Friday, March 15, 2019

In the lab: Those with an East German background cheat significantly more on an abstract die-rolling task than those with a West German background, but only when exposed to West Germany's system

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The impact of two different economic systems on dishonesty. Dan Ariely et al. European Journal of Political Economy, March 13 2019. https://...
Thursday, March 14, 2019

What are the cognitive and emotional effects of CAPTCHA tests? They are associated with feelings of alienation and the user’s self-perception of humanity is influenced

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You need to show that you are not a robot. Leopoldina Fortunati et al. New Media & Society, March 14, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461...

Effects of boardroom gender diversity on CEO compensation & dismissal decisions: Largely disappear when we account for geographic distance (more remote from HQ & more reliant on hard info)

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Alam, Zinat S. and Chen, Mark A. and Ciccotello, Conrad S. and Ryan, Harley E., Gender and Geography in the Boardroom: What Really Matters f...

For women, sex economy has some poor, some middle class, & some millionaires; for men, there is a small number of super-billionaires & huge masses with almost nothing

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Attraction Inequality and the Dating Economy. Bradford Tuckfield    . Quillette, March 12, 2019, https://quillette.com/2019/03/12/attraction...
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Danish data on the minimum wage: The hourly wage jumps up by 40pct at the discontinuity of minimum wage rules; employment falls by 33pct and total input of hours decreases by 45pct

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Do Lower Minimum Wages for Young Workers Raise Their Employment? Evidence From a Danish Discontinuity. Claus Thustrup Kreiner,  Daniel Reck...

Suppressing thoughts often leads to a “rebound” effect; unpleasant thoughts were more prone to rebound in dreams than pleasant ones; may be support for an emotion‐processing theory of dream function

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The effects of dream rebound: evidence for emotion‐processing theories of dreaming. Josie Malinowski, Michelle Carr, Christopher Edwards , ...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Foraging: age of peak productivity between 30 and 35 years of age, though high skill is maintained throughout much of adulthood

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The Life History of Human Foraging: Cross-Cultural and Individual Variation. Jeremy Koster et al. bioXiv Mar 12 2019, https://doi.org/10.110...