Background A rapidly growing body of research demonstrates that conspiratorial ideation is related to less accuracy, more overconfidence, and more reliance on intuition.Yet, the bulk of this research has focused on belief in conspiracy theories rather than conspiracy theorists.As such it remains unclear whether all conspiracy theorists are equally

The cost of reproduction hypothesis suggests that current reproduction has inherent tradeoffs with future reproduction.These tradeoffs can be both in the form of energy allocated to current offspring as opposed to somatic maintenance and future reproduction (allocation costs), or as an increase in mortality as a result of morphological or physiolog

The torque converter is a kind of fluid coupling that is widely used as a start-up device for automobiles equipped with an automatic transmission.A lock-up clutch is often incorporated in the torque converter in order to improve vehicle fuel economy in the higher speed ratio range.This improvement is obtained because the lock-up clutch can reduce f

Fungi are essential players in the maintenance of global coffee productivity, but their taxonomic and functional diversity in clairemax nude tropical and subtropical soils of Latin America remains largely unexplored.To address this concern, soil fungi were surveyed in six farms in three traditional coffee-growing regions of Colombia (Cauca, Magdale