Thursday, March 7, 2019

A Replication Study: Machine Learning Models Are Capable of Predicting Sexual Orientation From Facial Images

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A Replication Study: Machine Learning Models Are Capable of Predicting Sexual Orientation From Facial Images. John Leuner. Master's thes...

“Neuromyths” (misconceptions about the brain), show a high prevalence among teachers in different countries; the teachers say they are strongly influenced by their intuitions, by what seems logical to them

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Neuromyths and Their Origin Among Teachers in Quebec. Jérémie Blanchette Sarrasin, Martin Riopel, Steve Masson. Mind, Brain, and Education, ...

After experiencing a threat to their abilities, individuals who misrepresent their performance as better than it is boost their feelings of competence, restoring positive self-evaluations

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A counterfeit competence: After threat, cheating boosts one's self-image. S. Wiley Wakeman, Celia Moore, Francesca Gino. Journal of Expe...

Although we are undoubtedly omnivores, we evolved quite early to become highly carnivorous and we continue to retain a biologic adaptation to carnivory

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Ben-Dor, Miki (2019) "How carnivorous are we? The implication for protein consumption," Journal of Evolution and Health: Vol. 3: I...
Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Why thinking over & over about something leads to ever more thoughts about it: Future voluntary imagery can be decoded from activity patterns in the brain up to 11 secs before engaging in voluntary imagery

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Decoding the contents and strength of imagery before volitional engagement. Roger Koenig-Robert & Joel Pearson. Scientific Reports, volu...

Evidence of a pure collaboration effect, distinct from motivations of future reciprocity, in-group favouritism or concern for accountability

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Experimental evidence for a pure collaboration effect. Mary C. McGrath & Alan S. Gerber. Nature Human Behaviour (2019), Feb 18 2019, htt...

Men significantly donated money or other items to panhandlers more often while in the presence of a woman, using this display of generosity and wealth to signal positive attributes to potential mates

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Distribution of Resources to Panhandlers as a Male Display of Potential Mate Quality. Amy Webb & Maryanne L. Fisher. Human Ethology Bull...

Just how miserable is work? It seems that not so much... We feel about the same at work than at non-work.

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Just how miserable is work? A meta-analysis comparing work and non-work affect. Martin J. Biskup, Seth Kaplan, Jill C. Bradley-Geist, Ashley...

The drop in homicide represents a public health breakthrough for African American males, almost a year of increase in life expectancy at birth

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The Impact of the Homicide Decline on Life Expectancy of African American Males. Patrick Sharkey, Michael Friedson. Demography, https://link...

Are Cheaters Sexual Hypocrites? Sexual Hypocrisy, the Self-Serving Bias, and Personality Style

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Are Cheaters Sexual Hypocrites? Sexual Hypocrisy, the Self-Serving Bias, and Personality Style. Benjamin Warach, Lawrence Josephs, Bernard S...

“I Would Never Fall for That”: The Use of an Illegitimate Authority ... Marked discrepancy between how students predicted they would respond and how they actually did; the mean obedience rate was 95.7%

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“I Would Never Fall for That”: The Use of an Illegitimate Authority to Teach Social Psychological Principles. Sally D. Farley, Deborah H. Ca...
Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Is Empathy the Default Response to Suffering? A Meta-analytic Evaluation of Perspective-taking’s Effect on Empathic Concern

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McAuliffe, William H., Evan C. Carter, Juliana Berhane, Alexander Snihur, and Michael E. McCullough. 2019. “Is Empathy the Default Response ...

Multiple sclerosis and sugar-sweetened beverages: "and the results do not show that soda and sugar-sweetened beverages cause more severe disability"

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. May someone explain to me this headline?: SODA, SUGAR-SWEETENED BEVERAGES LINKED TO MORE SEVERE SYMPTOMS FOR PEOPLE WITH MS. American ...

The Politics of Beauty: The Effects of Partisan Bias on Physical Attractiveness

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From 2016... The Politics of Beauty: The Effects of Partisan Bias on Physical Attractiveness. Stephen P. Nicholson, Chelsea M. Coe, Jason Em...

Using data covering a wide range of municipal public-sector pension plans from 1962– 2014, I establish that unfunded pension benefits grow faster under Democratic-party mayors

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Political Parties Do Matter in U.S. Cities ... For Their Unfunded Pensions. Christian Dippel. NBER Working Paper No. 25601, Feb 2019. https:...

The majority of regular patrons were dissatisfied with current sound levels, with around three-quarters of participants reporting preferences below the levels typically experienced at music venues

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Time to listen: Most regular patrons of music venues prefer lower volumes. Elizabeth F. Beach and Megan Gilliver. Front. Psychol., Mar 5 201...

The meta-analysis provides additional evidence that extraversion is related to belief in free will

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Extraversion and compatibilist intuitions: a ten-year retrospective and meta-analyses Adam Feltz & Edward Cokely. Philosophical Psychol...