Lessons behind the paper, “To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply?”

• Van Bavel et al. expressed their faith in social and behavioural science. • IJzerman et al. questioned van Bavel et al. conclusions. • We discuss these two views by defending maturity of behavioural science. • We conclude that social science is largely beneficial in times of a crisis.

By: Cindy Cheng, Luca Messerschmidt, Joan Barceló, Allison Spencer Hartnett, Vanja Grujic, Robert Kubinec, Timothy Model, and Caress Schenk

This behavioral and modelling study shows that speaking rhythmically shapes speech perception, but only in a subgroup of the population.