Systematic review and meta-analysis of RCTs using social norms messaging for changing health behaviours in developed countries finds an initial small effect. The effect however disappeared when controlling for publication bias.

This RCT by @laudine.bsky.social et al. finds that providing information and support to target cognitive and behavioural barriers eliminates early childcare application gaps for low-income and immigrant families in France. @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How do humans and large language models (LLMs) represent sentences? Liu et al. design a rule inference task, revealling that both humans and LLMs implicitly decomposes a sentence into tree-structured constituents.

This new paper from Herpell et al. examines the effects of a private hosting program in Germany on the integration outcomes of Ukrainian refugees. @immigrationlab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This new work from @noemonbls.bsky.social @hugoreasoning.bsky.social @coraliechevallier.bsky.social et al. tested two interventions to reduce vaccine hesitancy among adolescent students. Both pedagogical activities and a chatbot improved attitudes towards vaccination. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A network meta-analysis of 152 RCTs found that personalized and group-customized digital interventions improve smoking cessation versus standard care, with better benefits among middle-aged adults in short-to-medium-term programs.

In this study, @mayucel.bsky.social et al. examine how skin and hair characteristics impact functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) signal quality, and provide recommendations for inclusive use of fNIRS. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In this article, Boucherie et al. apply physics-based models to the arrangement of locations to study how geography shapes human movement. They find an underlying pattern in how people choose to move, independent of geographical layout.

This umbrella review by Gosling et al. finds that there is no high-quality evidence to support the efficacy of any CAIM for core or associated symptoms of #autism. @dyscolab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A study of millions of couples shows spouses often share psychiatric disorders. This pattern is consistent across cultures and has persisted for generations, impacting how these disorders are inherited.

Our senior editor @samanthaantusch.bsky.social is at @ehps2025.bsky.social, feel free to reach out!

In this new paper, Swaryandini et al. present a systematic review and meta-analysis of 53 randomized controlled trials and find that educational interventions can reduce cognitive biases among students. https://www.nature.c... #CognitiveBias #Education

In this new Article, Tomi Akinyemiju et al. develop and validate a new measure of cultural racism in the United States. They find that cultural racism is associated with higher mortality and lower life expectancy.

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In this article, Egan et al. examine multisensory evidence accumulation and show that evidence in two modalities sub-additively co-activate a single, thresholded motor process.

This study by Han et al. analyzes how older adults across the US access key services like healthcare, food, and housing, revealing geographic disparities and highlighting the need for more equitable planning as the population continues to age.

Nature Human Behaviour senior editor Dr Jamie Horder is at @cogcompneuro.bsky.social CCN 2025 conference in Amsterdam! Feel free to ask him any questions you might have about the journal or the Nature portfolio.

In this article, Maier et al. show that metacognitive learning from consequences can shape moral decision-making. @maxmaier.bsky.social @vancityreynolds.bsky.social @vanessachg.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In this Article, Silva et al. show that cash transfers reduced AIDS incidence and mortality among 12.3 million Brazilian women, especially those with overlapping social vulnerabilities. #CashTransfers #AIDS #HealthInequities #SocialProtection

A Registered Report of 7,978 people in 20 countries by @cmolho.bsky.social et al finds that decision-makers willfully ignore inconvenient information. Information about the negative consequences drives prosociality, especially among guilt-prone individuals. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This 'How to' Comment by Megan A. K. Peters discusses the creative process and practical recommendations for finding good research questions.

Drawing on daily emotion and health reports from over 71K adults, Newman et al. find that education is consistently linked to better health, while income is associated with greater well-being. #health #wellbeing

Drawing on methods from psychophysics across ten experiments, Boger and Firestone examine the cognitive and computational foundations of style perception. Their findings suggest that this capacity is grounded in known psychological processes

Using intracranial EEG recordings in epilepsy patients, @dpacheco.bsky.social et al. describe changes in the neural representations of cues and contexts during fear and extinction learning in the human brain. @ruhr-uni-bochum.de um.de @uab.cat www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Shen et al. show that pre-existing neural similarity in strangers predicts future friendship and changes in social distance over time in an emerging social network of MBA students. @carolynparkinson.bsky.social, @lisashen-yixuan.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In this study, Liang et al. estimate the prevalence of LLM-modified text in recent scientific papers and preprints, finding widespread use (up to 17.5% of papers in Computer Science).

Physical inactivity is increasingly common, posing an important societal challenge. This Perspective offers a complex systems approach in tackling the problem, emphasizing the role of interactions between dynamic systems across time.

A new study by Johnson & Obradovich explores whether large language models generate completions that simulate altruistic behaviour in the dictator game, and how they respond to different prompts and parameters.

The PhD is done but what comes next? In a new Correspondence, @thomasgultzow.bsky.social @tugcevarol.bsky.social et al.‬ discuss how we can empower early- and mid-career researchers in #academia. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Behavioural interventions often hit structural barriers. This new Comment by Hofmann et al. urges policymakers to combine structural & behavioural insights for systemic reforms. #behaviouralscience

Springer Nature’s new white paper—based on insights from 11,000 researchers across 166 countries—is the first large-scale look at why null results often go unpublished, and why that needs to change. Learn more: spklr.io/63324BESvp

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Through experiments and simulations, this study shows how individuals learn to learn from others, dynamically shaping the processes involved in cultural evolution. @davidschultner.bsky.social @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social @lucasmolleman.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

There is a growing discussion on the proposal of four-day working week, the authors of this Correspondence call for more research to understand how it might influence health outcomes. @vandoros.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This study establishes how aperiodic activity, a ubiquitous signal linked to neural noise, develops in localized brain regions and illuminates the development of prefrontal control during adolescence in the development of attention and memory.

A large cross-country trial finds that income-preserving four-day workweeks boost job satisfaction and worker's well-being. @julietschor.bsky.social #sociology #4DW www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In this Article, @oriplonsky.bsky.social et al. introduce a new model that merges behavioral science and machine learning to predict choice under risk and uncertainty. Tested on multiple large datasets, it exceeds top psychological and AI models. #BehavioralScience #XA www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This new study from Ben-Hur Francisco Cardoso et al. uses large-scale data to examine patterns of occupational skill and status segregation along race and gender lines in Brazil

In this new study, Liu et al. examine the role of sustained neural activity in the planning and production of speech sequences.

In this Comment, Sarracino et al. argue that governments should prioritize human wellbeing over economic growth.

A Registered Report by Batruch et al aimed to replicate 35 key hypotheses from 17 correlational and five experimental studies using quota-based or probability samples from the U.S., France, Switzerland, and India.

In this Article, Paluch et al. show that unattended working memory items, as well as attended ones, are encoded in persistent activity in the medial temporal lobe. @jankaminski.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In this Correspondence, Dunivin and @psmaldino.bsky.social argue for greater user control of algorithms for scientific search, and explain why this will benefit both science and platforms alike. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In Heraklion, Crete for @assc28.bsky.social. Excited for my first time at this conference! Reach out if you’d like to see your #consciousness research in @NatureHumBehav or to chat about science #publishing in general. #ASSC28

Psychology & geography need one another to fulfil their mandates, but integrating them has been empirically challenging. A new perspective by Götz et al proposes a unifying Geographical–Psychological Interactionist Framework to inspire concrete & testable hypotheses. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In this new paper, Ojer et al. map respondents from the American National Election Studies (ANES) into a two-dimensional ideological space and trace dynamics of political polarization and partisan sorting over time

In this study, Chen et al. use UK Biobank data to reveal a dietary pattern associated with a lower risk of dementia, and validate this in additional cohorts.

New study shows people use popularity & social distance to strategically spread gossip. @yyangteoh.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In this study, @anatperry.bsky.social @desmond-ong.bsky.social et al show that human-attributed responses are rated as more empathic than AI-attributed ones, especially when conveying shared experience and care. www.nature.com/articles/s41...