Advances in the field of intranasal oxytocin research: lessons learned and future directions for clinical research

DS Quintana, A Lischke, S Grace, D Scheele… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Reports on the modulatory role of the neuropeptide oxytocin on social cognition and
behavior have steadily increased over the last two decades, stimulating considerable …

[HTML][HTML] Are specific learning disorders truly specific, and are they disorders?

L Peters, D Ansari - Trends in Neuroscience and Education, 2019 - Elsevier
Specific learning disorders, such as dyslexia and dyscalculia, are frequently studied to
inform our understanding of cognitive development, genetic mechanisms and brain function …

Noninvasive theta-burst stimulation of the human striatum enhances striatal activity and motor skill learning

MJ Wessel, E Beanato, T Popa, F Windel… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The stimulation of deep brain structures has thus far only been possible with invasive
methods. Transcranial electrical temporal interference stimulation (tTIS) is a novel …

Transaction cost theory: Past progress, current challenges, and suggestions for the future

IRP Cuypers, JF Hennart, BS Silverman… - … of Management Annals, 2021 - journals.aom.org
Transaction cost theory (TCT) has been fruitfully applied to a wide range of organizational
phenomena, as reflected in a vast and evolving body of research. However, in part due to …

Cultural additivity: behavioural insights from the interaction of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism in folktales

QH Vuong, QK Bui, VP La, TT Vuong… - Palgrave …, 2018 - nature.com
Computational folkloristics, which is rooted in the movement to make folklore studies more
scientific, has transformed the way researchers in humanities detect patterns of cultural …

Effect of information about COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness and side effects on behavioural intentions: two online experiments

JR Kerr, ALJ Freeman, TM Marteau, S van der Linden - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
The success of mass COVID-19 vaccination campaigns rests on widespread uptake.
However, although vaccinations provide good protection, they do not offer full immunity and …

A registered replication study on oxytocin and trust

CH Declerck, C Boone, L Pauwels, B Vogt… - Nature Human …, 2020 - nature.com
In an influential paper, Kosfeld et al.(2005) showed that intranasal administration of oxytocin
(OT) increases the transfers made by investors in the trust game—suggesting that OT …

How to construct, conduct and analyze an exercise training study?

A Hecksteden, O Faude, T Meyer, L Donath - Frontiers in physiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) can be regarded as gold standard in investigating dose-
response and causal relationships in exercise science. Recommendations for exercise …

Virtual reality and 360 panorama technology: a media comparison to study changes in sense of presence, anxiety, and positive emotions

E Brivio, S Serino, E Negro Cousa, A Zini, G Riva… - Virtual Reality, 2021 - Springer
Recently, 360° panorama technologies have been used to create videos and pictures of real
and virtual environments, thus opening new possibilities for psychological research. The aim …

Professional actors demonstrate variability, not stereotypical expressions, when portraying emotional states in photographs

T Le Mau, K Hoemann, SH Lyons, JMB Fugate… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
It is long hypothesized that there is a reliable, specific mapping between certain emotional
states and the facial movements that express those states. This hypothesis is often tested by …