Saturday, June 22, 2019

Beauty, elegance, grace, and sexiness compared

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Beauty, elegance, grace, and sexiness compared. Winfried Menninghaus, Valentin Wagner, Vanessa Kegel, Christine A. Knoop, Wolff Schlotz. PLO...

Do conservatives react with higher levels of electrodermal activity to threatening stimuli than liberals? Overall, we find little empirical support for the claim

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Osmundsen, Mathias, David Hendry, Lasse Laustsen, Kevin Smith, and Michael Bang Petersen. 2019. “The Psychophysiology of Political Ideology:...

Structural changes in labor markets are more likely to be sustained, in contrast to unemployment rates, which fluctuate with cycles; unemployment reductions are unlikely to reverse declining fertility trends

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Beyond the Great Recession: Labor Market Polarization and Ongoing Fertility Decline in the United States. Nathan Seltzer. Demography, June 1...
Friday, June 21, 2019

Markets maintain institutions to support property rights & trade not in the absence of government, but rather in response to active government interference (predatory officials)

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The politics of order in informal markets: Evidence from Lagos. Shelby Grossman. June 18, 2019. Forthcoming at World Politics. https://drive...

The ability to recognise others’ emotions from nonverbal cues is correlated with intelligence types (crystallized, fluid, spatial, memory, information processing speed & efficiency); academic achievement measures were unrelated

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A meta-analysis of the relationship between emotion recognition ability and intelligence. Katja Schlegel, Tristan Palese, Marianne Schmid Ma...

When outgroup negativity trumps ingroup positivity: Fans of the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees place greater value on rival losses than own-team gains; effect more strong when one’s own team was behind in the rivalry

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When outgroup negativity trumps ingroup positivity: Fans of the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees place greater value on rival losses than...

Honesty in 355 cities, 40 countries: In virtually all countries citizens were more likely to return wallets that contained more money

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Civic honesty around the globe. Alain Cohn et al. Science Jun 20 2019:eaau8712. DOI: 10.1126/science.aau8712 Abstract: Civic honesty is es...