Monday, October 16, 2017

Psychopaths are willing and able to disclose how they are under conditions of confidentiality, and do not mind being so

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Kelley, S. E., Edens, J. F., Donnellan, M. B., Mowle, E. N. and Sörman, K. (), Self- and Informant Perceptions of Psychopathic Traits in Rel...

Higher paternal age at offspring conception increases de novo genetic mutations & the children would be less likely to survive and reproduce

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Older fathers' children have lower evolutionary fitness across four centuries and in four populations. Ruben Arslan et al. Proceedings o...

Menarcheal timing is accelerated by favorable nutrition but unrelated to developmental cues of mortality or familial instability

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Menarcheal timing is accelerated by favorable nutrition but unrelated to developmental cues of mortality or familial instability in Cebu, Ph...

Automated Driving: Use With Caution

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Automated driving: Safety blind spots. Ian Y. Noy, David Shinar, William J. Horrey. Safety Science, Volume 102, February 2018, Pages 68–78. ...

Criminal behavior transmission is strongest from mothers to daughters, then by mothers to sons, fathers to daughters, and fathers to sons

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A systematic review and meta-analysis of the intergenerational transmission of criminal behavior. Sytske Besemer et al. Aggression and Viole...

Education has positive impact on tax morale for net beneficiaries of the welfare state, &a negative one for net contributors

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Education and tax morale. David Rodríguez-Justicia, Bernd Theilen. Journal of Economic Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2017.10.00...
Sunday, October 15, 2017

Rhesus macaques expect others to dynamically update their representations of unseen objects

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What do monkeys know about others’ knowledge? Lindsey A. Drayton, Laurie R. Santos. Cognition, Volume 170, January 2018, Pages 201–208. http...

Leaving late: Understanding the extent and predictors of college late departure

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Leaving late: Understanding the extent and predictors of college late departure. Zachary Mabel, Tolani A. Britton. Social Science Research, ...

How Disgust Becomes Law

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Patrick, Carlton and Lieberman, Debra, How Disgust Becomes Law (August 24, 2017). Forthcoming in The Moral Psychology of Disgust, Nina Stroh...

Disgust originates largely to reduce contact with foreigners, and the deviant or marginalized

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Rottman, J., DeJesus, J. M., & Gerdin, E. (forthcoming). The social origins of disgust. In N. Strohminger & V. Kumar (Eds.), The mor...

Manipulating courtship opportunities made Drosophila pseudo. sing longer, faster, and fly and move faster

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Mate choice intensifies motor signalling in Drosophila. Allan Debelle et al. Animal Behaviour, Volume 133, November 2017, Pages 169–187. h...
Saturday, October 14, 2017

Sebastian Heilmann's Leninism Upgraded: Restoration and Innovation Under Xi Jinping

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Event Recap -- Leninism Upgraded: Restoration and Innovation Under Xi Jinping. Sebastian Heilmann. Harvard's University Asia Center. Apr...

In one year China is making 107 towers taller than 200m. The US needed decades to build 189 ones.

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Asia Dreams in Skyscrapers. By Jason M Barr https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/opinion/china-asia-skyscrapers.html The New York Times, O...