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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Luke Taylor
Summary: Researchers administering shots to politicians and their family members, in violation of trial regulations, have sparked public outrage and damaged trust.
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Forestry
Negar Rezaie, Ettore D'Andrea, Andrea Scartazza, Jozica Gricar, Peter Prislan, Carlo Calfapietra, Alberto Battistelli, Stefano Moscatello, Simona Proietti, Giorgio Matteucci
Summary: Non-structural carbohydrates (NSCs) are the main carbon reserves in plants and play a crucial role in plant functioning and resilience. This study evaluated the long-term dynamics of NSCs in mature tree stem and root, and found synchronous inter-annual dynamics between radial growth and reserve allocation. It also showed a long-term trade-off between growth and reserve pool, with trees preferentially allocating carbon towards reserves in case of reduced carbon source.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
William J. Brady, Killian McLoughlin, Tuan N. Doan, Molly J. Crockett
Summary: Moral outrage is widespread on online social networks, and social learning processes amplify these expressions over time. Positive social feedback increases the likelihood of future outrage expressions, while users also conform their expressions to the norms of their social networks. Norm learning overshadows reinforcement learning when normative information is readily observable, especially in ideologically extreme networks.
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Environmental Sciences
Nicholas Battista, Manikantam G. Gaddam, Christina L. Hamlet, Alexander P. Hoover, Laura A. Miller, Arvind Santhanakrishnan
Summary: Upside-down jellyfish, commonly found in warm and shallow parts of the oceans, have a unique feeding mechanism where they rest upside down against the substrate. The presence of the substrate enhances the generation of jets and increases the volume of water sampled during each pulse.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2022)
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Neurosciences
Alaina M. Jaster, Javier Gonzalez-Maeso
Summary: This study successfully designed a new drug with dual effects of antipsychotic and antidepressant by combining X-ray crystallography, medicinal chemistry, and behavioral pharmacology.
NATURE NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
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Ethics
Emilian Mihailov, Cristina Voinea, Constantin Vica
Summary: Moral outrage can be both corrosive and motivating, shaping collective action. This article explores the dual nature of online moral outrage, its impact on social divisions, and its contribution to inclusive moral reform. The authors argue that the violation of different types of moral norms elicit varying levels of antagonism, with harm-based norms being less antagonistic compared to loyalty and purity/identity norms. The article identifies the factors in social media platforms that influence moral outrage expression, such as connectivity, omniculturalism, online exposure, group identification, and expressionist experiences. Lastly, the authors propose redesigning social media platforms to address the issue of moral disillusionment when online moral protest fails to yield expected offline effects.
SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ETHICS
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Business, Finance
Yu Ma, Zhiqian Luan
Summary: The evaluation of Bitcoin's fundamental value is challenging due to the absence of an underlying company or cashflow. This paper highlights the importance of investors' behavior in asset pricing, particularly for a speculative instrument like Bitcoin. The study reveals that high upside volatility of Bitcoin, as indicated by Ethereum synchronicity, significantly increases Bitcoin crash risk.
FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
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Psychology, Experimental
Julian De Freitas, Mina Cikara
Summary: When it comes to programming and policy-making for autonomous vehicles, considerations should be given to public moral outrage and a tendency towards egalitarianism, avoiding biased choices.
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Environmental Sciences
Malte Ostendarp, Julia Plewka, Jenny Flathmann, Arjen Tilstra, Yusuf C. El-Khaled, Christian Wild
Summary: The upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea has a high regenerative capacity, with its umbrella fragments able to fully regenerate and even grow new body structures such as rhopalia and oral arms. This outstanding regenerative ability may contribute to the success of Cassiopea in (sub-) tropical coastal habitats.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2022)
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Psychology, Social
Hank Rothgerber, Daniel L. Rosenfeld, Savannah Keiffer, Kristen Crable, Annika Yeske, Lila Berger, Peyton Camp, Kirsten Smith, Olivia Fischer, Aryn Head
Summary: Many meat-eaters experience cognitive dissonance when aware of the contradiction between their eating behaviors and moral values. Expressing moral outrage at third-party transgressors can reduce guilt, enhance self-rated moral character, and help preserve moral identity among meat-eaters.
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE
(2022)
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Psychology, Social
Aaron J. Moss, Rachel D. Budd, M. Annelise Blanchard, Laurie T. O'Brien
Summary: People have a positive impression of those who respond to confrontation by acknowledging their personal prejudice, seeing them as warmer, more moral, and ironically, less prejudiced than those who deny. Regardless of the type of prejudice or individual characteristics, acknowledging prejudice is perceived as more appropriate and less typical than denying. Evidence from multiple experiments shows that acknowledging signals a learning orientation, resulting in more positive impressions.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jeff Tollefson
Summary: By mainstreaming fringe ideas, former US President Trump demonstrated new and dangerous techniques for manipulating social and mass media.
Editorial Material
Environmental Sciences
Natalia B. B. Lopez-Figueroa
Summary: Natalia Lopez-Figueroa explains the use of upside-down jellyfish populations as bioindicators for coastal water quality.
NATURE REVIEWS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
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Engineering, Biomedical
Brian D. Holt, Anne M. Arnold, Stefanie A. Sydlik
Summary: Testing cytocompatibility of 2D nanocarbon materials like graphene oxide needs to consider the impact of settling on experimental results. Despite colloidal stability, functional graphene materials still experience significant gravitational settling, leading to a blanket effect that reduces cell viability.
ADVANCED HEALTHCARE MATERIALS
(2021)
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Psychology, Biological
William J. Brady, Killian L. McLoughlin, Mark P. Torres, Kara F. F. Luo, Maria Gendron, M. J. Crockett
Summary: As individuals and political leaders increasingly interact in online social networks, there is a tendency for social media users to overperceive the level of moral outrage felt by others, leading to an inflation of beliefs about intergroup hostility. Researchers conducted a Twitter field survey and found that observers systematically overperceive moral outrage in authors, inferring more intense moral outrage experiences from messages than the authors themselves reported. This overperception of moral outrage has the potential to distort our understanding of moral and political attitudes.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2023)
