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Impact journals to participate at the AACR Annual Meeting 2025

Impact Journals LLC
Meeting Announcement

BUFFALO, NY- March 17, 2025 – Impact Journals is pleased to announce its participation as an exhibitor at the upcoming American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2025. The meeting is scheduled for April 25-30, 2025, at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois.

Pro-life people partly motivated to prevent casual sex, study finds

Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research in Social Psychological and Personality Science challenges how most pro-life individuals justify their views on abortion.

Journal: Social Psychological and Personality Science

Aston University study reveals the illusion of ‘dazzle’ paint on World War I battleships

Aston University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new analysis of 105-year-old data on the effectiveness of ‘dazzle’ camouflage on battleships in World War I by Aston University researchers Professor Tim Meese and Dr Samantha Strong has found that while dazzle had some effect, the ‘horizon effect’ had far more influence when it came to confusing the enemy.

Journal: i-Perception

Spanish politicians respond less to women's demands than to those of men according to a UC3M and CSIC study

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), in collaboration with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC in the Spanish acronym), has carried out research to evaluate whether political representatives in Spain respond equally to the demands of women and men. The results of the study, which show a gender inequality in the political response to citizens' demands, could have implications both for the design of future public policies and for the debate on gender equality.

The "frontiers" of Southeast Iberian Bronze Age communities identified

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology have identified the economic and political borders separating El Argar, considered to be the first state-society in the Iberian Peninsula, from its La Mancha and Valencia Bronze Age neighbours some 4,000 years ago. These communities, with less centralised social structures, maintained complex relations with the Argaric culture. The study, based on an innovative analysis of pottery production and circulation, opens the door to identifying similar border dynamics in other European societies contemporary to El Argar, and understand how the first states were formed in prehistory.

Journal: Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

Attention can be used to drive cooperation – new study

University of Birmingham
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Our ability to cooperate with others may be influenced by how our attention is captured and directed, as much as by how altruistic we are feeling, according to a new study published in Communications Psychology.

Journal: Communications Psychology

Who does Darth Vader vote for? Not the same party as Harry Potter

University of Southampton
Peer-Reviewed Publication

People think that Harry Potter, Spiderman and Gandalf would vote the same way they do, whereas Darth Vader, Cruella de Vill and Joffrey Baratheon would vote for the rival party.

New research from the University of Southampton, published today [17 March] in the journal Political Science Research & Method, shows how people in the UK and USA believe that fictional characters they admire would share their voting preferences, while those they dislike would vote the other way.

Journal: Political Science Research and Methods