Nature Human Behaviour
Drawing from a broad spectrum of social, biological, health, and physical science disciplines, this journal publishes research of outstanding significance into any aspect of individual or collective human behaviour.
Unintended consequences of lockdowns, COVID-19 and the Shadow Pandemic in India
Violence against women is a problem worldwide, with economic costs ranging from 1% to 4% of global GDP. Our study shows that domestic violence and cybercrime complaints increased, while rape and sexual assault complaints decreased, in districts with the most stringent Covid-19 lockdowns in India.
What’s in a Name? The Perils of Using Name-Based Recognition Software
When we started, we thought this data quality check might end up as a paragraph in some methods section or appendix – we certainly did not expect it to become its own paper in Nature Human Behavior. And yet it did.
Partner choice, confounding and trait convergence all contribute to phenotypic partner similarity
People in partnerships are more similar to one another than random pairs. However, it is currently unclear what causes this similarity: mate choice, confounding, indirect assortment? Does similarity change with time? In this work, we use ~52000 couples from the UK Biobank to answer these questions.
Group identities make social tipping unreliable
Social tipping interventions offer an indirect way to trigger change at scale, ranging from social justice to climate change. Yet, what happens when social tipping interventions meet ordinary but ingrained group identities? To examine this, we implemented an experiment around the 2020 US election.
