Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Issues such as how much inequality of income to tolerate, or how much pollution to tolerate, represent issues of clashing values, not the inability to process information, nor the lack of information, nor the failure to show wisdom

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How to Think Rationally about World Problems. Keith E. Stanovich. Journal of Intelligence 2018, 6(2), 25; doi:10.3390/jintelligence6020025. ...

In self-judgment, the "best option illusion" leads to Dunning-Kruger (failure to recognize our own incompetence). In social judgment, it leads to the Cassandra quandary (failure to identify when another person’s competence exceeds our own)

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The best option illusion in self and social assessment. David Dunning. Self and Identity, https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2018.1465460 Ab...

People are more inaccurate when forecasting their own future prospects than when forecasting others, in part the result of biased visual experience. People orient visual attention and resolve visual ambiguity in ways that support self-interests

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Visual experience in self and social judgment: How a biased majority claim a superior minority. Emily Balcetis & Stephanie A. Cardenas. ...

Differential Parenting and Authoritarianism: Unravelling Quasi‐Causal Environmental Effects via Phenotypic and Genetically Informed Multi‐Rater Models

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Unravelling Quasi‐Causal Environmental Effects via Phenotypic and Genetically Informed Multi‐Rater Models: The Case of Differential Parentin...

Three categories of monogamy maintenance strategies to avoid relationship threats are commonly used: Proactive Avoidance (of attractive alternatives), Relationship Enhancement, and Low Self‐Monitoring and Derogation (in the face of extradyadic attraction). Not very successfully...

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Ain’t misbehavin? Monogamy maintenance strategies in heterosexual romantic relationships. Brenda H. Lee, Lucia F. O'Sullivan. Personal R...