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Reallocation of wellbeing across the life course in the OECD between 2008 and 2024
No full textIntroduction: Recent evidence suggests a substantial temporal change in the traditional U-shaped age-wellbeing relationship in many countries. From a sustainable wellbeing perspective that emphasises intergenerational equity, we examine how wellbeing was reallocated across age groups in 28 OECD countries between 2008 and 2024.
Method: We analyse life evaluation (0–10 scale) data from the Gallup World Poll at four anchor years (2008, 2011, 2019, 2024), using country-specific models and two classification approaches (quadratic and confidence-interval-based). We assess cross-national heterogeneity, methodological sensitivity, and sustainable wellbeing implications through age-group reallocation patterns.
Results: Age-wellbeing profiles varied greatly across countries, with classifications sensitive to functional form, age boundaries, and temporal pooling. We identified five patterns: (1) sustainable (8 countries including Eastern Europe, East Asia, Chile: broad-based gains across all age groups), (2) unsustainable (14 countries across North, Western and Southern Europe, North America, and New Zealand, characterised by early-adulthood decline alongside substantially better outcomes in late adulthood; Spain exemplified the starkest contrast (-1.34 point-change for ages 18-29, and +0.83 for ages 70-79)), (3) no significant age-based reallocation (Turkey, Israel), (4) reverse patterns (United Kingdom, Ireland: late adulthood fared worse than early adulthood), (5) mixed/unique patterns (Australia, Denmark).
Conclusion: Age-wellbeing profile classifications are sensitive to methodological choices, though reallocation patterns provide robust evidence about distributional dynamics. Half the sample showed unsustainable trajectories, raising profound intergenerational equity concerns. Eight countries achieved sustainable, broad-based gains, all starting from low baselines, which suggests that equitable trajectories may be more easily achievable when aggregate wellbeing is improving rather than declining. Addressing unsustainable patterns requires comprehensive policy attention and routine age-disaggregated monitoring
Institutional Adult Education Regimes: Continuing Vocational Education and Training Participation and Barriers in Germany, Sweden and The United Kingdom
No full textThis study investigates continuing vocational education and training (CVET) in three institutional contexts: Germany, Sweden, and The United Kingdom. Drawing on the first wave of PIAAC survey data’s unique questions and data availability, we analyse linkages between institutional regimes and socio-economic gradients in CVET participation and barriers to participation including self-reported constraints and lack of intrinsic interest. Theoretical and empirical evidence suggests that differences in CVET participation reflect educational, labour market, and welfare state institutions. Results show that Sweden’s universal-collectivist regime fosters the highest participation with minimal disparities, while Germany’s corporatist regime shows lower participation and higher stratification. The UK’s liberal-individualist model exhibits moderate participation but sharp socio-economic inequalities, emphasizing financial and employer-related barriers. Resource constraints such as time and money emerge as prominent barriers across institutional contexts. We thus shed light on different skill formation institutions and the differences and similarities in human behaviours and perceptions across them. Our exploratory measurement of interest opens pathways for future research that was not thought possible with existing PIAAC data. These findings contribute to long-term institutional analysis and theory, and inform policy interventions to reduce barriers, increase interest, and support disadvantaged groups
From past to partnership: the interplay of autobiographical memory and social value orientation in adolescent cooperation
No full textThe datasets used for analyses in study 1 and study 2
The Integrated Energetics Model (IEM) A New Framework for H. naledi Metabolic Strategy and Thermodynamic Efficiency
No full textThis manuscript introduces the Integrated Energetics Model (IEM), exploring "Active Torpor" as a survival strategy for Homo naledi. It integrates metabolic scaling, neuronal density analysis, and thermodynamic modeling to provide a falsifiable framework for future paleoanthropological study
Online Materials: Functional connectivity is linked to symbolic BOLD patterns: replication, extension, and clinical application of the human ‘complexome’
No full textRepository for: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.05.674447
Analysis code will be deposited upon publication
Problemas geniturinários em homens na Atenção Primária à Saúde: protocolo de revisão de escopo
No full textThis is a scoping review, prepared according to the recommendations of the Joanna Briggs Institute, guided by the guidelines of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis Protocols – extension for scoping reviews checklist. The review question was formulated using the acronym PCC – Population, Concept, and Context, corresponding to P – Adult men, C – Genitourinary problems, C – Primary care
The SUPPORT NOW Project: Activating Social Resources in Psychotherapy-Seeking Individuals With a Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention
No full textThe SUPPORT NOW project aims to design and evaluate a just-in-time adpative intervention (JITAI) that aims to activate social support resources in individuals with elevated depressive symptoms awaiting outpatient psychotherapy. This repository links the sub-projects that constist of a feasibility study and an effectiveness study
Constructing Emotional Memories: Influence of Emotion Labels on Perceptual Memory Biases for Ambiguous Facial Expressions
No full textAcross 4 studies, we examined memory biases for ambiguous facial expressions of emotion. In all studies, participants first learned to discriminate between two ambiguous target expressions drawn from the middle of a continuous array of blended expressions (i.e., an array created from morphing images of two facial expressions together, with still images selected in equidistant increments). Participants were then asked to remember which specific expressions they learned to discriminate. Across all 4 studies, we observed evidence of categorical processing biases in participants’ memories for ambiguous expressions labeled with emotion category words. In all studies, target expressions labeled with emotion words (e.g., angry’ or ‘fearful’) were misremembered as more perceptually distinct from one another and as more perceptually similar to the stereotypical expression for their labeled emotion category than they were in reality. Critically, memory biases were significantly reduced when the provided labels indicated non-membership in a category (e.g., not angry’; Studies 1 and 2), were arbitrary (e.g., ‘Face A’; Study 2), or were other socially relevant but non-emotion category words (e.g., ‘masculine’; Study 3). Finally, contrary to predictions, we also found that the biasing influence of emotion category words on memory for ambiguous facial expressions was driven by the words being presented during retrieval (i.e., memory) and not encoding (i.e., learning) of the target expressions (Study 4). Findings highlight the critical role of language in constructing memories of facial expressions of emotion and provide evidence that words indicating category membership can promote categorical processing biases when remembering ambiguous stimuli more generally
P.I.N.E.S — Partial Implementation with Necessary Entropy for Synthesis
No full textThis project presents P.I.N.E.S (Partial Implementation with Necessary Entropy for Synthesis), an interdisciplinary framework for managing and evaluating work performed under conditions of volatility, partial knowledge, and evolving constraints.
PINES is designed for environments in which outcomes can be defined, but execution paths cannot be fully specified in advance. The framework introduces a structured treatment of uncertainty, volatility, entropy variation, synthesis, and direct effort, with the goal of improving outcome quality, structural coherence, and long-term system durability in creative and cognitive-intensive domains.
The work is prescriptive and methodological in nature. It does not propose a universal theory of labor, nor does it aim to replace existing execution-driven models in procedural or repetitive contexts. Instead, it focuses on domains where thinking itself constitutes a primary component of work, and where premature stabilization or rigid process enforcement tends to produce hidden structural debt.
The project includes a formal description of the framework, its internal metrics and indicators, model dynamics, failure modes, and conditions under which the framework should not be applied. While the current version is conceptual, it is designed to support future empirical validation through case studies, longitudinal observation, and comparative analysis.
This repository serves as the canonical, versioned record of the PINES framework and its ongoing development