Monday, April 2, 2018

Perceptions of Microaggressive Behavior Across the Ideological Spectrum

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Harper, Craig A., 2018. “Perceptions of Microaggressive Behavior Across the Ideological Spectrum”. PsyArXiv. April 2. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/97...

The cosmic gorilla effect or the problem of undetected non terrestrial intelligent signals: It is worse for those with reflexive cognitive style

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The cosmic gorilla effect or the problem of undetected non terrestrial intelligent signals. Gabriel G. De la Torre, Manuel A.Garcia. Acta As...

Men, but not women, who experienced greater intensity of an earthquake became more risk tolerant a year after it. Risk preferences are persistent even five years after the Earthquake at almost the same magnitude as those shortly after it. Also, these men gamble more.

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Do Risk Preferences Change? Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake. Chie Hanaoka, Hitoshi Shigeoka, and Yasutora Watanabe. American E...
Sunday, April 1, 2018

Politically-focused intrusive thoughts and associated ritualistic behaviors after the 2016 elections in the USA

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Politically-focused intrusive thoughts and associated ritualistic behaviors in a community sample. Sandra L. Cepeda et al. Journal of Anxiet...
Saturday, March 31, 2018

Changes in Japan in the Last Fifteen Years, by Noah Smith

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Changes in Japan in the Last Fifteen Years. Noah Smith. Mar 2018, https://twitter.com/Noahpinion 1/I have been coming to Japan since 2002. S...

Women made more negative attributions about, & experienced diminished desire to affiliate with, female targets wearing (vs. not wearing) cosmetics. This penalty was specific to female observers, mediated by decreases in perceived trustworthiness, & driven by less desirable women

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DelPriore, D. J., Bradshaw, H. K., & Hill, S. E. (2018). Appearance Enhancement Produces a Strategic Beautification Penalty Among Women....

Macaques show human-like curiosity: Willingness to pay (or to lose) to obtain information that provides no instrumental or strategic benefit, with the amount to pay scaling with the amount of information

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Monkeys are Curious about Counterfactual Outcomes. Maya Zhe Wang, Benjamin Hayden. bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/291708 Abstract: While...
Friday, March 30, 2018

We tested the hypothesis that we humans feel disgust when reminded of our animal nature. Some disgusting things may remind us of our animal nature, but they are not disgusting because they do so

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Kollareth, D., & Russell, J. A. (2018). Even unpleasant reminders that you are an animal need not disgust you. Emotion, 18(2), 304-312. ...

Retaliation on a voodoo doll symbolizing an abusive supervisor restores justice

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Righting a wrong: Retaliation on a voodoo doll symbolizing an abusive supervisor restores justice. Lindie H.Liang et al. The Leadership Quar...
Thursday, March 29, 2018

Not using smartphones in the bedroom increases happiness and quality of life; risk of smartphone addiction decreases when smartphones are left outside the bedroom; sleeping without smartphones improves sleep, relationships, focus and wellbeing

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Sleeping with the frenemy: How restricting ‘bedroom use’ of smartphones impacts happiness and wellbeing. Nicola Hughes, Jolanta Burke. Compu...

Adolescents Who Experienced Negative Alcohol-Related Consequences Are Willing to Experience These Consequences Again in the Future

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Wicki, M., Mallett, K. A., Delgrande Jordan, M., Reavy, R., Turrisi, R., Archimi, A., & Kuntsche, E. (2018). Adolescents Who Experienced...

Willpower theories predict outcomes across domains of academics, health, goal progress, interpersonal relationships, and well‐being. Generally, limited willpower theorists' belief in their limited capacity results in poorer outcomes, particularly during times of high demand

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Lay theories of willpower. Zoë Francis, Veronika Job. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12381 Abstract...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

The Unresponsive Avenger: More Evidence That Disinterested Third Parties Do Not Punish Altruistically

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Pedersen, Eric J., William B McAuliffe, and Michael E McCullough 2018. “The Unresponsive Avenger: More Evidence That Disinterested Third Par...

New Zealand Psychologists Board - Guidelines on the use of Psychometric Tests - February 2013, updated March 2015 --

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1 Guidelines on the use of Psychometric Tests February 2013, updated March 2015 The purpose of the Board’s “best-practice” guidelines Practi...