Monday, October 30, 2017

People who experience a potentially hazardous near-miss but escape without apparent damage feel more optimistic & take less protective action

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Near-miss events, risk messages, and decision making. Robin L. Dillon, and Catherine H. Tinsley. Environment Systems and Decisions, March 20...

Losing loss aversion -- Current evidence does not support that losses, on balance, tend to be any more impactful than gains

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Gal, David and Rucker, Derek, The Loss of Loss Aversion: Will It Loom Larger Than Its Gain? (September 30, 2017). Journal of Consumer Psycho...

Higher support for redistribution by individuals with high income & lower demand for redistribution by those with low income

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Sabatini, Fabio and Ventura, Marco and Yamamura, Eiji and Zamparelli, Luca (2017): Fairness and the unselfish demand for redistribution by t...

Reminders of death would lead participants to inflate the size of self-representational objects

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McCabe, S., Vail, K. E. and Arndt, J. (2017), The impact of death awareness on sizes of self-representational objects. Br. J. Soc. Psychol.....
Sunday, October 29, 2017

Mothers Spend More on Daughters While Fathers Spend More on Sons

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Do Mothers Spend More on Daughters While Fathers Spend More on Sons? Lambrianos Nikiforidis, Kristina M. Durante, Joseph P. Redden and Vlada...
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Oral tradition: Storytelling as specialized skill that people develop a comparative advantage in due to productivity declines with other skills

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Information transmission and the oral tradition: Evidence of a late-life service niche for Tsimane Amerindians. Eric Schniter, Nathaniel T. ...

Columbia Law School: Having a gay or lesbian parent does not harm children

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What does the scholarly research say about the wellbeing of children with gay or lesbian parents? Unsigned article. Columbia University Law ...

Further Evidence that Creativity and Innovation are Inhibited by Conservative Thinking

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Further Evidence that Creativity and Innovation are Inhibited by Conservative Thinking: Analyses of the 2016 Presidential Election. Mark Run...

Withdrawn article: The Case for Colonialism

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The case for colonialism. Bruce Gilley. Third World Quarterly, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2017.1369037 [PDF paper withdrawn by pub...

Progressives are more ideologically consistent, a possible reason of their being more upset by dissenters

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Ideological Consistency across the Political Spectrum: Liberals are More Consistent but Conservatives Become More Consistent When Coping wit...

Rhinoplasty: more symmetry, youthfulness, facial harmony, likeability, trustworthiness, confidence, femininity, attractiveness, approachability, &intelligence

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The Public Face of Rhinoplasty: Impact on Perceived Attractiveness and Personality. Stephen M. Lu, David T. Hsu, Adam Perry, Lyle Leipziger,...
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Draft - Regarding the Seoul Times "article" on eating human fetuses for sexual powers

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Draft - Regarding the Seoul Times "article" on eating human fetuses for sexual powers. Comments to a friend that sent me the Seoul...
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 ...