Thursday, January 31, 2019

Facebook deactivation reduced online activity & increased watching TV alone, socializing with family & friends; reduced factual news knowledge & political polarization; increased subjective well-being

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The Welfare Effects of Social Media. Hunt Allcott, Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer, and Matthew Gentzkow. January 27, 2019. http://web.stanf...

The inflation expectations & perceptions of high-IQ men, but not others, are positively correlated over time; are also less likely to round and to forecast implausible values; & more likely to save for retirement

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IQ, Expectations, and Choice. Francesco D’Acunto, Daniel Hoang, Maritta Paloviita, Michael Weber. NBER Working Paper No. 25496, January 2019...

Biological Bases of Beauty Revisited: Increased masculinity is unattractive, but increased femininity is not; averageness & dimorphism yield relatively accurate predictions, but less important than believed

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Jones, Alex L., and Bastian Jaeger. 2019. “Biological Bases of Beauty Revisited: The Effect of Symmetry, Averageness, and Sexual Dimorphism ...

The Influence of an Older Sibling on Preschoolers’ Lie‐telling Behavior

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The Influence of an Older Sibling on Preschoolers’ Lie‐telling Behavior. Pooja Megha Nager, Shanna Williams, Victoria Talwar. Social Develop...

The Myers‐Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) theory falters on rigorous theoretical criteria in that it lacks agreement with known facts & data, lacks testability, & possesses internal contradictions, but it is very popular

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Evaluating the validity of Myers‐Briggs Type Indicator theory: A teaching tool and window into intuitive psychology. Randy Stein, Alexander ...

Do People Believe That They Are More Deontological Than Others?

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Do People Believe That They Are More Deontological Than Others? Ming-Hui Li, Li-Lin Rao. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, https:/...

Trying to “put yourself in their shoes” can ultimately undermine self-persuasion; effect is attenuated when people take the perspective of someone who holds the counterattitudinal view yet has similar overall values

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Perspective Taking and Self-Persuasion: Why “Putting Yourself in Their Shoes” Reduces Openness to Attitude Change. Rhia Catapano, Zakary L. ...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Contrastive paintings (paintings with high diversity of colors) carry a premium than equivalent artworks which are performed in monochromatic style

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The impact of color palettes on the prices of paintings. Elena Stepanova. Empirical Economics, February 2019, Volume 56, Issue 2, pp 755–773...

In the juvenile period, primates form sex-differentiated bonds: females spend more time with female kin, & males with unrelated males; human males in middle childhood add, as chimpanzees do, intergroup contests

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Sex Differences in Human Peer Relationships: A Primate’s-Eye View. Joyce F. Benenson. Current Directions in Psychological Science, https://...