Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Often in conservative religious populations, fantastical thoughts, interests, and beliefs are discouraged; but individuals who reported higher fantastical cognitions and behaviors (currently and retrospectively) reported higher religious orientations

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Conceptual Similarities Among Fantasy and Religious Orientations: A Developmental Perspective. Rachel B. Thibodeau; Melissa M. Brown; Alexan...

Perceptual decisions require the accumulation of sensory information to a response criterion. We report that subthreshold changes in membrane voltage can represent accumulating evidence before a choice

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Dendritic Integration of Sensory Evidence in Perceptual Decision-Making. Lukas N. Groschner et al. Cell, Volume 173, Issue 4, p894–905.e13, ...

Confirmed age-related decreases in sexual behavior, ideal frequency of sexual behavior, perceived changes in sexual desire, and openness to an array of sexual behaviors (e.g., having sex with multiple partners), although sexual satisfaction increased with age in women but not men

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Gray, P. B., Garcia, J. R., & Gesselman, A. N. (2018). Age-related patterns in sexual behaviors and attitudes among single U.S. Adults: ...

Altruists bias their giving toward those in greater need rather those who may be more competent; subtle nonverbal cues of status influence altruistic decision-making

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The financial cost of status signaling: Expansive postural displays are associated with a reduction in the receipt of altruistic donations. ...

Men’s Interest in Allying with a Previous Combatant for Future Group Combat

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Men’s Interest in Allying with a Previous Combatant for Future Group Combat. Nicole Barbaro, Justin K. Mogilski, Todd K. Shackelford, Michae...

Eyebrows Cue Grandiose Narcissism

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Eyebrows Cue Grandiose Narcissism. Miranda Giacomin, Nicholas O. Rule. Journal of Personality, https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12396 Abstract O...
Monday, May 7, 2018

When valuing time promotes subjective well-being

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Making seconds count: When valuing time promotes subjective well-being. Alice Lee-Yoon, Ashley V. Whillans. Current Opinion in Psychology, h...
Sunday, May 6, 2018

Gun-shy: Refusal to answer questions about firearm ownership

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Gun-shy: Refusal to answer questions about firearm ownership. R. Urbatsch. The Social Science Journal, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soscij.2018...

Norway, 2016: Higher income transparency increased the happiness gap between rich & poor by 29% & the life satisfaction gap by 21%. Also, higher income transparency corrected misperceptions about the income distribution and changed preferences for redistribution.

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Perez-Truglia, Ricardo, The Effects of Income Transparency on Well-Being: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (February 10, 2016). https://ss...

Past focus is generally maladaptive in terms of work and life outcomes such as depression; present focus increases life satisfaction, but correlates with impulsive behaviors; future focus is more cognitive in nature and leads to life and work achievements

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Temporal Focus: Thinking about the Past, Present, and Future. Abbie J.Shipp, Brad Aeon. Current Opinion in Psychology, https://doi.org/10.10...

Animal models of binge drinking, current challenges to improve face validity

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Animal models of binge drinking, current challenges to improve face validity. Jerome Jeanblanc et al. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Revie...
Saturday, May 5, 2018

Does waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) predict happiness? Belief about a person's essence matters

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Does waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) predict happiness? Belief about a person's essence matters. Ji-eun Shin, Eunkook M. Suh. Personality and I...
Friday, May 4, 2018

Presenting images of baby animals, versus adult animals, as the source of meat reduced appetite for meat, but this effect was weak and found almost exclusively among women

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Are Baby Animals Less Appetizing? Tenderness toward Baby Animals and Appetite for Meat. Jared Piazza, Neil McLatchie & Cecilie Olesen. A...

Educational Attainments in Norway, Twins Study: Heritable factors play an important role in the transmission process, and the postulated direct effects of parents own educational attainments are negligible. The family environment does matter, but only those features that are shared between the twins themselves and not those that involve their parents

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Lyngstad, Torkild H., Eivind Ystrøm, and Imac M Zambrana 2018. “An Anatomy of Intergenerational Transmission: Learning from the Educational ...

The Quality of Relationships That Arise From Successful Mate Poaching: Lower in relationship satisfaction, commitment and trust, and higher in jealousy, and had higher rates of romantic and sexuality infidelity

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Why Find My Own When I Can Take Yours?: The Quality of Relationships That Arise From Successful Mate Poaching. Charlene F. Belu and Lucia F....

When do we care about political neutrality? The hypocritical nature of reaction to political bias

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When do we care about political neutrality? The hypocritical nature of reaction to political bias. Omer Yair, Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan. PLOS,...

Reflections on violent public executions -- Dubai case of the rapist of what they say was a 5-year-old.

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Reflections on violent public executions . 1  After a human nature studies group member posts this May 04 2018:             👆👆👆Quick ...
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Thursday, May 3, 2018

From 2010: Association between adolescent marriage and marital violence among young adult women in India

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Association between adolescent marriage and marital violence among young adult women in India. Anita Raj et al. International Journal of Gyn...

Demand for heroin was more elastic than demand for saccharin (i.e., heroin had lower essential value than saccharin). When allowed to choose, most rats preferred saccharin. The essential value of heroin, but not saccharin, predicted preference

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Heroin and saccharin demand and preference in rats. Lindsay P.Schwartz, Jung S.Kim, Alan Silberberg, David N.Kearns. Drug and Alcohol Depend...

The Influence of Sexual Orientation on the Perceived Fit of Male Applicants for Both Male- and Female-Typed Jobs

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The Influence of Sexual Orientation on the Perceived Fit of Male Applicants for Both Male- and Female-Typed Jobs. Heather M. Clarke and Kara...

Four facets of conscientiousness (self-control, organisation, industriousness and responsibility) were related to lower adiposity, healthier metabolic, cardiovascular and inflammatory markers, and better performance on physical assessments

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Facets of conscientiousness and objective markers of health status. Angelina R. Sutin, Yannick Stephan & Antonio Terracciano. Psychology...

If we test subjects at home with everyday tasks (for example, remembering to call someone twice a day), older people do better than younger ones—although the effect is precisely the opposite in the laboratory

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Foresee and Forget: How to Remember the Future. Matthias Kliegel and Nicola Ballhausen. Scientific American Mind, Scientific American Mind 2...

In the UK, supporters of the major parties (Labour, the Conservatives & Liberal Democrats) have substantively different personality traits. Moreover, those not identifying with any party, who are close to holding the majority, are similar to those identifying with the Conservatives

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The Big Five personality traits and partisanship in England. Toke Aidt, Christopher Rauh. Electoral Studies, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elect...

Even when not in the focus, sexual images activate the brains' reward circuitry. Men's higher sensitivity to the rewarding value of sexual cues may be critical for their higher risk of addictive/compulsive sexual behaviors.

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Neural correlates of gender differences in distractibility by sexual stimuli. J. Strahler, O. Kruse, S. Wehrum-Osinsky, T. Klucken, R. Stark...
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 ‎ ...