Social sciences, psychology, economics and the humanities.
An experiment making Bronze Age-style markings in granite found that cupmarks, circles and a shallow boat could be created in minutes to about an hour. The results suggest some petroglyphs may have worked as ritual devices for producing mineral dust or collecting and directing liquids, rather than serving only as pictures.
Among 735 American Indian and First Nation adolescents, those with strong family support and greater participation in land-based cultural activities generally had healthier alcohol, mental-health and physical-health trajectories. Risk-taking peers were associated with more alcohol use, more depression and anxiety symptoms, and poorer physical health.
Among 200 high school students in Shiraz, Iran, open family communication and some forms of constructive inner self-talk were associated with lower reported cyberbullying victimization. Family communication focused on conformity was associated with more victimization, but the study cannot show that these factors cause or prevent cyberbullying.
A review of 1,903 studies examined how artificial intelligence is being used to assess and manage supply-chain risks. The 54 studies selected for detailed analysis point to stronger risk prediction from machine-learning models, while also highlighting continuing concerns about data quality and how clearly these systems explain their decisions.
School professionals in Türkiye said they often recognised possible online grooming or sexual exploitation through changes in students’ behaviour, but were unsure about legal reporting duties and referral routes. The study argues that technical safeguards need to be combined with clear procedures, staff training and ongoing work with families.
Regulatory oversight, external audit quality and environmental governance were not significantly associated with the market value of listed Nigerian banks. The findings suggest these measures may support transparency and accountability more than they produce immediate gains in market valuation.
A special issue in International Politics reassesses three decades of relations between the European Union and Mediterranean countries through the idea of policy learning. It introduces a framework that considers both cooperation among actors and the extent to which they share power in decision-making.
A systematic review of 50 studies found that adolescents who used social media more often generally reported more depressive symptoms. Links with anxiety pointed in the same direction but were weaker and less consistent, suggesting that screen time alone does not capture how social media may relate to mental health.
A study of 61 mother–infant pairs found that vocal coordination was strongest when the pairs were about 40 centimeters apart—roughly within arm’s reach. Infants showed above-chance vocal coordination at distances between 30 and 50 centimeters, but the pattern did not become stronger with age.
A study of 240 adults from Western and East Asian cultural contexts found that selfies and self-descriptions together were more useful for modeling self-reported body satisfaction than either type of material alone. The associations differed between the groups, but the study did not show that social media behavior causes body satisfaction or provide a clinical assessment.
People who regularly cycle for transportation do not necessarily cycle regularly to the grocery store, according to interviews with 16 cyclists in Hamilton, Canada. They cited bike parking, a lack of bike lanes, limited carrying capacity and large parking lots as particular challenges, although most cycled to the store at least sometimes.
A deep-learning system recognized emotions in images using people’s full-body postures and surrounding environmental information. Tested with the 116,034-image LEMOTIC dataset, it outperformed earlier methods for both emotion categories and continuous measures such as pleasantness and activation.
Thousands of people from the Soviet Union spent weeks or months in Italy while waiting for visas to continue westward. An archival study shows that Italian officials tried to speed their departure and limit settlement, while local communities confronted migration at close range.
In a community-based study of 2,007 older Korean adults, suicide attempts showed relatively high scores for connecting different depressive symptoms and for being explained by neighboring symptoms. The finding was not consistent across all measures, and women’s symptom networks appeared denser around suicide-related symptoms.
A survey study in seven Latin American countries found that fewer than 10 per cent of respondents supported both the universal and unconditional features of a universal basic income. Support for targeted transfers was more widespread, while people who had received such aid were no more likely to favour universal payments.
