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Ouvrai opens access to remote virtual reality studies of human behavioural neuroscience Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Evan Cesanek, Sabyasachi Shivkumar, James N. Ingram, Daniel M. Wolpert
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Memorability shapes perceived time (and vice versa) Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Alex C. Ma, Ayana D. Cameron, Martin Wiener
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Long ties accelerate noisy threshold-based contagions Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Dean Eckles, Elchanan Mossel, M. Amin Rahimian, Subhabrata Sen
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A neurofunctional signature of subjective disgust generalizes to oral distaste and socio-moral contexts Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Xianyang Gan, Feng Zhou, Ting Xu, Xiaobo Liu, Ran Zhang, Zihao Zheng, Xi Yang, Xinqi Zhou, Fangwen Yu, Jialin Li, Ruifang Cui, Lan Wang, Jiajin Yuan, Dezhong Yao, Benjamin Becker
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Goal commitment is supported by vmPFC through selective attention Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Eleanor Holton, Jan Grohn, Harry Ward, Sanjay G. Manohar, Jill X. O’Reilly, Nils Kolling
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Multi-ancestry meta-analysis of tobacco use disorder identifies 461 potential risk genes and reveals associations with multiple health outcomes Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Sylvanus Toikumo, Mariela V. Jennings, Benjamin K. Pham, Hyunjoon Lee, Travis T. Mallard, Sevim B. Bianchi, John J. Meredith, Laura Vilar-Ribó, Heng Xu, Alexander S. Hatoum, Emma C. Johnson, Vanessa K. Pazdernik, Zeal Jinwala, Shreya R. Pakala, Brittany S. Leger, Maria Niarchou, Michael Ehinmowo, Greg D. Jenkins, Anthony Batzler, Richard Pendegraft, Abraham A. Palmer, Hang Zhou, Joanna M. Biernacka
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A systematic review and multivariate meta-analysis of the physical and mental health benefits of touch interventions Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Julian Packheiser, Helena Hartmann, Kelly Fredriksen, Valeria Gazzola, Christian Keysers, Frédéric Michon
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What anaesthesia reveals about human brains and consciousness Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Andrea I. Luppi
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Large-scale whole-exome sequencing of neuropsychiatric diseases and traits in 350,770 adults Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Yue-Ting Deng, Bang-Sheng Wu, Liu Yang, Xiao-Yu He, Ju-Jiao Kang, Wei-Shi Liu, Ze-Yu Li, Xin-Rui Wu, Ya-Ru Zhang, Shi-Dong Chen, Yi-Jun Ge, Yu-Yuan Huang, Jian-Feng Feng, Ying Zhu, Qiang Dong, Ying Mao, Wei Cheng, Jin-Tai Yu
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How to transition from academia to industry and back Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Cassandra L. Jacobs
Researchers have a wide variety of choices when it comes to careers. Often, post-PhD, we leave academic research for industry. But it is also possible to transition back, when done carefully. In this how-to, I outline how to transition between industry and academic research and vice versa.
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Tracking salient distracting signals within the human temporal lobe via intracranial recordings Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-27
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Neural evidence for attentional capture by salient distractors Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Rongqi Lin, Xianghong Meng, Fuyong Chen, Xinyu Li, Ole Jensen, Jan Theeuwes, Benchi Wang
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When it is and isn’t OK to recycle text in scientific papers Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-25
Plagiarism is never acceptable, but when is it appropriate for scholars to reuse their own words in published papers?
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Effect sizes and what to make of them Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Friedrich M. Götz, Samuel D. Gosling, Peter J. Rentfrow
We all care about effect sizes. Yet, traditional ways of evaluating them (P < 0.05 and generic benchmarks) are failing us. We propose two paths forward: setting better, contextualized benchmarks or — more radically — letting go of benchmarks altogether. Both paths point to adjusted expectations, more detailed reporting and slow science.
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Use of large language models might affect our cognitive skills Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Richard Heersmink
Large language models can generate sophisticated text or code with little input from a user, which has the potential to impoverish our own writing and thinking skills. We need to understand the effect of this technology on our cognition and to decide whether this is what we want.
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Virtual reality for nature experiences Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Violeta Berdejo-Espinola, Renee Zahnow, Christopher J. O’Bryan, Richard A. Fuller
Given the increasing sophistication of virtual reality systems in providing immersive nature experiences, there is the potential for analogous health benefits to those that arise from real nature experiences. We call for research to better understand the human–nature–technology interaction to overcome potential pitfalls of the technology and design tailored virtual experiences that can deliver health
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Long-term risk of psychiatric disorder and psychotropic prescription after SARS-CoV-2 infection among UK general population Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Yunhe Wang, Binbin Su, Junqing Xie, Clemente Garcia-Rizo, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra
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Decomposition of an odorant in olfactory perception and neural representation Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Yuting Ye, Yanqing Wang, Yuan Zhuang, Huibang Tan, Zhentao Zuo, Hanqi Yun, Kaiqi Yuan, Wen Zhou
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Battling the coronavirus ‘infodemic’ among social media users in Kenya and Nigeria Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Molly Offer-Westort, Leah R. Rosenzweig, Susan Athey
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Biomimetic versus arbitrary motor control strategies for bionic hand skill learning Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Hunter R. Schone, Malcolm Udeozor, Mae Moninghoff, Beth Rispoli, James Vandersea, Blair Lock, Levi Hargrove, Tamar R. Makin, Chris I. Baker
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The neuroanatomy of developmental language disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Michael T. Ullman, Gillian M. Clark, Mariel Y. Pullman, Jarrett T. Lovelett, Elizabeth I. Pierpont, Xiong Jiang, Peter E. Turkeltaub
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Field testing the transferability of behavioural science knowledge on promoting vaccinations Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Silvia Saccardo, Hengchen Dai, Maria A. Han, Sitaram Vangala, Juyea Hoo, Jeffrey Fujimoto
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Stigma prevents US and Chinese students from seeking mental health support Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Huabing Liu
Huabing Liu is a counselling psychologist who has worked in universities in the USA and China. She is concerned that students’ worries about mental health stigma stop them from seeking help.
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The prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors among adults living in extreme poverty Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Pascal Geldsetzer, Rebecca L. Tisdale, Lisa Stehr, Felix Michalik, Julia Lemp, Krishna K. Aryal, Albertino Damasceno, Corine Houehanou, Jutta Mari Adelin Jørgensen, Nuno Lunet, Mary Mayige, Sahar Saeedi Moghaddam, Kibachio Joseph Mwangi, Christian Bommer, Maja-Emilia Marcus, Michaela Theilmann, Cara Ebert, Rifat Atun, Justine Ina Davies, David Flood, Jennifer Manne-Goehler, Jacqueline Seiglie, Till
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Testing undue incentives Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Linda Thunström
Financial incentives may be offered for risky but potentially life-saving actions, such as donating organs and participation in medical trials. It has been argued that such incentives could distort decision making and lead people to act against their own best interest. However, experimental evidence now suggests that higher financial incentives do not cause harm.
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An experimental test of whether financial incentives constitute undue inducement in decision-making Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Sandro Ambuehl
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The direction of theta and alpha travelling waves modulates human memory processing Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Uma R. Mohan, Honghui Zhang, Bard Ermentrout, Joshua Jacobs
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Orthogonal neural encoding of targets and distractors supports multivariate cognitive control Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Harrison Ritz, Amitai Shenhav
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Chimpanzees use social information to acquire a skill they fail to innovate Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen, Sarah E. DeTroy, Daniel B. M. Haun, Josep Call
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Science communication with generative AI Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Amanda Alvarez, Aylin Caliskan, M. J. Crockett, Shirley S. Ho, Lisa Messeri, Jevin West
Generative AI tools can quickly translate or summarize large volumes of complex information. This technology could revolutionize the way that we communicate science, but there are many reasons for caution. We asked six experts about the potential and pitfalls of generative AI for science communication.
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How to write effective prompts for large language models Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Zhicheng Lin
Effectively engaging with large language models is becoming increasingly vital as they proliferate across research landscapes. This Comment presents a practical guide for understanding their capabilities and limitations, along with strategies for crafting well-structured queries, to extract maximum utility from these artificial intelligence tools.
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How to give great research talks to any audience Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Veronica M. Lamarche, Franki Y. H. Kung, Eli J. Finkel, Eranda Jayawickreme, Aneeta Rattan, Thalia Wheatley
Being able to deliver a persuasive and informative talk is an essential skill for academics, whether speaking to students, experts, grant funders or the public. Yet formal training on how to structure and deliver an effective talk is rare. In this Comment, we give practical tips to help academics to give great talks to a range of different audiences.
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Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Nori Jacoby, Rainer Polak, Jessica A. Grahn, Daniel J. Cameron, Kyung Myun Lee, Ricardo Godoy, Eduardo A. Undurraga, Tomás Huanca, Timon Thalwitzer, Noumouké Doumbia, Daniel Goldberg, Elizabeth H. Margulis, Patrick C. M. Wong, Luis Jure, Martín Rocamora, Shinya Fujii, Patrick E. Savage, Jun Ajimi, Rei Konno, Sho Oishi, Kelly Jakubowski, Andre Holzapfel, Esra Mungan, Ece Kaya, Preeti Rao, Mattur A.
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An experimental manipulation of the value of effort Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Hause Lin, Andrew Westbrook, Frank Fan, Michael Inzlicht
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Bayes versus bias in human reasoning Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Mike Oaksford
The past 35 years have seen Bayesian models applied to many areas of the cognitive and brain sciences, which suggests that reasoning and decision-making may be rational. Wishful thinking provides a serious challenge, as it questions a core assumption of Bayesian belief updating. Melnikoff and Strohminger develop a Bayesian model that uses affective prediction errors and meets this challenge.
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Diversity of thought and data enrich archaeology Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-26
Our understanding of the human past is changing rapidly, and this does not come from new evidence alone. We are seeing an increasing diversity of perspectives among archaeologists, and they are asking new and important questions. But the field still has a long way to go.
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Dopamine and serotonin in human substantia nigra track social context and value signals during economic exchange Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Seth R. Batten, Dan Bang, Brian H. Kopell, Arianna N. Davis, Matthew Heflin, Qixiu Fu, Ofer Perl, Kimia Ziafat, Alice Hashemi, Ignacio Saez, Leonardo S. Barbosa, Thomas Twomey, Terry Lohrenz, Jason P. White, Peter Dayan, Alexander W. Charney, Martijn Figee, Helen S. Mayberg, Kenneth T. Kishida, Xiaosi Gu, P. Read Montague
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Neuromodulators in the human brain track context and value during social interaction Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-27
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Judgements of bias vary with observers’ political ideology and targets’ characteristics Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-26
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The relationship between political ideology and judgements of bias in distributional outcomes Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Jin Kim, Gal Zauberman
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Bayesianism and wishful thinking are compatible Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 David E. Melnikoff, Nina Strohminger
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Individual sleep need is flexible and dynamically related to cognitive function Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Anders M. Fjell, Kristine B. Walhovd
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Trusting young children to help causes them to cheat less Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Li Zhao, Haiying Mao, Paul L. Harris, Kang Lee
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Future coexistence with great apes will require major changes to policy and practice Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 John C. Mitani, Ekwoge Abwe, Genevieve Campbell, Tamara Giles-Vernick, Tony Goldberg, Matthew R. McLennan, Signe Preuschoft, Jatna Supriatna, Andrew J. Marshall
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Consumption responses to an unconditional child allowance in the United States Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Zachary Parolin, Giulia Giupponi, Emma K. Lee, Sophie Collyer
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Human languages with greater information density have higher communication speed but lower conversation breadth Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Pedro Aceves, James A. Evans
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Intracranial electroencephalography reveals effector-independent evidence accumulation dynamics in multiple human brain regions Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Sabina Gherman, Noah Markowitz, Gelana Tostaeva, Elizabeth Espinal, Ashesh D. Mehta, Redmond G. O’Connell, Simon P. Kelly, Stephan Bickel
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Causal phase-dependent control of non-spatial attention in human prefrontal cortex Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Jeroen Brus, Joseph A. Heng, Valeriia Beliaeva, Fabian Gonzalez Pinto, Antonino Mario Cassarà, Esra Neufeld, Marcus Grueschow, Lukas Imbach, Rafael Polanía
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The impact of assortative mating, participation bias and socioeconomic status on the polygenic risk of behavioural and psychiatric traits Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Brenda Cabrera-Mendoza, Frank R. Wendt, Gita A. Pathak, Loic Yengo, Renato Polimanti
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Using deep neural networks to disentangle visual and semantic information in human perception and memory Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Adva Shoham, Idan Daniel Grosbard, Or Patashnik, Daniel Cohen-Or, Galit Yovel
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Dynamic computational phenotyping of human cognition Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Roey Schurr, Daniel Reznik, Hanna Hillman, Rahul Bhui, Samuel J. Gershman
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Protect our environment from information overload Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Janusz A. Hołyst, Philipp Mayr, Michael Thelwall, Ingo Frommholz, Shlomo Havlin, Alon Sela, Yoed N. Kenett, Denis Helic, Aljoša Rehar, Sebastijan R. Maček, Przemysław Kazienko, Tomasz Kajdanowicz, Przemysław Biecek, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Julian Sienkiewicz
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Make abandoned research publicly available Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Daniël Lakens, Eline N. F. Ensinck
Much well-designed and preregistered research is conducted but never published. The reasons for these studies ending up in the ‘file drawer’ are varied. Making this research public would help us all to do better science.
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The trade-off between sustainability and social segregation in the 15-minute city Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-05
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The 15-minute city quantified using human mobility data Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Timur Abbiasov, Cate Heine, Sadegh Sabouri, Arianna Salazar-Miranda, Paolo Santi, Edward Glaeser, Carlo Ratti
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To advance science we need to address ‘otherness’ Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Jane L. Delgado, Rueben C. Warren
Belonging is an essential part of human identity. But with belonging comes ‘otherness’ — the tendency to label ‘others’ on the basis of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, ability or some other dimension. To advance science, we need to recognize how otherness affects research and implement interventions to overcome the biases that it creates.
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Reward whistleblowers who expose environmental crimes Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Masaki Iwasaki
Against this backdrop, whistleblowers complement the limited human and financial resources of regulatory authorities. Numerous cases of environmental crimes have been revealed through whistleblowing. For instance, in 2016, Princess Cruise Lines Ltd agreed to pay a US $40 million fine to US authorities for intentional ocean pollution and its cover-up — the largest criminal penalty for vessel pollution
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Large-scale citizen science reveals predictors of sensorimotor adaptation Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Jonathan S. Tsay, Hrach Asmerian, Laura T. Germine, Jeremy Wilmer, Richard B. Ivry, Ken Nakayama
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Five creative ways to promote reproducible science Nat. Hum. Behav. (IF 29.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Josefina Weinerova, Rotem Botvinik-Nezer, Roni Tibon
The importance of reproducible scientific practices is widely acknowledged. However, limited resources and lack of external incentives have hindered their adoption. Here, we explore ways to promote reproducible science in practice.