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A Theory of Cuteness as Developmental Investment. 可爱作为发展投资的理论。
IF 8.2 1区 心理学
Behavioral and Brain Sciences Pub Date : 2026-08-12 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X26106918
Alexis Garsmeur, Nicolas Baumard
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Response to commentators on "Let's go WILD: Increasing inclusivity in theories of developmental psychology" - CORRIGENDUM. 对“让我们狂野起来：发展心理学理论中不断增加的包容性”评论的回应-勘误表。
IF 8.2 1区 心理学
Behavioral and Brain Sciences Pub Date : 2026-08-07 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X26107304
Kim A Bard, Heidi Keller, David A Leavens
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TOP-DOWN TO BOTTOM-UP: RHYTHMIC SYNCHRONY RELAXES SOCIAL PRIORS TO ENABLE CHANGE. 自上而下到自下而上：节奏同步放松社会先验，使之能够改变。
IF 8.2 1区 心理学
Behavioral and Brain Sciences Pub Date : 2026-07-21 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X26106943
Connor Wood
{"title":"TOP-DOWN TO BOTTOM-UP: RHYTHMIC SYNCHRONY RELAXES SOCIAL PRIORS TO ENABLE CHANGE.","authors":"Connor Wood","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X26106943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X26106943","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Interpersonal synchrony, such as dancing to a shared rhythm, elicits bonding and rewards, leading many to see it as a mechanism for group cohesion. Yet synchronized activities also reduce ingroup bias, rapidly bond strangers, flatten hierarchies and blur roles, and evoke trance states. Synchrony thus softens many boundaries that \"groupishness\" requires. Perhaps in consequence, cultural authorities frequently condemn expressive dance music rather than embracing it as a tool for social cohesion. Aiming to account for these multifarious features, this review integrates findings from cognitive motor science, biomusicology, and adjacent fields to synthesize the <i>relaxed priors through synchrony</i> (RePS) model. Highlighting synchrony's effects on high-level social predictive processing, RePS depicts the sensorimotor signals associated with beat perception and synchrony as lending precision to bottom-up prediction error at temporally granular (< 2-second) scales. Precision for abstract social priors is thereby reduced, inverting the social brain's characteristic \"top-heaviness.\" With categorical beliefs about roles and groups no longer scaffolding coordination and joint action, local-timescale planning and processing evoke low psychological construal. Tighter links between motivation and reward facilitate disinhibited enjoyment orthogonal to status and group boundaries. In the entropic cognitive state that results, relaxed social priors are more easily revisable, enabling coordinated change and updating, as in ritual celebrations. This model affords rich opportunities for empirical testing and interdisciplinary theory-building. Overall, RePS explains why authorities frequently dislike synchrony, why dance plays centrally in social transitions such as weddings, and why rhythmic music is associated with trance. More than a bonding device, synchrony facilitates change.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":" ","pages":"1-110"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148534970","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}
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Cultural affordances. 文化的功能。
IF 8.2 1区 心理学
Behavioral and Brain Sciences Pub Date : 2026-07-10 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X25104433
Jordan W Moon
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Western jurisprudence and criminal justice systems as superstitious belief. 西方法理学和刑事司法系统的迷信信仰。
IF 8.2 1区 心理学
Behavioral and Brain Sciences Pub Date : 2026-07-10 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X25104469
Raihan Alam, Tage Rai
{"title":"Western jurisprudence and criminal justice systems as superstitious belief.","authors":"Raihan Alam, Tage Rai","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X25104469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X25104469","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Western punitive justice systems persist despite weak evidence that they reduce crime. We argue that they function as WEIRD cultural superstitions: punishment intuitively feels effective even when it fails. Drawing on Singh's framework, historical evidence of punishment's dominance origins, and our own experiments, we show how subjective selection sustains maladaptive punitive institutions - ultimately raising the question, <i>intuitively effective to whom?</i></p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":"49 ","pages":"e286"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148429787","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}
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The nature of goals in subjective selection: Origins, shaping forces, and salience. 主观选择中目标的本质：起源、形成力量和显著性。
IF 8.2 1区 心理学
Behavioral and Brain Sciences Pub Date : 2026-07-10 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X25104275
Ze Hong
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Cultural super-attractors in critical care: The intensive care unit as a living manifold of meaning. 重症监护中的文化超级吸引者：重症监护病房作为生活意义的歧管。
IF 8.2 1区 心理学
Behavioral and Brain Sciences Pub Date : 2026-07-10 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X25104408
Melissa P Bui
{"title":"Cultural super-attractors in critical care: The intensive care unit as a living manifold of meaning.","authors":"Melissa P Bui","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X25104408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X25104408","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Extending Singh's theory of cultural \"super-attractors,\" this commentary examines the Intensive Care Unit as a living model of the cultural manifold. In this high-acuity clinical environment, patients, families, and clinicians unconsciously reconstruct cultural super-attractors through ritual, cooperation, and shared humanitarian goals. Integrating psychiatric consultation reveals how these attractors transform unconscious adaptation into structured healing and recovery.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":"49 ","pages":"e292"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148429793","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}
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Subjective selection needs socially transmitted goals and culturally evolving problems. 主观选择需要社会传递的目标和文化演进的问题。
IF 8.2 1区 心理学
Behavioral and Brain Sciences Pub Date : 2026-07-10 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X25104482
James Winters, Mathieu Charbonneau
{"title":"Subjective selection needs socially transmitted goals and culturally evolving problems.","authors":"James Winters, Mathieu Charbonneau","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X25104482","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S0140525X25104482","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Our commentary aims to enrich Singh's subjective selection framework in two fundamental ways. First, language is necessary for coordinating on shared instrumental goals. Without it, the explanatory burden rests largely on evolved psychology. Second, goals themselves are culturally constructed, socially transmitted, and cumulatively evolving over time. This co-evolutionary dynamic between problems and solutions exceeds what fixed psychological hierarchies can explain.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":"49 ","pages":"e310"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148429736","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}
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Cultural evolution by revealed preferences - from status signals to alien porn. 揭示偏好的文化进化——从地位信号到外星人色情。
IF 8.2 1区 心理学
Behavioral and Brain Sciences Pub Date : 2026-07-10 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X25104421
Oliver Braganza
{"title":"Cultural evolution by revealed preferences - from status signals to alien porn.","authors":"Oliver Braganza","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X25104421","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S0140525X25104421","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Singh convincingly argues that understanding culture requires understanding <i>subjective selection</i>. Here, I (1) suggest an extension to Singh's cultural manifold, namely <i>status signaling systems</i> and (2) argue that Singh's approach might unfold its greatest impact on the study of <i>modern</i> culture and economics. Indeed, <i>subjective selection</i> seems to readily predict numerous modern phenomena such as highly addictive digital interfaces.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":"49 ","pages":"e291"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148429740","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}
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Healing rituals and dietary practices as cultural super-attractors. 治疗仪式和饮食习惯是文化的超级吸引力。
IF 8.2 1区 心理学
Behavioral and Brain Sciences Pub Date : 2026-07-10 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X25104251
Sedat Arslan
{"title":"Healing rituals and dietary practices as cultural super-attractors.","authors":"Sedat Arslan","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X25104251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X25104251","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Singh's account explains cultural super-attractors via subjective selection. I extend it to healing rituals and dietary practices, including fasting calendars, sacred or taboo foods, detox narratives, probiotic beliefs, and ceremonial eating. I map these packages to complexity and robustness, specify control-seeking and hedonic mechanisms, derive testable predictions, and outline cross-cultural studies that distinguish satisfaction from objective efficacy for public health.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":"49 ","pages":"e287"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148429772","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}
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