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    | Open Access

    There is extreme socioeconomic segregation in large US cities, arising from a greater choice of differentiated spaces targeted to specific socioeconomic groups, which can be countered by positioning city hubs (such as shopping centres) to bridge diverse neighbourhoods.

    • Hamed Nilforoshan
    • , Wenli Looi
    •  & Jure Leskovec

  • Letter |

    An intergenerational cooperation game has been developed to study decision-making regarding resource use: when decisions about resource extraction were made individually the resource was rapidly depleted by a minority of defectors; the resource was sustainably maintained across generations, however, when decisions were made democratically by voting.

    • Oliver P. Hauser
    • , David G. Rand
    •  & Martin A. Nowak

  • Outlook |

    Better thought-out town planning and interior design can create healthier environments, but how to effectively implement the best designs remains uncertain.

    • Duncan Graham-Rowe

  • World View |

    The problem isn’t the public’s reasoning capacity; it’s the polluted science-communication environment that drives people apart, says Dan Kahan.

    • Dan Kahan

  • Books & Arts |

    James H. Fowler applauds a master biologist's model of the evolution of sociality.

    • James H. Fowler

  • Opinion |

    To understand human psychology, behavioural scientists must stop doing most of their experiments on Westerners, argue Joseph Henrich, Steven J. Heine and Ara Norenzayan.

    • Joseph Henrich
    • , Steven J. Heine
    •  & Ara Norenzayan

  • News Feature |

    Last year, functional magnetic resonance imaging made its debut in court. Virginia Hughes asks whether the technique is ready to weigh in on the fate of murderers.

    • Virginia Hughes

  • Books & Arts |

    In Country Driving, the final book in his China trilogy, Peter Hessler recounts his 11,000-kilometre drive across China to see at first hand the effects of rapid industrialization. The New Yorker journalist explains how mass migration to cities brings out people's resourcefulness, but also how the speed of social and environmental change leads them to seek meaning in their lives.

    • Jane Qiu

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