Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Time spent with friends is worth less for those who use the smartphone

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Connecting Alone: Smartphone Use, Quality of Social Interactions and Well-being. Valentina Rotondi, Luca Stanca, and Miriam Tomasuolo. Journ...

Mind the Hype: A Critical Evaluation and Prescriptive Agenda for Research on Mindfulness and Meditation

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Mind the Hype: A Critical Evaluation and Prescriptive Agenda for Research on Mindfulness and Meditation. Nicholas T. van Dam et al. Perspect...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Genetic and Environmental Pathways Underlying Personality Traits and Perceived Stress: Twin Studies

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Luo, J., Derringer, J., Briley, D. A., and Roberts, B. W. (2017) Genetic and Environmental Pathways Underlying Personality Traits and Percei...

Digital Goods Are Valued Less Than Physical Goods

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Ozgun Atasoy, Carey K Morewedge; Digital Goods Are Valued Less Than Physical Goods, Journal of Consumer Research, , ucx102, https://doi.org/...

Self-handicapping during play fighting in capuchin monkeys

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Self-handicapping during play fighting in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). Meredith C. Lutz and Peter G. Judge. Behaviour, DOI: 10.1163/1568...

The challenge of starting and keeping a relationship: Prevalence rates and predictors of poor mating performance

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The challenge of starting and keeping a relationship: Prevalence rates and predictors of poor mating performance. Menelaos Apostolou, Marios...

Stupid human rights activists look to the other side when you pay lip service to them

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Join the Chorus, Avoid the Spotlight: The Effect of Neighborhood and Social Dynamics on Human Rights Organization Shaming. Sam Bell, Chad Cl...

Wandering thoughts about consciousness, the brain, and the commentary system of Larry Weiskrantz

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Wandering thoughts about consciousness, the brain, and the commentary system of Larry Weiskrantz. Giovanni Berlucchi. Neuropsychologia, http...

Does Performance Matter? Evaluating Political Selection Along the Chinese Administrative Ladder

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Does Performance Matter? Evaluating Political Selection Along the Chinese Administrative Ladder. Pierre Landry, Xiaobo Lü and Haiyan Duan. C...

Loyalty Can't Be Bought: Explaining Military Defection during Civilian Uprisings against Autocracies

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Plana, Sara, Loyalty Can't Be Bought: Explaining Military Defection during Civilian Uprisings against Autocracies (August 17, 2017). MIT...
Monday, October 9, 2017

Male aggressiveness as intrasexual contest competition in 78 societies

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Carter T, Kushnick G. (2017) Male aggressiveness as intrasexual contest competition in 78 societies. PeerJ Preprints 5:e3331v1 https://doi.o...

Childhood Amnesia in Children -- Emotion and contextual coherence predicted memory retention

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Peterson, C., Hallett, D. and Compton-Gillingham, C. (2017), Childhood Amnesia in Children: A Prospective Study Across Eight Years. Child De...

Female exogamy and gene pool diversification at the transition from the Final Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age in central Europe

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Female exogamy and gene pool diversification at the transition from the Final Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age in central Europe. Corina Kn...

The psychology of not wanting to know

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Gigerenzer, G., & Garcia-Retamero, R. (2017). Cassandra’s regret: The psychology of not wanting to know. Psychological Review, 124(2), 1...

Acute Physical Exercise in Humans Enhances Reconsolidation of Emotional Memories

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Acute Physical Exercise in Humans Enhances Reconsolidation of Emotional Memories. Dharani Keyan and Richard Bryant. Psychoneuroendocrinology...

Metaphors can give life meaning

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Metaphors can give life meaning. Matthew Baldwin, Mark Landau and Trevor Swanson. Self and Identity, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2017...

The secret to happiness: Feeling good or feeling right?

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Tamir, M., Schwartz, S. H., Oishi, S., & Kim, M. Y. (2017). The secret to happiness: Feeling good or feeling right? Journal of Experimen...

Individual-sport athletes were found to be more energetic and open than team-sport athletes

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Associations between personality, sports participation and athletic success. A comparison of Big Five in sporting and non-sporting adults. P...

How Do Hunter-Gatherer Children Learn Subsistence Skills?

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How Do Hunter-Gatherer Children Learn Subsistence Skills? A Meta-Ethnographic Review. Sheina Lew-Levy et al. Human Nature, https://link.spri...

Those that spent walking more than one h/day had a significantly lower risk of dementia than those than walked less than 0.5 h/d

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Changes in time spent walking and the risk of incident dementia in older Japanese people: the Ohsaki Cohort 2006 Study. Yasutake Tomata Shu...
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ABB robot hatches 30 per cent more eggs for Singapore egg farm

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ABB robot hatches 30 per cent more eggs for Singapore egg farm. By Mai Tao. Robotics and Automation News, Oct 8 2017 Growing demand for loca...
Sunday, October 8, 2017

Learning the Ropes: General Experience, Task-Specific Experience, and the Output of Police Officers

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Learning the Ropes: General Experience, Task-Specific Experience, and the Output of Police Officers. Gregory DeAngelo and Emily Owens. Journ...

Impacts of nature imagery on people in severely nature-deprived environments

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Impacts of nature imagery on people in severely nature-deprived environments. Nalini Nadkarni et al. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environmen...

Winning hearts & minds (!): The dilemma of foreign aid in anti-Americanism

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Winning hearts & minds (!): The dilemma of foreign aid in anti-Americanism. Efe Tokdemir. Journal of Peace Research, https://doi.org/10....

Beware of statistics -- Intrinsic Motivation and Performance: Jewish-American Soldiers in World War II

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Intrinsic Motivation and Performance: Jewish-American Soldiers in World War II. Caio Waisman. Stanford Working Paper, June 2017, https://web...

Persuasion and Predation: The Effects of U.S. Military Aid and International Development Aid on Civilian Killings

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Persuasion and Predation: The Effects of U.S. Military Aid and International Development Aid on Civilian Killings. Amira Jadoon. Studies in ...

High intelligence: A risk factor for psychological and physiological overexcitabilities

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High intelligence: A risk factor for psychological and physiological overexcitabilities. Ruth I. Karpinski et al. Intelligence, https://doi....