Sunday, October 22, 2017

Draft -- Teodoro León's "Las mentiras deliberadas de Podemos", militant views and political combativeness

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Draft review of "Las mentiras deliberadas de Podemos" [1], published El País newspaper (EP), Oct 22 2017. First paragraph of [1]: ...

While cannabis users appear to demonstrate enhanced creativity, these effects are an artifact of their heightened openness levels

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Inspired by Mary Jane? Mechanisms underlying enhanced creativity in cannabis users. Emily M. LaFrance, Carrie Cuttler. Consciousness and Cog...

Those who monitored their heart rate using a wearable tracker had lower belief in free will

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Wearables and User Interface Design: Impacts on Belief in Free Will. D. A. Baker. In: International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction...
Saturday, October 21, 2017

Women enjoy talking more than men, enjoyment mediated by life history strategy

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Individual differences in talking enjoyment: The roles of life history strategy and mate value. Shelia M. Kennison et al. Cogent Psychology,...

Study on a Christian Chinese sample: sense of self-worth, well-being and locus of control

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Study on a Christian Chinese sample: sense of self-worth, well-being and locus of control. Fei Wu, Qin Gong & Yanqing Dai.  Mental Healt...

In a realistic scenario, when women see an attractive potential partner, time slows. Opposite for men.

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Time slows down whenever you are around for women but not for men. Margarida Rosa Pinho. Thesis, University of the Minho. Jul 2017. https://...
Friday, October 20, 2017

Statistically inaccurate and morally unfair judgements via base rate intrusion

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Statistically inaccurate and morally unfair judgements via base rate intrusion. Jack Cao, Max Kleiman-Weiner & Mahzarin R. Banaji. Natur...

Foreign-Looking Native-Accented People: More Competent When First Seen Rather Than Heard

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Foreign-Looking Native-Accented People: More Competent When First Seen Rather Than Heard. Karolina Hansen, Tamara Rakić and Melanie Steffens...

Sexual objectification decreases women’s experiential consumption (but not material consumption)

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Sexual objectification decreases women’s experiential consumption (but not material consumption). Fei Teng, Xue Wang & Ye Yang. Social I...

Origin of the RNA world: The fate of nucleobases in warm little ponds

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Origin of the RNA world: The fate of nucleobases in warm little ponds. Ben Pearce et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Pu...

Motor cortex and volitional control: Ability to suppress undesired movement

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Motor cortex — to act or not to act? Christian Laut Ebbesen & Michael Brecht. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 18, 694–705 (2017), doi:10.103...

The highest-earning women's wages are penalized by obesity as much as five times that of the lowest earners

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On the Distributional and Evolutionary Nature of the Obesity Wage Penalty. Christian Brown, P. Wesley Routon. Economics & Human Biology,...
Thursday, October 19, 2017

“Naked Bonobo” demolishes myth of sexy, egalitarian bonobos

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Faux-nobo: “Naked Bonobo” demolishes myth of sexy, egalitarian bonobos. Edward Clint • Oct 9, 2017. https://www.skepticink.com/incredulous/2...

Hedge Fund Managers With Psychopathic Tendencies Make for Worse Investor

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Hedge Fund Managers With Psychopathic Tendencies Make for Worse Investors. Leanne ten Brinke, Aimee Kish, Dacher Keltner. Personality and So...

Vindeby, The World’s First Offshore Wind Farm Retires: A Post-Mortem

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World’s First Offshore Wind Farm Retires: A Post-Mortem. M J Kelly, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Date...

Changes in the Public Acceptance of Immigrants and Refugees in Germany in the Course of Europe’s ‘Immigration Crisis’

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Christian S Czymara, Alexander W Schmidt-Catran; Refugees Unwelcome? Changes in the Public Acceptance of Immigrants and Refugees in Germany ...

Birth order: no meaningful effects on life satisfaction, locus of control, interpersonal trust, reciprocity, risk taking, patience, impulsivity, or political orientation

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Probing Birth-Order Effects on Narrow Traits Using Specification-Curve Analysis. Julia M. Rohrer, Boris Egloff, and Stefan C. Schmukle. Psyc...

Not aware of the improvement, but drinking alcohol significantly betters observer-ratings for Dutch language, specifically pronunciation

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Dutch courage? Effects of acute alcohol consumption on self-ratings and observer ratings of foreign language skills. Fritz Renner, Inge Kers...

Infants React with Increased Arousal to Spiders and Snakes

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Itsy Bitsy Spider…: Infants React with Increased Arousal to Spiders and Snakes. Stefanie Hoehl, Kahl Hellmer, Maria Johansson and Gustaf Gre...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Supplementing multivitamins and iodine to deficient children and learning to play a musical instrument raises the IQ

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Raising IQ among school-aged children: Five meta-analyses and a review of randomized controlled trials. John Protzko. Developmental Review, ...

Deciding for oneself, we are averse to loss; deciding for one other, aversion is significantly reduced

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Decision making for others: The case of loss aversion. Sascha C. Füllbrunn and Wolfgang J. Luhan. Economics Letters, https://doi.org/10.1016...

Acquiescence: People can explicitly recognize that their intuitive judgment is wrong but, nevertheless, stick with it

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Risen JL. Acquiescing to intuition: Believing what we know isn't so. Soc Personal Psychol Compass. 2017;e12358. https://doi.org/10.1111/...

Why museum visitors touch the exhibits when they do not have permission to do so

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Rehabilitating unauthorised touch or why museum visitors touch the exhibits. Fiona Candlin.  The Senses and Society, Volume 12, 2017 - Issue...

A Replication of Thomas Piketty's Data on the Concentration of Wealth in the US. By Richard Sutch

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The One Percent across Two Centuries: A Replication of Thomas Piketty's Data on the Concentration of Wealth in the United States. Richar...

Hunting Strategies with Cultivated Plants as Bait and the Prey Pathway to Animal Domestication

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Hunting Strategies with Cultivated Plants as Bait and the Prey Pathway to Animal Domestication. Serge Svizzero. International Journal of Res...

Home sharing driving up rents. Evidence from Airbnb in Boston

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Is home sharing driving up rents? Evidence from Airbnb in Boston. Keren Horn & Mark Merante. Journal of Housing Economics, Volume 38, De...

For political candidates, an increased audience diversity is associated with a reduced ‘Liking’

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Trumped by context collapse: Examination of ‘Liking’ political candidates in the presence of audience diversity. Ben Marder. Computers in Hu...

Psychedelic use associated with reduced odds of larceny/theft, assault, arrest for a property crime & for a violent crime

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The relationships of classic psychedelic use with criminal behavior in the United States adult population. Peter S Hendricks et al. Journal ...
Tuesday, October 17, 2017

How Will China's Industrial Modernization Plan affect Workers? By Boy Luethje

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How Will China's Industrial Modernization Plan affect Workers? By Boy Luethje. East-West Center, Oct 17 2017.  How Will China’s Industri...

After seeing an agent attain two goals equally often at varying costs, infants expected the agent to prefer the goal it attained through costlier actions

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Liu, Shari, Tomer D Ullman, josh tenenbaum, and Elizabeth Spelke. 2017. “Ten-month-old Infants Infer the Value of Goals from the Costs of Ac...

Dramatic pretend play games uniquely improve emotional control in young children

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Goldstein TR, Lerner MD. Dramatic pretend play games uniquely improve emotional control in young children. Dev Sci. 2017;e12603. https://doi...

Generic language encourages to categorize individuals using a lower evidentiary standard regardless of negative consequences

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When Your Kind Cannot Live Here: How Generic Language and Criminal Sanctions Shape Social Categorization. Deborah Goldfarb et al. Psychologi...

Typical courses and critical thinking skills acquired during a semester are not sufficient to prompt skepticism about myth statements

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Class Dis-Mythed: Exploring the Prevalence and Perseverance of Myths in Upper-Level Psychology Courses. Michael Root and Caroline Stanley. h...

Peak olfactory acuity is 9pm... Maybe to help finding sexual mates.

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The Influence of Circadian Timing on Olfactory Sensitivity. Rachel S Herz, Eliza Van Reen, David Barker, Cassie J Hilditch, Ashten Bartz, Ma...

Citizens believe others, especially their political rivals, gravitate toward like-minded news

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Public Perceptions of Partisan Selective Exposure. Perryman, Mallory R. The University of Wisconsin - Madison, ProQuest Dissertations Publis...