Saturday, March 23, 2019

Why smarter individuals self-report being prosocial and more moral persons? A study on the mediating roles of empathy and moral identity

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Why are smarter individuals more prosocial? A study on the mediating roles of empathy and moral identity. Qingke Guo et al. Intelligence, Vo...

How to define and measure the extent to which human cognition is rational

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Cognitive Success: A Consequentialist Account of Rationality in Cognition. Gerhard Schurz, Ralph Hertwig. Topics in Cognitive Science, Janua...

Voters frequently evaluate objective conditions through a perceptual screen, seeing a stronger economy & more peaceful world when their party rules; this assessment is polarizing increasingly

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Partisanship, Political Awareness, and Retrospective Evaluations, 1956–2016. Philip Edward Jones. Political Behavior, March 23 2019. https:/...

I find that sharing a gender identity not only fails to unite women who are partisan rivals but, in fact, further highlights their rivalry

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When Common Identities Decrease Trust: An Experimental Study of Partisan Women. Samara Klar. American Journal of Political Science, June 6 2...

Once more: We are aggressive, but that is nothing compared to many other species. Interview with Anthropologist Richard Wrangham

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Interview with Anthropologist Richard Wrangham. Johann Grolle. Der Spiegel, March 22, 2019. http://www.spiegel.de/international/interview-wi...

Attractive financial analysts have better performance (partly through privileged access to information from firm management); have better connections to institutional investors; receive more support from employers

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Cao, Ying and Guan, Feng and Li, Zengquan and Yang, Yong George, Analysts’ Beauty and Performance (February 26, 2019). Management Science, h...

Liberals are prone to bias about relatively low-status groups & specifically are biased against information that portrays a high-status group more favorably

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Low-status groups as a domain of liberal bias. Bo Winegard et al. March 2019. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326144740 Abstract:...