Nature Human Behaviour
Drawing from a broad spectrum of social, biological, health, and physical science disciplines, this journal publishes research of outstanding significance into any aspect of individual or collective human behaviour.
Reinforcement learning shapes economic preferences in 11 [very different] countries
We sampled economic preferences in 11 countries through decision-making tasks. Option values were either disclosed overtly, or learned through reinforcement learning. Risk and cultural differences conditioned preferences when values were disclosed, but not when learned through trial-and-error.
Patients with prefrontal damage less susceptible to sunk cost biases
A new study found that individuals with brain damage to ventromedial prefrontal cortex are less likely to over-persist with goals than healthy people, leading to the surprising result that they behave more 'rationally' in cases where abandoning failing goals leads to better outcomes.
Challenging the gold standard: Transdiagnostic cognitive behavioural therapy is just as effective as disorder-specific therapy
We show that transdiagnostic cognitive behavioural therapy is a comprehensive, scalable, cost-efficient treatment that is highly effective in reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety in patients with emotional disorders. It should be a firm fixture in psychotherapy training and patient care.
A generative model of memory construction and consolidation
A computational model shows how the hippocampus encodes episodic memories and replays them to train generative neocortical models of the world, so that conceptual and sensory representations of experience can be recombined for imagination and memory.
A field study of the impacts of workplace diversity on the recruitment of minority group members
Increasing workplace diversity is a popular yet elusive goal for many employers. How can organizations encourage applications from talented employees that come from all walks of life? In this work, we investigate how workplace diversity cues affect the quality and background of applicants.
