Saturday, February 10, 2018

Finding Meaning at Work: The Role of Inspiring and Funny YouTube Videos on Work-Related Well-Being

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Finding Meaning at Work: The Role of Inspiring and Funny YouTube Videos on Work-Related Well-Being. Sophie H. Janicke-Bowles, Diana Rieger, ...

A moderate financial incentive can increase effort, but not intelligence test performance in adult volunteers

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Gignac, G. E. (2018), A moderate financial incentive can increase effort, but not intelligence test performance in adult volunteers. Br J Ps...

By examining online visitation data across mobile and desktop platforms in the months leading up to and following the 2016 presidential election, we indeed find the fake news audience comprises a small, disloyal group of heavy internet users

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Nelson, Jacob and Taneja, Harsh, The Small, Disloyal Fake News Audience: The Role of Audience Availability in Fake News Consumption (January...

Free Will, Determinism, and Intuitive Judgments About the Heritability of Behavior: educated mothers with multiple children emerge as particularly accurate in their judgments of trait heritability

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Willoughby, Emily A., 2018. “Free Will, Determinism, and Intuitive Judgments About the Heritability of Behavior”. Open Science Framework. Fe...
Friday, February 9, 2018

No matter how far in the past a person behaved greedily or immorally, information about her negative behaviors is hardly discounted at all. In contrast, recent positive behaviors are much more influential than behaviors that occurred a long time ago

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Brandimarte, L., Vosgerau, J., & Acquisti, A. (2018). Differential discounting and present impact of past information. Journal of Experi...

Reciprocal altruism among non-human animals is much more widespread than currently assumed: rats in Norway trade food and services

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Reciprocal Trading of Different Commodities in Norway Rats. Manon K. Schweinfurth, Michael Taborsky. Current Biology, https://doi.org/10.101...

Rolf Degen summarizes: Contrary to earlier believes, humans have at least as many - if not more - Olfactory Receptor genes as monkeys and apes, with color vision being no limiting factor

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Evolution of Genes for Color Vision and the Chemical Senses in Primates. Shoji Kawamura, Amanda D. Melin. Chapter in Evolution of the Human ...