Descriptive statistics are presented in Table 1 (for correlations between study variables at the first measurement point see Supplementary Table 4 in the supplementary material). The three fully unconditional models (no predictors) revealed…
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Mind wandering during creative incubation predicts increases in creative performance in a writing task
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Global burn severity in forest ecoregions: trends, climate drivers, and predictive insights
In this section, we present and analyze the findings related to burn severity patterns across different ecoregions and explore the key factors influencing these trends. The following subsections detail the processes involved in feature variable…
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Striatal dopamine can enhance both fast working memory, and slow reinforcement learning, while reducing implicit effort cost sensitivity
The study was conducted in compliance with a protocol approved by the regional research ethics committee (Commissie Mensgebonden Onderzoek, region Arnhem-Nijmegen; 2016/2646; ABR: NL57538.091.16). 100 Healthy, young adult participants (ages 18—43,…
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Are Nature Index journals a valid basis for academic assessment: a study of academic impact and disruptive innovation assessment based on open bibliographic metadata and citation data
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Assessing Unified Payments Interface (UPI) adoption and usage through the interplay of UTAUT factors
Previous research on the adoption of mobile payment systems
Previous studies have extensively examined the factors influencing the adoption of mobile-based payment services (Chakraborty et al., 2022; Singu & Chakraborty, 2022). Various information…
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Computational models reveal that intuitive physics underlies visual processing of soft objects
Psychophysical matching of cloth dynamics
To our knowledge, all existing psychological studies targeting object dynamics, e.g., stiffness of elastic objects15,16,17, query just one physical property per stimulus set, without addressing the…
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Climate change in your backyard: the role of local governments
The findings indicate that while environmental stressors influence the overall volume of climate discourse, they do not significantly affect sentiment divergence between conservative and liberal council members. Likewise, the political…
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The relationship between trait curiosity and cognitive reserve in younger and older adults
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