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Saturday, May 12, 2018

Adult Human Hippocampus: No New Neurons in Sight

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Adult Human Hippocampus: No New Neurons in Sight. Jon I Arellano, Brian Harding, Jean-Leon Thomas. Cerebral Cortex, bhy106, https://doi.org/...

75 years ago… New York Times debunks (vs. foments) a health scare

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75 years ago… New York Times debunks (vs. foments) a health scare. By Steven Milloy From the May 9, 1943 edition, the New York ...

Friday, May 11, 2018

The sunk-cost fallacy—pursuing an inferior alternative merely because we have previously invested significant, but nonrecoverable, resources in it—, a striking violation of rational decision making, can appear when costs are borne by someone other than the decision maker

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The Interpersonal Sunk-Cost Effect. Christopher Y. Olivola. Psychological Science, https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797617752641 Abstract: The su...

Tools do not erase but rather extend our intrinsic physical and cognitive skills; this extension is task specific because we found no evidence for superusers, benefitting from the use of a tool irrespective of the task

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Osiurak, F., Navarro, J., Reynaud, E., & Thomas, G. (2018). Tools don’t—and won’t—make the man: A cognitive look at the future. Journal ...

Thursday, May 10, 2018

Despite being more egalitarian, men with more education are more likely to have careers that give them privileged status in their marriages and may have “more to lose” in their career by changing their name. Men with less education than their wives are less likely to change their surname

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Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer et al, Flipping the (Surname) Script: Men's Nontraditional Surname Choice at Marriage, Journal of Family Issues...

Those applying for a qualified job emphasized their competence while downplaying their warmth; role-playing as crime witnesses, they attenuated their warmth relative to their competence; those in the role of suspects of a severe crime chose to downplay their competence

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Lindholm, T. & Yzerbyt, V., (2018). When Being Nice or Being Smart Could Bring You Down: Compensatory Dynamics in Strategic Self-present...

Age of Fathers, Mutation, and Reproduction

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Age of Fathers, Mutation, and Reproduction. In Evolution and Human Reproduction. Martin Fieder and Susanne Huber. In the Oxford Handbook of ...

An empirical, 21st century evaluation of phrenology: The most rigorous evaluation to date says it is bogus

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An empirical, 21st century evaluation of phrenology. O. Parker Jones, F. Alfaro-Almagro, S. Jbabdi. Cortex, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex...

Participants had to make the real-life decision to administer an electroshock to a single mouse or allow five other mice to receive the shock. Responses to hypothetical dilemmas are not predictive of real-life dilemma behavior

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Of Mice, Men, and Trolleys: Hypothetical Judgment Versus Real-Life Behavior in Trolley-Style Moral Dilemmas. Dries H. Bostyn, Sybren Sevenha...

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Human adults often show a preference for scarce over abundant goods. Examined 4‐ and 6‐year‐old children as well as chimpanzees, only children at 6 displayed such preference, especially in the presence of competitors

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The preference for scarcity: A developmental and comparative perspective. Maria John, Alicia P. Melis, Daniel Read, Federico Rossano, Michae...

Liberals wanted to feel more empathy and experienced more empathy than conservatives did. Liberals were also more willing to help others than conservatives were, in the United States and Germany, but not in Israel

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Are Liberals and Conservatives Equally Motivated to Feel Empathy Toward Others? Yossi Hasson et al. Personality and Social Psychology Bulle...

Is birth attendance a uniquely human feature? New evidence suggests that Bonobo females protect and support the parturient

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Is birth attendance a uniquely human feature? New evidence suggests that Bonobo females protect and support the parturient. Elisa Demuru, Pi...

Taking ownership of implicit bias has mixed outcomes—at times amplifying the expression of explicit prejudice

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The Mixed Outcomes of Taking Ownership for Implicit Racial Biases. Erin Cooley, Ryan F. Lei, Taylor Ellerkamp. Personality and Social Psycho...

MHC-Dependent Mate Selection within 872 Spousal Pairs of European Ancestry from the Health and Retirement Study

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MHC-Dependent Mate Selection within 872 Spousal Pairs of European Ancestry from the Health and Retirement Study. Zhen Qiao, Joseph E. Powell...

Mass–Elite Divides in Aversion to Social Change and Support for Donald Trump

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Mass–Elite Divides in Aversion to Social Change and Support for Donald Trump. Matt Grossmann, Daniel Thaler. American Politics Research, ht...

From 2004: Both males and females whose voices were rated as attractive had sex at an earlier age, had more sexual partners, more extra-pair copulation partners, and more sexual partners that were involved in a relationship with another person

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Ratings of voice attractiveness predict sexual behavior and body configuration. Susan M. Hughes, Franco Dispenza, Gordon G. Gallup Jr. Evolu...

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...

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