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Downregulation of the posterior medial frontal cortex prevents social conformity
Journal of Neuroscience. 2011. Vol. 31. No. 33. P. 11934–11940.
We often change our behavior to conform to real or imagined group pressure. Social influence on our behavior has been extensively studied in social psychology, but its neural mechanisms have remained largely unknown. Here we demonstrate that the transient downregulation of the posterior medial frontal cortex by theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces conformity, as indicated by reduced conformal adjustments in line with group opinion. Both the extent and probability of conformal behavioral adjustments decreased significantly relative to a sham and a control stimulation over another brain area. The posterior part of the medial frontal cortex has previously been implicated in behavioral and attitudinal adjustments. Here, we provide the first interventional evidence of its critical role in social influence on human behavior.
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Ляхова А. Г., Grigoryan E., Bultseva M. A. et al., Национальный психологический журнал 2025 Т. 21 № 2 С. 54–65
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Background. Subjective well-being (SWB) is a key factor in mental health and sustainable societal development. Positive creativity (creative activity for the benefit of others) is considered as a way to enhance SWB though the mechanisms linking them remain understudied.
Objectives. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between engagement in positive creativity and ...
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Derkacheva A., Sakirkina M., Kraev G. et al., /. 2026.
Comprehensive data on natural hazards and their consequences are crucial for effective for risk assessment, adaptation planning, and emergency response. However, many countries face challenges with fragmented, inconsistent, and inaccessible data, particularly regarding local-scale events. To address this data gap in Russia, we developed an end-to-end processing pipeline that scrapes news from various online sources, ...
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Распределение внимания в ходе категориального научения детей с расстройствами аутистического спектра
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Context and relevance. Category learning plays a key role in cognitive development from infancy. In the process of category learning, adults tend to use selective attention, focusing on the main features of objects, while children use distributed attention, analyzing multiple features simultaneously. The use of selective attention can lead to learning difficulties in new conditions, where ...
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Fam A. K., Lebedeva A., Belchenkova A., Консультативная психология и психотерапия 2026 Т. 34 № 1 С. 50–67
Context and relevance. In the field of practical psychology, there is an increase in interest and demand for new competencies in the area of problems associated with experiencing loss. There is a number of approaches for psychological support of crisis states in clients experiencing various forms of loss, but these approaches are separated from each ...
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Чинарёва Ю. Ф., Alexandrova L., Клиническая и специальная психология 2026 Т. 15 № 1 С. 64–78
Context and relevance. Many Russian adoptive parents choose to hide the fact of adoption from their adopted children, guided by the law on secrecy of adoption in the Family Code of the Russian Federation. Moreover, according to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, even after reaching the age of majority and the death of ...
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Коренева Е. В., Zolotareva A., Клиническая и специальная психология 2026 Т. 15 № 1 С. 149–165
Context and relevance. Russian scientists are actively studying the stigmatization of people living with HIV from the perspective of HIV-positive people themselves, but there is a lack of research on the attitudes of people living with HIV in society, which could fill the gaps in understanding the nature of HIV stigma.
Objective. The aim of this ...
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Кивалов С. Н., Fitzjarrald D., Boundary-Layer Meteorology 2018 Vol. 166 No. 2 P. 165–198
Cloud shadows lead to alternating light and dark periods at the surface, with
the most abrupt changes occurring in the presence of low-level forced cumulus clouds.
We examine multiyear irradiance time series observed at a research tower in a midlatitude
mixed deciduous forest (Harvard Forest, Massachusetts, USA: 42.53◦N, 72.17◦W) and one
made at a similar tower in a tropical ...
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Кивалов С. Н., Fitzjarrald D., Boundary-Layer Meteorology 2019 Vol. 173 No. 1 P. 1–52
We examine the physical and biological responses of forest canopies to step changes in light
caused by passing low cumulus clouds that intermittently block the direct solar beam. Using
data obtained at a tropical rainforest and at a midlatitude deciduous forest, we estimate the
course of sensible heat flux, net ecosystem exchange, evapotranspiration, and water-use efficiency in response ...
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Addressing effects of environment on eddy-covariance flux estimates at a temperate sedge-grass marsh
Кивалов С. Н., Dušek J., Czerný R. et al., Boundary-Layer Meteorology 2023 Vol. 186 P. 217–250
We examined the net-ecosystem-exchange (NEE)-based annual carbon-balance estimates
obtained from eddy-covariance (EC) measurements at an unmanaged sedge-grass marsh
ecosystem (Tˇreboˇn, Czech Republic, 49°1′ N, 14°46′ E), seeking methods to improve the EC
measurements in inhomogeneous environment. The data filtering procedure was developed
using three thresholds: (a) a stationarity test; (b) a stability u∗-threshold; and (c) a high relative
humidity RH-threshold. ...
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Кивалов С. Н., Лопес де Гереню В. О., Хорошаев Д. А. et al., Forests 2023 Vol. 14 No. 8 Article 1568
Soil respiration (SR) is a main component of the carbon cycle in terrestrial ecosystems,
and being strongly affected by changes in the environment, it is a good indicator of the ecosystem’s
ability to cope with climate change. This research aims to find better empirical SR models using
25-year-long SR monitoring in two forest ecosystems formed on sandy Entic ...
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Касицкий В. А., Кивалов С. Н., Лопес де Гереню В. О. et al., АгроЭкоИнфо 2025 Т. 5 Статья 517
Оценка дыхания почвы - одного из основных источников углекислого газа в атмосферу – необходима для корректного определения углеродного баланса в наземных экосистемах. Сравнение пульсационного и камерного методов измерения дыхания почвы, проведенные в березняке постагрогенном в регионе южного Подмосковья, показывает хорошую сопоставимость этих методов с коэффициентом детерминации R2=0.75 (p-value=7.546e-12). С учетом высокой пространственной и временной неоднородности ...
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Кивалов С. Н., Ecological Modelling 2024 Vol. 498 Article 110904
On certain kinds of cloudy days, many forested ecosystems exhibit enhanced carbon uptake and water-use efficiency-the cloudy-day forest flux anomaly. Using ensemble methods to analyze eddy-covariance fluxes, we have
diagnosed net ecosystem exchange (NEE) and water-use efficiency (WUE) of a temperate broadleaf forest and a
tropical evergreen forest as they responded to natural fluctuating-light regimes. Here we ...
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Кивалов С. Н., Курганова И. Н., Быховец С. С. et al., Soil Systems 2025 Vol. 9 No. 1 Article 9010025
Carbon dioxide (CO₂) efflux from soil (or soil respiration, SR) is one of the most important yet variable characteristics of soil. When evaluating large areas, CO₂ efflux modeling serves as a viable alternative to direct measurements. This research aims to identify site-specific differences and their effects on empirical CO₂ efflux modeling. The experimental data from ...
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Shepelenko A., Kosonogov V., Shestakova A., Frontiers in Psychology 2026 Vol. 17 Article 1713462
Introduction:
Affective computing (AC) is increasingly used to study emotional processes underlying decision-making, yet its methodological validity in capturing spontaneous emotional responses and their behavioral relevance remains debated. In particular, it is unclear how facial obstructions and baseline correction affect the accuracy of AC-based facial emotion measures in capturing emotion–behavior relationships.
Methods:
The predictive validity of AC-based facial ...
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Aleskerov F. T., Delakhova A., Derendyaev A. et al., , in: Proceedings of The Fifth France's International Conference on Complex Systems (FRCCS 2025).: Springer, 2025. P. 258–267.
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Andrey Timashkov, Sarah Anderson, Oksana Zinchenko, Frontiers in Neuroscience 2025 Vol. 19 Article 1662272
The analysis revealed nine distinct activation clusters, revealing a comprehensive neural network involved in uncertainty processing. Key findings demonstrated predominant activations in the anterior insula (up to 63.7% representation), inferior frontal gyrus (up to 40.7%), and inferior parietal lobule (up to 78.1%). We found a functional specialization between emotional-motivational processes (clusters 1–5) and cognitive processes ...
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Smith P., Kirchner-Häusler A., Grigoryan L. et al., Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 2025 Vol. 56 No. 8 P. 911–928
Despite being a classic social psychology topic, cultural variability in conformity has only been examined systematically in the last few decades. Vishkin et al. reported evidence that conformity of experienced emotions and of valued emotions is stronger in individualistic cultures. We tested the replicability of this finding using data from 28 nations (N = 6,168), incorporating ...
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Kurakin D., Theory and Society 2025 Vol. 54 P. 579–608
Cultural structures can organize experience either independently of time—‘transversely’ to its flow—or temporally—‘longitudinally’ along it. Most existing concepts—binaries, codes, norms—represent the former. Temporal structuring is much less theorized. While sociologists frequently invoke ‘narratives,’ they often use the term loosely, as a more evocative synonym for beliefs or values (e.g., ‘ecological narrative’). Recent work in pragmatism ...
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Mikhail Goshin, Grigoryev D., Pavel Sorokin, Frontiers in Psychology 2025 Vol. 16 Article 1410170
The concept of human agency has attracted considerable interest in academic and expert discussions concerning various life domains and age groups, including adolescents. However, the field lacks a unified approach to measuring agency for adolescents and understanding its relationship with their behavioral characteristics and attitudes. This study addresses these gaps by introducing an Adolescent Agency Index and examining its associations with behavioral ...
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Konstantinova A., Filyushkina A., Maximova O. et al., Blue-Green Systems 2024 Vol. 6 No. 2 P. 327–344
In the scientific community, ecosystem services (ESs) are well-recognized as a promising concept to more actively consider and plan for the multitude of benefits provided by the green environment and thus promote sustainable urban development. Yet, to have an impact on decision-making, the concept must spread from academia to practice. To understand to what extent ...
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Grebnev L., Высшее образование в России 2024 Т. 33 № 12 С. 155–168
Using examples of the introduction of the Unified State Exam and participation
in the Bologna process, the article analyzes changes in the regulatory framework for budgetary
financing of education as a reaction to external circumstances. The role of the family and
educational institutions in fostering a sense of responsibility for decisions and the results of their
implementation is also ...
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Сучкова Е. Я., Кожетева В. Р., Яковлева А. А., В кн.: Психология познания: материалы Всероссийской научной конференции. ЯрГУ, 6–8 декабря 2024 г. Материалы Всероссийской научной конференции памяти Дж. С. Брунера.: Яр.: ЯрГУ им. П. Г. Демидова, 2024. С. 308–312.
В тесте «рисунок-слово» испытуемому необходимо максимально быстро называть целевые изображения, игнорируя слова-дистракторы. В предыдущих исследованиях в качестве дистракторов ис-пользовались псевдослова для оценки влияния эффекта лексикализации слова на Струп-эффект. Но как объясняется феномен интерференции в тесте «рисунок-слово»? Некоторые исследователи придерживаются теории автоматизации, другие — теории когнитивного контроля. Изучив работы из этой области, мы заметили, что в них ...
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Баланина С. Н., Berezner T., В кн.: Психология познания: материалы Всероссийской научной конференции. ЯрГУ, 6–8 декабря 2024 г. Материалы Всероссийской научной конференции памяти Дж. С. Брунера.: Яр.: ЯрГУ им. П. Г. Демидова, 2024. С. 45–48.
В настоящей работе мы предложили метод моделирования эмоциональной реакции, вызываемой стимулами в задаче Струпа. Наша модель отражает изменение валентности вызываемой реакции, то есть аффективной оценки стимула, по мере прохождения эксперимента. Мы использовали модель из класса алгоритмов обучения с подкреплением, разработанную Silvetti et al. (Silvetti et al., 2018). Результаты симуляции подтвердили, что вначале аффективная оценка выше ...
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