Monday, April 9, 2018

Study in Norway: Increasing family wealth was associated with easier family communication, clearer family communication, and higher family support

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Study in Norway: Family wealth and parent–child relationships. Mai Emilie Ramdahl et al. Journal of Child and Family Studies, May 2018, Volu...

What is usual, not just what is objectively permissible, drives moral judgment, even when holding behavior constant and varying descriptive norms

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It's not what you do, but what everyone else does: On the role of descriptive norms and subjectivism in moral judgment. Andrew E. Monroe...

Time in social activities has diminishing returns for subjective well-being: In the US, socializing more than 2.5 hours a day did not predict higher happiness

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The Declining Marginal Utility of Social Time for Subjective Well-Being. Kostadin Kushlev et al. Journal of Research in Personality, https:/...

Examining aggressive play with toy weapons and its relation with crime

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Learning to blast a way into crime, or just good clean fun? Examining aggressive play with toy weapons and its relation with crime. Sven Smi...
Sunday, April 8, 2018

Implicit Theories of Intelligence and Personality: Relations to Intelligence, Motivation and Personality

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Zirenko M. (2018) Implitsitnye teorii intellekta i lichnosti: svyazi s intellektom, motivatsiey i lichnostnymi chertami [Implicit Theories o...

The influence of psychological traits, beliefs and taste responsiveness on implicit attitudes toward plant- and animal-based dishes among vegetarians, flexitarians and omnivores

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The influence of psychological traits, beliefs and taste responsiveness on implicit attitudes toward plant- and animal-based dishes among ve...

Placebo analgesia induced prior to sleep reduced pain during sleep as well as subjective sleep disturbances, as evaluated retrospectively on the following morning

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Placebo analgesia persists during sleep: An experimental study. Daniele Laverdure-Dupont et al. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Bio...
Saturday, April 7, 2018

No evidence that more physically attractive young adult women have higher estradiol or progesterone

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No evidence that more physically attractive young adult women have higher estradiol or progesterone. Benedict C. Jones et al. bioRxiv, https...
Friday, April 6, 2018

Handgrip strength predicts measures of aggression & social dominance, perceived formidability, male-typical body morphology & movement, courtship display, physical attractiveness, & sexual behavior & reproductive fitness

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Handgrip Strength as a Darwinian Fitness Indicator in Men. Andrew C. Gallupand Bernhard Fink. Frontiers in Psychology, https://doi.org/10.33...

Incomplete physics and the finite representation of computers can induce false instabilities; eliminating instability can lead to computational overstabilization or false stability. Models on ultra-long timescales are dubiously stable. This is referred to as the “climate state.”

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Christopher Essex and Anastasios A.Tsonis (2018) Model falsifiability and climate slow modes, Physica A, Volume 502, July 2018, Pages 554-56...

Differential relationship of jumping-to-conclusions and incorrigibility with delusion severity

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Differential relationship of jumping-to-conclusions and incorrigibility with delusion severity. Christina Andreou, Ruth Veckenstedt, Thies L...

Niels Bohr suggested that willed actions come with slower movement execution than reactions, and therefore that a film’s hero is able to get the upper hand even though the villain normally draws first. This is due to independent systems for willed (the bad guy's) and reactive (the hero's) movements

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Disarming the gunslinger effect: Reaction beats intention for cooperative actions. Lisa Weller, Wilfried Kunde, Roland Pfister. Psychonomic ...
Thursday, April 5, 2018

Sexual orientation, competitiveness and income: Gay men compete less than straight men. Lesbians compete as much as straight women

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Sexual orientation, competitiveness and income. Thomas Buser, Lydia Geijtenbeek, Erik Plug. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization,...

Of course, a piece about frogs surviving our devilish devices to kill them is not in the front page, but page six or part D: A Few Species of Frogs That Vanished May Be on the Rebound

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A Few Species of Frogs That Vanished May Be on the Rebound. Carl Zimmer. The New York Times, March 29, 2018. Full article with photos at htt...

Consumption of hard news television programs has a negative effect on the development of mental well-being over time. Soft news consumption, by contrast, has a marginally positive impact on the trend in well-being

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Jul 2017: News Consumption and Its Unpleasant Side Effect: Studying the Effect of Hard and Soft News Exposure on Mental Well-Being Over Time...

We are positively biased about our personal future while at the same time being negatively biased about the future of our country

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Shrikanth, S., Szpunar, P. M., & Szpunar, K. K. (2018). Staying positive in a dystopian future: A novel dissociation between personal an...

Clinton supporters, in contrast, remained below baseline levels of general happiness six months after the election. Moral and political values, and exposure to media inconsistent with those values, predicted lasting change in subjective well-being

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Article in press: Lench, H. C., Levine, L. J., Perez, K., Haggenmiller, Z. K., Carlson, S. J., & Tibbett, T. (2018). Changes in subjecti...
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Participants more readily verify the grammaticality of a statement when it corresponds to their opinion. These findings may help explain why opinions are sometimes change resistant

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That’s My Truth: Evidence for Involuntary Opinion Confirmation. Michael Gilead, Moran Sela, Anat Maril. Social Psychological and Personality...

The Impact of Health and Health Behavior on the Formation of Intimate Relationships

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The Impact of Health and Health Behavior on the Formation of Intimate Relationships. Ingmar Rapp, Jonathan Gruhler. English abstract of Der ...

Theories of human altruism: Future theoretical models would greatly benefit from being inclusive rather than exclusive in allowing for the possibility of co-existing egoistic and altruistic motivational drives

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Theories of human altruism: a systematic review. Svetlana Feigin, Glynn Owens and Felicity Goodyear-Smith. Annals of Neuroscience and Psycho...
Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Beneficial effect of hot spring bathing on stress levels in Japanese macaques

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Beneficial effect of hot spring bathing on stress levels in Japanese macaques. Rafaela S. C. Takeshita et al. Primates, https://link.springe...

While low performers on a political knowledge task are expected to engage in overconfident self‐placement and self‐assessment when reflecting on their performance, I also expect the increased salience of partisan identities to exacerbate this phenomenon

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Partisanship, Political Knowledge, and the Dunning‐Kruger Effect. Ian G. Anson. Political Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12490 A...

A Dual‐Process Motivational Model of Attitudes toward Vegetarians and Vegans

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A Dual‐Process Motivational Model of Attitudes toward Vegetarians and Vegans. Madeline Judge, Marc S Wilson. European Journal of Social Psyc...

Situational meaninglessness and state boredom: Cross-sectional and experience-sampling findings

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Situational meaninglessness and state boredom: Cross-sectional and experience-sampling findings. Christian S. Chan et al. Motivation and Em...
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...