Languages tend to encode events from the perspective of agents, placing them first and in
simpler forms than patients. This agent bias is mirrored by cognition: Agents are more …

Working dogs are prevalent throughout our societies, assisting people in diverse contexts,
from explosives detection and livestock herding, to therapy partners. Our scientific …

People spend a substantial portion of their lives engaged in conversation, and yet, our
scientific understanding of conversation is still in its infancy. Here, we introduce a large …

The dominant paradigm of experiments in the social and behavioral sciences views an
experiment as a test of a theory, where the theory is assumed to generalize beyond the …

A leading developmental psychologist proposes an evolutionary pathway to human
psychological agency. Nature cannot build organisms biologically prepared for every …

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Studying animal behaviour allows us to understand how different species and individuals
navigate their physical and social worlds. Video coding of behaviour is considered a gold …

Humans and chimpanzees last shared a common ancestor about 5 to 6 million years ago.
Single-nucleotide substitutions occur at a mean rate of 1.23% between copies of the human …

Le domaine de la recherche sur la petite enfance fait face à un défi d'envergure: certaines
questions exigent des échantillons qui sont tout simplement trop volumineux pour un …

Over the past 50 years there has been a strong interest in applying eye-tracking techniques
to study a myriad of questions related to human and nonhuman primate psychological …