Thursday, December 27, 2018

Cultivation theory holds that the media is responsible for the public’s crime trend perceptions; but it is likely that the cultivation effect of media has been overstated in the previous research

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Media consumption and crime trend perceptions: a longitudinal analysis. Luzi Shi, Sean Patrick Roche & Ryan M. McKenna. Deviant Behavior...

Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program & rising deaths: Why are policies that profoundly influence patient care not rigorously studied before widespread rollout?

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Did This Health Care Policy Do Harm? Rishi K. Wadhera, Karen E. Joynt Maddox and Robert W. Yeh. The New York Times, Dec 21 2018. https://www...

On consumer finance, personal characteristics, & health, many prefer to remain in a state of active ignorance even when information is freely available

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Ho, Emily and Hagmann, David and Loewenstein, George F., Measuring Information Preferences (September 14, 2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/s...

5-year-olds judged conventional eaters more positively than unconventional eaters, judge ingroup & outgroup members negatively for unconventional choices

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Children judge others based on their food choices. Jasmine M. DeJesus et al. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Volume 179, March 201...
Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Constipated people tend to be obstinate, excessively concerned with hygiene, & inclined toward retaining possessions; diarrhoeic people tend to be careless, disorganized, & disposed to share their possessions with others

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Consumer behaviour and the toilet: Research on expulsive and retentive personalities. Gianluigi Guido, Russell W. Belk, Cristian Rizzo, Giov...
Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Is Islam Compatible with Free-Market Capitalism? An Empirical Analysis, 1970–2010: Capitalistic policies and institutions, it seems, may travel across religions more easily than culturalists claim

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Is Islam Compatible with Free-Market Capitalism? An Empirical Analysis, 1970–2010. Indra de Soysa. Politics and Religion, https://doi.org/10...

Consumers’ intelligence scores & their choice to co-own & lease their cars are linked; can be explained by higher social trust in people & institutions, their financial standing & tendency to seek savings

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Sharing-Dominant Logic? Quantifying the Association between Consumer Intelligence and Choice of Social Access Modes. Jaakko Aspara Kristina ...

There is considerable evidence to suggest that aesthetic experiences engage a distributed set of structures in the brain, and likely emerge from the interactions of multiple neural systems

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Internal Orientation in Aesthetic Experience. Oshin Vartanian. In The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought: Mind-Wandering, Creativity, an...

Fear extinction does not prevent post-traumatic stress or have long-term therapeutic benefits in fear-related disorders unless extinction memories are easily retrieved at later encounters with the once-threatening stimulus

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Dopamine-dependent prefrontal reactivations explain long-term benefit of fear extinction. A. M. V. Gerlicher, O. Tüscher & R. Kalisch. N...

Those with very rare genetic condition Urbach-Wiethe Disease had significantly more pleasant and significantly shorter and less complex dreams than controls; n o differences threat or danger levels

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The Role of the Basolateral Amygdala in Dreaming. Yvonne Blake et al. Cortex, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.12.016 Abstract: Neuro...

Attraction to the similars: For all three relations, friendships, casual/short-term, & long-term, what counts is political views, career goals, food preferences, travel desires, & music preferences

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 Domains of Similarity and Attraction in Three Types of Relationships. Stanislav Treger, James N. Masciale. Interpersona, 2018, Vol. 12(2), ...