This paper proposes the Hedonic Expectancy Gap, the signed discrepancy between anticipated and experienced pleasantness during behavior initiation (𝝙 = Reality - Forecast), as a proximal mechanism ...

In 2022/23, more than 341,000 people were diagnosed with cancer in England (548 per 100,000) (1). This burden makes prevention and earlier detection essential, yet progress remains uneven. Here, early ...

Kids know everything these days. After all, they've got the internet at their disposal, making them total geniuses with just the click of a single “search” button. In fact, with knowledge readily ...

Science is a messy business, but just like everything with loose ends and ragged edges, we tend to understand it by resorting to ideal types. On the one hand, there’s the archetype of the scientific ...