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["Psychophysiology, Volume 63, Issue 5, May 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nGoal‐directed behavior allows humans to flexibly adjust their actions according to expected outcomes. In the present study (N = 40), we combined behavioral analysis with psychophysiological measures to examine how goal‐directed control unfolds over time. Using a reinforcement‐learning task, we elicited two patterns of responding and examined neural activity preceding two types of responses: The initiation of a response burst and the subsequent responses within that burst. Variability in the readiness potential (RP), a neural marker of action preparation that has been associated with graded goal‐directed engagement, decreased more strongly prior to within‐burst responses than prior to burst initiation. This pattern suggests greater engagement of goal‐directed processes once responding is underway. RP variability was also reduced in behavioral contexts characterized by a higher proportion of within‐burst responses. Across conditions, individuals who produced more within‐burst responses showed stronger neural signatures associated with goal‐directed control. Together, these findings suggest that goal‐directed modulation varies over time within behavioral sequences and that psychophysiological measures can index corresponding variation in action‐outcome sensitivity.\n"]

["Psychophysiology, Volume 63, Issue 5, May 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nExtant research has insufficiently examined how biological adaptations to chronic stress are associated with comorbid depression–anxiety among adolescents from low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). From a network perspective, comorbidity is conceptualized as symptom communities linked by bridge symptoms. Using this framework, we investigated whether allostatic load (AL), a composite indicator of cumulative physiological stress, was associated with differences in depression–anxiety symptom networks among Chinese adolescents with low family socioeconomic status (SES). A total of 485 adolescents with low family SES (54.0% girls; mean age = 12.06 years, SD = 1.67) completed AL assessments at baseline and self‐report measures of depression and anxiety at two time points over 1 year. Participants were stratified into high‐ and low‐AL groups based on biological parameters. Symptom networks were estimated using graphical Gaussian models and cross‐lagged panel networks. While composite symptom scores showed minimal differences between the high‐AL and low‐AL groups, notable differences emerged in network structure. In both groups, depression symptoms exerted strong temporal influence within the comorbidity network. However, anxiety symptoms showed stronger prospective associations with depression symptoms in the high‐AL group than in the low‐AL group. Somatic symptoms, particularly gastrointestinal symptoms, exhibited greater prominence as bridge nodes in the high‐AL network. These findings suggest that higher allostatic load is associated with altered patterns of symptom interrelation between depression and anxiety, particularly involving somatic bridge symptoms. Network analysis provides a fine‐grained, descriptive characterization of how physiological stress burden relates to comorbid symptom dynamics without implying causal mechanisms.\n"]

Space and Culture, Ahead of Print.
This paper employs Lezlie Lowe’s book,No Place To Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs, as a crucial site to examine how restroom facilities have historically perpetuated categorical inequalities based on factors such as race, disability, and ...

Social Studies of Science, Ahead of Print.
Accounts of scientific work at the lab bench largely overlook or sideline the considerable time and effort that scientists devote to the acquisition, management, and dispersal of funding. While multiple studies explore the subject of scientific funding ...

History of Psychiatry, Ahead of Print.
This paper traces the career trajectories of four Irish doctors – Edward Mazière Courtenay, Oscar Woods, Edward Levinge, and James Wallis – all of whom gained early clinical experience in psychological medicine whilst working at the West Riding Asylum in ...

["The Economic History Review, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\nLimited liability company legislation was introduced to the Cape Colony in 1861. An amendment in 1892 led to wider adoption, expanding and diversifying the capital market. Using novel data from the Cape Joint Stock Archive between 1892 and 1902, this paper examines who invested, where capital flowed, and how these patterns shaped firm outcomes across Southern Africa. We show the geographic breadth of the capital market, revealing how shareholders and company operations were dispersed far beyond the Cape. The depth measures shareholders' occupational diversity using Historical International Standard Classifications of Occupations (HISCO) and paid‐up capital. We find investor participation varied systematically by occupation, industry, and location. These preferences influenced firm survival and spatial organization. Shareholders invested at considerable distances from company operations or registered offices, facilitating early forms of managerial separation. Paid‐up capital, a proxy for shareholder depth, was associated with survival, with smaller firms exhibiting shorter lifespans. Formation and failure were closely tied to both local and external economic shocks, underscoring the integration of the Cape economy into wider business cycles. Finally, the Cape illustrates how early commercial law and the organization of private capital may have shaped longer‐run regional economic structures."]

["Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Volume 126, Issue 1, July 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nTo assess the degree of temporal control in the midsession reversal task, pigeons learned a simultaneous discrimination with two stimuli, S1 and S2. Choices of S1 were reinforced on the first 40 trials and choices of S2 on the last 40. Variable intertrial intervals (ITIs) separated the trials. The pigeons learned to reverse preference from S1 to S2 near trial 40. To see if pigeons had learned a temporal discrimination, we either doubled or halved the mean of the ITIs during test sessions. If choices were based on temporal cues, preference should reverse at the same time in the session but on half as many trials into the session when the mean ITI doubled and twice as many trials later when the mean ITI halved. Variable ITIs should reduce generalization decrement and thereby reveal temporal control more clearly. The reversal trial changed in the directions predicted by timing, but the magnitude of the change was smaller than predicted. Most individual choice patterns were consistent with temporal control, but a few were consistent with control by trial number or by the events of the previous trial. Variable ITIs seem to reduce the weight of temporal cues relative to the weight of nontemporal cues.\n"]

["Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Volume 126, Issue 1, July 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nBehavioral economic accounts posit that distorted valuation processes underlie cannabis decisions; however, less is known about the moment‐to‐moment dynamics through which value influences observable choice behavior. This study explored whether value‐based decision‐making and behavioral economic constructs distinguish people with and without cannabis use history. Sixty participants were recruited, half with a history of cannabis use (cannabis group) and half without (control group). Participants completed a value‐based decision‐making task (choosing between previously rated cannabis‐related and cannabis‐unrelated images). A drift‐diffusion model was fitted to behavioral data (choice and response time patterns) to estimate reinforcer‐specific parameters, including evidence accumulation rates and response thresholds. Compared with controls, participants with history of cannabis use had higher cannabis evidence accumulation rates (p = .023). Exploratory analyses revealed higher self‐report cannabis demand across most indices (all except Pmax; ps ≤ .042). However, groups did not differ in cannabis‐unrelated evidence accumulation rates or response thresholds for either decision type (ps ≥ .186). Notably, controls showed higher cannabis‐unrelated than cannabis evidence accumulation rates (p = .001). People with a history of cannabis use ascribe a higher value to cannabis than those without such history, who in turn value cannabis less than alternative reinforcers—a pattern consistent with behavioral economic accounts of addiction.\n"]

["Psychophysiology, Volume 63, Issue 5, May 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nDecreased cognitive control, encompassing processes like response inhibition and error processing, has been identified as a potential neurocognitive risk factor for psychopathology. Although electroencephalography (EEG) shows promise as a cost‐effective and high temporal resolution method for linking brain function to behavior, large‐scale EEG research to realize this potential remains limited. In this study, a population‐based sample of 2994 adolescents and emerging adults (Mage = 18.4 years, range 16–21 years) was utilized to first assess reliability of EEG markers of cognitive control (ERN/Pe, No‐Go N2/P3) measured during a Go/No‐Go task. This involved computing split‐half reliability, Cronbach's Alpha (CA) and Pearson's correlations for an increasing number of error/No‐Go trials. Given the low‐density setup, our analyses focused on the electrode locations FCz and Cz. Moderate reliability (split‐half reliability and CA ≥ 0.6) was obtained with a minimum of 9/10 errors for ERN, 7 errors for Pe, and 15 No‐Go trials for No‐Go N2/P3. Second, linear regression models were used to estimate univariate and multivariate associations between child and family characteristics and EEG parameters (ERN/Pe, No‐Go N2/P3 and midfrontal theta power). We report robust associations between higher Full Scale IQ estimate and larger Pe, No‐Go P3 and midfrontal theta power. Maternal education and household income showed a similar association, but seemed partly explained by Full Scale IQ estimate. Smaller No‐Go P3 was observed in participants with a migration background. Finally, larger ERN and No‐Go N2 were observed in female as compared to male participants. These findings highlight the importance of considering these variables in the design and analysis of future EEG studies in adolescent and emerging adult populations. In conclusion, this study highlights the feasibility of incorporating EEG into large‐scale population‐based research, even with relatively short task duration. Importantly, researchers should balance higher reliability against retaining more participants and minimizing potential bias.\n"]

Theory, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print.
This article explores the lessons for antiracism provided by Édouard Glissant’s philosophy of language. The late Martinican scholar (1928–2011) writes extensively about language in correspondence to core concepts in his thought, in particular Relation, ...

Journal of Family History, Ahead of Print.
This study examines how rising marriage expenses in the late Ottoman Empire became a socio-legal problem and analyzes subsequent reform proposals. Based on the Hacı Adil Bey Papers, the research focuses on the views of Zekeriya Zihni Bey and Süleyman ...

European Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print.
COVID-19 compelled people to seek new ways to get by during a stressful time. In this study, I explain how Palestinians in Gaza used digital storytelling to survive a stressful situation by leaning on community and finding joy in the simple things. They ...

["Psychophysiology, Volume 63, Issue 5, May 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nHypervigilance usually refers to the enhancement of external attention in an effort to scan and detect potential threats in the environment. Yet, whether this affective state could also influence internal attention or the ability to switch between external and internal attention (i.e., attentional balance) remains unclear. Recent studies have shown that attentional balance is characterized by internal dominance, raising the intriguing possibility that hypervigilance might alter attentional balance rather than merely boosting external attention. To test this hypothesis, we recorded behavioral, EEG, and eye‐tracking data from 46 participants performing the Switching Attention Task (SAT) under hypervigilance versus two other control conditions. The SAT has previously been validated to explore attentional balance. Hypervigilance was induced during the SAT through a task‐unrelated aversive sound played unpredictably, and its induction was confirmed by skin conductance, subjective ratings, and eye fixation data. At the behavioral level, using a drift diffusion model, we found that hypervigilance impaired attentional balance during the SAT, by decreasing the shielding of internal attention. Interestingly, we found that this impairment was captured by an amplitude modulation of the P2 event‐related potential. A joint modeling approach further confirmed this specific brain‐behavior association. Together, these findings suggest that hypervigilance modulates attentional balance through a selective modulation of internal attention.\n"]

International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print.
This study investigates how hip-hop songs and memes operated as cultural and political alternative expressions during the July 2024 mass uprising in Bangladesh. The student-led movement, initially focused on quota fairness and accountability, evolved into ...

["The Economic History Review, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\nThis paper investigates how kinship and professional networks shaped labour market outcomes in the guild‐based labour market of early modern Genoa. Using a newly constructed dataset of more than 8,000 apprenticeship contracts (1451–1530), I examine the extent to which family and guild connections influenced apprentices' chances of attaining mastership. Using a probabilistic record‐linkage strategy to reconstruct individual career trajectories, I show that apprentices embedded in kinship or guild networks were substantially more likely to become masters. These advantages operated through multiple channels, including shorter apprenticeship contracts and greater flexibility in training careers, and persisted even during periods of economic contraction, suggesting that apprenticeship in Genoa combined formally open access to training with strong informal mechanisms that structured advancement within skilled trades. The findings contribute to debates on the role of guilds and social networks in pre‐industrial labour markets, highlighting how institutions could simultaneously support skill formation and reproduce inequality."]

Journal of Contemporary History, Ahead of Print.
This article examines the politics of the Mexican power industry between 1949, when the World Bank made its first major loan to a developing country, and 1954, when the loan project came to an end. By analyzing Mexico's largest power company, Mexican ...

French Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print.
RésuméLe secteur éditorial de la littérature jeunesse constitue un domaine majeur des industries culturelles à destination des enfants. Pourtant, en France, les travaux scientifiques se sont concentrés sur l’analyse littéraire ou didactique de ses ...

Journal of Contemporary History, Ahead of Print.
This article examines the strategic deployment of Christian themes in Nazi propaganda aimed at Latin American Catholics during the Second World War. In contrast to the regime's fraught relationship with Christianity in Europe, Nazi propagandists adopted a ...

History of the Human Sciences, Ahead of Print.
In 1972, psychologist Jerome Kagan boldly proclaimed that research he had recently conducted on the Maya of Guatemala would overturn the most cherished assumption in his field of child development. He insisted that early deprivation did not doom a child ...

["Psychophysiology, Volume 63, Issue 5, May 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nSelective internal attention allows working memory (WM) contents to be prioritized according to task demands, a process typically investigated with the retro‐cue paradigm. In this paradigm, a cue presented during WM maintenance indicates which item will be tested, enabling memory‐based prioritization of task‐relevant and typically enhancing memory performance. Recent findings suggest, however, that saccade preparation toward the location of a WM item can also produce prioritization linked to oculomotor selection. In the present study, we compared behavioral performance and neural oscillatory dynamics associated with action‐oriented prioritization induced by saccade preparation and memory‐based prioritization elicited by spatial and color retro‐cues. Behaviorally, saccade‐based prioritization produced only a modest benefit relative to incongruent items, whereas both types of retro‐cues yielded substantially larger improvements. At the neural level, alpha‐band lateralization showed a similar spatial‐attention pattern across all prioritization conditions, supporting a shared covert attentional mechanism. In contrast, bilateral posterior alpha power was reduced following retro‐cues compared to saccadic preparation, consistent with a release of WM load when non‐cued items are deprioritized. Overall, our results suggest that these forms of prioritization may rely on overlapping spatial‐attention processes, but differ in strategic control and their consequences for load management. Importantly, retro‐cue‐based prioritization produces a stronger behavioral enhancement than prioritization associated with saccade preparation.\n"]

["Sociology Lens, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nSince the 1980s, caste associations in Maharashtra have re‐emerged as interest groups and as critical sites of identity reconstitution in response to social and economic transformations. This article examines the contemporary articulations of Maratha identity through the case of the Maratha Seva Sangh (MSS), a prominent caste association. Focusing on the structure, discourse, and strategies of MSS, it analyzes how the association addresses the dual questions of “Who is Maratha?” and “What is to be Maratha?”. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and MSS's published material, the article argues that MSS adopts a distinctly non‐Brahmin ideological stance seeking to redefine Maratha identity amid sociopolitical contestations, including economic decline, growing Dalit and Bahujan critiques, and weakening caste cohesion. In doing so, the article contributes to broader debates on caste, identity‐making, and the evolving role of caste associations in contemporary India.\n"]

French Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print.
In 1946, French film director Julien Duvivier was invited by the popular film magazineCinémondeto write a series of weekly columns and give his anonymous views on current filmmaking policy in France and the role of the popular film critic and rate new ...

European Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print.
The violence that Palestinians experience in their everyday lives has been the subject of Palestinian as well as non-Palestinian artists for several decades. In this article, we explore the work of contemporary Palestinian cartoonist and graphic artist ...

["Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\nRecently, Australian historians have increasingly uncovered the lives and accomplishments of nineteenth and early twentieth‐century businesswomen, who ran their establishments in a time when legal strictures restricting their financial autonomy could disguise or suggest a lack of involvement in such roles. These scholars also resist historiographies that emphasise men as the minds and money behind business ventures and demonstrate women were regularly driving forces behind commercial endeavours, both large and small, not just in Australasia but across the world. This article examines businesswomen at a specific type of site in nineteenth‐ and twentieth‐century Brisbane—the arcade. While often represented purely as customers, women also comprised a significant number of entrepreneurs who owned, ran and invested in businesses located in arcades. They ranged from milliners and dressmakers to tearoom proprietors and palmists, from nurses' agents to owners of the arcades themselves. Tracing the lives of three such women in Brisbane's Grand Arcade during the 1880s to 1920s, this article explores their lives and business interests—before, during and after their time operating there. It utilises biography as a method to explore business history and how life events influenced women's entrepreneurship in the city in this period. While each of these women came from very different backgrounds and had diverse future trajectories, locating them at a single site highlights some of the key issues for women entrepreneurs, not only in Brisbane but across Australasia and the globe.\n"]

Theory, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print.
Despite decades of feminist critique, historical realism retains a powerful hold on historiography, sustained not only by disciplinary convention but by the imaginative investments that realist norms simultaneously require and disavow. This article argues ...

Theory, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print.
Jalal Al-e Ahmad was an Iranian public intellectual and writer, best known for his concise, modern prose and bold critique. One of his works was a famous monograph on what he termedwestoxication. This article addresses the question: can this concept be ...

Public Understanding of Science, Ahead of Print.
People often reject scientific evidence that is at odds with their previous beliefs. Here, we examine the role of threat in such motivated science rejection and whether affirmations in science communication can effectively reduce threat, thereby ...

Journal of Urban History, Ahead of Print.
The 1980s witnessed the rise of new protest movements across Europe, often influenced by punk and anarchism. While activism often ended in violent confrontations, contentious resistance was less prevalent in Sweden, where activists established and ...

Journal of Contemporary History, Ahead of Print.
Poland was not the first country in communist Eastern Europe to reach for support from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to overcome its sovereign debt crisis. Poland was first, however, to experience the deep tensions between Western calls for ...

History of the Human Sciences, Ahead of Print.
This article reexamines Frank Ramsey's interest in Freudian psychoanalysis, seeking to understand how it makes sense with his behaviorist legacy which prioritized observable behavior rather than human depth. I analyze the private notes the English ...

["The Economic History Review, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\nWhen studying French prices between 1938 and 1949, economists and historians face a paradox: whilst a vast black market shaped daily life, official indices recorded only state‐controlled prices. This article addresses the issue by introducing a new consumer price index that incorporates both official and black market prices. Drawing on extensive new data, it quantifies black market activity and estimates household reliance on it. As a result, the price dynamics have been considerably under‐evaluated between 1940 and 1944, and equally considerably over‐evaluated between 1944 and 1948. The index reshapes our understanding of price dynamics by challenging the common narrative that the Vichy regime successfully tamed wartime inflation whilst the postwar democratic regime failed to control it. Instead, the apparent postwar acceleration of inflation is revealed as a statistical illusion. Consequently, we show that real wages dropped dramatically during the German Occupation of France, which proves much more consistent with contemporary testimonies.\n"]

["The Economic History Review, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\nIn recent years economic inequality has become a major research topic in economic history. However, much remains to be done to complete our knowledge of long‐term distributive dynamics. This article highlights several promising avenues for future research, focusing on the preindustrial period. In particular, it identifies the main gaps that still need to be filled in reconstructions of wealth and income distributions; it argues for a closer interaction between scholars working on economic inequality and those working on historical gross domestic product (GDP); and it highlights socio‐economic mobility as a closely related, but much less explored, research area. Shifting the focus from inequality to mobility, and more generally considering how human agency helped shape the aggregate long‐term dynamics we observe, requires examining individual actors and their specific motivations more closely. This is especially true for the socio‐economic elites who, when faced with a perceived threat of status loss, could attempt to capture political institutions, thus securing their control over valuable public resources, whilst at the same time acting as ‘enemies of mobility’. The article also highlights how this kind of research speaks directly to current societal concerns.\n"]

["The Economic History Review, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\nTo persuade creditors to lend, cities in the Low Countries relied on a community responsibility system that made all citizens personally liable for public debt. This exposed itinerant citizens to significant risks: their merchandise could be confiscated by creditors, and they could even be imprisoned for debt. Although it is usually difficult to assess how such sanctions were enforced in practice, this study examines a unique account of a group of creditors actively pursuing repayment. Their principal debt collector was a monk of the Carthusian order who travelled tirelessly throughout the Lower Rhine region in search of inhabitants of the county of Holland. This monk‐turned‐bounty‐hunter primarily targeted merchants and their goods but also sought to seize financial instruments and real estate owned by Hollanders. Whilst existing literature emphasizes reputation‐based mechanisms to explain polities’ access to credit, this evidence suggests that sanction‐based mechanisms were equally important: reprisals proved effective in recovering debts. Considering that the community responsibility system exposed merchants to sanctions, its survival into the early modern period is quite striking. I argue that the creation of public debt secured political and economic privileges that cities valued more highly than the safety of their merchants.\n"]

Public Understanding of Science, Ahead of Print.

["Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\nThis article re‐examines an economic treaty concluded between Spain and the Sulu Sultanate in 1836. Analysing the Tausug (Jawi) and Spanish treaty versions alongside archival sources from Spain, the Philippines, and England, it traces the impact of indigenous agency beyond the formal signatories on economic and political transformations. Exploring marginal groups, such as the Sama and Chinese, the study situates the treaty within a resurgent Sulu economy against the backdrop of declining Spanish control in the Philippines, thereby offering fresh insights into the role of diplomatic practices, negotiations, and regional networks in the commercial dynamics of Southeast Asia's ‘Sulu Zone’.\n"]

Space and Culture, Ahead of Print.
This article explores how graffiti removal practices—often seen as mundane concealing tasks—can produce visually compelling outcomes that are reminiscent of what they attempt to erase. These unintended visual outcomes, marked by awkward color patches, ...

["Psychophysiology, Volume 63, Issue 5, May 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nEmotional meaning is often conveyed through language, and certain word categories, such as taboo words, can elicit strong affective responses that may require regulation. While taboo words are socially and psychologically salient, their neural processing remains to be fully explored. In this study, we investigated whether EEG signals can be used to predict neutral, negative, and taboo words, and whether this prediction is preserved under conditions of emotion regulation. Forty native Italian speakers viewed 240 words across these categories while EEG was recorded. Participants completed two conditions: a Look condition (passive observation) and an Accept condition (emotion regulation via acceptance). Using support vector machine (SVM) classifiers applied to event‐related potentials (ERPs), we found that word categories could be reliably decoded from the late positive potential (LPP) in central‐parietal‐occipital and anterior right regions between 450 and 850 ms. Notably, classification remained above chance but largely reduced even during the Accept condition, suggesting that word‐related affective information persists at the neural level despite the regulation effort. These findings advance our understanding of emotional language processing and highlight the utility of machine learning for decoding subtle neural representations.\n"]

["Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Volume 125, Issue 3, May 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nThe present study evaluated the efficacy of a classwide appetitive Pavlovian conditioning protocol implemented in two inclusive kindergarten classrooms. Each classroom enrolled similar distributions of typically developing children and children who were either eligible for special education services or diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Two Pavlovian conditioning trials (CS+ ➔ US) and two unpaired trials (CS‐ ➔ no US) per day were superimposed on normal classroom activities at random times. Conditioned responses (i.e., positive emotional responding and attention directed to the CS) were recorded during the CS+ and CS‐ events. In both classrooms—one in which the teacher verbally specified the Pavlovian contingency and one in which they did not—the CS+ evoked significantly more of both conditioned responses in typically developing children. Children with developmental disabilities showed significantly more CS+‐evoked attention, but the effect size was smaller than among typically developing children. The CS+ did not evoke significantly more positive emotional responding in the children with developmental disabilities unless the teacher verbally specified the CS+ ➔ US contingency. Such procedural refinements may be important if a therapeutic appetitive CS is to influence adaptive operant behavior via, for example, conditioned reinforcement or Pavlovian‐to‐instrumental transfer in children with developmental disabilities.\n"]

["The Economic History Review, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\n\nSubstantial amounts of British capital flowed to Latin America during the first era of globalization. Companies financed by this capital were typically headquartered in the United Kingdom, but operated thousands of miles away. This paper asks how this geographic separation between governance and business activities affected the valuation of these firms. We show that companies headquartered in London and operating in Latin America did not outperform British companies, but were riskier. We find that the location of the headquarters played a more important role than the location of operations. Stock prices tended to fluctuate in line with other equities based in the United Kingdom, suggesting that they were still regarded as being, at least partially, British companies.\n\n"]

["Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Volume 125, Issue 3, May 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nResearchers have found significant utility in approaching choice from a behavioral economics lens. Recently, this framework has begun to be extended to describe and predict clinical‐ethical choices. Researchers have found that common behavioral economics effects occur with clinical‐ethical choice at the group level (e.g., framing effects, effort discounting, delay discounting, and probability discounting) and the individual level (e.g., probability discounting with specific outcomes). However, past research examining clinical‐ethical outcomes through the behavioral economics lens has used experimental preparations that differ from those commonly used in discounting research with other commodities. Thus, the current exploratory study sought to use adjusting‐amount procedures commonly employed in discounting work to examine the sign effect in ethical probability discounting; the commodity effect between monetary and ethical outcomes; and correlations among rates of monetary discounting, ethical discounting, and ethical theory preference as measured via an exploratory, ethical multiple‐stimulus‐without‐replacement procedure. We observed monetary outcomes discounted more steeply than ethical outcomes, ethical violations discounted more steeply than ethical compliance, no significant correlations among discounting tasks, and no significant correlations between ethical theory preference and ethical discounting. The present work further demonstrates the presence of behavioral economics effects with ethical decision making. However, choice with ethical outcomes may not easily be predicted by choice with other commodities, measures in behavioral economics, or ethical theory preference. Despite these findings, many limitations remained, primarily centered on whether procedures common to behavioral economic analyses with other commodities are adequate for use when studying clinical‐ethical decision making. Moving forward, alternative preparations to study ethical decision making may be needed.\n"]

["Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Volume 125, Issue 3, May 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nThe behavioral theory of timing (BeT), developed by Killeen and Fetterman in 1988, accounts for the performance of animals on many timing tasks using sequences of adjunctive behaviors rather than internal clocks and related cognitive mechanisms as its explanatory principle. The idea that timing was mediated by behavior or, perhaps more correctly, sensations arising from behavior, was in fact proposed in the 19th century by Munsterberg. The article describes some of Munsterberg's work and research that followed it, notably Curtis's extensive study from 1916 of “strains and relaxations” experienced by her participants while they performed a variety of time judgement tasks. An unresolved question both for BeT and the earlier work is deciding whether the behaviors observed, which are found to occur reliably, are necessary for timing tasks to be carried out or are epiphenomenal to other underlying timing mechanisms.\n"]

["Psychophysiology, Volume 63, Issue 5, May 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nNeural oscillations are fundamental for encoding, filtering, and integrating sensory information, representing a core computational principle underlying perceptual experience. In particular, fluctuations in alpha (~7–13 Hz) and theta (~4–7 Hz) activity are associated with changes in cortical excitability and rhythmic modulations of perception. These oscillations are not static features but are highly plastic and can be shaped through neural entrainment, whereby brain rhythms synchronize with external rhythmic sensory stimulation. While short‐duration (~0.5–5 s) stimulation induces transient (~500 ms), localized entrainment effects, it remains unclear whether prolonged entrainment can produce persistent and spatially widespread modulations in ongoing neural activity. Here, we recorded resting‐state EEG before and after 1 min of visual rhythmic stimulation at individualized alpha (individual alpha frequency, IAF; IAF −2 Hz; IAF +2 Hz) and theta (4.5 Hz) frequencies. We assessed frequency‐specific and topographic effects by comparing alpha (7–13 Hz) and theta (3–6 Hz) power, frequency, and phase coherence before and after stimulation. Our results show that prolonged visual entrainment induces sustained increases in alpha power and phase coherence, persisting throughout the 1‐min post‐stimulation period without changes in frequency. Stimulation at IAF induced stronger modulations of intrinsic alpha oscillations than other frequencies, extending bilaterally from posterior to central and anterior regions. In contrast, theta stimulation increased phase consistency but did not induce persistent changes in theta power, suggesting no sustained modulation of endogenous theta activity. Together, these findings provide evidence that prolonged visual entrainment can induce long‐lasting and spatially distributed modulations of resting‐state alpha oscillations, particularly when stimulation is tuned to the brain's intrinsic resonant frequency. This highlights the frequency‐specific nature of neural responsiveness and the potential of rhythmic sensory stimulation to induce long‐lasting changes in large‐scale brain oscillatory networks.\n"]

["Sociology Lens, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis article analyses the cycle of social and political conflict that unfolded in Chile in the early twentieth century. It focuses on the uncertainty‐rich phase of 1918–1925 as a critical juncture that opened competing institutional pathways. Leaning on democratization studies and on Polanyi's double movement approach, the article conceptualizes capitalist dislocation as a main trigger of the crisis and of the emerging protective demands from that period. This perspective is introduced an analytical framework for examining Chilean specific democratic pathway. Empirically, the study draws on case study method. In that line, and in order to gain deeper understanding of political conflict debates of the period a systematic qualitative analysis of press debates across ideologically diverse outlets (1918–1925), complemented by secondary scholarship extending from the late nineteenth century to the late 1930s.\n"]

["Sociology Lens, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis study analyses the demographic trends at the Hugo Awards, with a focus on the authors' genders, languages, nationalities, and uses of pseudonyms. This research uses publicly available information published by the World Science Fiction Society and the Hugo Awards to determine demographic trends in nominated and winning authors for the Best Novel category over 7 decades. Several years of controversies around manipulation of the voting, and how these controversies themselves reflect and represent social changes, have also been considered. This analysis shows that trends for some of the demographic features of authors have changed significantly over the decades and done so largely in line with corresponding societal changes and changes to the publishing industry and science fiction. However, some demographic categories have remained stable over the years, despite external sociocultural and changes and changes to the operation of the awards themselves. The changes in demographic trends at the Hugo Awards observed in this paper have been slow, inconsistent, and met with multiple occasions of backlash.\n"]

["Sociology Lens, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nIn the twentieth century, academic concerns about changes in the racial demographics of the United States emanated from the potential crisis of settler colonial decline. In their references to previous empires, stories of contact between people groups, and changes in demographics, settler scholars worked to provide solutions to the ever‐present threat of racial difference. Two variants of eugenic responses aimed to predict the relationship between people(s) and the empire‐state. Early US sociology was central to these efforts. Scholars trained at the University of Chicago combined eugenic ideas with settler colonial ideologies of Indigenous erasure and elimination. They worked for the empire‐state as social scientists tasked with predicting the stability of the empire through notions of race. They argued for laws and programs that either criminalized interracial unions or promoted racial amalgamation. Seemingly contradictory strategies shared an ideology that the greatest crisis was the instability of the empire‐state. The impetus for eugenic projects, that states that not only rule over populations but can and should work to produce a certain kind of population amenable and useful to state rule, is still with us today.\n"]

Theory, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print.
More-than-human metabolic processes increasingly constitute the locus of contemporary biopower, often responding to industrially-altered biogeochemical cycles. We conceptualise ‘metabolo-politics’ to examine the targeting of bodies and populations via ...

Theory, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print.
We are fascinated by the abnormal, transgressive, and irresolvable. Apart from zombies and other horrific tropes, there are also literary figures that are both obscene and enticing. We focus on the Marquis de Sade, whose macabre fictions continue to ...

Theory, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print.
This article focuses on the politics of use and pollution (due to both light and debris) of the night sky as an environmental commons and discusses the fraught postcolonial dynamics of accessing and occupying orbits. It establishes a dialogue between the ...

Space and Culture, Ahead of Print.
This article argues that contemporary urban, domestic, and digital environments function as interconnected micro-architectures of neoliberal self-optimization, shaping everyday practices of self-monitoring and self-governance. Rather than treating space ...

Memory Studies, Ahead of Print.
This article focuses on how consumer platforms normalize forgetting by design through three widely integrated features: Microsoft Recall (over-capture), Google Ask Photos (curated retrieval), and Apple Journal (preemptive guidance). It develops a ...