Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Wiser reasoning appeared in conjunction with greater (vs. lower) emotionality, especially the recognition of a greater number of present emotions and greater balance of intensity across experienced emotions

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Grossmann, Igor, and Harrison Oakes. 2017. “Wisdom of Yoda and Mr. Spock: The Role of Emotions and the Self”. PsyArXiv. December 21. psyarxi...

Parents of daughters, whether unborn or recently born, are shown to be almost twice as risk-averse as parents of sons

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Female Babies and Risk-Aversion. Ganna Pogrebna, Andrew J. Oswald, David Haig. IZA Institute of Labor Economics, Discussion Paper No. 10717....

Joy is a distinct positive emotion: Assessment of joy and relationship to gratitude and well-being

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Joy is a distinct positive emotion: Assessment of joy and relationship to gratitude and well-being. Philip C. Watkins, Robert A. Emmons, Mad...

Assessing Intentional Resume Deception: Development and Nomological Network of a Resume Fraud Measure

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Assessing Intentional Resume Deception: Development and Nomological Network of a Resume Fraud Measure. Christine A. Henle, Brian R. Dineen, ...

Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beer Holder: An Initial Investigation of the Effects of Alcohol, Attractiveness, Warmth, and Competence on the Objectifying Gaze in Men

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Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beer Holder: An Initial Investigation of the Effects of Alcohol, Attractiveness, Warmth, and Competence on the O...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Gender differences in most aspects of personality—Big Five traits, Dark Triad traits, self-esteem, subjective well-being, depression and values—are conspicuously larger in cultures with more egalitarian gender roles, gender socialization and sociopolitical gender equity -- objectively measured attributes such as tested cognitive abilities and physical traits such as height and blood pressure are also more different

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Schmitt, D. P., Long, A. E., McPhearson, A., O'Brien, K., Remmert, B. and Shah, S. H. (2017), Personality and gender differences in glob...

Preschool children and chimpanzees prefer to pay to watch punishment of antisocial other, instead of saving effort or money and stop watching

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Preschool children and chimpanzees incur costs to watch punishment of antisocial others. Natacha Mendes, Nikolaus Steinbeis, Nereida Bueno-G...

Knowing one would receive the answers to anagrams made them persist for less time trying to solve the task

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Risko, E. F., Huh, M., McLean, D., & Ferguson, A. M. (2017). On the prospect of knowing: Providing solutions can reduce persistence. Jou...

Exposure to male sexual scents (androstenone) influences women’s drinking (they drink more)

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Tan, R., & Goldman, M. S. (2017). Exposure to male sexual scents (androstenone) influences women’s drinking. Experimental and Clinical P...

The Geography of Poverty and Nutrition: Food Deserts and Food Choices Across the United States

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The Geography of Poverty and Nutrition: Food Deserts and Food Choices Across the United States. Hunt Allcott, Rebecca Diamond, Jean-Pierre D...

The married are more satisfied [...] suggesting a causal effect at all stages of the marriage, from pre-nuptual bliss to marriages of long-duration

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How’s Life at Home? New Evidence on Marriage and the Set Point for Happiness. Shawn Grover, John F. Helliwell. Journal of Happiness Studies,...
Monday, December 18, 2017

Creepiness Creeps In: Uncanny Valley Feelings Are Acquired in Childhood

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Brink, K. A., Gray, K. and Wellman, H. M. (2017), Creepiness Creeps In: Uncanny Valley Feelings Are Acquired in Childhood. Child Dev. doi:10...

Digital Screen Time Limits and Young Children's Psychological Well-Being: Evidence From a Population-Based Study

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Przybylski, A. K. and Weinstein, N. (2017), Digital Screen Time Limits and Young Children's Psychological Well-Being: Evidence From a Po...

Why Sex? And why only in Pairs? The Red Queen Model Wins

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Why Sex? And why only in Pairs? Motty Perry, Philip J. Reny andArthur J. Robson. The Economic Journal. DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12364 Abstract: U...

When Your Child Is a Psychopath

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When Your Child Is a Psychopath. Barbara Bradley Hagerty. The Atlantic. June 2017 The condition has long been considered untreatable. Exper...

Towards solving the evolutionary puzzle of suicide

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Towards solving the evolutionary puzzle of suicide. C A Soper. PhD Thesis. DOI10.13140/RG.2.2.33063.04007 Abstract: How the potential for su...

Social Cohesion, Religious Beliefs, and the Effect of Protestantism on Suicide

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Social Cohesion, Religious Beliefs, and the Effect of Protestantism on Suicide. Sascha O. Becker and Ludger Woessmann. Review of Economics a...

Generous heathens? Reputational concerns and atheists' behavior toward Christians in economic games

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Generous heathens? Reputational concerns and atheists' behavior toward Christians in economic games. Colleen M.Cowgill, Kimberly Rios, A...

A review of epidemiologic studies on suicide before, during, and after the Holocaust

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A review of epidemiologic studies on suicide before, during, and after the Holocaust. Itzhak Levav, Anat Brunstein Klomek. Psychiatry Resear...

Paradoxical effects of self-awareness of being observed: testing the effect of police body-worn cameras on assaults and aggression against officers

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Paradoxical effects of self-awareness of being observed: testing the effect of police body-worn cameras on assaults and aggression against o...
Sunday, December 17, 2017

Romanticizing the Hunter-Gatherer, Despite the Girl Infanticide, the Homicide Rate, etc.

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Romanticizing the Hunter-Gatherer. William Buckner. Quillette, December 16, 2017. Check full text, table, photos, at quillette.com/2017/12/1...

Perpetrator as a Potential Victim. Does Threatened Retaliation from the Victim Reduce Obedience towards Authority?

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Grzyb, T. & Doliński, D., (2017). Perpetrator as a Potential Victim. Does Threatened Retaliation from the Victim Reduce Obedience toward...
Saturday, December 16, 2017

Paleoclimatological Context and Reference Level of the 2°C and 1.5°C Paris Agreement Long-Term Temperature Limits

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Paleoclimatological Context and Reference Level of the 2°C and 1.5°C Paris Agreement Long-Term Temperature Limits. Sebastian Lüning and Frit...

Influence of Body Odors and Gender on Perceived Genital Arousal

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Influence of Body Odors and Gender on Perceived Genital Arousal. Patrícia Alves-Oliveira et al. Archives of Sexual Behavior, https://link.sp...

Understanding the Relationship Between Facebook, Twitter, and Political Understanding

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Siegel, Ruby. 2017. “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Social Media: Understanding the Relationship Between Facebook, Twitter, and Political ...

Other People’s Money: Money’s Perceived Purchasing Power Is Smaller for Others Than for the Self

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Evan Polman, Daniel A Effron, Meredith R Thomas; Other People’s Money: Money’s Perceived Purchasing Power Is Smaller for Others Than for the...
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...