Monday, September 25, 2017

Contradicting effects of self-insight: Self-insight can conditionally contribute to increased depressive symptoms

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Contradicting effects of self-insight: Self-insight can conditionally contribute to increased depressive symptoms. Miho Nakajima, Keisuke Ta...

Sleep pressure after sleep deprivation in flies can be counteracted by raising their sexual arousal

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Regulation of sleep homeostasis by sexual arousal. Esteban J Beckwith et al. eLife 2017;6:e27445 doi: 10.7554/eLife.27445 Abstract: In all...

Do casual gaming environments evoke stereotype threat? Examining the effects of explicit priming and avatar gender

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Do casual gaming environments evoke stereotype threat? Examining the effects of explicit priming and avatar gender. Linda K. Kaye. Charlotte...

Hypocognition impoverishes one’s mental world, leaving cognitive deficits in recognition, explanation & memory while fueling social chauvinism & conflict in political & cultural spheres

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Wu, K., & Dunning, D. (2017). Hypocognition: Making Sense of the Landscape Beyond One’s Conceptual Reach. Review of General Psychology, ...

We remember lies better than truths, but we expect the opposite

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Besken, M. (2017). Generating Lies Produces Lower Memory Predictions and Higher Memory Performance Than Telling the Truth: Evidence for a Me...

Cheap Renewable Contracts Could Be Options In Disguise

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Cheap Renewable Contracts Could Be Options In Disguise Financial Times, September 25 2017 https://www.ft.com/content/f19f4944-a11a-11e7-b7...

Subsidy-Free Wind Farms Risk Ruining the Industry’s Reputation

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Subsidy-Free Wind Farms Risk Ruining the Industry’s Reputation. By Jess Shankleman Bloomberg, September 19, 2017 + September...

The robotic system has reduced rejects from 20 pct to 5 pct, mostly due to improvements in hygiene & handling

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Spanish farm produce supplier reduces human workers from 500 to 100 using robots. David Edwards. Robotics & Automation News, September 1...
Sunday, September 24, 2017

Perverse Consequences of Well Intentioned Regulation: Evidence from India's Child Labor Ban

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Perverse Consequences of Well Intentioned Regulation: Evidence from India's Child Labor Ban. Prashant Bharadwaj, Leah K. Lakdawala, and ...

Dark Personalities on Facebook: Harmful Online Behaviors and Language

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Dark Personalities on Facebook: Harmful Online Behaviors and Language. Olga Bogolyubova et al. Computers in Human Behavior, https://doi.org/...

Individual differences in the effects of baby images on attitudes toward getting married

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Individual differences in the effects of baby images on attitudes toward getting married. Charles G. Lord, , Christopher J. Holland, and Sar...

European Paradox or Delusion—Are European Science and Economy Outdated?

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European Paradox or Delusion—Are European Science and Economy Outdated? Alonso Rodríguez-Navarro Francis Narin. Science and Public Policy, s...

The Mortality and Myocardial Effects of Antidepressants Are Moderated by Preexisting Cardiovascular Disease: A Meta-Analysis

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The Mortality and Myocardial Effects of Antidepressants Are Moderated by Preexisting Cardiovascular Disease: A Meta-Analysis. Maslej M.M. et...

‘Barbie Doll Syndrome’. A case report of body dysmorphic disorder

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„Das Barbie Syndrom“. Ein Fallbericht über die Körperdysmorphe Störung (=‘Barbie Doll Syndrome’. A case report of body dysmorphic disorder)....

Fake news and post-truth pronouncements are increasingly common, also in the sciences, including the medical ones

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Fake news and post-truth pronouncements in general and in early human development. Victor Grech. Early Human Development, https://doi.org/10...

Captive gorilla apparently trying to engage zoo visitors in a joint task of retrieving food with a stick

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Luef, E. M., & Heschl, A. (2017). Triadic interactions with tools in a gorilla. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 4(2), 136–145. https://do...
Saturday, September 23, 2017

The Stability of Implicit Racial Bias in Police Officers -- Policemen need to sleep better

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The Stability of Implicit Racial Bias in Police Officers. Lois James. Police Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1177/1098611117732974 Abstract: R...

Doctors should be more sensitive to the limitations of the evidence, training them to do critical appraisal, & enhancing their communication skills

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Ioannidis, J. P. A., Stuart, M. E., Brownlee, S. and Strite, S. A. (), How To Survive the Medical Misinformation Mess. Eur J Clin Invest. Ac...

Personality Change in the Preclinical Phase of Alzheimer Disease

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Personality Change in the Preclinical Phase of Alzheimer Disease. Antonio Terracciano et al. JAMA Psychiatry. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.201...

The Cognitive-Evolutionary Model of Surprise: A Review of the Evidence

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Reisenzein, R., Horstmann, G. and Schützwohl, A. (2017), The Cognitive-Evolutionary Model of Surprise: A Review of the Evidence. Topics in C...

Understanding the 2016 US Presidential Polls: The Importance of Hidden Trump Supporters

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Understanding the 2016 US Presidential Polls: The Importance of Hidden Trump Supporters. Peter Enns, Julius Lagodny and Jonathon Schuldt. St...

The Foreign Investor Bias and Its Linguistic Origins

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The Foreign Investor Bias and Its Linguistic Origins. Russell Lundholm, Nafis Rahman & Rafael Rogo. Management Science, https://doi.org/...

Altruists lie like the others unless lying hurts another party

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Do the Altruists Lie Less? Rudolf Kerschbamer, Daniel Neururer, and Alexander Gruber. August 28, 2017. https://ideas.repec.org/p/inn/wpaper/...
Friday, September 22, 2017

Mnemonic transmission, social contagion, and emergence of collective memory: Influence of emotional valence, group structure, and information distribution

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Choi, H.-Y., Kensinger, E. A., & Rajaram, S. (2017). Mnemonic transmission, social contagion, and emergence of collective memory: Influe...

Tattooed targets, especially women, were rated as stronger and more independent, but more negatively

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Tattoo or taboo? Tattoo stigma and negative attitudes toward tattooed individuals. Kristin A Broussard & Helen C Harton. The Journal of ...

How many laypeople holding a popular opinion are needed to counter an expert opinion?

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How many laypeople holding a popular opinion are needed to counter an expert opinion? Jos Hornikx, Adam J. L. Harris & Jordy Boekema. Th...

Invasive interventions are associated with substantially large placebo effects

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Route of Placebo Administration: Robust Placebo Effects in Laboratory and Clinical Settings. Tao Liu. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Revie...

Depression is not due to interaction of genetics and childhood trauma -- study of 5,765 subjects from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium

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Does childhood trauma moderate polygenic risk for depression? A meta-analysis of 5,765 subjects from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. Wo...

The Ugly Truth About Ourselves and Our Robot Creations: The Problem of Bias and Social Inequity

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As a preventive measure against possible complains in the future about bias, I share this: The Ugly Truth About Ourselves and Our Robot Cr...
Thursday, September 21, 2017

Revenue fell under receiverships: Can Europe Run Greece? Lessons from U.S. Fiscal Receiverships in Latin America, 1904-3

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Maurer, Noel and Arroyo Abad, Leticia, Can Europe Run Greece? Lessons from U.S. Fiscal Receiverships in Latin America, 1904-31 (June 13, 201...

Chimps do not “do what the others do” merely to fit in, nor suffer for attacks against non-group members

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Do Chimpanzees Conform to Social Norms? Laura Schlingloff, and Richard Moore. In The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds, Jul 2...

Genomic Imprinting Is Implicated in the Psychology of Music

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Genomic Imprinting Is Implicated in the Psychology of Music. Samuel Mehr et al. Psychological Science, https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797617711...

LGB respondents are more liberal than heterosexuals on 99 percent of 199 attitudinal items

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Schnabel, Landon. 2017. “Sexual Orientation and Social Attitudes”. SocArXiv. August 23. www.osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/73xsz Abstract: Gender...

Introverts emerge less as leaders because they engage in higher levels of forecasted negative affect

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The failure of introverts to emerge as leaders: The role of forecasted affect. Andrew Spark, Timothy Stansmore, and Peter O'Connor. Pers...

Disgust and Deontology: Trait Sensitivity to Contamination Promotes a Preference for Order, Hierarchy, and Rule-Based Moral Judgment

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Disgust and Deontology: Trait Sensitivity to Contamination Promotes a Preference for Order, Hierarchy, and Rule-Based Moral Judgment. Jeffre...

A Study of Political Candidacy Among Swedish Adoptees -- Strong transmission in candidacy status between rearing mothers and their daughter

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It Runs in the Family: A Study of Political Candidacy Among Swedish Adoptees. Oskarsson, S., Dawes, C.T. & Lindgren, KO. Polit Behav (20...

Immobile Australia: Surnames Show Strong Status Persistence, 1870–2017

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Immobile Australia: Surnames Show Strong Status Persistence, 1870–2017. Gregory Clark, Andrew Leigh, and Mike Pottenger. IZA DP No. 11021. h...

Women perceive men's limbal rings as a health cue when in mood for casual sex

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Put a (limbal) ring on it: Women perceive men's limbal rings as a health cue in short-term mating domains. Mitch Brown and Donald F Sacc...
Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Accurate Genomic Prediction Of Human Height -- "within a few cm of the prediction"

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Accurate Genomic Prediction Of Human Height. Louis Lello, Steven G Avery, Laurent Tellier, Ana Vazquez, Gustavo de los Campos, and Stephen D...

Psychological roadblocks to the adoption of self-driving vehicles

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Psychological roadblocks to the adoption of self-driving vehicles. Azim Shariff, Jean-François Bonnefon & Iyad Rahwan. Nature Human Beha...

Prolonged transport and cannibalism of mummified infant remains by a Tonkean macaque mother

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Prolonged transport and cannibalism of mummified infant remains by a Tonkean macaque mother. Arianna De Marco, Roberto Cozzolino, and Bernar...