Friday, March 22, 2019

People who learn that a newspaper does not suppress information exhibit a lower demand for news from it; the idea that people read partisan news because they see those papers as more informative seems wrong

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Do People Value More Informative News? Felix Chopra, Ingar Haaland, Christopher Roth. March 2, 2019. https://www.briq-institute.org/wc/files...

Indefinite life extension: Men supported it more than women, whereas women reported greater belief in an afterlife

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Women Want the Heavens, Men Want the Earth: Gender Differences in Support for Life Extension Technologies. Uri Lifshin et al. Journal of Ind...

From 2018: Could Human Evolutionary Changes Be Behind Mental Disorders?

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Could Human Evolutionary Changes Be Behind Mental Disorders? Charles Choi. Discover Magazine, August 9, 2018. http://blogs.discovermagazine....

The Netherlands’ pensions have high participation, good retirement income, strong capitalization & sustainability; greater risk-taking & choice in managing pension savings could help w/self-employed

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Self-Employment and Support for the Dutch Pension Reform. Izabela Karpowicz. Working Paper No. 19/64. March 19, 2019. https://www.imf.org/en...

The influence of daily news exposure on emotional states: Making us unhappy

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Is the news making us unhappy? The influence of daily news exposure on emotional states. Natascha de Hoog, Peter Verboon. British Journal of...

The present study showed that having a happier spouse is associated not only with a longer marriage but also with a longer life

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Having a Happy Spouse Is Associated With Lowered Risk of Mortality. Olga Stavrova. Psychological Science, March 21, 2019. https://doi.org/10...

Alcohol and Health: Despite the controversy, abstinent countries have the biggest health problems

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Alcohol and Health: Controversy Continues. Nigel Barber. Psychology Today, Mar 21 2019. https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-human-...

Who Is Prejudiced, and Toward Whom? The Big Five Traits and Generalized Prejudice

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Who Is Prejudiced, and Toward Whom? The Big Five Traits and Generalized Prejudice. Jarret T. Crawford, Mark J. Brandt. Personality and Socia...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

Humans Trust Central Vision More Than Peripheral Vision Even in the Dark: humans have a default preference for information from the fovea even if this information is not veridical; filling-in precedes the estimation of confidence

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Humans Trust Central Vision More Than Peripheral Vision Even in the Dark. Alejandro H.Gloriani, Alexander C.Schütz. Current Biology, March 2...

Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history

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Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history. Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter François, Patrick E. Savage, Thomas E. Currie,...

Why the Days Seem Shorter as We Get Older: The ‘mind time’ is a sequence of images; the rate at which changes in mental images are perceived decreases with age

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Why the Days Seem Shorter as We Get Older. Adrian Bejan. European Review, Mar 18 2019. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1062798718000741 Abstract: ...

In rats, no sex difference found in reward-guided associative learning, but females were more sensitive to probabilistic punishment (but less sensitive when punishment could be avoided with certainty)

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Sex differences in reward- and punishment-guided actions. Tara G. Chowdhury et al. bioRxiv, Mar 18 2019. https://doi.org/10.1101/581546 ABST...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

More Empathic Responses for Pain in Facial Muscles Are Modulated by Actor’s Disattractiveness and Being Female, & Perspective Taken by Observer

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Empathic Responses for Pain in Facial Muscles Are Modulated by Actor’s Attractiveness and Gender, and Perspective Taken by Observer. Kamila ...