Pub Date : 2025-06-25DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2025.101569
Danielle Goldwert , Madalina Vlasceanu
Given the urgency of climate change, a rapidly growing body of research across the behavioral sciences has tested interventions aimed at stimulating proclimate behaviors. Here, we propose a framework conceptualizing this body of work at three levels of analysis, ranging from individual cognition to collective action and systemic change. At the individual level, interventions primarily target cognitive or affective processes to increase climate beliefs and stimulate pro-environmental behaviors. Effective interventions at this level include the decreasing of spatial, temporal, and social psychological distance of climate change. At the collective level, interventions aim to stimulate climate advocacy and civic engagement, overcoming social or political barriers to climate mitigation. Promising interventions at this level include emphasizing the efficacy and emotional benefits of collective action. At the systemic level, climate action can be facilitated through structural interventions overcoming behavioral barriers, interventions including policy innovations, infrastructure development, and algorithmic, entertainment, or educational deployment.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-24DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2025.101551
Simone A Luchini , Emmanuelle Volle , Roger E Beaty
The brain’s default mode network (DMN) is increasingly recognized as key to creative thinking. Early work laid the foundations for this understanding, allowing us to indirectly infer the DMN’s importance for creative thinking through correlational studies. More recently, research has aimed at providing a mechanistic explanation of the relationship between DMN and creativity. Here, we outline current trends in neuroscientific research of creativity, emphasizing recent insights on the role of the DMN. We highlight four promising research directions for advancing our understanding of the DMN’s role in creativity: (1) its causal involvement in creative thinking processes, (2) its contribution to the processes of remote associative thinking and (3) to the processes of creative idea evaluation, and (4) its capacity to functionally integrate diverse information from distant brain regions. We explore possible future directions in these lines of research toward a mechanistic understanding of how the DMN supports creativity.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-24DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2025.101567
Ashley X Zhou , John Duncan , Daniel J. Mitchell
The Default Mode Network (DMN), traditionally associated with internally oriented cognition, has been increasingly implicated in processing external stimuli that signal the need to update an internal mental model, defined as neural representations that simulate and predict relationships between elements that make up events. This review synthesizes recent findings on the DMN’s role in diverse cognitive transitions, including feature changes and event boundaries during movie watching, and externally cued task switches during complex behavioural paradigms. Studies using naturalistic stimuli reveal the functional specialization of DMN subnetworks: the medial temporal lobe subnetwork responds to location and temporal transitions, the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex subnetwork prefers social transitions, and the Core DMN exhibits generalised responses across all these transition types. Meanwhile, in task-based paradigms, the Core DMN is also activated during external task switches, compared to task repeats, both representing and dependent upon a hierarchical task structure, further underscoring DMN involvement in maintaining and updating mental models. We propose that the Core DMN binds information across DMN subnetworks into a hierarchically chunked internal model, where elements are organized into nested levels of abstraction, to provide context for evolving naturalistic experiences and a substrate to guide behaviour. This unifying framework highlights the DMN's integral role in context-dependent cognitive transitions, dynamically integrating internal and external representations during both active and passive states.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-20DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2025.101549
Mario I Suárez , Kamden K Strunk , Kelly N Furr , Kristen L Tuxbury , Cammie Justus-Smith , Korinthia D Nicolai , Thea L Racelis , Michelle Frierson , Edgar Díaz , Obed Amoakoh Boateng , Jared P Grigg
The use of QuantCrit and other approaches to centering racism in quantitative educational research has rapidly expanded. While both QuantCrit and Critical Race Theory call for intersectional analyses that account for multiple systems of marginalization, such as racism, white supremacism, genderism, misogyny, trans-antagonism, and heterosexism, gender and sexuality have tended to be emphasized less often. As a result, our research questions concerned whether and how QuantCrit researchers took up gender and sexuality in their work. We found that most authors relied on large-scale datasets, which limited their ability to critically engage with these concepts. We further found that when authors engaged gender, they most often conflated gender and legal sex. We further found relatively few examples that considered sexuality at all. We offer recommendations for QuantCrit scholars to better account for gender and sexuality and the intersecting systems of oppression that overlap at LGBTQ+ social locations.
{"title":"QuantCrit at the intersections: a systematic review of gender and sexuality in QuantCrit research","authors":"Mario I Suárez , Kamden K Strunk , Kelly N Furr , Kristen L Tuxbury , Cammie Justus-Smith , Korinthia D Nicolai , Thea L Racelis , Michelle Frierson , Edgar Díaz , Obed Amoakoh Boateng , Jared P Grigg","doi":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2025.101549","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2025.101549","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The use of QuantCrit and other approaches to centering racism in quantitative educational research has rapidly expanded. While both QuantCrit and Critical Race Theory call for intersectional analyses that account for multiple systems of marginalization, such as racism, white supremacism, genderism, misogyny, trans-antagonism, and heterosexism, gender and sexuality have tended to be emphasized less often. As a result, our research questions concerned whether and how QuantCrit researchers took up gender and sexuality in their work. We found that most authors relied on large-scale datasets, which limited their ability to critically engage with these concepts. We further found that when authors engaged gender, they most often conflated gender and legal sex. We further found relatively few examples that considered sexuality at all. We offer recommendations for QuantCrit scholars to better account for gender and sexuality and the intersecting systems of oppression that overlap at LGBTQ+ social locations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":56191,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101549"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144321299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-06-20DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2025.101560
Brett L Foster, Seth R Koslov
The posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) is an intriguing yet understudied brain region implicated in diverse cognitive functions and neurological disorders. Progress in understanding the human PCC has been hindered by the absence of a clear rodent homolog, inconsistent lesion-behavior deficits in humans, and limitations in studying the region with noninvasive electrophysiological methods. However, the advent of functional neuroimaging has highlighted the PCC’s central role within the default mode network (DMN) and its broader functional role as an associative, transmodal, cortical region. Recent advances in precision imaging have further refined the functional neuroanatomy of the PCC, revealing its complex subregional organization and network connectivity profiles. For example, the PCC is a convergence point for dorsal executive and ventral mnemonic systems, with distinct subregions (dorsal PCC and ventral PCC) differentially contributing to cognitive control, decision-making, and episodic memory. This emphasis on higher-order cognition highlights the often-striking dissociation of the PCC/DMN from primary sensory-motor processing. However, emerging evidence suggests that the PCC operates at the apex of cortical processing hierarchies, supporting temporally extended cognitive behaviors while also integrating sensory updates relevant to ongoing tasks. This review synthesizes recent advances in understanding the human PCC, emphasizing its functional connections to various cognitive systems beyond the DMN and its relative separation, though not isolation, from primary sensory-motor systems. Together, these facets allow the PCC to support the representation of past and future behavioral scenarios by integrating prior experience with ongoing sensory feedback.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-18DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2025.101548
Michael Russell
This reflection critiques shortcomings in conceptualization and theorization in prior studies undertaken by the author in which the lens of QuantCrit was applied. The reflection identifies two aspects of the conceptualization and theorization that were underdeveloped in this prior work. The first aspect focuses on the conceptualization of identity categories and the complexity of their formation and operations. The second aspect addresses the complexity of various theories of oppression and the resulting challenges this complexity presents when an identity category, such as race, is used as a proxy for oppression. The reflection highlights recent efforts that move beyond the use of socially constructed identity categories as a proxy for oppression and instead develop and apply measures of various mechanisms of structural racism. The reflection highlights the need for clarity in the theorization one applies to a study in which socially constructed identity categories are included as part of the analysis, the mechanisms of oppression that are theorized to influence outcomes of interest, and the alignment between the measures and modeling techniques and this theorization.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-11DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2025.101546
Giulia L Poerio, Theodoros Karapanagiotidis
Ongoing experiences are a defining feature of the human condition, encompassing the thoughts, feelings, and sensations that underscore how we experience the world and our subjective sense of self from moment to moment. In this review, we show how the Default Mode Network’s structural and functional properties make it uniquely suited to supporting ongoing experiences as a system capable of abstraction, integration, and flexibility. We chart recent methodological advances that use dimensionality reduction techniques to map both neural and experiential states, demonstrating that they are most powerfully leveraged when applied together across both domains. Building on these insights, we propose an attractor-state framework to capture how stable and flexible mental states emerge from complex brain dynamics. Finally, we discuss the implications of our framework for psychopathology, offering a dynamic systems perspective on the interplay between brain function, ongoing experience, and mental health.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-11DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2025.101544
Jessica T DeCuir-Gunby , Royel M Johnson
Critical race mixed methodology (CRMM), which combines critical race theory (CRT) with mixed methods research, is an emerging approach in education research. As an extension of CRT’s qualitative traditions and the newer quantitative CRT research movement, CRMM offers a comprehensive framework for examining racial inequities. This article explores the emergence of CRMM, reviewing its application in education research. We also discuss the challenges associated with CRMM, including methodological complexity and institutional resistance, while highlighting opportunities for its growth and broader application beyond education.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-10DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2025.101543
Vandeen A Campbell , Darnell Leatherwood
We briefly reflect on a current study that examined how exposure measures of segregation relate to access to an accelerated math pathway in which we proposed, using a QuantCrit lens, that exposure/isolation measures can function as proxies for shedding light on how structural and systemic racism influence the distribution of important educational resources. We refine our initial conceptualization by applying that lens to proposed models in Reardon and Owens's 2014 review of segregation research and demonstrate that exposure/isolation measures within the proposed modeling framework can illuminate mechanisms of systemic racism in resource allocation. Although it can be argued that these measures are established and useful, we caution against using them uncritically. Understanding these mechanisms can help policymakers, practitioners, advocates, and others design more effective strategies to address educational inequalities.
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