Sunday, December 3, 2017

Why is linguistics such a magnet for dilettantes and crackpots?

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Talking gibberish: The study of languages has long been prone to nonsense. Gaston Dorren. https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-linguistics-such-a-...

What Nihilism is

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What Nihilism is. "Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling sola...

Being fed up with life & with men: One life is more than enough

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In Burma, in a Buddhist sermon by one of the most senior monks in the country, a NY Times journalist talks to a lady: I got talking to Daw...

Legal & readily accessible abortion is estimated to have caused a 34 pct reduction in first births, a 19 pct reduction in first marriages, & a 63 pct reduction in "shotgun marriages" prior to age 19

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The Power of Abortion Policy: Reexamining the Effects of Young Women’s Access to Reproductive Control. Caitlin Knowles Myers. Journal of Pol...
Saturday, December 2, 2017

Women's attractiveness is linked to expected age at menopause

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Bovet, J., Barkat-Defradas, M., Durand, V., Faurie, C. and Raymond, M. (), Women's attractiveness is linked to expected age at menopause...

Expressions of disgust serve to signal one's own moral intentions even when a different emotion is felt internally on the basis of appraisal

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What Makes Moral Disgust Special? An Integrative Functional Review. Roger Giner-Sorolla, , Tom Kupfer, John Sabo. Advances in Experimental S...
Friday, December 1, 2017

Although people tend to see themselves in the best possible light, also have a surprisingly grim, and inevitable, outlook on their social lives

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Deri, S., Davidai, S., & Gilovich, T. (2017). Home alone: Why people believe others’ social lives are richer than their own. Journal of ...

Because people value living their lives in contact with reality, and care about who they are and what they do (“authenticity”), they reject living in a machine of only pleasurable experiences, but can accept an experience pill or a pill that improves overall functioning

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Nozick’s experience machine: An empirical study. Frank Hindriks & Igor Douven. Philosophical Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/0951508...

Not All Skepticism Is Equal: Exploring the Ideological Antecedents of Science Acceptance and Rejection

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Not All Skepticism Is Equal: Exploring the Ideological Antecedents of Science Acceptance and Rejection. Bastiaan T. Rutjens, Robbie M. Sutto...

Studying voluntary contributions to a public good: Four clearly distinct behavioural types account for over 90% of participants

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Behavioural types in public goods games: A re-analysis by hierarchical clustering. Francesco Fallucchi & R. Andrew Luccasen. http://www....
Thursday, November 30, 2017

Safety First: Perceived Risk of Street Harassment and Educational Choices of Women in India

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Safety First: Perceived Risk of Street Harassment and Educational Choices of Women. Girija Borker. https://www.brown.edu/academics/economics...

Anti-natalist philosophers contend life is so painful that humans should not reproduce

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The Case for Not Being Born: The anti-natalist philosopher David Benatar argues that it would be better if no one had children ever again. B...

Psychometric and Faciometric Support for Observable Facial Feminization in Gay Men: Both Men And Women Find Them More Attractive

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Psychometric and Faciometric Support for Observable Facial Feminization in Gay Men. Julia M. Robertson, Barbara E Kingsley & Gina C. For...

Effects of Domestication on the Vocal Communication of Dogs: Able to Target Barks at Humans, Leaving Aside Othe Dogs

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Modeling Evolutionary Changes in Information Transfer: Effects of Domestication on the Vocal Communication of Dogs (Canis familiaris). Peter...

Does Religious Attendance Moderate the Connection between Pornography Consumption and Attitudes toward Women?

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Does Religious Attendance Moderate the Connection between Pornography Consumption and Attitudes toward Women? Kyler R Rasmussen & Taylor...
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Real-life schadenfreude events: No correlation with personality traits

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The Relationship Between Personality and Schadenfreude in Hypothetical Versus Live Situations. Keegan D. Greenier. Psychological Reports, ht...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Sex differences in children's toy preferences

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Todd BK, Fischer RA, Di Costa S, et al. Sex differences in children's toy preferences: A systematic review, meta-regression, and meta-an...

Sex differences in jealousy: the (lack of) influence of researcher theoretical perspective

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Sex differences in jealousy: the (lack of) influence of researcher theoretical perspective. John Edlund, Jeremy D Heider, Austin Lee Nichols...
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“You Little Creep”: Evidence of Blatant Dehumanization of Short Groups

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“You Little Creep”: Evidence of Blatant Dehumanization of Short Groups. Jonas R. Kunst, , Nour Kteily, Lotte Thomsen. Social Psychological a...
Monday, November 27, 2017

Is Support of Censoring Controversial Media Content for the Good of Others? Sexual Strategies and Support of Censoring Pro-Alcohol Advertising

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Is Support of Censoring Controversial Media Content for the Good of Others? Sexual Strategies and Support of Censoring Pro-Alcohol Advertisi...

Beauty, Effort, and Misrepresentation: How Beauty Work Affects Judgments of Moral Character and Consumer Preferences

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Beauty, Effort, and Misrepresentation: How Beauty Work Affects Judgments of Moral Character and Consumer Preferences. Adriana Samper Linyun ...

Resolving China's Zombies: Tackling Debt and Raising Productivity

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Resolving China's Zombies: Tackling Debt and Raising Productivity. W. Raphael Lam ; Alfred Schipke ; Yuyan Tan ; Zhibo Tan. IMF Working ...

Is It Time for a New Medical Specialty? The Medical Virtualist

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Is It Time for a New Medical Specialty? The Medical Virtualist. Michael Nochomovitz; Rahul Sharma. Journal of the American Medical Associati...

They present a computable algorithm that assigns probabilities to every logical statement in a given formal language, and refines those probabilities over time

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Logical Induction. Scott Garrabrant, Tsvi Benson-Tilsen, Andrew Critch, Nate Soares, and Jessica Taylor. Machine Intelligence Research Inst...

Patient outcome's variability is weakly or not related to competence, training nor adherence of therapists

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Common versus specific factors in psychotherapy: opening the black box. RogerMulder, Greg Murray, Julia Rucklidge. The Lancet Psychiatry, Vo...

Artificial Intelligence With Undo Mechanism

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Leave no Trace: Learning to Reset for Safe and Autonomous Reinforcement Learning. Benjamin Eysenbach, Shixiang Gu, Julian Ibarz, Sergey Levi...

Covered nude photographs inferential sexual cognition –– covered models were indeed perceived as nude models

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Do Covered Nude Photographs in the Internet Induce Sexual Cognition –– A Study of Event-related Potential. Lei Hanet al. Computers in Human ...

Jokes are more interesting and surprising when repetition at the beginning creates a pattern, which is broken in a contrasting end

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Loewenstein, J. and Heath, C. (2009), The Repetition-Break Plot Structure: A Cognitive Influence on Selection in the Marketplace of Ideas. C...
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 ...