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Interplay of polymorphisms in sex hormone receptors and facial sexual differentiation in shaping prosocial behavior
– McCarthy, M. M., Wright, C. L. & Schwarz, J. M. New tricks by an old dogma: mechanisms of the organizational/activational hypothesis of steroid-mediated sexual differentiation of brain and behavior. Horm. Behav. 55 (5), 655–666 (2009).
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Effect of interacting minds on response criterion in two person perceptual decision making
Experiment 1
Ethical statements Experiment 1 was approved by the local Ethics Committee of Tohoku University (ID: 2021_11_18_Thur_15_33_58) and conducted according to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.
Participants Twelve male pairs (24…
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The rise and flows of blue carbon credits advance global climate and biodiversity goals
Excluding Japan and Australia, only 12 among the 25 countries identified as sources of BCPs, had issued BCCs by March 2025 (Fig. 3a, b). BCCs contributed only 0.35% and 0.91% to the total and to nature-based solutions (NBS) carbon credits issued…
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Reading comprehension in L1 and L2 readers: neurocomputational mechanisms revealed through large language models
Participants
Fifty-two native English speakers (L1 readers; 24 males; mean age ± SD = 22.85 ± 4.66) and fifty-six Chinese-speaking learners of English (L2 readers; 26 males; mean age ± SD = 25.14 ± 4.74) were recruited….
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Impact of religious cultural similarity on internal migration: a regional perspective in contemporary China
Data
Religious sites are deeply embedded in a community’s social and cultural life, shaping the lived experiences of both religious and secular individuals (Chidester and Linenthal 1995). Even in secularized societies, local sacred landmarks…
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Electroencephalography-based psychological and physiological effects of winter virtual forest trail landscapes on youth
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Relevance theory perspective of emojis used by Chinese younger and older adults in WeChat
Participants and data source
This project aimed to collect natural conversations from WeChat in which emojis were used among 20 younger and 20 older users. These conversations had already occurred at the time of collection, with no influence from…
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Knowledge attitude and practice of pregnant women on postnatal depression in Henan Province China
Li, L. et al. The synergistic antidepressant effect: Compatibility of alkaloids with saponins from ziziphi spinosae semen. Evid. Based Complement. Alternat. Med. 2022, 5755980 (2022).
Martínez-Castaño, R., Pichel, J. C. & Losada, D. E. A big…
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The joint effect of feedback order and reward schemes on prevalence-induced perceptual decisions
Methods
Participants
Following Lyu et al.13, we targeted a minimum of 30 participants for each condition in our designed experiments. In total, 86 university students (75 females and 11 males, aged 20.49 ± 1.55 years) at Central China Normal…
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