Saturday, April 13, 2019

Evolution of color vision to detect social info: Dichromats may be less accurate at detecting others’ emotional states; dichromats may also display weaker approach/avoidance behavior toward healthy/sick individuals

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Social Perception of Facial Color Appearance for Human Trichromatic Versus Dichromatic Color Vision. Christopher A. Thorstenson, Adam D. Paz...

The proportion of male students who reported having sexual intercourse before age 13 years varied from 5% (San Francisco) to 25% (Memphis, TN); elevated rates among black and Hispanic males

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Prevalence of Sexual Initiation Before Age 13 Years Among Male Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States. Laura D. Lindberg, Isaac M...

Evidence from online dating sites suggests that most users behave strategically: they remain silent about their political attitudes, more willing to divulge their weight than their politics

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From 2017: The Moderating Effects of Marriage Across Party Lines. Shanto Iyengar, Tobias Konitzer. 2017. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a5...

Under What Conditions Does Prosocial Spending Promote Happiness?

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Lok, Iris, and Elizabeth W. Dunn. 2019. “Under What Conditions Does Prosocial Spending Promote Happiness?” PsyArXiv. April 12. doi:10.31234/...
Friday, April 12, 2019

How Many Words Do We Read Per Minute? Less than the numbers often cited in scientific and popular writings.

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Brysbaert, Marc. 2019. “How Many Words Do We Read Per Minute? A Review and Meta-analysis of Reading Rate.” PsyArXiv. April 12. doi:10.31234/...

The widely held assumption in philosophy & psychology that one purpose of human morality is to regulate social behavior is confirmed: the presence of another person increased moral values' importance

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Yudkin, Daniel A., Ana P. Gantman, Wilhelm Hofmann, and Jordi Quoidbach. 2019. “Moral Values Gain Importance in the Presence of Others.” Psy...

Smartphone zombies! Pedestrians’ distracted walking as a function of their fear of missing out

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Smartphone zombies! Pedestrians’ distracted walking as a function of their fear of missing out. Markus Appel et al. Journal of Environmental...

Partnered women blindly rated their partner's body odor as smelling sexier and less strong than the body odor of unknown males; body odor preference ratings appear to be driven by familiarity ratings

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Do women love their partner's smell? Exploring women's preferences for and identification of male partner and non-partner body odor....

Self-harm in older adults: Loss of control, increased loneliness and perceived burdensome ageing were reported self-harm motivations

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Self-harm in older adults: systematic review. M. Isabela Troya et al. The British Journal of Psychiatry, Volume 214, Issue 4, April 2019, pp...

Overestimating the Valuations of Others: People Perceive Others as Experiencing Everything More Intensely

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Jung, Minah and Moon, Alice and Nelson, Leif D., Overestimating the Valuations of Others: People Perceive Others as Experiencing Everything ...
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,...