モダンタイムズは、データの民主化で日本らしいDXを実現するためのメディアです ─ Digitalization & Transformation unique to Japan

We document households' spending responses to a stimulus payment in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to the pandemic, the Japanese government launched a universal cash entitlement...

This research examined the influence of a romantic partner's success or failure on one's own implicit and explicit self-esteem. In Experiment 1, men had lower implicit self-esteem when their partner...

To address ongoing debates about whether feelings of disgust are causally related to moral judgments, we pharmacologically inhibited spontaneous disgust responses to moral infractions and examined...

Traditionally, clinical descriptions of the cognitions of depressives have centered on the features of helplessness and self-blame. The view of the depressive as helpless and as believing in the...

Scientific Reports - Higher Risk of Suicide on Milestone Birthdays: Evidence from Japan

Theory of mind (ToM) is defined as the process of taking another’s perspective. Anthropomorphism can be seen as the extension of ToM to non-human entities. T...

Researchers have suggested that acute exposure to violent video games is a cause of aggressive behavior. We tested this hypothesis by using violent and nonviole...

Society is largely shaped by creativity, making it critical to understand why, despite minimal mean gender differences in creative ability, substantial differences exist in the creative achievement...

Nature Human Behaviour - Studying socioeconomic backgrounds and intergenerational transmission in the US academia, Morgan et al. find that faculty have a parent with a Ph.D. degree a striking 25...

Cynicism refers to a negative appraisal of human nature—a belief that self-interest is the ultimate motive guiding human behavior. We explored laypersons’ belie...

Research on well-being has exploded in recent years to more than 55,000 relevant publications annually, making it difficult for psychologists—including key comm...

Academic Abstract The motto of the conspiracist, “Do your own research,” may seem ludicrous to scientists. Indeed, it is often dismissed as a mere rhetorical de...

Abstract. Expertise provides numerous benefits. Experts process information more efficiently, remember information better, and often make better decisions.

The hero label has become a pervasive positive stereotype applied to many different groups and occupations, such as nurses, teachers, and members of the military. Although meant to show support,...

The literature has widely discussed and supported the relationship between poverty and support for authoritarian leaders and regimes. However, there are differe...

A meta-analysis of 63 studies showed a significant negative association between intelligence and religiosity. The association was stronger for college students ...

There is a notable similarity in psychological well-being among romantic partners. Drawing on valence asymmetry research (e.g., negativity bias), we tested whet...

In many joint consumption decisions, such as choosing a restaurant or a movie to watch together, one party often communicates to the other that they do not have...

While effect was strongest when people falsely believed that they were drinking regular coffee, it still occurred even when they were fully aware they were drinking decaf.

Higher levels of women's alcohol consumption have long been attributed to increases in gender equality. However, only limited research examines the relationship between gender equality and alcohol...

Nature Human Behaviour - Zhao et al. find that children exhibit greater honesty after having been trusted by adults. The findings validate philosophical conjectures and offer practical strategies...

Nature Human Behaviour - University faculty members train future researchers and produce new knowledge. We show that US faculty members have a parent with a PhD roughly 25 times more often than the...

「首を傾げる」ことで，疑問や不審を抱くだろうか。大学生82名が箱に空いた角度の異なる穴を覗くことで，右傾，左傾，無傾の3種の姿勢をとり，対人認知，リスクテイキング，論理的思考という3課題を行った。姿勢操作はカウンターバランスされた。その結果，首を右に傾げると，傾げない場合よりも，社会的に望ましい人物 …

今回、オンラインでの会話は、プラットフォームや話題、時期にかかわらず長く続くほど有害になる傾向があることが報告されている。しかし、興味深いことに、有害な言葉遣いは会話への参加を妨げるわけではなかった。

Zero-sum beliefs reflect the perception that one party's gains are necessarily offset by another party's losses. Although zero-sum relationships are, from a strictly theoretical perspective, symmet...

本研究では，初回の心理臨床面接におけるクライエントとカウンセラーの対話の映像を解析し，2者の身体動作の関係を分析した．心理面接として高く評価された二つの事例(高評価群)と，高い評価が得られなかった二つの事例(低評価群)を含む，50分間のカウンセリング対話4事例の映像を分析した．加えて，高校教諭と高評 …

Dolphins, like people, are incredibly intelligent and social creatures. And also like people, they may be prone to the ravages of cognitive decline.

脳の形態は、その機能をどのように制約するのか。今回J Pangたちは、ヒト脳の活動が、ニューロンの接続よりも脳の幾何学的形態に関係した原理で制約されることを示している。

Nature Human Behaviour - The majority of empirical articles that we publish use null-hypothesis significance testing. In most cases, researchers rely on P values to establish the scientific or...

Abstract. A series of controlled studies found that consumers counter-normatively prefer something nearly complete over something complete. We call this ph

Early development is characterized by a period of exuberant neural connectivity followed by a retraction and reweighting of connections over the course of devel...

Nature Human Behaviour - Gomez et al. study international citation and text similarity networks across 150 fields and find that some countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom,...

Humans tend to anticipate events when they synchronize their actions with sound (such as when they clap to music), which has puzzled scientists for decades. Wha...

Current Psychology - Previous studies have suggested that an extremely strong desire for happiness might ironically reduce a person’s well-being, particularly among Western people. According...

False accusations of wrongdoing are common and can have grave consequences. In six studies, we document a worrisome paradox in perceivers’ subjective judgments ...