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["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"]

["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\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"]

["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\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"]

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

["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"]

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 ...

["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"]

["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"]

["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"]

["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"]

["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"]

["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"]

["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\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 article investigates the cyclical return of authoritarianism in Iran between 1906 and 1925. The theoretical foundation of this study lies in the concept of political modernity. The central argument is that the dynamics of political modernity transition Iranian society from an authoritarian regime toward a phase of democratic consolidation. In this process, the authoritarian regime is overthrown, initiating a democratic transition. However, after a brief period, the process of political modernity is disrupted during the phase of democratic consolidation, leading to a gradual return to authoritarianism. Based on empirical evidence, it is argued that Iran experienced both the failure to consolidate political modernity and the reemergence of authoritarianism in 1908 and 1925. Theoretically, the cycle of authoritarianism is explained through the framework of multiple conjunctural causality. This study employs a historical‐comparative method, integrating both within‐case and causal analysis. It concludes with the proposition that whenever institutional structures are suspended, authoritarian actors subjugate civil society to state dominance, constitutional individual and civic rights are ignored, and external actors interfere negatively, radical agents mobilize society toward the collapse of the incumbent regime.\n"]

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 ...

["Psychophysiology, Volume 63, Issue 5, May 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nNatural scenes are typically well‐categorized in meaning and efficiently recognized, even under perceptually degraded conditions. The present study investigated whether the perceptual quality of a retrieval cue influences the long‐term reconsolidation of visual memory. Participants were initially exposed to a series of images varying in emotional content. After a short delay, they completed an intermediate recognition memory test in which previously seen (“old”) and novel (“new”) images were presented in either a blurred or intact format. One week later, participants performed a final recognition task involving only intact old images—some of which had been tested previously (as blurred or intact), and others not tested at all. Recognition performance was generally enhanced for old pictures that had been previously tested, relative to non‐tested pictures, with a greater benefit observed for images tested in intact form. Although emotional images were overall better remembered than neutral images, the benefit of testing with intact cues was more pronounced for neutral than for emotional pictures. Event‐related potentials during the final task revealed a larger late positive component (LPC) for correctly recognized old versus new images, regardless of prior testing or emotional content. These findings suggest that recognition memory for natural scenes—while already robust—can be further strengthened through a single re‐presentation within an active retrieval context. Critically, the perceptual quality of the retrieval cue plays a key role, likely by promoting continued visual processing. Implications are discussed in relation to desirable difficulty and global/local processing theories in scene perception and memory.\n"]

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Memory Studies, Ahead of Print.
This study explores memory activism and emotion during the 1989 Romanian Revolution, addressing a gap in existing memory studies on this event. Drawing on 60 video interviews with participants in the revolution, the study uses a deductive approach to ...

Journal of Contemporary History, Ahead of Print.
This article explores the emotional regimes and refuges developed by male inmates in Nazi concentration camps (KL), focusing on Dachau, Mauthausen and Sachsenhausen. Drawing on survivor testimonies and memoirs, it argues that the SS imposed a top-down ...

["Psychophysiology, Volume 63, Issue 5, May 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nDespite concerns regarding its validity, the two‐alternative forced‐choice heartbeat detection task (2AFC‐HDT) is a frequently used measure of cardiac interoceptive accuracy. In this task, participants must decide whether a series of tones occur synchronously with their heartbeats. One series of tones is predefined by the researcher as synchronous with heartbeats, and one series is predefined as asynchronous. The 2AFC‐HDT may result in individuals judged to be not interoceptive when they are, either if participants perceive their heartbeats as occurring synchronously with tones predefined as asynchronous rather than synchronous with their heartbeats, or if they do not perceive either set of tones as synchronous. Currently, there is little data on the proportion of participants this may affect. We addressed this using data from the Phase Adjustment Task (PAT) – a measure of cardiac interoceptive accuracy that determines if, and when in the cardiac cycle, a participant can perceive their heartbeat. The timing of heartbeat perception in 43 interoceptive participants was compared to the timing of synchronous and asynchronous tones used in the 2AFC‐HDT, assuming temporal precision of 50, 100, and 150 ms. Results suggest that between 53.5%–97.7% of delay‐based interoceptive individuals perceive heartbeats at a delay that does not correspond to the typical asynchronous or synchronous delays used to present tones on the 2AFC‐HDT. These issues suggest that the 2AFC‐HDT (or other measures that make assumptions about perceived timing of heartbeats) should not be used to measure cardiac interoceptive accuracy, or cardiac interoceptive insight (also known as awareness or metacognition).\n"]

["Sociology Lens, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nUnderstanding how vegetation is perceived, named and valued requires attention to the social positions from which these perceptions are produced. This article analyses vegetation perception from different social positions based on qualitative research conducted in the province of Jaén (Andalusia, Spain), a Mediterranean landscape characterized by high plant diversity and the predominance of olive cultivation. Drawing on discussion groups with the general population and in‐depth interviews with experts, the study applies sociological discourse analysis to identify patterns of vegetation perception and recognition. The results show that experts and the general population share references to a limited set of socially prominent species, but differ markedly in how vegetation is classified, prioritized and interpreted. Expert discourses rely on technical and ecological classifications, whereas those of the general population are shaped by everyday experience, social uses, memory and sensory recognition. These differences vary systematically according to social position, life trajectories and forms of practical engagement with the plant environment. The study highlights the existence of multiple forms of plant recognition and underscores the contribution of sociological approaches to understanding biodiversity perception and informing more socially attuned environmental management strategies.\n"]

["Sociology Lens, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis article traces the transformation of global development from a discourse of aspirational equality to a regime of posthumanitarian militarism. It shows how aid, once framed as solidarity and progress, increasingly operates as an instrument of coercion, surveillance, and containment. Drawing on historical sociology and decolonial critique, the article argues that postwar development legitimated global stratification by promising political recognition while deferring redistribution. As this legitimating order unravels, illustrated by U.S. foreign aid retrenchment and the European Union's migration‐security nexus, a new mode of governance has emerged: one that manages inequality through exclusion rather than inclusion. The analysis contributes to sociology by reframing development as a mechanism of stratification, by showing how racialized hierarchies structure global governance, and by advancing postimperial solidarity as a normative alternative grounded in redistribution, epistemic plurality, and collective responsibility.\n"]

["Psychophysiology, Volume 63, Issue 5, May 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nHow does the brain learn to predict rewards? According to temporal difference (TD) learning theory, reward prediction errors (RPEs) should shift from the time of outcome delivery to earlier predictive cues as stimulus‐action‐outcome associations are learned. The reward positivity, an electrophysiological signal believed to index sensitivity of the anterior midcingulate cortex to positive RPEs, should progressively transfer from feedback to predictive cues during learning. However, this core prediction of the reward positivity has remained largely untested. We recorded the EEG from 73 healthy adults performing a probabilistic selection task (PST) with extended training trials. The reward positivity amplitude was measured at both feedback and cue presentation during early and late training phases (first and second halves, respectively). To examine individual differences in RPE‐related learning processes, we split participants into rapid and slow learner groups and fit Q‐learning models to estimate separate learning rates for positive and negative feedback. Results showed clear evidence of temporal backpropagation: early in learning, the reward positivity appeared when feedback was delivered, but late in learning it disappeared from feedback and instead emerged when predictive cues appeared. Rapid learners showed more pronounced shifts in reward positivity from feedback to cue, consistent with their higher learning rates. These findings provide the first clear evidence that reward positivity demonstrates the temporal backpropagation predicted by TD learning theory. The results validate reward positivity as a neural marker of positive RPEs and highlight the importance of examining both cue‐related and feedback‐related brain responses to fully characterize reinforcement learning processes. Our findings have important implications for understanding individual differences in reinforcement learning and for interpreting the reward positivity in clinical populations and across the lifespan.\n"]

["Psychophysiology, Volume 63, Issue 5, May 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nSocial anxiety is marked by persistent fear responses to social cues, often maintained in the absence of repeated aversive social experiences. One potential mechanism underlying this persistence is the recurrent generation of negative social imagery, which may function as an internal source of threat. The present study investigated whether fear toward neutral social stimuli can be acquired through imagined fear‐relevant social scenarios alone, and whether this process is heightened in individuals with elevated social anxiety. Using an imagery‐based differential conditioning paradigm, neutral facial expressions were paired with fear‐relevant social imagery, neutral imagery, or no imagery in individuals with high and low social anxiety. During acquisition, faces associated with fear imagery elicited more negative valence and higher arousal ratings than control stimuli, with these effects amplified in the high social anxiety group. Critically, only individuals with high social anxiety showed reliable differential autonomic responses, including increased skin conductance and heart rate acceleration, to the fear‐conditioned stimulus. During extinction, subjective fear and residual autonomic arousal persisted more strongly in the high social anxiety group, indicating impaired safety learning. Together, these findings provide psychophysiological evidence that internally generated threat representations can serve as effective unconditioned stimuli in fear learning, offering a mechanistic account of how negative social imagery contributes to the maintenance of social anxiety and highlighting the potential relevance of interventions targeting maladaptive social imagery.\n"]

Journal of Contemporary History, Ahead of Print.
This article examines Jewish refugee experience and knowledge in contemporary European and transatlantic history through the life and work of Gerda Lerner (1920–2013). Having escaped Nazi-occupied Europe in 1939, Lerner later emerged as a prominent ...

Journal of Contemporary History, Ahead of Print.
The prevailing narrative holds that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) imposed ‘shock therapy’ on Russia during the 1990s. Drawing on evidence from the IMF archives and interviews with key participants, I argue in this article that Russian economists ...

["Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Volume 125, Issue 3, May 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nSince its introduction by Jacobs and Bickel (1999), the hypothetical purchase task (HPT) has emerged as a frequently used methodology in behavioral economics research, particularly in studies of substance use and public health decision making. The HPT represents an approach that seeks to quantify the reinforcing value of drugs and other commodities through parametric, scalable methodology measured via self‐reported consumption across escalating prices. Despite its increasing use in research settings, no comprehensive evaluation of its scientific influence has yet been undertaken. To address this gap, we conducted a two‐part review of the HPT's empirical legacy. In Study 1, we conducted a bibliometric analysis of all peer‐reviewed documents citing Jacobs and Bickel (1999) through mid‐2025. In Study 2, we conducted a systematic review of empirical HPT studies employing operant demand analyses to assess drug consumption. We conclude with a discussion on the legacy of Jacobs and Bickel (1999), an evaluation of the present state of the field of operant behavioral economic science in addiction, and a call for critical areas of inquiry in the use of HPTs to measure drug abuse potential.\n"]

["Sociology Lens, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nCaterpillar Inc., the world's largest heavy equipment manufacturer, grew rapidly in the 20th century before a crisis of overproduction in the early 1980s threatened its survival. In response, it launched the $2.8 billion “Plant with a Future” (PWAF) program, a sweeping material and ideological overhaul that remade the firm for the post‐Fordist global economy. This article advances three interventions. First, it shows how post‐Fordism as a spatial and ideological project emphasized decentralization, accountability, and customer orientation, which helped legitimize and institutionalize corporate restructuring. Second, it demonstrates that flexibilization operated as a spatial strategy, implemented through four interrelated processes: bureaucratic restructuring, production reconfiguration, financialization, and vertical disintegration. Third, it argues that post‐Fordism was not a uniform paradigm, but a set of firm‐level projects interpreted and operationalized in distinct ways. By focusing on heavy machinery production—an overlooked but foundational sector for extractive and construction industries—the article shows how firm‐level transformations reverberate through the most environmentally consequential circuits of global capital.\n"]

["Psychophysiology, Volume 63, Issue 5, May 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nGroup‐level averaging of psychophysiological data often obscures meaningful individual differences, masking response patterns that may explain variability in behavior and central nervous system activity. Identifying such patterns is particularly relevant in heart rate (HR) responses to threat, where subtle variations may reflect distinct coping mechanisms such as orienting or defense. Machine learning techniques that learn latent representations, particularly variational autoencoders (VAEs), offer powerful tools for revealing such hidden structures. This methodological report introduces a simple VAE‐based approach for characterizing HR responses to threat pictures in 165 participants. To validate the method, simulations first demonstrated that the model accurately separated simulated HR waveforms. The VAE was then applied to empirical HR responses, mapping them into a three‐dimensional latent space for subsequent cluster analysis, which was compared to clustering based directly on raw HR waveforms. The VAE revealed three distinct response profiles: (1) strong decelerators (cardiac orienting response), (2) weak decelerators with late acceleration, and (3) immediate accelerators without a decelerative phase. In contrast, clustering raw HR waveforms identified only two groups. Clusters derived from the latent space were more coherent and exhibited greater within‐group consistency. Finally, applying the pre‐trained autoencoder to a small fear‐conditioning dataset enabled characterization of distinct HR response patterns despite limited sample size. These findings show that even a basic autoencoder enhances the categorization of psychophysiological response patterns, offering a framework for linking individual autonomic variability to broader models of affective and defensive behavior.\n"]

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Journal of Contemporary History, Ahead of Print.
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