Wednesday, September 6, 2017

A randomized controlled evaluation of a secondary school mindfulness program for early adolescents

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A randomized controlled evaluation of a secondary school mindfulness program for early adolescents: Do we have the recipe right yet? Catheri...

Monopoly without a monopolist : An economic analysis of the bitcoin payment system

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Monopoly without a monopolist : An economic analysis of the bitcoin payment system. Jacob D. Leshno, Gur Huberman, and Ciamac Moallemi. BIS ...

Sabotaging Another: Priming Competition Increases Cheating Behavior in Tournaments

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Rigdon, M. L. and D'Esterre, A. (2017), Sabotaging Another: Priming Competition Increases Cheating Behavior in Tournaments. Southern Eco...

Decreased Brain pH as a Shared Endophenotype of Psychiatric Disorders

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Decreased Brain pH as a Shared Endophenotype of Psychiatric Disorders. Hideo Hagihara et al. Neuropsychopharmacology, Sept 06 2017; doi: 10....

The Impact of Price Controls: Evidence from US Debit Card Interchange Fee Regulation

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The Impact of Price Controls in Two-Sided Markets: Evidence from US Debit Card Interchange Fee Regulation. Mark Manuszak and Krzysztof Wozni...

Beliefs about obedience levels in studies conducted within the Milgram paradigm

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Beliefs about obedience levels in studies conducted within the Milgram paradigm; Better than average effect and comparisons of typical behav...

Self-reflection Orients Visual Attention Downward

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Self-reflection Orients Visual Attention Downward. Yi Liu, Yu Tong and Hong Li. Front. Psychol., Sept 05 2017, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg...

Great Ape Social Attention

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Great Ape Social Attention. Fumihiro Kano and Josep Call. Evolution of the Brain, Cognition, and Emotion in Vertebrates pp 187-206, https://...

Evolutionary Origin of Empathy and Inequality Aversion

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Evolutionary Origin of Empathy and Inequality Aversion. Shigeru Watanabe and Yutaka Kosaki. Evolution of the Brain, Cognition, and Emotion i...
Tuesday, September 5, 2017

The effect of taste and label on the liking of cola drinks by school children: Taste did not have any significant effect

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Bartneck, Christoph, and Hanna Bartneck. 2017. “Interaction of Brand and Taste in the Liking of Cola Drinks by School Children”. PsyArXiv. A...

Individuals with greater science literacy and education have more polarized beliefs on controversial science topics

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Individuals with greater science literacy and education have more polarized beliefs on controversial science topics. Caitlin Drummond and Ba...

Seeing faces: The role of brand visual processing and social connection in brand liking

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Seeing faces: The role of brand visual processing and social connection in brand liking. Ulrich Orth et al. European Journal of Social Psych...

Consumers perceive that a product made by mistake is more improbable, and thus, more unique than an intentional one

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Made by Mistake: When Mistakes Increase Product Preference. Taly Reich, Daniella Kupor and Rosanna Smith. Journal of Consumer Research, http...

Hidden Cost of Insurance on Cooperation: the presumed safeguard against the risk of betrayal may increase the probability of betrayal

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van de Calseyde, P. P. F. M., Keren, G., and Zeelenberg, M. (2017) The Hidden Cost of Insurance on Cooperation. Journal of Behavioral Decisi...

Still an Agenda Setter: Traditional News Media and Public Opinion During the Transition From Low to High Choice Media Environments

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Djerf-Pierre, M. and Shehata, A. (2017), Still an Agenda Setter: Traditional News Media and Public Opinion During the Transition From Low to...

Women are more compassionate than men, but that does not explain the gender gap in partisanship

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Blinder, S. and Rolfe, M. (2017), Rethinking Compassion: Toward a Political Account of the Partisan Gender Gap in the United States. Politic...

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How Dodd-Frank Doubles Down on 'Too Big to Fail' Two major flaws mean that the act doesn't address problems that led to the fi...

Meritocracy Not Racial Discrimination Explains the Racial Income Gap: An Analysis of NLSY 1979

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Kirkegaard, Emil O W. 2017. “Meritocracy Not Racial Discrimination Explains the Racial Income Gap: An Analysis of NLSY 1979”. PsyArXiv. Sept...

Minimum wage increases increase the likelihood that low-skilled workers in automatable jobs become unemployed

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People Versus Machines: The Impact of Minimum Wages on Automatable Jobs. Grace Lordan and David Neumark. NBER Working Paper, August 2017, ht...

A corporate income tax cut can reduce the non-employment rate by up to 7pct

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Corporate Income Tax, Legal Form of Organization, and Employment. Daphne Chen, Shi Shao Qi and Don Schlagenhauf. Federal Reserve Working Pap...

Studying the Effect of Hard and Soft News Exposure on Mental Well-Being Over Time

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Studying the Effect of Hard and Soft News Exposure on Mental Well-Being Over Time. Mark Boukes and Rens Vliegenthart. Journal of Media Psych...

Trash-talking: Competitive incivility motivates rivalry, performance, and unethical behavior

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Trash-talking: Competitive incivility motivates rivalry, performance, and unethical behavior. Jeremy Yip, Maurice Schweitzer & Samir Nur...

Changes in the Subjectively Experienced Severity of Detention: Exploring Individual Differences

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Changes in the Subjectively Experienced Severity of Detention: Exploring Individual Differences. Ellen A. C. Raaijmakers et al. The Prison J...
Monday, September 4, 2017

Revisiting the risk of automation

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Revisiting the risk of automation. Melanie Arntz, Terry Gregory and Ulrich Zierahn. Economics Letters, Volume 159, October 2017, Pages 157-1...

Adult sex ratios and partner scarcity among hunter–gatherers: Implications for dispersal patterns and the evolution of human sociality

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Adult sex ratios and partner scarcity among hunter–gatherers: Implications for dispersal patterns and the evolution of human sociality. Kare...

Languages in Drier Climates Use Fewer Vowels

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Languages in Drier Climates Use Fewer Vowels. Caleb Everett. Frontiers in Psychology, July 2017, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01285 Ab...

Tennis grunts communicate acoustic cues to sex and contest outcome

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Tennis grunts communicate acoustic cues to sex and contest outcome. Jordan Raine, Katarzyna Pisanski & David Reby. Animal Behaviour, Vol...

The Perverse Effects of Subsidized Weather Insurance

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Omri Ben-Shahar & Kyle D. Logue, "The Perverse Effects of Subsidized Weather Insurance," 68 Stanford Law Review 571 (2016). Ab...

Correcting for Bias in Psychology: A Comparison of Meta-analytic Methods

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Carter, Evan C, Felix D Schönbrodt, Will M Gervais, and Joseph Hilgard. 2017. “Correcting for Bias in Psychology: A Comparison of Meta-analy...

Ovulatory Changes in Sexuality

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Arslan, Ruben C, Katharina M Schilling, Tanja M Gerlach, and Lars Penke. 2017. “Ovulatory Changes in Sexuality”. PsyArXiv. September 4. http...

The effect of the presence of an audience on risk-taking while gambling: the social shield

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The effect of the presence of an audience on risk-taking while gambling: the social shield. Jérémy E. Lemoine & Christine Roland-Lévy. S...

Aggression and sleep: a daylight saving time natural experiment on the effect of mild sleep loss and gain on assaults

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Aggression and sleep: a daylight saving time natural experiment on the effect of mild sleep loss and gain on assaults. Rebecca Umbach, Adria...
Sunday, September 3, 2017

Emodiversity: Robust Predictor of Outcomes or Statistical Artifact?

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Brown, N. J. L., & Coyne, J. C. (2017). Emodiversity: Robust Predictor of Outcomes or Statistical Artifact? Journal of Experimental Psyc...

Big Data Surveillance: The Case of Policing

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Big Data Surveillance: The Case of Policing. Sarah Brayne. American Sociological Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122417725865 Abstract: ...

How quickly can we adapt to change? An assessment of hurricane damage mitigation efforts using forecast uncertainty.

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How quickly can we adapt to change? An assessment of hurricane damage mitigation efforts using forecast uncertainty. By Andrew Martinez ...

Sex differences in jealousy: the (Lack of) influence of researcher theoretical perspective

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Sex differences in jealousy: the (Lack of) influence of researcher theoretical perspective. John Edlund et al. The Journal of Social Psychol...

Kevin Bryan on “The Development Effects of the Extractive Colonial Economy,” M. Dell & B. Olken

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Kevin Bryan's comments on “The Development Effects of the Extractive Colonial Economy,” M. Dell & B. Olken (2017). Find the full t...
Saturday, September 2, 2017

Much ado about grit: A meta-analytic synthesis of the grit literature

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Credé, M., Tynan, M. C., & Harms, P. D. (2017). Much ado about grit: A meta-analytic synthesis of the grit literature. Journal of Person...

We cannot be impartial most of the time... Our judgement gets clouded by our political preferences --- again

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Kahan, Dan M. and Peters, Ellen, Rumors of the 'Nonreplication' of the 'Motivated Numeracy Effect' are Greatly Exaggerated (...

Facial Width-to-height Ratio Does Not Predict Self-reported Behavioral Tendencies

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Kosinski, Michal. 2017. “Facial Width-to-height Ratio Does Not Predict Self-reported Behavioral Tendencies”. PsyArXiv. September 2. doi:10.1...

Contrary to the hypothesis, predicted pleasure eating sweets was significantly lower than observed pleasure

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Fallon, Matthew D., "The Role of Affective Forecasting and the Impact Bias in Nutritional Health Behaviors" (2017). Grand Valley S...
Friday, September 1, 2017

The estimated 79% heritability of schizophrenia is congruent with previous reports and indicates a substantial genetic risk

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Heritability of schizophrenia and schizophrenia spectrum based on the nationwide Danish Twin Register. Rikke Hilker, MD, PhD. Biological Psy...

Superior Pattern Detectors Efficiently Learn, Activate, Apply, and Update Social Stereotypes

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Superior Pattern Detectors Efficiently Learn, Activate, Apply, and Update Social Stereotypes. David Lick, Adam Alter and Jonathan Freeman. J...

Group identity as a source of threat and means of compensation: Establishing personal control through group identification and ideology

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Goode, C., Keefer, L. A., Branscombe, N. R., and Molina, L. E. (2017) Group identity as a source of threat and means of compensation: Establ...

Hispanics choose vehicles that are about 5-8% more expensive

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Visible Consumption and Race: Evidence from Auto-Loans. Konstantinos Tzioumis. U.S. Department of the Treasury Working Paper, July 2017. A...

Similarities in smell and taste preferences in couples increase with relationship duration

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Similarities in smell and taste preferences in couples increase with relationship duration. Agata Groyecka et al. Appetite, https://doi.org/...

Bias and ignorance in demographic perception -- part of a very general pattern of human psychology

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Bias and ignorance in demographic perception. D. Landy, B. Guay and T. Marghetis. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, https://link.springer.c...
Thursday, August 31, 2017

Visually conspicuous vehicle modifications influence perceptions of male owner's reproductive strategy and attractiveness

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Visually conspicuous vehicle modifications influence perceptions of male owner's reproductive strategy and attractiveness. Daniel J. Kru...

Openness to Experience and Conscientiousness are consistent predictors of authoritarian tendencies

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The Prejudiced Personality? Using the Big Five to Predict Susceptibility to Stereotyping Behavior. Philip Chen and Carl Palmer. American Pol...

Keeping Minorities Happy: Hierarchy Maintenance and Whites’ Decreased Support for Highly Identified White Politicians

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Keeping Minorities Happy: Hierarchy Maintenance and Whites’ Decreased Support for Highly Identified White Politicians. Sora Jun, Brian Lower...

The Evil Eye: Eye Gaze and Competitiveness in Social Decision Making

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Giacomantonio, M., Jordan, J., Federico, F., van den Assem, M. J., and van Dolder, D. (2017) The Evil Eye: Eye Gaze and Competitiveness in S...

Adding Insult to Injury: Sex, Sexual Orientation, and Juror Decision Making in a Case of Intimate Partner Violence

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Adding Insult to Injury: Sex, Sexual Orientation, and Juror Decision Making in a Case of Intimate Partner Violence. Marissa Stanziani, Jenni...

Gender differences in SCRABBLE performance and associated engagement in purposeful practice activities

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Gender differences in SCRABBLE performance and associated engagement in purposeful practice activities. Jerad H. Moxley, K. Anders Ericsson ...