BACKGROUND Exaggerated or simplistic news is often blamed for adversely influencing public health. However, recent findings suggested many exaggerations were already present in university press releases, which scientists approve. Surprisingly, these exaggerations were not associated with more news coverage. Here we test whether these two controversial results also arise in press releases from p...

Semantic knowledge is based on the way we perceive and interact with the world. However, the jury is still out on the question: to what degree are neuronal systems that subserve acquisition of semantic knowledge, such as sensory-motor networks, involved in its representation and processing? We will begin with a critical evaluation of the main behavioral and neuroimaging methods with respect to ...

The transformation of education in the world begins with educational policies that guarantee right to quality education. implementation these school is responsibility directors, who fulfill role pedagogical leaders and accompany teachers laudable mission guaranteeing institution provides community a service. general objective study was describe main characteristics scientific publications have ...

This study aimed to find out the influence of students’ reading motivation and self-concept on comprehension achievement eighth grade students state Junior High School Lempuing District. In this study, 223 were chosen as sample. applied correlational causal effect quantitative research design. Questionnaire test was used collect data. They analyzed by using simple regression multiple analysi...

Egalitarian motives form a powerful force in promoting prosocial behavior and enabling large-scale cooperation in the human species [1]. At the neural level, there is substantial, albeit correlational, evidence suggesting a link between dopamine and such behavior [2, 3]. However, important questions remain about the specific role of dopamine in setting or modulating behavioral sensitivity to pr...

In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that both the power and phase of oscillatory brain activity can influence the processing and perception of sensory stimuli. Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) can phase-align and amplify endogenous brain oscillations and has often been used to control and thereby study oscillatory power. Causal investigation of oscillatory phase...

Does the party of government influence amount and type inward foreign investment? Correlational studies provide inconsistent evidence. Moreover no existing study, for any level or jurisdiction, uses methods that allow causal inference. We apply regression discontinuity to a set narrow margin US gubernatorial elections. Over course 4-year term election Republican governor causes 17% boost in gro...

Information processing during human cognitive and emotional operations is thought to involve the dynamic interplay of several large-scale neural networks, including the fronto-parietal central executive network (CEN), cingulo-opercular salience network (SN), and the medial prefrontal-medial parietal default mode networks (DMN). It has been theorized that there is a causal neural mechanism by wh...

There is a strong suggestion from the existing literature that volunteering improves wellbeing of those who give up their time to help others, but much it correlational and not causal. In this paper, we estimate benefits for England's National Health Service (NHS) Volunteer Responders programme, which was set in response Covid-19 pandemic. Using sample over 9,000 volunteers, exploit oversubscri...