Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Again, no replication of the media priming effect, which posits that by drawing attention to certain issues while ignoring others, television news programs help define the politicians' evaluation standards

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Media Priming Effect: A Preregistered Replication Experiment. Tetsuro Kobayashi, Asako Miura and Kazunori Inamasu. Journal of Experimental P...

Learning But Not Relaxing Ameliorates Deviance Under Job Stressors

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More Is Less: Learning But Not Relaxing Buffers Deviance Under Job Stressors. Chen Zhang, David Mayer and Eunbit Hwang. Journal of Applied P...

Echo Chamber? What Echo Chamber? Reviewing the Evidence

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Echo Chamber? What Echo Chamber? Reviewing the Evidence. Axel Bruns. Future of Journalism 2017 Conference. http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/conferen...

Restrictive policies engender more support from stakeholders if to be implemented in the distant vs near future

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It’s about time: Divergent evaluations of restrictive policies in the near and distant future. Nathaniel Nakashima, David Daniels and Kristi...

A beluga whale socialized with bottlenose dolphins imitates their whistles

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A beluga whale socialized with bottlenose dolphins imitates their whistles. Elena M. Panova, and Alexandr V. Agafonov. Animal Cognition, htt...

It’s not as bad as you think: menopausal representations are more positive in postmenopausal women

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It’s not as bad as you think: menopausal representations are more positive in postmenopausal women. Lydia Brown, Valerie Brown, Fiona Judd ...

Taking Facebook at face value: why the use of social media may cause mental disorder

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Østergaard, S. D. (2017), Taking Facebook at face value: why the use of social media may cause mental disorder. Acta Psychiatr Scand. doi:10...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Seeing live theater yields higher levels of tolerance, social perspective taking, & stronger command of the plot & vocabulary of those plays

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Greene, Jay P. and Holmes Erickson, Heidi and Watson, Angela and Beck, Molly, The Play's the Thing: Experimentally Examining the Social ...

More modesty, less trust -- The law of Jante

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The Law of Jante and generalized trust. Cornelius Cappelen & Stefan Dahlberg. Acta Sociologica, https://doi.org/10.1177/0001699317717319...

Low relational mobility leads to greater motivation to understand enemies but not friends and acquaintances

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Low relational mobility leads to greater motivation to understand enemies but not friends and acquaintances. Liman Man Wai Li, Takahiko Masu...

The Split-Brain Phenomenon Revisited: A Single Conscious Agent with Split Perception

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The Split-Brain Phenomenon Revisited: A Single Conscious Agent with Split Perception. Yair Pinto, Edward H.F de Haan, and Victor A.F. Lamme....

Fewer adolescents engaged in adult activities such as having sex, dating, drinking alcohol, working for pay, going out without their parents, & driving

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Twenge, J. M. and Park, H. (2017), The Decline in Adult Activities Among U.S. Adolescents, 1976–2016. Child Dev. doi:10.1111/cdev.12930 Abst...
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...