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Yesterday β€” 21 January 2025Nature Human Behaviour

Healthcare use in 12–18-year-old adolescents vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 versus unvaccinated in a national register-based Danish cohort

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By: Selina Kikkenborg Berg Helle Wallach-Kildemoes Line Ryberg Rasmussen Ulrikka Nygaard Nina Marie Birk Henning Bundgaard Annette Kjær Ersbøll Lau Caspar Thygesen Susanne Dam Nielsen Anne Vinggaard Christensen
20 January 2025 at 00:00

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 20 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41562-024-02097-y

This real-life register-based cohort study examined healthcare use in Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2-vaccinated 12–18-years-olds and age-matched controls. Estimates were close to one and do not indicate that BNT162b2 leads to a practically meaningful increase in healthcare use among vaccinated adolescents.

Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries

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By: Viktoria Cologna Niels G. Mede Sebastian Berger John Besley Cameron Brick Marina Joubert Edward W. Maibach Sabina Mihelj Naomi Oreskes Mike S. SchΓ€fer Sander van der Linden Nor Izzatina Abdul Aziz Suleiman Abdulsalam Nurulaini Abu Shamsi Balazs Aczel Indro Adinugroho Eleonora Alabrese Alaa Aldoh Mark Alfano Innocent Mbulli Ali Mohammed Alsobay Marlene AltenmΓΌller R. Michael Alvarez Richard Amoako Tabitha Amollo Patrick Ansah Denisa Apriliawati Flavio Azevedo Ani Bajrami Ronita Bardhan Keagile Bati Eri Bertsou Cornelia Betsch Apurav Yash Bhatiya Rahul Bhui Olga BiaΕ‚obrzeska MichaΕ‚ Bilewicz Ayoub Bouguettaya Katherine Breeden AmΓ©lie Bret Ondrej Buchel Pablo Cabrera-Álvarez Federica Cagnoli AndrΓ© Calero Valdez Timothy Callaghan Rizza Kaye Cases Sami Γ‡oksan Gabriela Czarnek Steven De Peuter Ramit Debnath Sylvain DelouvΓ©e Lucia Di Stefano Celia DΓ­az-CatalΓ‘n Kimberly C. Doell Simone Dohle Karen M. Douglas Charlotte Dries Dmitrii Dubrov MaΕ‚gorzat
20 January 2025 at 00:00

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 20 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41562-024-02090-5

What is the state of trust in scientists around the world? To answer this question, the authors surveyed 71,922 respondents in 68 countries and found that trust in scientists is moderately high.
Before yesterdayNature Human Behaviour

How to evaluate the cognitive abilities of LLMs

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By: Anna A. Ivanova
15 January 2025 at 00:00

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 15 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41562-024-02096-z

Language models have become an essential part of the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI) psychology. I discuss 14 methodological considerations that can be used to design more robust, generalizable studies that evaluate the cognitive abilities of language-based AI systems, as well as to accurately interpret the results of these studies.

Gene-level analysis reveals the genetic aetiology and therapeutic targets of schizophrenia

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By: Xinglun Dang Zhaowei Teng Yongfeng Yang Wenqiang Li Jiewei Liu Li Hui Dongsheng Zhou Daohua Gong Shan-Shan Dai Yifan Li Xingxing Li Luxian Lv Yong Zeng Yonggui Yuan Xiancang Ma Zhongchun Liu Tao Li Xiong-Jian Luo
3 January 2025 at 00:00

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 03 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41562-024-02091-4

Luo et al. identify schizophrenia risk loci in East Asians and uncover potential causal genes and therapeutic targets through cross-ancestry GWAS, fine mapping and functional genomics, offering insights into the genetic basis of schizophrenia.

Plasma proteomic signatures of social isolation and loneliness associated with morbidity and mortality

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By: Chun Shen Ruohan Zhang Jintai Yu Barbara J. Sahakian Wei Cheng Jianfeng Feng
3 January 2025 at 00:00

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 03 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41562-024-02078-1

Shen et al. characterize protein signatures in the blood associated with social isolation and loneliness, demonstrating how these link social isolation and loneliness to an increased risk of disease and mortality.

Distractor-specific control adaptation in multidimensional environments

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By: Davide Gheza Wouter Kool
3 January 2025 at 00:00

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 03 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41562-024-02088-z

Gheza and Kool show that, in multidimensional environments, people allocate attention to individual distractors on the basis of their interference with the current task. They develop a neural model that supports these findings and suggest that cognitive control theories need to be revised.

Alcohol consumption-related signals identified by multiomics Mendelian randomization

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2 January 2025 at 00:00

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 02 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41562-024-02058-5

We integrated multiomics data to identify genetic targets and pathways involved in problematic alcohol use, which highlighted potential therapeutic targets and emphasized the need for tailored, gene-specific treatment strategies for effective intervention and the prevention of alcohol-related disorders.

Lack of diffusion of popular scientific ideas marks the presence of epistemic β€˜bubbles’

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2 January 2025 at 00:00

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 02 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41562-024-02042-z

Using a machine-learning framework to study the diffusion of biomedical knowledge in the literature, we find that scientific ideas experience popularity booms and busts when knowledge diffusion is constricted, which leads to adverse consequences for science and scientists. Our work highlights the need for research to have an effect on diverse audiences to achieve sustained scientific advancement.

Introducing calorie labels in restaurants in England did not change customer behaviour

βœ‡Nature Human Behaviour
2 January 2025 at 00:00

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 02 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41562-024-02069-2

We examined whether the introduction of a calorie labelling policy in England was associated with a change in calories consumed in the out-of-home food sector. Our findings suggest that the introduction of the policy was not associated with a significant decrease in calories purchased or consumed.

The US media should rethink coverage of firearm violence

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By: Michelle Degli Esposti Zainab Hans Elyse Thulin Esther L. Hibbs Rebeccah L. Sokol
2 January 2025 at 00:00

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 02 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41562-024-02095-0

In 2023, four US news media outlets gave disproportionately high coverage to rare homicidal events perpetrated by strangers, including mass and school shootings, yet covered disproportionately few of the more common types of firearm violence, such as domestic violence. We call for responsible media coverage of firearm incidents to realign reporting to reality.
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