Wednesday, May 2, 2018

In contrast to North America results, anxiety, depression and neuroticism showed no increase in two big European samples

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Age of anxiety and depression revisited: A meta-analysis of two European community samples (1964-2015). JanSchürmann, JürgenMargraf. Interna...

Odor sensitivity correlated positively with sexual experience: Participants with high olfactory sensitivity reported higher pleasantness of sexual activities; and women with high olfactory sensitivity reported a higher frequency of orgasms during sexual intercourse

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Olfactory Function Relates to Sexual Experience in Adults. Johanna Bendas, Thomas Hummel, Ilona Croy. Archives of Sexual Behavior, https://l...

Apes giving first aid: We argue that many of the core components underlying human empathy are deeply rooted in our primate past

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Neuronal Correlates of Empathy: From Rodent to Human. 2018, Pages 53–66. Chapter 5 – Ethological Approaches to Empathy in Primates. Zanna Cl...

Naïve apes used the shadow of hidden food to locate it; made use of the mirror images to estimate the distance to the hidden food; tended to interpret mirror images and pictures of these mirror images differently depending on their prior knowledge

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Intuitive optics: what great apes infer from mirrors and shadows. Christoph J. Völter, Josep Call. Animal Cognition, https://link.springer.c...

We respond defensively to risk messages impugning our own behavior; participants learned how being overweight could influence their own cancer risk or that of an opposite-sex close other. They expressed higher worry and experiential risk perceptions for their close others than for themselves

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On Being More Amenable to Threatening Risk Messages Concerning Close Others (vis-à-vis the Self).William M. P. Klein, Rebecca A. Ferrer. Per...

Prisoner's Dilemma games: With stringent tests, we found no general decline over 300 rounds; we confirmed a puzzling gender difference: men cooperate much more than women

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Persistent cooperation and gender differences in repeated Prisoner's Dilemma games: Some things never change. Andrew M. Colman, , Briony...

Grammar-learning ability is preserved almost to the crux of adulthood (17.4 years old) and then declines steadily. This finding held not only for “difficult” syntactic phenomena but also for “easy” syntactic phenomena that are normally mastered early in acquisition

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A critical period for second language acquisition: Evidence from 2/3 million English speakers. Joshua K. Hartshorne, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, St...

A one pct point reduction in tax rates increases investment by 4.7 pct of installed capital, increases payouts by 0.3 pct of sales, & decreases debt by 5.3 pct of total assets

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Ohrn, Eric. 2018. "The Effect of Corporate Taxation on Investment and Financial Policy: Evidence from the DPAD." American Economic...

From 2014... Pleasure: An Initial Exploration

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Pleasure: An Initial Exploration. Robert Biswas-Diener et al. Journal of Happiness Studies 16(2) April 2014, doi 10.1007/s10902-014-9511-x A...

The US stands out for its positivity among Western countries (44% saying their day was particularly good). Conservatives (48%) & moderates (47%) were significantly more likely than liberals (34%) to describe their day as good

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‘Particularly good days’ are common in Africa, Latin America and the U.S. Courtney Johnson. Pew Research Center, January 2, 2018. Full artic...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

We find that for men, particularly among younger cohorts, the physically stronger are more likely to be married (no relation for women), consistent with a hypothesis that women increasingly have selected male marital partners based on preferred individual traits

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Women’s Spousal Choices and a Man’s Handshake: Evidence from a Norwegian Study of Cohort Differences. Vegard Skirbekk, Melissa Hardy, Bjørn ...

Why Hate the Good Guy? Antisocial Punishment of High Cooperators Is Greater When People Compete to Be Chosen

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Why Hate the Good Guy? Antisocial Punishment of High Cooperators Is Greater When People Compete to Be Chosen. Aleta Pleasant, Pat Barclay. P...

Identity prediction errors in the human midbrain update reward-identity expectations in the orbitofrontal cortex

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Identity prediction errors in the human midbrain update reward-identity expectations in the orbitofrontal cortex. James D. Howard & Thor...

Antidepressant Use Prospectively Relates to a Poorer Long-Term Outcome of Depression: Results from a Prospective Community Cohort Study over 30 Years

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Antidepressant Use Prospectively Relates to a Poorer Long-Term Outcome of Depression: Results from a Prospective Community Cohort Study over...
Monday, April 30, 2018

Fearmongering, according to Hans Rosling's comments in "Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think"

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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think . Hans Rosling with ‎ ...