Developing countries as a whole have been remarkably successful in diversifying their economies and their export structures. This process of diversification has taken many forms. The most prominent change has been the shift towards industry. In the 1960’s, some 80% of developing country exports were primary commodities; today, almost 80% are industrial products. This massive transformation in e...

One overarching research question in cognitive science concerns how information from perception and memory is processed and integrated in order to achieve robust, efficient, and adaptive behaviour in space, as is necessary in wayfinding. Examining this integration is quite complicated, entailing an understanding of learning strategies, spatial memory representations of static and dynamic relati...

Even when environmental data quantify the risks and benefits of delayed responses to rapid anthropogenic change, institutions rarely respond promptly. We propose that narratives complementing environmental datasets can motivate responsive environmental policy. To explore this idea, we relate a case study in which a narrative of economic loss due to regionally rapid ocean acidification-an anthro...

In this article, we address a number of issues surrounding biological models of personality traits. Most traditional and many contemporary biological models of personality traits assume that biological systems underlying personality traits are causal and immutable. In contrast, sociogenomic biology, which we introduce to readers in this article, directly contradicts the widely held assumption t...

A novel approach to equip robots with human-like capabilities is to use meta-psychology – the theoretic foundation of psychoanalysis. We used meta-psychology as archetype for a decision making framework to control a robot. This has been achieved recently in theory and in software simulation. However, when moving to a real robotic platform, additional things have to be considered. In this articl...