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.
How can we prevent the emergence of a vaccine resistant variant?
Evolution of vaccine resistance of COVID-19 is a problem which lies at the interface of molecular genetics, evolutionary biology and human behavior.
What happens to pay allocation when wages becomes transparent?
Tracking salaries and performance outcomes of close to 100,000 US academics over two decades, our latest research finds that pay transparency leads to more equitable and equal wages but also to reduced power of performance-based incentives.
Is reduced behavioral orienting to motherese speech in toddlers with ASD related to reduced neural responses to motherese?
In this study, for the first time, we are seeing what the possible brain impact is for toddlers with autism who fail to pay attention to social information.
What really makes you sick? Rethinking causality and good health in Soweto, South Africa through syndemics
Syndemics explain why and how social and medical conditions collide in people and populations. Our research across contexts suggests that patients experience medical diagnosis in relation to their social contexts and that non-medical factors can influence quality of life more than medical ones.
On Paranoia and the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has made the world seem less predictable. We found that real-world uncertainty increased paranoia and influenced laboratory task behaviour.
