‘Mind-reading’ requires the ability to put yourself in someone else’s shoes, predicting their actions and reading their emotions.
From left; Prime Minister of Cote d'Ivoire Patrick Achi, President of Togo Faure Gnassingbe, President of Benin Patrice Talon, and President of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo.
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Cancer cells are ‘cheaters’ that do not cooperate with the rest of the body. Certain microbes in your diet can either protect against or promote tumor formation by influencing cell cooperation.
The border crossing into Togo from Benin is a busy route for citizens.
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Researchers have discovered that great white sharks are more social than previously thought. Using specialized tags, they tracked six sharks and found that some stay close to each other when hunting.
It’s virtually impossible to make and maintain eye contact during videoconferencing.
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Eye contact is essential for building and developing trust. But after more than a year of working and socializing online, our ability to make and maintain eye contact has been diminished.
The ongoing tension between the US and China should encourage Indonesia to strengthen ties with nontraditional partners, like the Gulf states.
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Key areas for cooperation between Indonesia and the Gulf countries are trade and investment, multilateralism, pandemic mitigation, and cultural exchange.
In Gabon, sampling of bats in the framework of the EBOSURSY project. The objective is to promote the improvement of early detection systems in wild animals to prevent Ebola and other emerging diseases.
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Valérie Verdier, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD); Olivier Dangles, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD); Philippe Charvis, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), and Philippe Cury, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
The period in which we are living is conducive to reflection in order to co-construct new knowledge systems and think research differently.
Pedestrians walk past a waste bin for disposable face masks in Aarhus Center, Denmark.
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Rather than a vaccine to beef up your immune system, a psychoactive substance could boost your cooperative, pro-social behavior – curtailing the selfish actions that spur on coronavirus’s spread.
Our desire to condemn and punish non-cooperative behaviour is strong. But we must also try to understand the complex emotional motivations of those refusing to wear masks.
Taiwan celebrates a third week of zero cases of COVID-19 infection on April 17.
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