Sunday, November 26, 2017

Consumers told their organic food experience would be shared with others had more pleasantness ratings, felt more joyful and hopeful. Favoring organic foods can be viewed as a costly signaling trait, leading to flaunting about one's prosocial tendencies.

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Sweet taste of prosocial status signaling: When eating organic foods makes you happy and hopeful. Petteri Puska et al. Appetite, https://doi...
Saturday, November 25, 2017

This study finds that with the increase of agreeableness, women tend to be Republicans, but men tend to be Democrats

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Gender Differences in the Effects of Personality Traits on Party Identification in the US. Ching-Hsing Wang.  Journal of Women, Politics ...

Predicting Personality from Book Preferences with User-Generated Content Labels

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Predicting Personality from Book Preferences with User-Generated Content Labels. Ng Annalyn, Maarten W. Bos, Leonid Sigal, and Boyang Li. IE...

The Political Economy of Famine: the Ukrainian Famine of 1933

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The Political Economy of Famine: the Ukrainian Famine of 1933. Natalya Naumenko. Job Market Paper, 2017. http://sites.northwestern.edu/nnl50...

A change in woman's behavior: Demand of male escorts for women, couples grows

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Male escorts for women, couples demand grows: global survey. Queensland University Press Release. Phys.org, Nov 22 2017. https://phys.org/ne...

Contrary to our predictions, our sample of serial murderers did not demonstrate strong evidence of psychopathy

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Serial Homicide Perpetrators’ Self-Reported Psychopathy and Criminal Thinking. Scott E. Culhane, Stephannie Walker, Meagen M. Hildebrand. Jo...

Some brain lesions make improvements...

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Neural correlates of improvements in personality and behavior following a neurological event. Marcie L. King, Kenneth Manzel, Joel Bruss, Da...
Friday, November 24, 2017

We report a novel illusion––curvature blindness illusion: a wavy line is perceived as a zigzag line

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Curvature Blindness Illusion. Kohske Takahashi. i-Perception, Volume 8, issue 6, https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669517742178 Abstract: We ...