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.
The universal decay of collective memory and attention
Our last article in Nature Human Behaviour shows that the temporal dimension of the attention received by cultural products, including scientific papers, patents, songs, movies, and biographies, decays following a universal bi-exponential function that uncovers the communicative and cultural nature of collective memory.
Marketing justice: what consumer research taught us about legal biases
Deciding whether someone accused of a crime is guilty may be a more serious decision than choosing a new apartment or a new car, but the decisions share some essential features. It took a mid-career shift, a fascination with computational methods, and a coincidental choice of lunch spot for us to see the connection.
By Pate Skene, John Pearson, and McKell Carter
Breaking with the norm: When a trip to the beach can lead to writing a paper
By Jon M. Jachimowicz (Columbia Business School) and Oliver P. Hauser (University of Exeter Business School)
Conceptual knowledge predicts the representational structure of facial emotion perception
By: Jeffrey A. Brooks and Jonathan B. Freeman
