins Coralie Chevallier Source Type: research
When expert predictions fail
Trends Cogn Sci. 2023 Nov 8:S1364-6613(23)00263-2. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.10.005. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWe examine the opportunities and challenges of expert judgment in the social sciences, scrutinizing the way social scientists make predictions. While social scientists show above-chance accuracy in predicting laboratory-based phenomena, they often struggle to predict real-world societal changes. We argue that most causal models used in social sciences are oversimplified, confuse levels of analysis to which a model applies, misalign the nature of the model with the nature of the phenomena, and fail to consider f...
Source: Trends Cogn Sci - November 10, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Igor Grossmann Michael E W Varnum Cendri A Hutcherson David R Mandel Source Type: research
Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history
Trends Cogn Sci. 2023 Nov 2:S1364-6613(23)00259-0. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.10.001. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPsychology is crucial for understanding human history. When aggregated, changes in the psychology of individuals - in the intensity of social trust, parental care, or intellectual curiosity - can lead to important changes in institutions, social norms, and cultures. However, studying the role of psychology in shaping human history has been hindered by the difficulty of documenting the psychological traits of people who are no longer alive. Recent developments in psychology suggest that cultural artifacts reflec...
Source: Trends Cogn Sci - November 10, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Nicolas Baumard Lou Safra Mauricio Martins Coralie Chevallier Source Type: research
When expert predictions fail
Trends Cogn Sci. 2023 Nov 8:S1364-6613(23)00263-2. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.10.005. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWe examine the opportunities and challenges of expert judgment in the social sciences, scrutinizing the way social scientists make predictions. While social scientists show above-chance accuracy in predicting laboratory-based phenomena, they often struggle to predict real-world societal changes. We argue that most causal models used in social sciences are oversimplified, confuse levels of analysis to which a model applies, misalign the nature of the model with the nature of the phenomena, and fail to consider f...
Source: Trends Cogn Sci - November 10, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Igor Grossmann Michael E W Varnum Cendri A Hutcherson David R Mandel Source Type: research
Sunflower Syndrome: Shining Light on a Childhood Seizure Disorder
This case report describes a 9-year-old girl who presented with hand-waving episodes resulting in a diagnosis of sunflower syndrome, a form of epilepsy. Although sunflower syndrome is rare, it has characteristic symptoms that imitate other behaviors that present in pediatric primary care. Photosensitivity is the hallmark of this seizure type. Patients look toward the sun or bright light with hand-waving episodes, often without impaired consciousness. Sunflower syndrome is initially misdiagnosed as tics or stereotyped behaviors. (Source: The Journal for Nurse Practitioners)
Source: The Journal for Nurse Practitioners - November 2, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Sharon B. Stevenson, William D. Walters Tags: Case Report Source Type: research
When Are Social Protests Effective?
Trends Cogn Sci. 2023 Oct 30:S1364-6613(23)00261-9. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.10.003. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAround the world, people engage in social protests aimed at addressing major societal problems. Certain protests have led to significant progress, yet other protests have resulted in little demonstrable change. We introduce a framework for evaluating the effectiveness of social protest made up of three components: (i) what types of action are being considered; (ii) what target audience is being affected; and (iii) what outcomes are being evaluated? We then review relevant research to suggest how the framework ...
Source: Trends Cogn Sci - November 1, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Eric Shuman Amit Goldenberg Tamar Saguy Eran Halperin Martijn van Zomeren Source Type: research
When Are Social Protests Effective?
Trends Cogn Sci. 2023 Oct 30:S1364-6613(23)00261-9. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.10.003. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAround the world, people engage in social protests aimed at addressing major societal problems. Certain protests have led to significant progress, yet other protests have resulted in little demonstrable change. We introduce a framework for evaluating the effectiveness of social protest made up of three components: (i) what types of action are being considered; (ii) what target audience is being affected; and (iii) what outcomes are being evaluated? We then review relevant research to suggest how the framework ...
Source: Trends Cogn Sci - November 1, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Eric Shuman Amit Goldenberg Tamar Saguy Eran Halperin Martijn van Zomeren Source Type: research
