Sunday, August 27, 2017

Anti-Profit Beliefs: How People Neglect the Societal Benefits of Profit

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Anti-Profit Beliefs: How People Neglect the Societal Benefits of Profit. Amit Bhattacharjee, Jason Dana & Jonathan Baron. Journal of Per...

Sectarianism and Social Conformity: Evidence from Egypt

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Sectarianism and Social Conformity: Evidence from Egypt. Steven Brooke. Political Research Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129177176...

Biomarkers and Long-term Labour Market Outcomes: The Case of Creatine

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Biomarkers and Long-term Labour Market Outcomes: The Case of Creatine. Petri Böckerman et al. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organizatio...

The Effect of a Supreme Court Decision Regarding Gay Marriage on Social Norms and Personal Attitudes

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The Effect of a Supreme Court Decision Regarding Gay Marriage on Social Norms and Personal Attitudes. Margaret Tankard and Elizabeth Levy Pa...

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The Effect of Violent Crime on Economic Mobility. Patrick Sharkey and Gerard Torrats-Espinosa Journal of Urban Economics, Volume 102, Novemb...

Anger Promotes Economic Conservatism

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Anger Promotes Economic Conservatism. Keri Kettle and Anthony Salerno. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1177/0...

Assessing the accuracy of perceptions of intelligence based on heritable facial features

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Assessing the accuracy of perceptions of intelligence based on heritable facial features. Anthony J.Lee et al. Intelligence, vol. 64, Septem...

More education reduces religiosity, religious acts and superstitious beliefs

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Compulsory Schooling Laws and Formation of Beliefs: Education, Religion and Superstition. Naci Mocan, Luiza Pogorelov. Journal of Economic B...

People attributed more free will to morally good actions than morally neutral ones

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Are morally good actions ever free? Cory J Clark et al. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319182636_Are_morally_good_actions_ever_fre...
Saturday, August 26, 2017

Income Redistribution Predicts Greater Life Satisfaction Across Individual, National, and Cultural Characteristics

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Income Redistribution Predicts Greater Life Satisfaction Across Individual, National, and Cultural Characteristics. Felix Cheung. Journal of...

Did You Reject Me for Someone Else? Rejections That Are Comparative Feel Worse

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Did You Reject Me for Someone Else? Rejections That Are Comparative Feel Worse. Sebastian Deri, Emily M. Zitek. Personality and Social Psych...

Review of Thomas Laqueur's The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains

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Back from the Underworld. By Marina Warner. Review of Thomas Laqueur's The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains. http...

The Religious Observance of Ramadan and Prosocial Behavior

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The Religious Observance of Ramadan and Prosocial Behavior. Ernan Haruvy, Christos Ioannou and Farnoush Golshirazi. Economic Inquiry, http...

Something to celebrate (or not): The differing impact of promotion to manager on the job satisfaction of women and men

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Something to celebrate (or not): The differing impact of promotion to manager on the job satisfaction of women and men. Daniela Lup. Work, E...
Friday, August 25, 2017

Yawning Detection Sensitivity and Yawning Contagion

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Yawning Detection Sensitivity and Yawning Contagion. Meingold H. M. Chan, Chia-Huei Tseng. i-Perception, Volume: 8 issue: 4, https://doi.org...

Fertile Women Discount the Future: Conception Risk and Impulsivity Are Independently Associated with Financial Decisions

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Fertile Women Discount the Future: Conception Risk and Impulsivity Are Independently Associated with Financial Decisions. Margery Lucas and ...

The efficiency of local government: The role of privatization and public sector unions

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The efficiency of local government: The role of privatization and public sector unions. Rhiannon Jerch, Matthew E.Kahn and Shanjun Li. Journ...
Thursday, August 24, 2017

Beyond Black and White: Suspension Disparities for Hispanic, Asian, and White Youth

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Beyond Black and White: Suspension Disparities for Hispanic, Asian, and White Youth. Mark Alden Morgan & John Paul Wright. Criminal Just...

In God we trust? Neural measures reveal lower social conformity among non-religious individuals

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In God we trust? Neural measures reveal lower social conformity among non-religious individuals. Ravi Thiruchselvam et al. Social Cognitive ...

The prevalence of discrimination across racial groups in contemporary America: Results from a nationally representative sample of adults

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The prevalence of discrimination across racial groups in contemporary America: Results from a nationally representative sample of adults. Br...

Parents are asking for children who are able to drink socially, for business purposes

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in China some parents are asking for children who are able to drink socially, for business purposes, and thus trying to avoid some genes tha...

Breaking Magic: Foreign Language Suppresses Superstition

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Breaking Magic: Foreign Language Suppresses Superstition. Constantinos Hadjichristidis, Janet Geipel & Luca Surian. The Quarterly Journa...

The Impact of Abnormally Shaped Vegetables on Consumers’ Risk Perception

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The Impact of Abnormally Shaped Vegetables on Consumers’ Risk Perception. Natascha Loebnitz and Klaus G. Grunert. Food Quality and Preferenc...

Gender equality, value violations, and prejudice toward Muslims

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Gender equality, value violations, and prejudice toward Muslims. Aaron Moss et al. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, https://doi.o...

Do post-reproductive aged females promote maternal health? Preliminary evidence from historical populations

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Do post-reproductive aged females promote maternal health? Preliminary evidence from historical populations. Alison Gemmill and Ralph Catala...

The Future of Secularism: A Biologically Informed Theory Supplemented with Cross-Cultural Evidence

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The Future of Secularism: A Biologically Informed Theory Supplemented with Cross-Cultural Evidence. Lee Ellis et al. Evolutionary Psychologi...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

High rates (40%) of smokers enrolled in smoking cessation trials lie about their abstinence

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Scheuermann, T. S., Richter, K. P., Rigotti, N. A., Cummins, S. E., Harrington, K. F., Sherman, S. E., Zhu, S.-H., Tindle, H. A., Preacher, ...

Being similar while judging right and wrong: The effects of personal and situational similarity on moral judgements

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Pascal, E. (2017), Being similar while judging right and wrong: The effects of personal and situational similarity on moral judgements. Int ...

Freud: The Making of an Illusion, by Frederick Crews

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Freud: The Making of an Illusion, by Frederick Crews https://www.amazon.com/dp/1627797173/ref=rdr_ext_tmb Extracts: Source: ht...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Religion, Repulsion, and Reaction Formation: Transforming Repellent Attractions and Repulsions

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Religion, Repulsion, and Reaction Formation: Transforming Repellent Attractions and Repulsions. Dov Cohen, Emily Kim and Nathan Hudson. Jour...

Unintended Effects of Providing Risk Information About Drinking and Driving

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The Unintended Effects of Providing Risk Information About Drinking and Driving. Mark Johnson and Catalina Kopetz. Health Psychology, Jul 20...

Understatement of the year: People's ability to judge the veracity of their intuitions may be limited

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Can People Judge the Veracity of Their Intuitions? Stefan Leach and Mario Weick. Social Psychological and Personality Science, DOI: https://...

Dress and sex -- A majority of girls demonstrated appearance rigidity at least once

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Dress and sex: a review of empirical research involving human participants and published in refereed journals. Sharron J. Lennon et al. Fash...

Connecting the Dots: Illusory Pattern Perception Predicts Belief in Conspiracies and the Supernatural

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van Prooijen, J.-W., Douglas, K., and De Inocencio, C. (2017) Connecting the Dots: Illusory Pattern Perception Predicts Belief in Conspiraci...

Children acknowledge more negative self-conceptions when motivated to be truthful

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Thomaes, S., Brummelman, E. and Sedikides, C. (2017), Why Most Children Think Well of Themselves. Child Dev. doi:10.1111/cdev.12937 Abstract...

Children Expect More Giving From Resource-Rich Than Resource-Poor Individuals

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Ahl, R. E. and Dunham, Y. (2017), “Wealth Makes Many Friends”: Children Expect More Giving From Resource-Rich Than Resource-Poor Individuals...
Monday, August 21, 2017

Is There a Dark Side to Mindfulness? Relation of Mindfulness to Criminogenic Cognitions

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Is There a Dark Side to Mindfulness? Relation of Mindfulness to Criminogenic Cognitions. June Tangney et al. Personality and Social Psycholo...

Examining Regulatory Capture: Evidence from the NHL

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Examining Regulatory Capture: Evidence from the NHL. Gregory DeAngelo, Adam Nowak and Imke Reimers. Contemporary Economic Policy, doi:10.111...

Having power increases accuracy in perception of bodily signals

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Social Power Increases Interoceptive Accuracy. Mehrad Moeini-Jazani et al. Frontiers in Psychology, August 2017. https://doi.org/10.3389/fps...

Entwicklung der Punitivität und ausgewählter Einflussfaktoren in der deutschen Bevölkerung in den Jahren 2004 bis 2014

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Entwicklung der Punitivität und ausgewählter Einflussfaktoren in der deutschen Bevölkerung in den Jahren 2004 bis 2014 (Development of punit...