Thursday, April 11, 2019

We document a positive relationship between the endorsement of good citizenship (voting, paying taxes, staying informed, etc.) and narcissism, and a negative relationship for psychopathy

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Who makes a good citizen? The role of personality. Scott Pruysers, Julie Blais, Phillip G.Chen. Personality and Individual Differences. Volu...

Prejudiced and unaware of it: Evidence for the Dunning-Kruger model in the domains of racism and sexism

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Prejudiced and unaware of it: Evidence for the Dunning-Kruger model in the domains of racism and sexism. Keon West, Asia A.Eaton. Personalit...

Joint attention skills in wild Arabian babblers (Turdoides squamiceps): a consequence of cooperative breeding?

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Yitzchak Ben Mocha et al. Joint attention skills in wild Arabian babblers (Turdoides squamiceps): a consequence of cooperative breeding?, Pr...

Speaking like a Man: Women’s Pitch as a Cue for Gender Stereotyping --Women’s average voice pitch has decreased in recent years, reducing the gap between men on this vocal dimension

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Speaking like a Man: Women’s Pitch as a Cue for Gender Stereotyping. Barbara Krahé, Lida Papakonstantinou. Sex Roles, April 11 2019. https:/...

Hungry People Prefer Larger Bodies and Objects: The Importance of Testing Boundary Effects

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Saxton, Tamsin, Kristofor McCarty, Jasmine Caizley, Dane McCarrick, and Thomas V. Pollet. 2019. “Hungry People Prefer Larger Bodies and Obje...

From 2013... Do not end the filibuster: Because narrow Senate majorities often represent only a minority of Americans, many filibusters are not at odds with majority rule at all

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The Majoritarian Filibuster. Benjamin Eidelson. Yale Law Journal (2013), Volume 122, Issue 4. https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewco...

Even in the rare cases where smartphones might alter cognition, this effect is likely transitory

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An examination of the potential lingering effects of smartphone use on cognition. Peter Frost et al. Applied Cognitive Psychology, March 18 ...

The evolutionary context of personality development: Ontogenetic and Deferred Adaptations

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The evolutionary context of personality development. Marco del Giudice. In Handbook of Personality Development, Chapter 2. New York: Guilfor...

Rolf Degen summarizing: The emergence of the ability to build elevated sleeping nests allowed great apes to adopt a more comfortable & human-like sleep posture than the one monkeys take up

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Nesting, sleeping, and nighttime behaviors in wild and captive great apes. James R. Anderson, Mabel Y. L. Ang, Louise C. Lock, Iris Weiche. ...
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Why is age so important in human mating? Evolved age preferences and their influences on multiple mating behaviors

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Conroy-Beam, D., & Buss, D. M. (2019). Why is age so important in human mating? Evolved age preferences and their influences on multiple...

Those with posttraumatic stress disorder frequently experience unwanted memories of their traumas, even when making explicit efforts to avoid them, while healthy individuals can suppress those memories

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Behavioral and neural correlates of memory suppression in PTSD. Danielle R. Sullivan et al. Journal of Psychiatric Research, Volume 112, May...

We see evidence of an evolutionary design supportive of attachment as well as reproductive exigencies of procreative well-being; there is an ethological case to be made for considering pornography use as a public health risk

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Procreative well-being and pornography – analyzing the script. Public health implications revealed through an ethological lens. Mark H. Butl...

Long-term benefit of Microbiota Transfer Therapy on autism symptoms and gut/fecal microbiota

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Long-term benefit of Microbiota Transfer Therapy on autism symptoms and gut microbiota. Dae-Wook Kang, James B. Adams, Devon M. Coleman, Ele...

From 2018: Concern for Group Reputation Increases Prosociality in Young Children

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From 2018: Concern for Group Reputation Increases Prosociality in Young Children. Jan M. Engelmann, Esther Herrmann, Michael Tomasello. Psyc...

Angry people are more likely to engage in debates with those of similar & opposing views, & seek out information confirming their views more frequently; anxious individuals tend to seek out information contradicting their opinions

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Anger, Fear, and Echo Chambers: The Emotional Basis for Online Behavior. Dag Wollebæk et al. Social Media + Society, April 9, 2019. https://...

Genetic selection/concentration is not an explanation for neighbourhood gradients in obesity & mental health problems; a modest genetic selection/concentration was evident for teen pregnancy and poor educational outcomes

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Genetics and the geography of health, behaviour and attainment. Daniel W. Belsky, Avshalom Caspi, Louise Arseneault, David L. Corcoran, Benj...
Tuesday, April 9, 2019

We construct more precise and robust measures of GDP per capita using nighttime lights; we find that GDP per capita measures are less precise for middle and low income countries

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Illuminating Economic Growth. Yingyao Hu, Jiaxiong Yao. IMF Working Paper No. 19/77. https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2019/04/0...

Space ‘colonization’ will take place and will likely be fully automated; space mining will be the primary goal of space colonies; automation may lead to a technological singularity

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Why space colonization will be fully automated. Riccardo Campa, Konrad Szocik, Martin Braddock. Technological Forecasting and Social Change,...

Male‐mediated prenatal loss can provide greater reproductive benefits to males than infanticide; compared to infanticide, male‐mediated prenatal loss may be more prevalent and of greater role in mammalian species than thought

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Male‐mediated prenatal loss: Functions and mechanisms. Matthew N. Zipple et al. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, April ...

The mu-opioid system can influence higher-level cognitive function via modulation of valuation & motivation, influencing decision making & cognitive control by increasing the subjective value of reward & reducing aversive arousal

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The role of the opioid system in decision making and cognitive control: A review. Henk van Steenbergen, Marie Eikemo, Siri Leknes. Cognitive...

We see our past good deeds as more revealing of our present self than our past bad deeds, & we make inferences about our present personality from positive past behaviors, but not from negative ones; it is different with the others

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Andreas Steimer, André Mata, and Cláudia Simão (2019). Ascribing Meaning to the Past: Self–Other Differences in Weighing Good and Bad Deeds....

Testing the potential of 50 kHz rat calls as a species-specific rat attractant for pest control

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Testing the potential of 50 kHz rat calls as a species-specific rat attractant. Nicola B. Davidson, Jane L. Hurst. PLOS, April 8, 2019. http...
Monday, April 8, 2019

Partisans who blatantly dehumanize members of the opposing party prefer greater social distance from opponents (reduced interpersonal tolerance); also associated with perceptions of greater moral distance

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Partisan Dehumanization in American Politics. Erin C. Cassese. Political Behavior, Apr 8 2019, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11...

The genetic variants associated with income are related to better mental health than those linked to educational attainment; & team was able to predict 2.5% of income differences using genetic data alone

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Genetic analysis identifies molecular systems and biological pathways associated with household income. W. David Hill, Neil M. Davies, Stuar...

Changes in life satisfaction are associated with changes in consumption, not in income; increased conspicuous consumption seems strongly associated with improved well-being than is increased nonconspicuous consumption

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Consumption Changes, Not Income Changes, Predict Changes in Subjective Well-Being. Gordon D. A. Brown, John Gathergood. Social Psychological...

From 2018: Wisdom, Foolishness, and Toxicity in Human Development

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Wisdom, Foolishness, and Toxicity in Human Development. Robert J. Sternberg. Research in Human Development, Volume 15, 2018 - Issue 3-4, Aug...

Having something to look forward to is a keystone of well-being; anticipation of a future reward can be more gratifying than the experience of reward itself; hippocampal-midbrain circuit enhances the pleasure of anticipation

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Hippocampal-midbrain circuit enhances the pleasure of anticipation in the prefrontal cortex. Kiyohito Iigaya, Tobias U. Hauser, Zeb Kurth-Ne...
Sunday, April 7, 2019

The Downsides of Minimum Wage Increases

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The Downsides of Minimum Wage Increases. Jonathan Meer. The Library of Economics and Liberty, Apr 6 2019. https://www.econlib.org/hidden-cos...

The Industry Anatomy of the Transatlantic Productivity Growth Slowdown

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The Industry Anatomy of the Transatlantic Productivity Growth Slowdown. Robert J. Gordon, Hassan Sayed. NBER Working Paper No. 25703. March ...

Empirical evidence that prospectively negative events exhibit a significant amount of shifted (i.e., positive) emotions in the corresponding social network messages, serving as antidote in negative events

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Kušen E., Strembeck M., Conti M. (2019) Emotional Valence Shifts and User Behavior on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. In: Kaya M., Alhajj R....

Rolf Degen summarizing... They super-rich are different: They found a way to transmute wit into gold.

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Wealth Generation as a Form of Expertise: An Examination from 2002-2016 of Elite Education, Cognitive Ability, and the Gender Gap Among Bill...