Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Machiavellians likely use intimidation impression management tactics when they perceive threat; fairness serves as a cue for them to employ aggressive tactics to regain control, such as intimidation

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When do Machiavellians feel threatened? An investigation into fair situations. Rebecca L. Badawy, Robyn L. Brouer, Elizabeth A. Fabrizio. Jo...

If nonhuman animals can suicide, why don’t they? On Peña-Guzman (2017) on Animal Suicide

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Soper, C. A. and Shackelford, Todd K. (2018) If nonhuman animals can suicide, why don’t they?. Animal Sentience 20(14). http://animalstudies...

Sexual arousal by dominance and submissiveness was long considered as pathology; surprisingly, approximately half of respondents were excited by their partner’s submission or their own submission

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Sexual Arousal by Dominance and Submissiveness in the General Population: How Many, How Strongly, and Why? Eva Jozifkova. Deviant Behavior, ...

Closed-loop stimulation of temporal cortex rescues functional networks and improves memory

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Closed-loop stimulation of temporal cortex rescues functional networks and improves memory. Youssef Ezzyat et al. Nature Communications, vol...

Gender Earnings Gap among a Million Uber Rideshare Drivers: Driving Speed, Experience, and Work Location Preferences

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Unpacking the Gender Earnings Gap among Uber driver-partners. Rebecca Diamond, Jonathan Hall, and Cody Cook. https://medium.com/uber-under-t...

Lay people tend to ascribe greater epistemic authority to those experts whose advice confirms people's opinions, both measured and manipulated; when participants' own opinions are not salient, people tend to evaluate experts' authority as higher when their advice confirms social norms

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Zaleskiewicz, T. and Gasiorowska, A. (2018), Tell Me What I Wanted to Hear: Confirmation Effect in Lay Evaluations of Financial Expert Autho...

Light to moderate drinking is associated with indices of better white matter health; never drinkers and heavy drinkers had highest white matter lesion burden

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Alcohol intake and brain white matter in middle aged men: Microscopic and macroscopic differences. Linda K. McEvoy et al. NeuroImage: Clinic...
Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Putting numbers to our happiness

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Bryson, A. and MacKerron, G. (2017), Are You Happy While You Work?. Econ J, 127: 106–125. doi:10.1111/ecoj.12269 Abstract: Using a new data ...