Thursday, April 26, 2018

Small numbers are processed on a linear scale, while large numbers are processed on a logarithmic one. Due to this, financial analysts are more optimistic about small price stocks than about large price stocks even after controlling for differences in risk factors

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Behavioral bias in number processing: Evidence from analysts’ expectations. Tristan Roger, Patrick Roger, Alain Schatt. Journal of Economic ...

Individuals with low cognitive ability are less likely to support equal rights for same-sex couples, regardless of education and other confounds

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The cognitive roots of prejudice towards same-sex couples: An analysis of an Australian national sample. Francisco Perales. Intelligence, Vo...

Higher psychopathy scores were associated with decreased concerns about preventing harm and promoting justice. Individuals higher in psychopathic traits did not evidence deficits in moral judgement

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Relations among psychopathy, moral competence, and moral intuitions in student and community samples. Jeremy G. Gay, Michael J. Vitacco, Amy...

Refined models say that selection favors our looking for new partners while in relationships and to allow our partners to do the same. Non‐looking is only expected to evolve if there is an extremely large cost associated with being left by your partner

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Can Strategic Ignorance Explain the Evolution of Love? Adam Bear, David G. Rand. Topics in Cognitive Science, https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.1...

Individuals employed in jobs requiring product promotion were less trusting than individuals employed in other jobs—particularly jobs in which honesty is highly expected

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Mandates of Dishonesty: The Psychological and Social Costs of Mandated Attitude Expression. Marko Pitesa, Zen Goh, Stefan Thau. Organization...

Is self-promotion evaluated more positively if it is accurate? It is, but modest claims are evaluated even more positively than self-promotional claims

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Is self-promotion evaluated more positively if it is accurate? Reexamining the role of accuracy and modesty on the perception of self-promot...

Status threat, not economic hardship, explains the 2016 presidential vote

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Status threat, not economic hardship, explains the 2016 presidential vote. Diana C. Mutz. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, A...

Subjective well-being across education levels: More educated people require better circumstances to be equally satisfied, and as expectations are met the net effect on life satisfaction is negligible

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Great Expectations: Education and Subjective Wellbeing. Ingebjørg Kristoffersen. Journal of Economic Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.j...
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...