Wednesday, May 8, 2019

The women men are attracted to in well-nourished populations have low body mass indices & small waist sizes combined with relatively large hips; men are attracted to signs of being nubile & nulliparous

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Evidence supporting nubility and reproductive value as the key to human female physical attractiveness. William D. Lassek, Steven J. C. Gaul...

Around 75 pct of the minimum wage increase in Hungary was paid by consumers and 25 pct by firm owners; disemployment effects were greater in industries where passing the wage costs to consumers is more difficult

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Who Pays for the Minimum Wage? Péter Harasztosi, Attila Lindner. American Economic Review, forthcoming, https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=1...

Why "surprising"? --- The Economist: Global meat-eating is on the rise, bringing surprising benefits

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All the year round The Economist behaves like the lawmaker, that never speaks without detracting from human knowledge. Now, benefits of eati...

When choosing among an overabundance of alternatives, participants express more positive feelings (i.e., higher satisfaction/confidence, lower regret & difficulty) if all the options of the choice set are associated with familiar brands

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The Role of the Brand on Choice Overload. Raffaella Misuraca. Mind & Society, May 8 2019. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s112...

Retrofitting the 29 mn UK homes would cost £4.3 tn; if the energy bill of £2000 per year were to be halved, savings would be £29 bn/year; payback time would be 150 years

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Decarbonisation and the Command Economy. Michael Kelly. GWPF, May 8 2019. https://www.thegwpf.com/decarbonisation-and-the-command-economy Th...

Ray of hope: Hopelessness Increases Preferences for Brighter Lighting

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Francis, G., & Thunell, E. (2019). Excess Success in “Ray of hope: Hopelessness Increases Preferences for Brighter Lighting”. Collabra: ...

Differences in how men and women describe their traits are typically larger in highly gender egalitarian cultures; replicated in one of the largest number of cultures yet investigated—58 nations of the ISDP-2 Project

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Why Sometimes a Man is more like a Woman. David P Schmitt. Chapter 12 of In Praise of An Inquisitive Mind. Anu Realo, Ed. Univ. of Tartu Pre...

2002-2016: Binge drinking decreased substantially among US adolescents across time, age, gender, and race/ethnicity; alcohol abstention increased among US adolescents over the past 15 years

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Trends in binge drinking and alcohol abstention among adolescents in the US, 2002-2016. Trenette Clark Goings et al. Drug and Alcohol Depend...

Voice of Authority: Professionals Lower Their Vocal Frequencies When Giving Expert Advice

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Voice of Authority: Professionals Lower Their Vocal Frequencies When Giving Expert Advice. Piotr Sorokowski et al. Journal of Nonverbal Beha...

Spouses' Faces Are Similar but Do Not Become More Similar with Time

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Tea-mangkornpan, Pin Pin, and Michal Kosinski. 2019. “Spouses' Faces Are Similar but Do Not Become More Similar with Time.” PsyArXiv. Ma...
Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Is Technology Widening the Gender Gap? Female workers are at a significantly higher risk for displacement by automation than male workers; probability of automation is lower for younger cohorts of women, and for managers

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Is Technology Widening the Gender Gap? Automation and the Future of Female Employment. Mariya Brussevich, Era Dabla-Norris, Salma Khalid. IM...

Can Successful Schools Replicate? It seems they can: Replication charter schools generate large achievement gains on par with those produced by their parent campuses; highly standardized practices in place seem crucial

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Can Successful Schools Replicate? Scaling Up Boston's Charter School Sector. Sarah Cohodes, Elizabeth Setren, Christopher R. Walters. NB...

Decreased female fidelity alters male behavior in a feral horse population; the stallions engage in more frequent contests, in more escalated contests, and spend more time vigilant

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Decreased female fidelity alters male behavior in a feral horse population managed with immunocontraception. Maggie M. Jones, Cassandra M. V...

Smokers self-directing their investment trade more frequently, exhibit more biases & achieve lower portfolio returns; those aware of their limited levels of self-control delegate decision making to professional advisors & fund managers

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Smoking hot portfolios? self-control and investor decisions. Charline Uhr, Steffen Meyer, Andreas Hackethal. Goethe Universitat's SAFE w...

Neural correlates of trait-like well-being (i.e., the propensity to live according to one’s true nature): Activation & volume of anterior cingulate cortex, orbitofrontal cortex, posterior cingulate cortex, superior temporal gyrus, & thalamus

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The neural correlates of well-being: A systematic review of the human neuroimaging and neuropsychological literature. Marcie L. King. Cognit...

Men are more likely to engage in cryptocurrency trading, trade more frequently, and more speculative, respectively; as a result, men realize lower returns than women

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Who trades cryptocurrencies, how do they trade it, and how do they perform? Evidence from brokerage accounts. Tim Hasso, Matthias Pelster, B...

Social media’s enduring effect on adolescent life satisfaction

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Social media’s enduring effect on adolescent life satisfaction. Amy Orben, Tobias Dienlin, and Andrew K. Przybylski. Proceedings of the Nati...

Who is susceptible in three false memory tasks? No one type of person seems especially prone, or especially resilient, to the ubiquity of memory distortion

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Who is susceptible in three false memory tasks? Rebecca M. Nichols & Elizabeth F. Loftus. Memory, May 2 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/09...

Is the Global Prevalence Rate of Adult Mental Illness Increasing over Time? No, the prevalence increase of adult mental illness is small, mainly related to demographic changes

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Richter, Dirk, Abbie Wall, Ashley Bruen, and Richard Whittington. 2019. “Is the Global Prevalence Rate of Adult Mental Illness Increasing ov...
Monday, May 6, 2019

Crime can be successfully reduced by changing the situational environment that potential victims and offenders face: They report the first experimental evidence on the effect of street lighting on crime

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Reducing Crime Through Environmental Design: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Street Lighting in New York City. Aaron Chalfin, Benja...

As experiences of pleasure & displeasure, hedonics are omnipresent in daily life; as core processes, they accompany emotions, motivation, bodily states, &c; optimal hedonic functioning seems the basis of well-being & aesthetic experiences

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The Role of Hedonics in the Human Affectome. Susanne Becker et al. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, May 6 2019. https://doi.org/10....

After the Protestant Reformation allowed some usury degree, the Jews lost the money lending advantages in regions that became Protestant & entered into competition with the Christian majority, leading to an increase in anti-Semitism

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Becker, Sascha O. and Luigi Pascali. 2019. "Religion, Division of Labor, and Conflict: Anti-semitism in Germany over 600 Years." A...

Individuals with low navigation ability use GPS often; high navigation ability is more predictive of learning a new environment than GPS-use; GPS use independently affects spatial transformation skills, affects ability to learn environments

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GPS-use negatively affects environmental learning through spatial transformation abilities. Ian T. Ruginski et al. Journal of Environmental ...

Results on the link between shyness and social media use had been inconclusive; new work shows that the shy has less contacts and interactions not only in real life, but in social networks too

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Shyness and social media use: A meta-analytic summary of moderating and mediating effects. Markus Appel, Timo Gnambs. Computers in Human Beh...

The agreeable ones cooperate more at first, but don't have the strategic ability & consistency of those of high IQ; conscientiousness errs in caution, which deters cooperation

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Intelligence, Personality, and Gains from Cooperation in Repeated Interactions. Eugenio Proto, Aldo Rustichini, Andis Sofianos. Journal of P...

‘Concept creep’ (that harm-related concepts of abuse, bullying, prejudice, have expanded their meanings recently): Those with broader concepts endorse harm-based morality, liberal political attitudes

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Concept creepers: Individual differences in harm-related concepts and their correlates. Melanie J. McGrath et al. Personality and Individual...

Advice to my younger self if I knew then what I know now: Most of the advice fell into the domains of relationships, education, & selfhood

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If I knew then what I know now: Advice to my younger self. Robin M. Kowalski & Annie McCord. The Journal of Social Psychology, May 5 201...
Sunday, May 5, 2019

Children in daycare experience fewer one-to-one interactions with adults, which is negative for IQ in families where such interactions are of higher quality; reduction in IQ increases with family income

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Ichino, A., Fort, M., & Zanella, G. (2019). Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Costs of Daycare 0-2 for Children in Advantaged Families. Journa...

Big Business Isn’t Big Politics. Essay by Tyler Cowen // Fears of crony capitalism in the U.S. are misplaced

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Big Business Isn’t Big Politics. Tyler Cowen. Foreign Policy, May 3 2019.  https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/05/03/big-business-isnt-big-politi...

Support for hate crime grows when men fear that refugees' influx makes it difficult to mate, even when controlling for anti-refugee views, perceived job competition, general frustration & aggressiveness

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Dancygier, Rafaela M. and Egami, Naoki and Jamal, Amaney and Rischke, Ramona, Hating and Mating: Fears over Mate Competition and Violent Hat...