Ghassani Swaryandini, Jessica Graham, Shantell Griffith, Vasco Grilo, Federica Ruzzante, Xingruo Zhang, Siu Kit Yeung, Marta Mangiarulo, Geetanjali Basarkod, Clarence Ng, Philip Parker, Jason Tangen, Alexander Saeri, Emily Grundy, Peter Slattery, Michael Noetel
{"title":"Systematic review and meta-analysis of educational approaches to reduce cognitive biases among students","authors":"Ghassani Swaryandini, Jessica Graham, Shantell Griffith, Vasco Grilo, Federica Ruzzante, Xingruo Zhang, Siu Kit Yeung, Marta Mangiarulo, Geetanjali Basarkod, Clarence Ng, Philip Parker, Jason Tangen, Alexander Saeri, Emily Grundy, Peter Slattery, Michael Noetel","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02253-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02253-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Resistance to cognitive biases is a crucial element of rationality that influences judgement and decision-making. Here we synthesized the effects of debiasing training in educational settings. Our systematic review found 54 randomized controlled trials consisting of 383 effect sizes and 10,941 participants. Our meta-analysis of educational interventions showed a small, yet significant, improvement in reducing the likelihood of committing biases compared with control conditions (<i>g</i> = 0.26, 95% confidence interval 0.14 to 0.39), 160 effects from 41 studies, <i>P</i> < 0.001). Most studies focused on reducing the likelihood of committing biases (for example, confirmation bias) using cognitive strategies. Some biases seemed difficult to overcome (for example, representativeness heuristic), and questions remain about the depth and transferability of learning beyond classroom settings. All studies had unclear or high risk of bias and there was some risk of publication bias. While evidence suggests that educational interventions can reduce bias on targeted tasks, more research is needed to determine whether these improvements translate to meaningful changes in real-world decision-making and to identify which paedagogical approaches are most effective for reducing the influence of cognitive biases.</p>","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":29.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144900192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
John M. Egan, Manuel Gomez-Ramirez, John J. Foxe, Redmond G. O’Connell, Simon P. Kelly
{"title":"Distinct audio and visual accumulators co-activate motor preparation for multisensory detection","authors":"John M. Egan, Manuel Gomez-Ramirez, John J. Foxe, Redmond G. O’Connell, Simon P. Kelly","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02280-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02280-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Detecting targets in multisensory environments is an elemental brain function, but it is not yet known whether information from different sensory modalities is accumulated by distinct processes, and, if so, whether the processes are subject to separate decision criteria. Here we address this in two experiments (<i>n</i> = 22, <i>n</i> = 21) using a paradigm design that enables neural evidence accumulation to be traced through a centro-parietal positivity and modelled alongside response time distributions. Through analysis of both redundant (respond-to-either-modality) and conjunctive (respond-only-to-both) audio-visual detection data, joint neural–behavioural modelling, and a follow-up onset-asynchrony experiment, we found that auditory and visual evidence is accumulated in distinct processes during multisensory detection, and cumulative evidence in the two modalities sub-additively co-activates a single, thresholded motor process during redundant detection. These findings answer long-standing questions about information integration and accumulation in multisensory conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":29.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144851397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visitation patterns reveal service access disparities for ageing populations in the USA","authors":"Yilong Han, Peng Liao, Weiyu Li, Qi R. Wang","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02285-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02285-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As populations age globally, ensuring equitable access to essential services becomes increasingly crucial. This study examines the revealed accessibility of essential services for ageing populations across the USA. A fairness index is developed to compare revealed service accessibility between high-ageing and low-ageing Census Block Groups. Using datasets that span a range of demographic and geographic contexts, this analysis identifies variations in how ageing communities access health care, housing and food supplies. The results show that while ageing communities generally experience better accessibility, this advantage is unevenly distributed and is projected to decline over time due to shifting demographics and a growing elderly population. In addition, accessibility gaps remain within high-ageing communities, with up to 70% of such areas in some states lacking access to ageing-specific services. These findings contribute to ongoing discussions on how urban environments can respond to demographic ageing with more equitable service provision.</p>","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":29.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144851654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wilfully ignoring inconvenient information decreases prosociality across diverse cultures","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02287-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02287-2","url":null,"abstract":"In a cross-national behavioural experiment, we examined how providing information about negative externalities and making decisions observable influence prosocial behaviour. Across countries, we found that knowledge of negative externalities (as compared with opportunities for ignorance) robustly increased prosociality, and that guilt-prone individuals were more responsive to information about these negative consequences of their actions.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":29.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144825258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Agnieszka Gidziela, Yasmin I. Ahmadzadeh, Giorgia Michelini, Andrea G. Allegrini, Jessica Agnew-Blais, Lok Yan Lau, Megan Duret, Francesca Procopio, Emily Daly, Angelica Ronald, Kaili Rimfeld, Margherita Malanchini
{"title":"Author Correction: A meta-analysis of genetic effects associated with neurodevelopmental disorders and co-occurring conditions","authors":"Agnieszka Gidziela, Yasmin I. Ahmadzadeh, Giorgia Michelini, Andrea G. Allegrini, Jessica Agnew-Blais, Lok Yan Lau, Megan Duret, Francesca Procopio, Emily Daly, Angelica Ronald, Kaili Rimfeld, Margherita Malanchini","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02299-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-025-02299-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"9 9","pages":"1995-1995"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02299-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144812901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to develop good research questions","authors":"Megan A. K. Peters","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02292-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-025-02292-5","url":null,"abstract":"Designing good research questions goes well beyond the standard definitions of clarity, focus and tractability, and even beyond ‘novelty’ in the strictest sense. This Comment describes the iterative creative process for designing good research questions, and includes practical suggestions and ways to avoid common traps.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"9 9","pages":"1759-1761"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144812892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning from outcomes shapes reliance on moral rules versus cost–benefit reasoning","authors":"Maximilian Maier, Vanessa Cheung, Falk Lieder","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02271-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02271-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Many controversies arise from disagreements between moral rules and ‘utilitarian’ cost–benefit reasoning (CBR). Here we show how moral learning from consequences can produce individual differences in people’s reliance on rules versus CBR. In a new paradigm, participants (total <i>N</i> = 2,328) faced realistic dilemmas between one choice prescribed by a moral rule and one by CBR. The participants observed the consequences of their decision before the next dilemma. Across four experiments, we found adaptive changes in decision-making over 13 choices: participants adjusted their decisions according to which decision strategy (rules or CBR) produced better consequences. Using computational modelling, we showed that many participants learned about decision strategies in general (metacognitive learning) rather than specific actions. Their learning transferred to incentive-compatible donation decisions and moral convictions beyond the experiment. We conclude that metacognitive learning from consequences shapes moral decision-making and that individual differences in morality may be surprisingly malleable to learning from experience.</p>","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":29.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144812889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andréa F. Silva, Iracema Lua, Gabriela S. Jesus, Priscila F. P. S. Gestal, Daniella M. Cavalcanti, Carlos A. S. T. Santos, Maria Y. Ichihara, Mauricio L. Barreto, Laio Magno, Luis E. Souza, James Macinko, Inês Dourado, Davide Rasella
{"title":"Intersectional impact of cash transfers on AIDS among 12.3 million Brazilian women","authors":"Andréa F. Silva, Iracema Lua, Gabriela S. Jesus, Priscila F. P. S. Gestal, Daniella M. Cavalcanti, Carlos A. S. T. Santos, Maria Y. Ichihara, Mauricio L. Barreto, Laio Magno, Luis E. Souza, James Macinko, Inês Dourado, Davide Rasella","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02278-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02278-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Multiple socioeconomic vulnerabilities are associated with an increased burden of human immunodeficiency virus and its progression to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Here, using a quasi-experimental impact evaluation design and a cohort of 12.3 million low-income Brazilian women (daughters and mothers) from 2007 to 2015, we evaluated the impact and intersectional effectiveness of the world’s largest conditional cash transfer, the <i>Programa Bolsa Família</i> (PBF) on AIDS incidence and AIDS-related mortality. Among daughters, PBF was associated with reductions in AIDS incidence (rate ratio (RR) 0.53, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.42–0.66) and AIDS-related mortality (RR 0.45, 95% CI 0.27–0.74). Among mothers, PBF was associated with reductions in AIDS incidence (RR 0.58, 95% CI 0.55–0.61) and AIDS-related mortality (RR 0.57, 95% CI 0.53–0.63). The effects of PBF were stronger among mothers with 1 vulnerability, and even higher with 2 intersecting vulnerabilities, specifically for AIDS incidence among brown/Black and extremely low income (RR 0.47, 95% CI 0.44–0.49). The greatest effect was observed in extremely low-income, brown/Black mothers with higher education (RR 0.44, 95% CI 0.38–0.53). Conditional cash transfer could substantially contribute towards reducing AIDS-related inequalities and achieving the AIDS-related Sustainable Development Goal.</p>","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":29.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144812931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Catherine Molho, Ivan Soraperra, Jonathan F. Schulz, Shaul Shalvi
{"title":"Guilt drives prosociality across 20 countries","authors":"Catherine Molho, Ivan Soraperra, Jonathan F. Schulz, Shaul Shalvi","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02286-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02286-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Impersonal prosociality is considered a cornerstone of thriving civic societies and well-functioning institutions. Previous research has documented cross-societal variation in prosociality using monetary allocation tasks such as dictator games. Here we examined whether different societies may rely on distinct mechanisms—guilt and internalized norms versus shame and external reputation—to promote prosociality. We conducted a preregistered experiment with 7,978 participants across 20 culturally diverse countries. In dictator games, we manipulated guilt by varying information about the consequences of participants’ decisions, and shame by varying observability. We also used individual- and country-level measures of the importance of guilt over shame. We found robust evidence for guilt-driven prosociality and wilful ignorance across countries. Prosociality was higher when individuals received information than when they could avoid it. Furthermore, more guilt-prone individuals (but not countries) were more responsive to information. In contrast, observability by strangers had negligible effects on prosociality. Our findings highlight the importance of providing information about the negative consequences of individuals’ choices to encourage prosocial behaviour across cultural contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":29.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144812894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David B. Newman, Amie M. Gordon, Wendy Berry Mendes
{"title":"Income and education show distinct links to health and happiness in daily life","authors":"David B. Newman, Amie M. Gordon, Wendy Berry Mendes","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02264-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02264-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>With growing levels of inequality, understanding relationships between socioeconomic status (SES), health and well-being is as important as ever. Many studies focus on associations between an SES composite and either health ‘or’ happiness; here we examine unique relationships between SES indicators (income and education) and health ‘and’ well-being outcomes at both individual and community levels, drawing on a sample of adults (<i>N</i> = 71,385; <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 40.62, s.d. = 13.20) from more than 10 countries and representing 13,089 unique ZIP codes within the United States. A subset (<i>N</i> = 29,567) participated in an Ecological Momentary Assessment study by providing daily reports of their emotions, blood pressure and heart rate (<i>N</i><sub>obs</sub> = 329,543) for 3 weeks. Generally, higher levels of education were more consistently linked to indicators of better health, whereas higher levels of income were associated with higher levels of well-being. Individual-level SES predicted health and well-being more strongly than community-level factors.</p>","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":29.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144796911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}