Sunday, June 23, 2019

How the voice persuades

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Van Zant, A. B., & Berger, J. (2019). How the voice persuades. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/p...

Perceptions of a romantic partner’s approach and avoidance motives: Accuracy, bias, and emotional cues

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LaBuda, J. E., Gere, J., & Impett, E. A. (2019). Perceptions of a romantic partner’s approach and avoidance motives: Accuracy, bias, and...

Social metacognition in moral judgment: Decisional conflict promotes perspective taking

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Mata, A. (2019). Social metacognition in moral judgment: Decisional conflict promotes perspective taking. Journal of Personality and Social ...

Human inability to adequately discount redundant information: Perceivers’ impressions are systematically biased by the unfolding of a performance sequence when observations are cumulative

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Alves, H., & Mata, A. (2019). The redundancy in cumulative information and how it biases impressions. Journal of Personality and Social ...

Ants learn fast and do not forget: Resistance to extinction may be advantageous when the environment is stochastic and individuals need to switch often from one learned task to another

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Ants learn fast and do not forget: associative olfactory learning, memory and extinction in Formica fusca. Baptiste Piqueret, Jean-Christoph...

I’ll See It When I Believe It: Highly numerate people who receive scientific data about Anthropogenic Climate Change use motivated numeracy to rationalize their interpretations in line with their attitudes

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I’ll See It When I Believe It: Motivated Numeracy in Perceptions of Climate Change Risk. Matthew S. Nurse & Will J. Grant. Environmental...

We found no significant difference between Green and Not-green academics in total air travel emissions, or in the types of emissions that might be easiest to avoid

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Academic air travel has a limited influence on professional success. Seth Wynes et al. Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 226, 20 July 20...

From 2012: Men rated freedom of speech more important than did women; the perceived harm of hate speech was positively related to intellect & liberalism; women perceived a greater harm of hate speech

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Predicting the Importance of Freedom of Speech and the Perceived Harm of Hate Speech. Daniel M Downs, Gloria Cowan. Journal of Applied Socia...

Failed to replicate previous nonrandomized observational studies, which had suggested that ratings of female physical attractiveness by males are sensitive to the levels of hunger

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No impact of hunger on male perception of female physical attractiveness in relation to adiposity: a randomized controlled trial. Z. Jin, G....

Rats can use imagery to fill in missing details of the world that are expected but hidden from perception; they make use of an active expectation (i.e., an image) of a hidden visual event

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Mental imagery in animals: Learning, memory, and decision-making in the face of missing information. Aaron P. Blaisdell. Learning & Beha...
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...