Instructional control in choice tasks: The relation between type of schedule and relative expected values.

The present work aims improve our understanding of the boundaries of instructional control. It does so by solving contradictory results obtained on two different fields: Three studies conducted on the description-experience gap field, showing that instructions are neglected when personal experience is available, and several others conducted on the experimental analysis of behavior paradigm getting to the opposite conclusion. Two factors were studied: the type of schedule, and the relative expected values between options.

A dual-process approach to prosocial behavior under COVID-19 uncertainty.

Uncertainty has been shown to reduce the willingness to cooperate in various social dilemmas and negatively affect prosocial behavior. However, some studies showed that uncertainty does not always decrease prosocial behavior, depending on the type of uncertainty. More specifically, recent research has shown that prosocial behavior tends to increase under impact uncertainty-uncertainty about the consequences for others if they become infected.

A dual-process approach to cooperative decision-making under uncertainty.

Cooperative behaviors are typically investigated using social dilemmas inserted into scenarios with well-known characteristics. Nonetheless, in real life, group members may be uncertain about what others will decide (social uncertainty) and the characteristics of the dilemma itself (environmental uncertainty). Previous studies have shown that uncertainty reduces the willingness to cooperate.

Predicting COVID-19 Vaccination Intention: The Determinants of Vaccine Hesitancy.

Do people want to be vaccinated against COVID-19? Herd immunity is dependent on individuals' willingness to be vaccinated since vaccination is not mandatory. Our main goal was to investigate people's intention to be vaccinated and their intentions to vaccinate their children. Moreover, we were interested in understanding the role of the personal characteristics, psychological factors, and the lockdown context on that decision.

Changes in diffusion through the brain extracellular space.

ECS (extracellular space) works as the microenvironment of brain cells. Diffusion through ECS may be described through an effective diffusion coefficient, D (e), which in turn depends on ECS porosity, epsilon, and tortuosity, T. In the present research, diffusion data together with epsilon and T were collected from the specialized literature and analysed to seek a correlation of T versus epsilon.