Psychology, neuroscience, education and the social sciences.
Dr. Carola Tize's long-term fieldwork shows how censorship and surveillance after the Hamas attacks and Israel's military response in Gaza deepened fear and silence among Palestinian families in Berlin's Neukölln.
Professor Gisele Ragusa's team found that a robotics and coding program for urban elementary pupils improved their coding and robotics design skills and raised interest in computing careers.
Dr. John Yang's team found that after large tech and financial firms ordered staff back to the office, more employees quit, especially women, senior staff and skilled workers.
Professor Barbara Voorhies and Dr. George Michaels argue that abundant limestone gave the ancient Maya lime for preparing maize, access to water through cenotes, and stone for building.
Dr. Juan Cruz's team built a conceptual systems model showing how promotion priorities, workload, training and student engagement interact to support or block faculty adoption of research-based teaching methods.
Academically intensive charter schools outperformed other charter and district schools in reading and maths across student groups with funding similar to other charters, Professor Robert Maranto's team found, though causes remain unproven.
Professor Trina Spencer and Dr. Megan Kirby found that the Story Champs program, using simple story icons, improved how a small group of children with autism retold stories they heard or read.
Professor Tali Gal's team found that Arab and Jewish schoolchildren in Israel who took a forgiveness education program described more openness, empathy and calmer handling of conflict, as did their teachers.
Dr. Menelaos Apostolou's study of Greek-speaking participants found people value love, happiness and emotional support most in romantic relationships, with women seeing more benefits than men.
In a review, Professor Christine Sälzer and colleagues argue that consistent, standardized attendance monitoring is the foundation for tackling school absenteeism, and find Germany's state-by-state approach patchy.
Professor Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler shows that landmark secular buildings in British-Mandate Jerusalem wove in religious symbols, promoting harmony for British and American sponsors and national identity for Zionist and Palestinian ones.
John Sanfey proposes a theoretical framework in which consciousness acts as a physical solution to the problem of describing change in continuous time, and argues digital computers cannot reproduce it.
Dr. Pénélope Pelland-Goulet's team found that moment-to-moment rhythms in visual word recognition differ in adults with ADHD, allowing a machine-learning classifier to identify them with high accuracy.
