Monday, October 15, 2018

Conservatives’ individual-level attitudes toward diverse political issues (e.g., abortion, gun control, welfare) were more dispersed across the political spectrum than were liberals’ attitudes due to to having several moral foundations

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Pyszczynski, Tom, Pelin Kesebir, Matt Motyl, Andrea Yetzer, and Jacqueline M. Anson. 2018. “Ideological Consistency, Political Orientation, ...

Observed negative impact of socioeconomic status on olfactory function could reflect differential exposures to xenobiotic agents, cultural differences, familiarity with odors or their names, cognitive development, or other factors

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Relationship of socioeconomic status to olfactory function. Aurélio Fornazieri et al. Physiology & Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.p...

We like to be scared: After voluntary arousing negative experiences, reported affect improved, particularly for those that reported feeling tired, bored, or stressed prior to the experience

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Kerr, M., Siegle, G. J., & Orsini, J. (2018). Voluntary arousing negative experiences (VANE): Why we like to be scared. Emotion. http://...

This paper establishes a new fact about educational production: ordinal academic rank during primary school has long-run impacts that are independent from underlying ability

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Top of the Class: The Importance of Ordinal Rank. Richard Murphy, Felix Weinhardt. NBER Working Paper No. 24958. http://www.nber.org/papers/...

Democracy's Unique Advantage in Promoting Economic Growth: Quantitative Evidence for a New Institutional Theory

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Democracy's Unique Advantage in Promoting Economic Growth: Quantitative Evidence for a New Institutional Theory. Rui Tang, Shiping Tang....

Humans exhibit important shifts in this aspect of our social cognition: younger individuals attend more to negative stimuli, whereas older adults tend to focus on positive information; rhesus monkeys show an increasing negativity bias with age

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Developmental shifts in social cognition: socio-emotional biases across the lifespan in rhesus monkeys. Alexandra G. Rosati, Alyssa M. Arre,...
Sunday, October 14, 2018

Harming animals and massacring humans: Characteristics of public mass and active shooters who abused animals

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Harming animals and massacring humans: Characteristics of public mass and active shooters who abused animals. Arnold Arluke, Adam Lankford, ...

We discovered hundreds of genes that, when their activity is enhanced, suppressed, or turned off, lengthen life & enhance health under laboratory conditions; does this support George Williams’ 1957 paper aobut antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis of aging?

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Is Antagonistic Pleiotropy Ubiquitous in Aging Biology? Steven N Austad Jessica M Hoffman.  Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, eoy033, ...

Strong discrepancy between stated and revealed behavior: given a natural setting, people may actually behave inconsistently with the way in which they otherwise “brand” themselves; this is a big problem for predictability of survey answers

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Why (field) experiments on unethical behavior are important: Comparing stated and revealed behavior. Yonas Alema et al. Journal of Economic ...

Antisocial behavior is heritable, but heritability varies by subtype and age; adversity predicts antisocial behavior directly & moderates genetic effects; we need genome-wide association studies of antisocial behavior with larger sample sizes

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Genetic influences on antisocial behavior: recent advances and future directions. Arianna M Gard, Hailey L Dotterer, Luke W Hyde. Current Op...
Saturday, October 13, 2018

The high regard of organic food is a meme; not in genetic terms, but as a cultural artefact that spreads, affects social cognition, & propagates in the social environment as a true statement to be believed

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Organic Food Appeals to Intuition and Triggers Stereotypes. Marjaana Lindeman, Joonas Anttila. International Journal of Psychological Studie...

Dopaminergic basis for signaling belief updates, but not surprise, and the link to paranoia

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Dopaminergic basis for signaling belief updates, but not surprise, and the link to paranoia. Matthew M. Nour, Tarik Dahoun, Philipp Schwarte...
Friday, October 12, 2018

Mice: Performance in behavioral tasks did not correlate strongly with number of neurons; whereas neuronal number is a good predictor of cognitive skills across species, it is not a predictor of cognitive across individuals within a species

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Lack of correlation between number of neurons and behavioral performance in Swiss mice. Kleber Neves, Gerson D. Guercio, Yuri Anjos-Travasso...

Industrial Revolution: Some psychological traits –lower level of time discounting, higher level of optimism, decreased materialistic orientation, & higher level of trust in others– are likely to increase the rate of innovation

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Psychological Origins of the Industrial Revolution. Nicolas Baumard. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (forthcoming), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0...

Rolf Degen summarizing: If competition is framed as competition with oneself, rather than with other people, women are more competitive than men

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Gender differences in interpersonal and intrapersonal competitive behavior. Jeffrey Carpenter, Rachel Frank, Emiliano Huet-Vaughn. Journal o...

Schadenfreude is higher in real-life situations compared to psychologists' experiments in the lab

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Schadenfreude is higher in real-life situations compared to hypothetical scenarios. Maria Luz Gonzalez-Gadea, Agustin Ibanez, Mariano Sigman...
Thursday, October 11, 2018

More-skilled workers tend to live in larger cities where they earn higher wages; larger cities are also more unequal

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Inequality in and across Cities. Jessie Romero and Felipe F. Schwartzman. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Economic Brief October 2018, No....

Distinct facial expressions represent pain and pleasure across cultures

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Distinct facial expressions represent pain and pleasure across cultures. Chaona Chen, Carlos Crivelli, Oliver G. B. Garrod, Philippe G. Schy...

Evolutionary Explanations for Humor and Creativity. Or it is sexual selection?

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Creativity and Humor. Chapter 10 - Evolutionary Explanations for Humor and Creativity. Aaron Kozbelt. Explorations in Creativity Research 20...

Silver medalists’ life expectancy is less than that of gold and bronze medalists; perceived dissatisfactory competition outcomes may adversely affect health

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The Effects of Competition Outcomes on Health: Evidence from the Lifespans of U.S. Olympic Medalists. Adriaan Kalwij. Economics & Human ...
Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Firms headquartered in countries with strict environmental policies perform their polluting activities abroad in countries with relatively weaker policies, but emit less overall CO2 globally due to strict policies at home

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Exporting Pollution. Itzhak Ben-David, Stefanie Kleimeier, Michael Viehs. NBER Working Paper No. 25063. http://www.nber.org/papers/w25063 Ab...

Hillary Clinton: 'You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for'

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Clinton: 'You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for'. Rachel Ventresca, CNN, October 9, 20...

Backward magical contagion: discomfort or pleasure when something like hair falls into the possession of a negatively- or positively-perceived individual; lots of people experience such fear

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Reversing the causal arrow: Incidence and properties of negative backward magical contagion in Americans. Paul Rozin, Christopher Dunn, Nata...

Risk Factors Related to Cognitive Distortions Toward Women and Moral Disengagement: A Study on Sex Offenders

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Risk Factors Related to Cognitive Distortions Toward Women and Moral Disengagement: A Study on Sex Offenders. Giulio D’Urso, Irene Petruccel...

Relationships and Infidelity in Pornography: An Analysis of Pornography Streaming Websites

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Relationships and Infidelity in Pornography: An Analysis of Pornography Streaming Websites. Kyler R. Rasmussen, Daniel Millar, Jeremy Trench...

Studies with the strongest research designs indicate that psychotherapy may be considerably less effective than we tend to believe; in fact, different psychotherapies may be equally ineffective

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Insight Into Insight in Psychotherapy. Per Høglend. American Journal of Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.18050634 There hav...

Domesticated Foxes Developing Laughter To Please Us

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Domesticated Foxes Laugh with You (and Without You). Lee Alan Dugatkin. Psychology Today, Oct 2018,  https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/bl...
Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Emotional toll that psychotherapy may impose on mental health professionals: A protective role of quality of life was not observed for clinical supervision or personal therapy

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Laverdière, O., Kealy, D., Ogrodniczuk, J. S., Chamberland, S., & Descôteaux, J. (2018). Psychotherapists’ professional quality of life....

We Slow as We Age, but May Not Need to Slow Too Much

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We Slow as We Age, but May Not Need to Slow Too Much. Gretchen Reynolds. The New York Times, Oct. 3, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/0...

Sexual Arousal Patterns of Identical Twins with Discordant Sexual Orientations

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Sexual Arousal Patterns of Identical Twins with Discordant Sexual Orientations. Tuesday M. Watts, Luke Holmes, Jamie Raines, Sheina Orbell ...

Research from diverse subdisciplines of psychology sheds light on Schadenfreude; novel tripartite taxonomy of Schadenfreude: Aggression, rivalry, and justice; the process of dehumanization may lie at the core of Schadenfreude

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Schadenfreude deconstructed and reconstructed: A tripartite motivational model. Shensheng Wang, Scott O. Lilienfeld, Philippe Rochat. New Id...

Preference for realistic art predicts support for Brexit

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Preference for realistic art predicts support for Brexit. Noah Carl, Lindsay Richards, Anthony Heath. The British Journal of Sociology, http...

Face proportions: Facial attractiveness increases with the enlargement of the uncovered eye surface as well as the reduction in nose and lip size

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Impact of face proportions on face attractiveness. Mateusz Przylipiak et al. J Cosmet Dermatol. 2018;1–6. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/do...

Individuals who indicated poor mating performance experienced more negative emotions (sadness, loneliness), fewer positive emotions (happiness, excitement), & were less satisfied with their lives

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The emotional cost of poor mating performance. Menelaos Apostolou, Marios Shialos, Polyxeni Georgiadou. Personality and Individual Differenc...
Monday, October 8, 2018

Evolution of property and possession: Some non-human primates show respect for property

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Rethinking the evolution of property and possession: A review and methodological proposition. Lucy Tibble, Susana Carvalho. Evolutionary Ant...

Already known, but not discussed: Wind power reduces emissions while causing climatic impacts such as warmer temperatures, effect strongest at night when temperatures increase with height; wind's warming can exceed avoided warming from reduced emissions for a century

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Climatic Impacts of Wind Power. Lee M. Miller, David W. Keith. Joule, October 04, 2018, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2018.09.009 High...

Child Care Tax Credits: substantial pass-thru, over half of every dollar is passed through to care providers in the form of higher prices and wages

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Give Credit Where?: The Incidence of Child Care Tax Credits. Luke P. Rodgers. Journal of Urban Economics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2018...

The One Percent in New Zealand more strongly legitimize the political & economic systems in society, express lower support for redistributive taxation; & report higher life satisfaction, self-esteem & belongingness compared to everyone else

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The Political Attitudes and Subjective Wellbeing of the One Percent. Nikhil K. Sengupta, Chris G. Sibley. Journal of Happiness Studies, http...

How cohabitation, marriage, separation, and divorce influence BMI: The benefits of marriage or cohabitation do not necessarily include a healthier BMI

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Mata, J., Richter, D., Schneider, T., & Hertwig, R. (2018). How cohabitation, marriage, separation, and divorce influence BMI: A prospec...

A Reanalysis of Creativity & Religiosity: Creativity & religiosity have a negative relationship in terms of people's attitudes & values toward creativity as well as their perceptions of environment for creativity

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Creativity and Religiosity: A Reanalysis with Regional Predictors. Selcuk Acar, Mark A. Runco & Uzeyir Ogurlu. Creativity Research Journ...

Does Religion Hinder Creativity? A National Level Study on the Roles of Religiosity and Different Denominations

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Does Religion Hinder Creativity? A National Level Study on the Roles of Religiosity and Different Denominations. Zhen Liu et al. Front. Psyc...

On the Necessity of Consciousness for Sophisticated Human Action

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On the Necessity of Consciousness for Sophisticated Human Action. Roy F. Baumeister et al. Front. Psychol., October 8 2018, https://doi.org/...
Sunday, October 7, 2018

Significant social change often comes from the unleashing of hidden preferences; it also comes from the construction of novel preferences

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Sunstein, Cass R., Unleashed (August 22, 2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3025749 Abstract: Significant social change often comes from ...

Re “Masturbation: Scientific Evidence and Islam’s View”: Evidence to support a negative relationship between masturbation & health was not scrutinized, & evidente to support or a non-negative relationship was largely ignored

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Response to “Masturbation: Scientific Evidence and Islam’s View”. David Speed, Ryan T. Cragun. Journal of Religion and Health, https://link....

Sex differences in adolescent physical aggression: Evidence from sixty‐three low‐and middle‐income countries: Sex differences in physical aggression decrease as societal gender inequality increased

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Sex differences in adolescent physical aggression: Evidence from sixty‐three low‐and middle‐income countries. Amy Nivette, Alex Sutherland, ...

How people psychologically manage violations to the belief that the world is fair and just: people generally believe in karmic retribution

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Just world violations prompt beliefs in karmic retribution. Jack McDonald. Thesis for M.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. http...

Are Tinder & Dating Apps Changing Dating & Mating? More than 80% of unpartnered heterosexual adults have not gone on any dates or met any new people in the past 12 months; being unpartnered is more stable that thought

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Are Tinder and Dating Apps Changing Dating and Mating in the USA? Michael Rosenfeld. Families and Technology, National Symposium on Family I...

The evolutionary dynamics of adaptive virginity, sex‐allocation, & altruistic helping in haplodiploids: when mating is costly (e.g., when mating increases predation risk), virginity be an adaptive reproductive strategy

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The evolutionary dynamics of adaptive virginity, sex‐allocation, and altruistic helping in haplodiploid animals. Petri Rautiala, Heikki Hela...

The categorical model of classification in the V edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is problematic; a proposed solution is an empirically based dimensional organization of psychopathology, HiTOP

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Personality in a Hierarchical Model of Psychopathology. Thomas A. Widiger et al. Association for Psychological Science, https://doi.org/10.1...

Chitwan Valley Family Study, Nepal, confirms: Aging adults with more highly educated children experience better health and higher survival; possible mechanisms are older adults' better health behaviors, & their greater support in later life

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Offspring education and parental mortality: Evidence from South Asia. Emily Smith-Greenaway, Sarah Brauner-Otto, William Axinn. Social Scien...

Black-white differences in happiness, 1972–2014

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Black-white differences in happiness, 1972–2014. John Iceland, Sarah Ludwig-Dehm. Social Science Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresea...
Saturday, October 6, 2018

Internalised White Ideal, Skin Tone Surveillance, and Hair Surveillance Predict Skin and Hair Dissatisfaction and Skin Bleaching among African American and Indian Women

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Internalised White Ideal, Skin Tone Surveillance, and Hair Surveillance Predict Skin and Hair Dissatisfaction and Skin Bleaching among Afric...

How Does Traditional Masculinity Relate to Men and Women’s Problematic Pornography Viewing?

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How Does Traditional Masculinity Relate to Men and Women’s Problematic Pornography Viewing? Nicholas C. Borgogna et al. Sex Roles, https://l...

The ecological and evolutionary significance of Neanderthal healthcare: Care for the ill & injured is likely to have a long evolutionary history & to have been highly effective in improving health & reducing mortality risks

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Living to fight another day: The ecological and evolutionary significance of Neanderthal healthcare. Penny Spikins et al. Quaternary Science...
Friday, October 5, 2018

Women are more upset by cyber aggression than men; women experience online posts derogating their physical appearance more often than men, while men experience online posts derogating their status more often than women

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Wyckoff, J. P., Buss, D. M., & Markman, A. B. (2018). Sex differences in victimization and consequences of cyber aggression: An evolutio...