Review
Neurosciences
Terril L. Verplaetse, Kelly P. Cosgrove, Jody Tanabe, Sherry A. McKee
Summary: Over the past decade, rates of alcohol use disorder and high-risk drinking have increased significantly in women compared to men, highlighting the need to investigate the underlying neural mechanisms contributing to problematic alcohol consumption across genders.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Laurie Compere, Sylvain Charron, Thierry Gallarda, Eirini Rari, Stephanie Lion, Marion Nys, Adele Anssens, Sandrine Coussinoux, Sebastien Machefaux, Catherine Oppenheim, Pascale Piolino
Summary: Recent literature on sex-related differences in autobiographical memory emphasizes the importance of psychosocial factors like gender identity over biological sex. This fMRI study found gender identity to have a stronger impact on autobiographical memory than biological sex, highlighting the need to consider hormonal factors in future research. The results suggest an interaction between biological sex and gender identity in explaining variations in autobiographical memory.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Katie Byrd, Richard S. John
Summary: The study found that participants were slightly better than chance at distinguishing true and false information in social media posts following natural disasters and moderately better than chance following terror attacks. Base-rate manipulation significantly predicted sensitivity, specificity, and true response rates, while the error penalty manipulation had no significant effect. Political conservatives showed differences in classifying false content for natural disasters versus terror attacks.
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Sadiya S. Khan, Lauren B. Beach, Clyde W. Yancy
Summary: Sex-based differences in risk, symptoms, and management of heart failure exist, with women having a higher incidence of HF with preserved ejection fraction compared to men. However, there are gaps in understanding gender-based differences in HF and inadequate representation of women and gender minorities in clinical trials.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Business
Lucia Gatti, Marta Pizzetti, Peter Seele
Summary: Greenwashing has a greater negative impact on intention to invest compared to corporate misbehaviour unrelated to deceptive communication. Stakeholders are less inclined to invest in companies that falsify their claims (falsification) or engage in manipulative business practices (deceptive manipulation) rather than those that selectively disclose information (information selection) or attempt to divert attention from misbehaviours by publicizing their good business practices (attention diversion).
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2021)
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Ting-Ting Chang, Nai-Feng Chen, Yang-Teng Fan
Summary: This review examines the specificity of sex/gender in arithmetic processing through a cognitive neuroscience approach, summarizing gender differences in mathematical learning behavioral performance and analyzing the role of MRI in understanding sex-specific effects. It also proposes potential research issues for further exploration of the sex effect using neuroimaging technology.
BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR
(2022)
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Emma E. Levine, Matthew J. Lupoli
Summary: Prosocial lies, intended to benefit others and spare them from emotional harm, are only positively received by targets when they prevent emotional harm and honesty lacks instrumental value. Otherwise, targets typically view prosocial lies as paternalistic and penalize those who tell them.
CURRENT OPINION IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Anne K. Baker, Lauren C. Ericksen, Vincent Koppelmans, Brian J. Mickey, Katherine T. Martucci, Jon-Kar Zubieta, Tiffany M. Love
Summary: There is a reciprocal relationship between chronic pain and reward processing. This study found that males with chronic pain exhibited reduced anticipatory responses to reward in the striatum compared to control males, while no significant sex differences were observed among female patients. These findings highlight the importance of considering sex as a factor of interest in future studies on reward processing in the context of chronic pain.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Critical Care Medicine
Hilary M. DuBrock, Rodrigo Cartin-Ceba, Richard N. Channick, Steven M. Kawut, Michael J. Krowka
Summary: Female candidates for liver transplant with POPH have higher baseline PVR, lower MELD score, and are more likely to have autoimmune liver disease compared to male candidates. In younger patients, female gender is associated with worse survival, although overall survival rates are similar between women and men.
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Xitong Liang, Guanqun Li, Yin He, Chaoying Xu, Xiangzhi Meng, Chunming Lu, Li Liu
Summary: This study investigates the sex differences in the reading-related neural network of Chinese children and its interaction with age. The findings suggest that sex differences in reading neural networks are modulated by age. After controlling for age, boys and girls also show stable sex differences in the relationship between reading neural circuit and reading behavior.
DEVELOPMENTAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Joshua R. Smith, Randal J. Thomas, Amanda R. Bonikowske, Shane M. Hammer, Thomas P. Olson
Summary: This article reviews the sex differences in outpatient phase II cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programming, including CR participation rates, core components, and barriers to participation. Strategies to mitigate these disparities are discussed, along with areas for future research.
CIRCULATION RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Maura A. E. Pilotti
Summary: The study found that despite females performing better in high school and college, they were underrepresented in fields fitting traditional gender roles in college. Male students had higher performance and motivation in the male-suited major of engineering. High school GPA and English proficiency scores predicted academic success and motivation for all students.
Article
Economics
Ninghua Du, Shan Gui, Daniel Houser
Summary: This study examines the impact of endowment equality on trust and finds that regardless of whether the endowment inequality favors the sender or the receiver, it reduces trust. Additionally, the study finds that the frequency of lies is not affected by endowment inequality. These results emphasize the importance of equal starting positions in promoting trust.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Cornelis Blauwendraat, Hirotaka Iwaki, Mary B. Makarious, Sara Bandres-Ciga, Hampton L. Leonard, Francis P. Grenn, Julie Lake, Lynne Krohn, Manuela Tan, Jonggeol J. Kim, Jesse R. Gibbs, Dena G. Hernandez, Jennifer A. Ruskey, Lasse Pihlstrom, Mathias Toft, Jacobus J. van Hilten, Johan Marinus, Claudia Schulte, Kathrin Brockmann, Manu Sharma, Ari Siitonen, Kari Majamaa, Johanna Eerola-Rautio, Pentti J. Tienari, Donald G. Grosset, Suzanne Lesage, Jean-Christophe Corvol, Alexis Brice, Nick Wood, John Hardy, Ziv Gan-Or, Peter Heutink, Thomas Gasser, Huw R. Morris, Alastair J. Noyce, Mike A. Nalls, Andrew B. Singleton
Summary: This study aimed to investigate whether there are sex-specific genetic risk factors associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) between male and female patients, but no significant differences were observed. High genetic correlation and similar heritability estimates were identified between male and female PD patients. Common genetic variations on autosomes may not explain the difference in PD prevalence between males and females cases at least in the current sample size under study.
ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Malte Kobelt, Verena R. Sommer, Attila Keresztes, Markus Werkle-Bergner, Myriam C. Sander
Summary: The distinctiveness of neural information representation is crucial for successful memory performance, and declines with advancing age, especially at the level of item representations. Successful memory performance relies on high item stability, which is greater in younger compared to older adults.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Agnieszka Debska, Magdalena Luniewska, Julian Zubek, Katarzyna Chyl, Agnieszka Dynak, Gabriela Dziegiel-Fivet, Joanna Plewko, Katarzyna Jednorog, Anna Grabowska
Summary: The study found that phonological awareness and rapid automatized naming are related to reading abilities, with most children with dyslexia showing deficits in phonological and naming skills, as well as limited implicit learning abilities, while deficiencies in other cognitive domains are relatively rare. It is worth noting that some children with dyslexia do not exhibit the tested cognitive deficits mentioned above.
DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Andrzej Sokolowski, Monika Folkierska-Zukowska, Katarzyna Jednorog, Marek Wypych, Wojciech L. Dragan
Summary: The study found that stress experiences in early and recent life may impact emotion regulation, with different types of stress affecting brain activation differently. Cumulative stress and match/mismatch approaches are both useful for explaining brain activation during emotion reappraisal.
Article
Neurosciences
Monika Riegel, Malgorzata Wierzba, Marek Wypych, Maureen Ritchey, Katarzyna Jednorog, Anna Grabowska, Patrik Vuilleumier, Artur Marchewka
Summary: Recent research has found that the amygdala plays an important role in the reinstatement of emotional memories. Specifically, the amygdala has a stronger impact on the reinstatement of disgust memories. Additionally, differences in memory performance and neural mechanisms were observed, with the amygdala and perirhinal cortex more active during encoding of disgust-related events, and the hippocampus and parahippocampal gyrus more active during encoding of fear-related events.
Article
Education & Educational Research
Magdalena Luniewska, Marta Wojcik, Katarzyna Jednorg
Summary: Recent studies have found that increasing inter-letter spacing does not improve reading performance for dyslexic readers. Whether dyslexic or typical readers, inter-letter spacing does not affect reading accuracy, comprehension, speed, or the number of fixations. However, increasing inter-letter spacing does lead to shorter fixations in dyslexic children, while decreasing inter-letter spacing results in longer fixations for all children. Therefore, these findings do not support the notion that dyslexics are more influenced by visual crowding than age-matched controls.
LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION
(2022)
Article
Neuroimaging
Joachim Kowalski, Marek Wypych, Artur Marchewka, Malgorzata Dragan
Summary: The study found a link between Cognitive-attentional syndrome (CAS) and structural abnormalities in the brain region associated with the regulation of cognition and emotion.
BRAIN IMAGING AND BEHAVIOR
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Monika Riegel, Marek Wypych, Malgorzata Wierzba, Michal Szczepanik, Katarzyna Jednorog, Patrik Vuilleumier, Artur Marchewka
Summary: This study investigates the effects of emotion schema congruency and emotion category on associative memory, using a face-word pair association paradigm combined with fMRI and eye-tracking techniques. The results show that congruency with emotion schemas enhances memory retrieval, with different effects observed for different emotion categories. This suggests a role for semantic processing and visual attention processes in the modulation of memory by disgust and fear.
Article
Psychiatry
Jan Szczypinski, Marek Wypych, Aleksandra Krasowska, Pawel Wisniewski, Maciej Kopera, Hubert Suszek, Artur Marchewka, Andrzej Jakubczyk, Marcin Wojnar
Summary: This study found differences in brain function and behavior between men with and without a history of child sexual abuse related to emotional interference on cognitive processes and inhibition. Men with a history of child sexual abuse showed decreased neural activation and cognitive control processes in response to negative distractors compared to men without such a history and healthy controls.
JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Anna M. Kazmierowska, Michal Szczepanik, Marek Wypych, Dawid Drozdziel, Artur Marchewka, Jaroslaw M. Michalowski, Andreas Olsson, Ewelina Knapska
Summary: Humans often benefit from social cues when learning about the world. This study investigated whether the level of familiarity with the demonstrator plays a role in learning about threats. The findings suggest that social threat learning is independent of the level of familiarity.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
D. Zaremba, M. Kulesza, A. M. Herman, M. Marczak, B. Kossowski, M. Budziszewska, J. M. Michalowski, C. A. Klockner, A. Marchewka, M. Wierzba
Summary: In this study, the researchers conducted 40 semi-structured interviews with highly concerned residents of Poland to explore the emotional response to climate change. They identified a variety of often conflicting emotions and described coping strategies that promoted well-being and sustained engagement in climate action. This research contributes to the understanding of climate-related emotions and their importance in addressing climate change.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Joanna Beck, Gabriela Dziegiel-Fivet, Katarzyna Jednor
Summary: The study compared the integration of letter-speech (LS) associations in blind Braille readers and sighted print readers. Both groups showed activation in the superior temporal cortex (STC) when presented with isolated letters and speech sounds, and enhanced activation when both were presented together. However, the direction of the congruency effect differed between the groups. The findings suggest that the neural mechanisms for audiotactile LS integration may differ between blind and sighted readers, possibly due to differences in reading modalities.
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Malgorzata Wierzba, Monika Riegel, Jan Kocon, Piotr Milkowski, Arkadiusz Janz, Katarzyna Klessa, Konrad Juszczyk, Barbara Konat, Damian Grimling, Maciej Piasecki, Artur Marchewka
Summary: This study introduces a novel dataset of 6000 Polish word meanings manually rated for valence, arousal, and basic emotion categories, providing a reliable resource for research. The dataset includes relevant metadata and can be used for research on multiple languages.
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS
(2022)