Tuesday, June 25, 2019

From 2003: Transparency in prices increased them in the Danish concrete case

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Government‐Assisted Oligopoly Coordination? A Concrete Case. Svend Albæk, Peter Møllgaard, Per B. Overgaard. The Journal of Industrial Econo...

Examine gaze patterns to erotic stimuli: Women knowing their being observed made significantly fewer fixations than men, whereas no such gender differences were found in the not-knowing condition

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“I can see you”: The impact of implied social presence on visual attention to erotic and neutral stimuli in men and women. Sonia Milani, Lor...

Healthy and "sustainable" diets are neutral in taste; include less umami, salt, fat and bitter tastes

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Taste profiles of diets high and low in environmental sustainability and health. L.M. van Bussel et al. Food Quality and Preference, June 21...

The Effects of Pornography on Unethical Behavior in Business: The authors think that the consumers behave less ethically

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The Effects of Pornography on Unethical Behavior in Business. Nathan W. Mecham, Melissa F. Lewis-Western, David A. Wood. Journal of Business...

The rise in national industry concentration in the US between 1977 and 2013 is driven by a new industrial revolution in three broad non-traded sectors: services, retail, and wholesale

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The Industrial Revolution in Services. Chang-Tai Hsieh, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg. NBER Working Paper No. 25968, June 2019. https://www.nber.or...

Mothers tend to make calls more to their daughters than to their sons, fathers to their sons than to their daughters; for younger callers, most of their calls go to the same generation contacts, older people call the younger more frequently

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Quantifying gender preferences in human social interactions using a large cellphone dataset. Asim Ghosh et al. EPJ Data Science, December 20...

Both men and women preferred breasts of average or slightly above‐average size and high or extreme firmness; men preferred slightly bigger breasts than women

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Breast firmness is of greater importance for women's attractiveness than breast size. Krzysztof Kościński. American Journal of Human Bio...

Online dating provide more opportunities to find a romantic partner, but people are nevertheless more likely to be single: The continued access to virtually unlimited potential partners makes people more pessimistic & rejecting

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Pronk, Tila M., dr., and Jaap J. A. Denissen. 2019. “A Rejection Mindset: Choice Overload in Online Dating.” PsyArXiv. June 25. psyarxiv.com...

Courtship-feeding in the ‘First Dates’ restaurant is highly predictive of a second date

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Courtship-feeding in the ‘First Dates’ restaurant is highly predictive of a second date. Colin Hendrie, Isolde Shirley. Appetite, June 25 20...

Cooperation & Learning in Unfamiliar Situations:The evidence is more consistent with the idea that people stop cooperating in unfamiliar situations because they learn that it does not help them, either financially or through social approval

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Cooperation and Learning in Unfamiliar Situations. William H. B. McAuliffe, Maxwell N. Burton-Chellew, Michael E. McCullough. Current Direct...

Contrary to assumption, it appears that sleep duration in the absence of electricity is not significantly longer than it is in contemporary Western society

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Chapter 21 - Hunter-Gatherer Sleep and Novel Human Sleep Adaptations. Gandhi Yetish, Ronald McGregor. Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience, V...

In an era where expertise is increasingly critiqued, we draw from the research on expertise & scientist stereotyping to explore who the public considers to be a scientist in the context of media coverage about climate change & GMOs

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Public perceptions of who counts as a scientist for controversial science. Brianne Suldovsky, Asheley Landrum, Natalie Jomini Stroud. Public...

More lobbying with economic concentration through corporate mergers and acquisitions & to defend themselves against increasingly liberal Democrats

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The Political and Economic Roots of Corporate Political Activity. William Massengill. 2019, PhD Thesis, Ohio State University, Political Sci...
Monday, June 24, 2019

Body-odor based assessments of sex and personality – Non-significant differences between blind and sighted odor raters

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Body-odor based assessments of sex and personality – Non-significant differences between blind and sighted odor raters. Agnieszka Sorokowska...

The more modest the therapists’ estimation of therapeutic outcome was, the greater the actual therapeutic change

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Modest, yet progressive: Effective therapists tend to rate therapeutic change less positively than their patients. Max Ziem & Juergen Ho...

Completing moral dilemmas in front of mirrors increases deontological but not utilitarian response tendencies; this suggests that those decisions in moral dilemmas may partially reflect self-awareness & concerns about one’s image

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Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is deontological? Completing moral dilemmas in front of mirrors increases deontological but not utilitarian...

The stigma of a criminal record is damaging for Blacks & Latinas who disclose parole in online dating bios; for White females, disclosure of parole may even help their online dating match success

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Full disclosure: experimental analysis of female online dating on parole. Douglas N. Evans. Journal of Experimental Criminology, June 2019, ...

Facial blushing: Redder faces influenced perceived embarrassment, apology sincerity, and likeliness to forgive a transgression

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Facial blushing influences perceived embarrassment and related social functional evaluations. Christopher A. Thorstenson, Adam D. Pazda ...

Replicated previous findings that parenting motivation and parenthood predicted social conservatism; the effect, which small, is mediated by both mating orientation and belief in a dangerous world

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Politics and Parental Care: Experimental and Mediational Tests of the Causal Link between Parenting Motivation and Social Conservatism. Nich...

The functional basis of disgust in disease avoidance is widely accepted; however, there is disagreement over what disgust is

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A Proximal Perspective on Disgust. Richard J. Stevenson et al. Emotion Review, June 23, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073919853355 Abstr...
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...