Human behaviour articles from across Nature Portfolio

The discovery of a rib fragment from Baishiya Karst Cave greatly extends the presence of Denisovan hominins on the Tibetan Plateau. In-depth analyses of fossilized animal bones from the same site show that Denisovans made full use of the available animal resources.

Brough et al. find that speakers exhibit a ‘like me’ bias, mentioning people who are more like them first and thus highlighting the perspectives of their own social groups.

Procrastination is often viewed as innocuous as long as deadlines are met but it is associated with negative life outcomes. In this Review, Mahy et al. bring together procrastination research in adults and children and explore their mutual implications for measurement, theory and interventions.

People tend to be more cautious and slow down their responses after making a mistake. Paradoxically, this doesn’t always lead to performance improvement. Here, the authors show that, even when given ample time, people are still more error-prone after they have already committed an error.

It’s a transformational time long neglected by neuroscience. That is starting to change.

People with intellectual disability are underrepresented and often actively excluded from autism research. A better understanding of autism requires inclusive research approaches that accurately represent the broad heterogeneity of the autistic population.

Rania Awaad explains how her faith has shaped her research career, and the Islamic principles that guide her mentorship of junior scholars.

Cross-cultural and interdisciplinary work is needed to advance understanding of naturalistic human behaviour. Exemplifying this approach, two Reviews in Nature Reviews Psychology consider how perception of and responses to music diverge and align across the world.