Dispersal is crucial for gene flow and often determines the long-term stability of meta-populations, particularly in rare species with specialized life cycles. Such species are often foci of conservation efforts because they suffer disproportionally from degradation and fragmentation of their habitat. However, detailed knowledge of effective gene flow through dispersal is often missing, so that...

In the absence of evidence to the contrary, population models generally assume that the dispersal trajectories of animals are random, but systematic dispersal could be more efficient at detecting new habitat and may therefore constitute a more realistic assumption. Here, we investigate, by means of simulations, the properties of a potentially widespread systematic dispersal strategy termed "for...

Psychologists of many subfields are becoming increasingly interested in the geographical distribution psychological phenomena. An integral part this new stream geo-psychological studies is to visualize spatial distributions phenomena maps. However, most psychologists not trained visualizing data. As a result, almost all existing rely on basic mapping technique: color-coding disaggregated data (...

Satirical news and its effects on outcomes such as appreciation persuasion have gained considerable currency a topic of research in mass communication studies. Through the framework construal level theory, we investigated whether different levels spatial distance influence these effects. In between-subjects experiment, participants United Kingdom (UK; n = 282) New Zealand (NZ; 370) read satiric...