Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Love Death—A Retrospective and Prospective Follow-Up Mortality Study Over 45 Years

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Lange L, Zedler B, Verhoff MA, Parzeller M. Love Death—A Retrospective and Prospective Follow-Up Mortality Study Over 45 Years. The Journal ...

Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?

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Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find? Nicholas Bloom, Charles I. Jones, John Van Reenen, and Michael Webb. NBER Working Paper No. 23782. www.nbe...

When Will Negotiation Agents Be Able to Represent Us? The Challenges and Opportunities for Autonomous Negotiators

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When Will Negotiation Agents Be Able to Represent Us? The Challenges and Opportunities for Autonomous Negotiators. Tim Baarslag, Michael Kai...

The Role of a "Common Is Moral" Heuristic in the Stability and Change of Moral Norms

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The Role of a "Common Is Moral" Heuristic in the Stability and Change of Moral Norms. Lindström B, Jangard S, Selbing I, and Olsso...

Our moral balance sheet: Compensating our bad and good deeds

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An experimental analysis of moral self-regulation. Erdem Seçilmiş.  Applied Economics Letters, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2017.13745...

Homosexual acts may help impair reproduction by rivals --- for example, a male imitating a female

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Male reproductive suppression: not a social affair- Z. Valentina Zizzari, Andrea Jessen, and Joris M. Koene. Current Zoology, Volume 63, Iss...

The Facilitating Effect of Schadenfreude on Creativity

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A Route to Insight via Another’s Pain: The Facilitating Effect of Schadenfreude on Creativity. Sara L. Wheeler-Smith, Amir Erez, and Elisabe...

Are We Jumping to Unfounded Conclusions About the Causes of Sexual Offending?

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“I Know Correlation Doesn’t Prove Causation, but . . .”: Are We Jumping to Unfounded Conclusions About the Causes of Sexual Offending? Kevin...

Robot Rejection Lowers Self-Esteem

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The Bionic Blues: Robot Rejection Lowers Self-Esteem. Kyle Nash et al. Computers in Human Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.09.01...
Monday, September 11, 2017

Placebo can enhance creativity

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Placebo can enhance creativity. Liron Rozenkrantz, Avraham E. Mayo, Tomer Ilan, Yuval Hart, Lior Noy, and Uri Alon. PLOS One, https://doi.or...

Brain indices of disagreement with one’s social values predict EU referendum voting behavior

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Brain indices of disagreement with one’s social values predict EU referendum voting behavior. Giulia Galli, Miroslav Sirota, Maurizio Matera...

Differences in home advantage between sports

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Differences in home advantage between sports. Marshall B. Jones. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2017...

Parents Who Pay to Be Watched - Behaviorally Architecting the Family

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Parents Who Pay to Be Watched. Kim Brooks. The Cut, Aug 22 2017, https://www.thecut.com/2017/08/cognition-builders-family-intervention-paren...

Resource depletion through primate stone technology

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Resource depletion through primate stone technology. Lydia V Luncz, Amanda Tan, Michael Haslam, Lars Kulik, Tomos Proffitt, Suchinda Malaivi...

Coolness as a trait and its relations to the Big Five, self-esteem, social desirability, and action orientation

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Coolness as a trait and its relations to the Big Five, self-esteem, social desirability, and action orientation. Ilan Dar-Nimrod, , Asha Gan...

Entrepreneurs' subjective success not related to objective business performance over time

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Well-Being, Personal Success and Business Performance Among Entrepreneurs: A Two-Wave Study. Josette Dijkhuizen et al. Journal of Happiness ...
Sunday, September 10, 2017

Epidemiology and prosecution of sexual violence against women in Germany

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Epidemiology and prosecution of sexual violence against women in Germany (Epidemiologie und Strafverfolgung sexueller Gewalt gegen Frauen in...

Increased task-related neural responses when infected may reflect a compensatory strategy or a greater social cognitive processing as a function of sickness

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Experimental human endotoxemia enhances brain activity during social cognition. Jennifer S. Kullmann, Jan-Sebastian Grigoleit, Oliver T. Wol...

Sunstein: Misconceptions About Nudges

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Sunstein, Cass R., Misconceptions About Nudges (September 6, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3033101 Abstract: ...

Effects of elevated CO2 concentration on growth and photosynthesis of Chinese yam under different temperature regimes

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Effects of elevated CO2 concentration on growth and photosynthesis of Chinese yam under different temperature regimes. Nguyen Cong Thinh, Hi...

On multi-level thinking and scientific understanding

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McIntyre, M. E., 2017: On multi-level thinking and scientific understanding. Adv. Atmos. Sci., 34(10), 1150–1158, doi: 10.1007/s00376-017-62...

Warm Periods in the 20th Century Not Unprecedented during the Last 2000 Years

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Warm Periods in the 20th Century Not Unprecedented during the Last 2000 Years. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Press Release, Aug 08, 2017. In...

Climate-driven variability in the occurrence of major floods across North America and Europe

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G.A. Hodgkins et al., Climate-driven variability in the occurrence of major floods across North America and Europe, Journal of Hydrology , ...

Is procedural memory enhanced in Tourette syndrome?

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Is procedural memory enhanced in Tourette syndrome? Evidence from a sequence learning task.     Ádám Takács et al. Cortex, https://doi.org/1...
Saturday, September 9, 2017

Analyzing a tool of IS propaganda: Ibn ʿAbdul-Wahhāb’s "Mufīd al-Mustafīd fī Kufr Tārik al-Tawḥīd"

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Analyzing a tool of IS propaganda: Ibn ʿAbdul-Wahhāb’s "Mufīd al-Mustafīd fī Kufr Tārik al-Tawḥīd". Joe Bradford.  Draft Paper pre...

Al-Qadā’ wa-l-Qadr: motivational representations of divine decree and predestination in salafi-jihadi literature

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Al - Qadā’ wa - l - Qadr : motivational representations of divine decree and predestination in salafi-jihadi literature. Shiraz Maher &...

Deliberation increases the wisdom of crowds

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Deliberation increases the wisdom of crowds. Joaquin Navajas, Tamara Niella, Gerry Garbulsky, Bahador Bahrami, Mariano Sigman. ArXiv Mar 201...

The devoted actor’s will to fight and the spiritual dimension of human conflict

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The devoted actor’s will to fight and the spiritual dimension of human conflict. Angel Gomez et al. Nature Human Behaviour 1, 673–679 (2017)...

Not Threat, But Threatening: Potential Causes and Consequences of Gay Innumeracy

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Not Threat, But Threatening: Potential Causes and Consequences of Gay Innumeracy. Donald P Haider-Markel & Mark R Joslyn. Journal of Hom...

Hedonic Recall Bias. Why You Should Not Ask People How Much They Earn

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Hedonic Recall Bias. Why You Should Not Ask People How Much They Earn. Alberto Prati. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, https...

Psychological influences of animal-themed food decorations

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Psychological influences of animal-themed food decorations. Kohske Takahashi, Haruaki Fukuda, Katsumi Watanabe, Kazuhiro Uedab. Food Quality...
Friday, September 8, 2017

Estimates of Non-Heterosexual Prevalence: The Roles of Anonymity and Privacy in Survey Methodology

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Estimates of Non-Heterosexual Prevalence: The Roles of Anonymity and Privacy in Survey Methodology. Ronald E. Robertson et al. Archives of S...

Emotions Know Best: The Advantage of Emotional versus Cognitive Responses to Failure

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Nelson, N., Malkoc, S. A., and Shiv, B. (2017) Emotions Know Best: The Advantage of Emotional versus Cognitive Responses to Failure. J. Beha...

Chilldren unable to solve school arithmetic problems were able to solve similar ones when framed as market transactions

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The untapped math skills of working children in India: Evidence, possible explanations, and implications. Abhijit V. Banerjee et al. MIT Eco...

Observing Others’ Anger and Guilt Can Make You Feel Unfairly Treated: The Interpersonal Effects of Emotions on Justice-Related Reactions

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Observing Others’ Anger and Guilt Can Make You Feel Unfairly Treated: The Interpersonal Effects of Emotions on Justice-Related Reactions. An...
Thursday, September 7, 2017

Associations of fats and carbohydrate intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 18 countries from five continents (PURE): A prospective cohort study.

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Associations of fats and carbohydrate intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 18 countries from five continents (PURE): A prospe...

Examining the “Veggie” personality: Results from a representative German sample

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Examining the “Veggie” personality: Results from a representative German sample. Tamara M. Pfeiler and Boris Egloff. Appetite, https://doi.o...

Stylized and photographic eye images do not increase charitable donations in a field experiment

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Stylized and photographic eye images do not increase charitable donations in a field experiment. Paul Lennon, Rachel Grant, and V. Tamara Mo...

If mice could read, they would read the scandals in the tabloid press

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Social inequality aversion in mice: Analysis with stress-induced hyperthermia and behavioral preference. Shigeru Watanabe. Learning and Moti...

Higher long-term lithium levels in drinking water may be associated with less dementia

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Association of Lithium in Drinking Water With the Incidence of Dementia. Lars Vedel Kessing et al. JAMA Psychiatry, http://jamanetwork.com/j...

A 10% increase in minimum wage is associated with a 1%–4% reduction to employment rates for teens

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Employment Effects of the Minimum Wage: Panel Data Evidence from Canadian Provinces. Kate Rybczynski and Anindya Sen. Contemporary Economic ...

Deep Neural Networks Are More Accurate Than Humans at Detecting Sexual Orientation from Facial Images

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Kosinski, Michal, and Yilun Wang. 2017. “Deep Neural Networks Are More Accurate Than Humans at Detecting Sexual Orientation from Facial Imag...
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...