Friday, March 29, 2019

A behavioral genetic analysis of developmental increases in personality variance from childhood to adolescence: Kids become less alike with time due to increases in the magnitude of genetic influences

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Mõttus, R., Briley, D. A., Zheng, A., Mann, F. D., Engelhardt, L. E., Tackett, J. L., . . . Tucker-Drob, E. M. (2019). Kids becoming less al...

It is argued in this article that citizens in democracies use their subjective well‐being as an evaluative criterion when deciding how willing they are to support and comply with government dictates (political system support)

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In pursuit of happiness: Life satisfaction drives political support. Peter Esaiasson, Stefan Dahlberg, Andrej Kokkonen. European Journal of ...

Love is not exactly blind, at least for some people: Analytic cognitive style predicts romantic beliefs

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Love is not exactly blind, at least for some people: Analytic cognitive style predicts romantic beliefs. BastienTrémolière, Hakim Djeriouat....

Efficacy of anti‐inflammatory treatment on major depressive disorder or depressive symptoms: They improved antidepressant treatment; studies need to include longer follow‐up, identify optimal doses & patients than may benefit

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Efficacy of anti‐inflammatory treatment on major depressive disorder or depressive symptoms: meta‐analysis of clinical trials. O. Köhler‐For...

Finding meaning in the clouds: Illusory pattern perception predicts receptivity to pseudo-profound bullshit

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Finding meaning in the clouds: Illusory pattern perception predicts receptivity to pseudo-profound bullshit. Alexander C. Walker et al. Judg...

Does well-designed, well-documented, psychologically principled, and carefully implemented psychotherapy lead to better outcomes than therapy of lower quality?

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Jones, Payton J., Patrick Mair, Sofie Kuppens, and John R. Weisz. 2019. “An Upper Limit to Youth Psychotherapy Benefit? A Meta-analytic Copu...

Paracetamol reduces affective reactivity to other people’s positive experiences; & the experience of physical pain & positive empathy may have a more similar neurochemical basis than previously assumed

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A Social Analgesic? Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) Reduces Positive Empathy Dominik Mischkowski, Jennifer Crocker and Baldwin M. Way. Front. Ps...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

A Model for Public Access to Trustworthy and Comprehensive Reporting of Research

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A Model for Public Access to Trustworthy and Comprehensive Reporting of Research. Marina Broitman, Harold C. Sox, Jean Slutsky. JAMA, March ...

The human nose could have evolved to separate olfactory inputs to enhance stereo olfaction; as humans became more sedentary in the Neolithic, maybe other functions appeared (detecting disease in newly dense human settlements)

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The navigational nose: a new hypothesis for the function of the human external pyramid. Lucia F. Jacobs. Journal of Experimental Biology 201...