Saturday, October 28, 2017

The Impact of Media Censorship: Evidence from a Field Experiment in China

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The Impact of Media Censorship: Evidence from a Field Experiment in China. Yuyu Chen and David Y. Yang. Stanford University, October 25, 201...

Thirty-four Inspiring Quotes on Criticism (and How to Handle It)

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34 Inspiring Quotes on Criticism (and How to Handle It) -- EXTRACT by Henrik Edberg on February 10, 2016....

"Si une fille de treize ans a droit à la pilule, c'est pour quoi faire?"

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Louis Aragon, Roland Barthes, Simone de Beauvoir, Gilles et Fanny Deleuze, André Glucksmann, Bernard Kouchner, Jack Lang, Jean-Paul Sartre, ...

College students are assigned higher grades when in a classroom with peers who are rated as very attractive - Effect is strongest for female students

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Physical appearance and peer effects in academic performance. Rey Hernández-Julián & Christina Peters. Applied Economics Letters, http:/...

West Point cadets are more risk averse & programs aimed at increasing women & minorities are likely to increase the risk aversion

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Bell, Patrick and Engel, Rozlyn and Hudson, Darren and Jamison, Julian C. and Skimmyhorn, Bill, Risk Preferences in Future Military Leaders ...

Investigating the Masturbatory Behaviours of Canadian Midlife Adults

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Investigating the Masturbatory Behaviours of Canadian Midlife Adults. Kovacevic, Katarina; Milhausen, Robin; Beaton, John; McKay, Alex. Univ...

Altruistic Behavior among Twins Willingness to Fight and Self-Sacrifice for their Closest Relatives

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Altruistic Behavior among Twins Willingness to Fight and Self-Sacrifice for their Closest Relatives. Encarnacion Tornero et al. Human Nature...

The blind mind: No sensory visual imagery in aphantasia

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The blind mind: No sensory visual imagery in aphantasia. Rebecca Keogh, Joel Pearson. Cortex, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2017.10.012 A...

Food choice of main dishes occurs outside of awareness, matching the choice of the person ahead of oneself

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Vegetarian or meat? Food choice modeling of main dishes occurs outside of awareness. Chelsea D. Christie, Frances S. Chen. Appetite, https:/...

Sleep Duration, Mortality, and Heredity—A Prospective Twin Study.

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Sleep Duration, Mortality, and Heredity—A Prospective Twin Study. Torbjörn Åkerstedt, Jurgita Narusyte, Kristina Alexanderson, Pia Svedberg....
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The country’s elites are desperate to figure out what they got wrong in 2016. But can they handle the truth?

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On Safari in Trump's America. By Molly Ball. Extracts. Read it all on https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/543288/ The country’s elit...
Friday, October 27, 2017

Association Between Marijuana Use and Sexual Frequency in the USA

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Sun AJ, Eisenberg ML. Association Between Marijuana Use and Sexual Frequency in the United States: A Population-Based Study. J Sex Med 2017;...

Clustering of 770,000 genomes reveals post-colonial population structure of North America

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Clustering of 770,000 genomes reveals post-colonial population structure of North America. Eunjung Han et al. Nature Communications 8, Artic...

Assessment of sexual behavior in rats: the potentials and pitfalls

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Assessment of sexual behavior in rats: the potentials and pitfalls. Roy Heijkoop, Patty T. Huijgens , Eelke M.S Snoeren. Behavioural Brain R...

What is consciousness, and could machines have it?

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What is consciousness, and could machines have it? Stanislas Dehaene, Hakwan Lau, and Sid Kouider. Science  Oct 27 2017: Vol. 358, Issue 636...

Who Can Deviate from the Party Line? Political Ideology Moderates Evaluation of Incongruent Policy Position

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Who Can Deviate from the Party Line? Political Ideology Moderates Evaluation of Incongruent Policy Positions in Insula and Anterior Cingulat...

TV Canned Emotions. Effects of Genre and Audience Reaction on Emotions

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Canned Emotions. Effects of Genre and Audience Reaction on Emotions. Andreas M. Baranowski, Rebecca Teichmann and Heiko Hecht. Art & Per...

Offender Decision-Making in Criminology: Contributions from Behavioral Economics

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Offender Decision-Making in Criminology: Contributions from Behavioral Economics.  Greg Pogarsky, Sean Patrick Roche, and Justin T. Pickett....
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Linguistic Distance Diminishes Economic Growth

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Consequences of Linguistic Distance for Economic Growth. Erkan Gören. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, doi:10.1111/obes.12205 ...

Musical improvisation skill makes men more attractive as mates. Implications for the origin of music

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Musical improvisation skill in a prospective partner is associated with mate value and preferences, consistent with sexual selection and par...

Robust Sex Differences in Jigsaw Puzzle Solving—Are Boys Really Better in Most Visuospatial Tasks?

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Robust Sex Differences in Jigsaw Puzzle Solving—Are Boys Really Better in Most Visuospatial Tasks? Vid Kocijan, Marina Horvat and Gregor Maj...

‘Big push’ policies can fail, it is important the reliability and gradual increases in technological complexity

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Contagious disruptions and complexity traps in economic development. Charles Brummitt et al. Nature Human Behaviour 1, 665–672 (2017), Septe...

Solitude has a deactivation effect on people’s affective experiences, decreasing positive & negative high-arousal affects

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Solitude as an Approach to Affective Self-Regulation. Thuy-vy T. Nguyen, Richard M. Ryan, Edward L. Deci. Personality and Social Psychology ...

Significant hump-shaped relation between genetic variation and financial market size

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Financial Markets and Genetic Variation. Eric Cardella, Ivalina Kalcheva & Danjue Shang. Journal of International Financial Markets, Ins...

Biased decision-making in international financial institutions -- mechanical rules overridden to assign a different official rating

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Room for discretion? Biased decision-making in international financial institutions. Valentin Lang & Andrea Presbitero. Journal of Devel...

Teaching personal initiative beats traditional training in boosting small business

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Teaching personal initiative beats traditional training in boosting small business in West Africa. Francisco Campos et al. Science, Sep 22 2...

Beyond questionable research methods: The role of omitted relevant research in the credibility of research

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Schmidt, Frank L. (2017). Beyond questionable research methods: The role of omitted relevant research in the credibility of research. Archiv...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Twin-killing in some traditional societies: An economic perspective

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Twin-killing in some traditional societies: An economic perspective. Andrés Marroquín & Colleen Haight. Journal of Bioeconomics, October...

No evidence that preferences for facial masculinity track changes in women's hormonal status

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No evidence that preferences for facial masculinity track changes in women's hormonal status. Benedict C. Jones, Amanda C. Hahn, Claire ...

More lumbar curvature increased perception of attractiveness of girls, men looked longer & fixated more on the hip region

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Pazhoohi, F., Doyle, J.F., Macedo, A.F. et al. Evolutionary Psychological Science (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-017-0123-7 Abstra...

New evidence that ageing societies become more risk-averse

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Global Evidence on Economic Preferences. Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, Benjamin Enke, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde. NBER Working Pa...

More than 50% or Less than 70% Chance: Pragmatic Implications of Single-Bound Probability Estimates

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Hohle, S. M., and Teigen, K. H. (2017) More than 50% or Less than 70% Chance: Pragmatic Implications of Single-Bound Probability Estimates. ...

In economics, 42% of papers that were published as replication studies successfully replicated another experiment

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Maniadis, Z., Tufano, F. and List, J. A. (2017), To Replicate or Not To Replicate? Exploring Reproducibility in Economics through the Lens o...

Small decline in overall narcissism, leadership, vanity & entitlement levels in college students from the 1990s to the 2010s

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The Narcissism Epidemic Is Dead; Long Live the Narcissism Epidemic. Eunike Wetzel et al. Psychological Science, https://doi.org/10.1177/0956...

A glass of wine is spoilt by a single D. melanogaster fly falling into it

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The scent of the fly. Paul G. Becher, Sebastien Lebreton, Erika A. Wallin, Erik Hedenstrom, Felipe Borrero-Echeverry, Marie Bengtsson, Volke...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Can we change our biased minds?

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Can we change our biased minds? Michael Gross. Current Biology, Volume 27, Issue 20, 23 October 2017, Pages R1089–R1091. https://doi.org/10....

Nearly 80% of the reported effects in empirical economics literatures are exaggerated, typically by a factor of two

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Ioannidis, J. P. A., Stanley, T. D. and Doucouliagos, H. (2017), The Power of Bias in Economics Research. Econ J, 127: F236–F265. doi:10.111...

Pairs in which the partners do not share a social bond with each other behave less ethically than individuals do

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Stranger Danger: When and Why Consumer Dyads Behave Less Ethically Than Individuals. Hristina Nikolova Cait Lamberton Nicole Verrochi Colema...