{"title":"Author Correction: A meta-analysis of correction effects in science-relevant misinformation","authors":"Man-pui Sally Chan, Dolores Albarracín","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02294-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-025-02294-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"9 9","pages":"1992-1994"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02294-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144797363","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":"The social ladder to wellbeing","authors":"Nataria Joseph","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02261-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02261-y","url":null,"abstract":"What aspects of socioeconomic status predict health and happiness? In an ecological momentary assessment study with more than 70,000 people, Newman et al. find that income is linked to happiness but good health is more strongly associated with education.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":29.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144796906","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":"The psychophysics of style","authors":"Tal Boger, Chaz Firestone","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02249-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02249-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Among the most significant modes of human creative expression is style: the capacity to represent objects, events and scenes (for example, lilies dotting a pond) in some distinctive manner (for example, Monet’s broken brushstrokes and blended colours). Diverse research traditions analyse the social, political and aesthetic significance of stylistic representation. But what are the cognitive and computational foundations of this capacity? Here we characterize style perception as a process that ‘parses’ form from content, and adapt classic psychophysical paradigms to discover multiple new phenomena of style perception. Using both naturalistic images and synthetic stimuli, ten experiments reveal perceptual ‘tuning’ to stylistic information, representational constancy over stylistic variation, and mental rendering of novel styled objects. Moreover, an object recognition model further grounds style perception by capturing human judgements of image similarity over different styles. Together, this work illuminates the psychological foundations of stylistic perception and opens the door to further investigation of styled media.</p>","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":29.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144778574","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}
Daniel Pacheco-Estefan, Antoine Bouyeure, George Jacob, Marie-Christin Fellner, Katia Lehongre, Virginie Lambrecq, Valerio Frazzini, Vincent Navarro, Onur Güntürkün, Lu Shen, Jing Yang, Biao Han, Qi Chen, Nikolai Axmacher
{"title":"Representational dynamics during extinction of fear memories in the human brain","authors":"Daniel Pacheco-Estefan, Antoine Bouyeure, George Jacob, Marie-Christin Fellner, Katia Lehongre, Virginie Lambrecq, Valerio Frazzini, Vincent Navarro, Onur Güntürkün, Lu Shen, Jing Yang, Biao Han, Qi Chen, Nikolai Axmacher","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02268-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02268-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Extinction learning—the suppression of a previously acquired fear response—is critical for adaptive behaviour and core for understanding the aetiology and treatment of anxiety disorders. Electrophysiological studies in rodents have revealed critical roles of theta (4–12 Hz) oscillations in amygdala and hippocampus during both fear learning and extinction, and engram research has shown that extinction relies on the formation of novel, highly context-dependent memory traces that suppress the initial fear memories. Whether similar processes occur in humans and how they relate to previously described neural mechanisms of episodic memory formation and retrieval remains unknown. Intracranial EEG recordings in epilepsy patients provide direct access to the deep brain structures of the fear and extinction network, while representational similarity analysis allows characterizing the memory traces of specific cues and contexts. Here we combined these methods to show that amygdala theta oscillations during extinction learning signal safety rather than threat and that extinction memory traces are characterized by stable and context-specific neural representations that are coordinated across the extinction network. We further demonstrate that context specificity during extinction learning predicts the reoccurrence of fear memory traces during a subsequent test period, while reoccurrence of extinction memory traces predicts safety responses. Our results reveal the neurophysiological mechanisms and representational characteristics of context-dependent extinction learning in the human brain. In addition, they show that the mutual competition of fear and extinction memory traces provides a mechanistic basis for clinically important phenomena such as fear renewal and extinction retrieval.</p>","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":29.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144778578","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}
Yixuan Lisa Shen, Ryan Hyon, Thalia Wheatley, Adam M. Kleinbaum, Christopher L. Welker, Carolyn Parkinson
{"title":"Neural similarity predicts whether strangers become friends","authors":"Yixuan Lisa Shen, Ryan Hyon, Thalia Wheatley, Adam M. Kleinbaum, Christopher L. Welker, Carolyn Parkinson","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02266-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02266-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>What determines who becomes and stays friends? Many factors are linked to friendship, including physical proximity and interpersonal similarities. Recent work has leveraged neuroimaging to detect similarities among friends by capturing how people process the world around them. However, given the cross-sectional nature of past research, it is unknown if neural similarity precedes friendship or only emerges among friends following social connection. Here we show that similarities in neural responses to movie clips—acquired before participants met one another—predicted proximity in a friendship network eight months later (that is, participants with similar responses were more likely to be friends rather than several degrees of separation apart). We also examined changes in distances between participants in their shared social network, which resulted from the formation, persistence and dissolution of friendships, between two months and eight months after they met each other. Compared with people who drifted further apart, people who grew closer over this six-month period had been more neurally similar as strangers. In addition, analyses controlling for sociodemographic similarities showed that whereas these similarities appeared to drive the differences in pre-existing neural similarities between friends and dyads of a social distance of 3, they did not account for the more extensive links between pre-existing neural similarities and the tendency for people to grow closer together, rather than drift farther apart, over time. Thus, whereas some friendships may initially form due to circumstance and dissolve over time, later-emerging and longer-lasting friendships may be rooted in deeper interpersonal compatibilities that are indexed by pre-existing neural similarities. The localization of these results suggests that pre-existing similarities in how people interpret, attend to and emotionally respond to their surroundings are precursors of future friendship and increased social closeness.</p>","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"152 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":29.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144769894","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}
Weixin Liang, Yaohui Zhang, Zhengxuan Wu, Haley Lepp, Wenlong Ji, Xuandong Zhao, Hancheng Cao, Sheng Liu, Siyu He, Zhi Huang, Diyi Yang, Christopher Potts, Christopher D. Manning, James Zou
{"title":"Quantifying large language model usage in scientific papers","authors":"Weixin Liang, Yaohui Zhang, Zhengxuan Wu, Haley Lepp, Wenlong Ji, Xuandong Zhao, Hancheng Cao, Sheng Liu, Siyu He, Zhi Huang, Diyi Yang, Christopher Potts, Christopher D. Manning, James Zou","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02273-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02273-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Scientific publishing is the primary means of disseminating research findings. There has been speculation about how extensively large language models (LLMs) are being used in academic writing. Here we conduct a systematic analysis across 1,121,912 preprints and published papers from January 2020 to September 2024 on <i>arXiv</i>, <i>bioRxiv</i> and <i>Nature</i> portfolio journals, using a population-level framework based on word frequency shifts to estimate the prevalence of LLM-modified content over time. Our findings suggest a steady increase in LLM usage, with the largest and fastest growth estimated for computer science papers (up to 22%). By comparison, mathematics papers and the <i>Nature</i> portfolio showed lower evidence of LLM modification (up to 9%). LLM modification estimates were higher among papers from first authors who post preprints more frequently, papers in more crowded research areas and papers of shorter lengths. Our findings suggest that LLMs are being broadly used in scientific writing.</p>","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":29.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144769910","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}
Julia Schüler, Matti T. J. Heino, Natàlia Balagué, Angel M. Chater, Markus Gruber, Martina Kanning, Daniel Keim, Daniela Mier, Maria Moreno-Villanueva, Fridtjof W. Nussbeck, Jens Pruessner, Termeh Shafie, Michael Schwenk, Maik Bieleke
{"title":"A complex systems view on physical activity with actionable insights for behaviour change","authors":"Julia Schüler, Matti T. J. Heino, Natàlia Balagué, Angel M. Chater, Markus Gruber, Martina Kanning, Daniel Keim, Daniela Mier, Maria Moreno-Villanueva, Fridtjof W. Nussbeck, Jens Pruessner, Termeh Shafie, Michael Schwenk, Maik Bieleke","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02279-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-025-02279-2","url":null,"abstract":"Physical inactivity and its associated health and economic burdens continue to rise despite decades of interdisciplinary research aimed at promoting physical activity. This Perspective takes a complex systems view on physical activity, proposing that at least two layers of complexity should be considered: (1) interactions between various physiological, psychological, social and environmental systems; and (2) their dynamic interactions across time. To address this complexity, all stages of the research process—from theory and measurement to study design, analysis and interventions—must be aligned with a complex systems perspective. This alignment requires intensive interdisciplinary collaboration and an integration of basic and applied research beyond current research practices to create transdisciplinary solutions. We offer actionable insights that bridge the gap between abstract theoretical approaches (for example, complex systems and attractor landscape frameworks of behaviour change) and practical research on physical activity, thereby laying a foundation for more effective behaviour change interventions. Physical inactivity is a major public health concern. This Perspective advocates for a complex systems approach to physical activity, emphasizing dynamic, interdisciplinary strategies to design more effective, theory-informed interventions.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"9 9","pages":"1793-1801"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144769893","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}
Wilhelm Hofmann, Cornelia Betsch, Robert Böhm, Denise de Ridder, Stefan Drews, Benjamin Ewert, Ralph Hertwig, Falko F. Sniehotta, Jutta Mata
{"title":"Rethinking behaviour change interventions in policymaking","authors":"Wilhelm Hofmann, Cornelia Betsch, Robert Böhm, Denise de Ridder, Stefan Drews, Benjamin Ewert, Ralph Hertwig, Falko F. Sniehotta, Jutta Mata","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02284-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-025-02284-5","url":null,"abstract":"Behaviour change interventions that are unsuccessful may often be limited by structural constraints. Accumulating evidence across contexts helps to diagnose these barriers. Policymakers should combine structural and behavioural insights to enact systemic reforms to better address environmental and societal challenges.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"9 9","pages":"1765-1767"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144715668","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":"Testing for completions that simulate altruism in early language models","authors":"Tim Johnson, Nick Obradovich","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02258-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-025-02258-7","url":null,"abstract":"Altruism underlies cooperative behaviours that facilitate social complexity. In late 2022 and early 2023, we tested whether particular large language models—then in widespread use—generated completions that simulated altruism when prompted with text inputs similar to those used in ‘dictator game’ experiments measuring human altruism. Here we report that one model in our initial study set—OpenAI’s text-davinci-003—consistently generated completions that simulated payoff maximization in a non-social decision task yet simulated altruism in dictator games. Comparable completions appeared when we replicated our experiments, altered prompt phrasing, varied model parameters, altered currencies described in the prompt and studied a subsequent model, GPT-4. Furthermore, application of explainable artificial intelligence techniques showed that results changed little when instructing the system to ignore past research on the dictator or ultimatum games but changed noticeably when instructing the system to focus on the needs of particular participants in a simulated social encounter. Johnson and Obradovich report that widely used large language models, including the early text-davinci-003 and GPT-4, regularly produce text completions that simulate behaviour reminiscent of altruism.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"9 9","pages":"1861-1870"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144715435","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}