Friday, December 15, 2017

Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians (2012)

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Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians. Ravi Iyer, Spassena Koleva, Jesse Graham...

What is behind envy? Approach from a psychosocial perspective

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What is behind envy? Approach from a psychosocial perspective. Ginés Navarro-Carrillo, Ana-María Beltrán-Morillas, Inmaculada Valor-Segura ...

Sex differences in academic strengths contribute to gender segregation in education and occupation: A longitudinal examination of 167,776 individuals

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Sex differences in academic strengths contribute to gender segregation in education and occupation: A longitudinal examination of 167,776 in...

Gender differences in romantic relationship memories: who remembers? Who cares?

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Gender differences in romantic relationship memories: who remembers? Who cares? Diane Holmberg, Tabatha M. Thibault & Jennifer D. Pringl...

In the domain of instrumental harm, deontological agents were uniformly preferred across a variety of social roles. Regarding impartial beneficence, are preferred for roles of direct interaction (friend, spouse, etc)

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Everett, Jim A C, Nadira S Faber, Julian Savulescu, and Molly Crockett. 2017. “Everett Et Al. The Cost of Being Consequentialist”. PsyArXiv....

Direct replication of Gervais & Norenzayan (2012): No evidence that analytic thinking decreases religious belief

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Direct replication of Gervais & Norenzayan (2012): No evidence that analytic thinking decreases religious belief. Clinton Sanchez, Brian...
Thursday, December 14, 2017

Many lesbian and gay adoptive parents reported that birth parents had intentionally selected a same-sex adoptive couple

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Farr, R. H., Ravvina, Y. and Grotevant, H. D. (2017), Birth Family Contact Experiences Among Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Adoptive Parents...

Exploring the Relationship between Secularity and Marital Behavior -- Male Atheists Forced to Marry Religious Women!

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Exploring the Relationship between Secularity and Marital Behavior. Maryam Dilmaghani. Marriage & Family Review, https://doi.org/10.1080...

Are Negative Nominal Interest Rates Expansionary? It seems not.

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Are Negative Nominal Interest Rates Expansionary? Gauti Eggertsson, Ragnar Juelsrud & Ella Getz Wold. NBER Working Paper, November 2017....

Passionate love's function is to tell our partners that we are committed to the relationship thru signalling we are not seeking more attractive alternatives, giving assurances that we lack the will to replace, reject or cheat on the partner

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Passion, Relational Mobility, and Proof of Commitment: A Comparative Socio–Ecological Analysis of an Adaptive Emotion in a Sexual Market. Ju...

Demographics and Innovation -- Younger populations are more innovative

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Derrien, François and Kecskes, Ambrus and Nguyen, Phuong-Anh, Demographics and Innovation (December 11, 2017). HEC Paris Research Paper No. ...
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Resistance to Extinction and Psychopathology, With New Evidence of How a CS Can Act Like a US in The Sexual conditioning of Male Japanese Quail (Coturnix Coturnix Japonica)

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Resistance to Extinction and Psychopathology, With New Evidence of How a CS Can Act Like a US in The Sexual conditioning of Male Japanese Qu...

Smoking status and attractiveness among exemplar and prototypical identical twins discordant for smoking

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Smoking status and attractiveness among exemplar and prototypical identical twins discordant for smoking. Andrew L. Skinner, Andy Woods, Chr...

Now I’m 3: Young Children’s Concepts of Age, Aging, and Birthdays

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Now I’m 3: Young Children’s Concepts of Age, Aging, and Birthdays. Jacqueline D. Woolley, Amanda M. Rhoads. Imagination, Cognition and Perso...

Looking at the past through a telescope: adults postdated their earliest childhood memories

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Looking at the past through a telescope: adults postdated their earliest childhood memories. Qi Wang, Carole Peterson, Angel Khuu, Carissa P...

The False Belief in Fear Appeals: Ignoring Theory and Misinterpreting Evidence

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Ignoring Theory and Misinterpreting Evidence: The False Belief in Fear Appeals. Gerjo Kok, Gjalt-Jorn Ygram Peters, Loes T. E. Kessels, Gill...

In male speech, either um or uh accounts for about one out of fifty words; for female speech it is only one out of seventy words

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How We Talk: The Inner Workings of Conversation. N. J. Enfield. Basic Books, ISBN-13: 978-0465059942. https://www.amazon.com/How-We-Talk-Wor...

Cues of upper body strength account for most of the variance in men's bodily attractiveness

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Cues of upper body strength account for most of the variance in men's bodily attractiveness. Aaron Sell, Aaron W. Lukazsweski, Michael T...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

The feeling of beauty and the amplitude of pleasure are independent of stimulus duration

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Beauty at a glance: The feeling of beauty and the amplitude of pleasure are independent of stimulus duration. Aenne A. Brielmann; Lauren Val...

Anti-Flynn effects -- What causes the secular declines in IQ? A Data Synthesis and Analysis of Predictors

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Woodley of Menie, M. A., Peñaherrera-Aguirre, M., Fernandes, H. B. F., & Figueredo, A.-J. (2017). What Causes the Anti-Flynn Effect? A D...