Saturday, June 29, 2019

Socializing at Work & Evidence from a Field Experiment with Manufacturing Workers: How much are we willing to pay to work with friends

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Park, Sangyoon. 2019. "Socializing at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Manufacturing Workers." American Economic Journa...

Bargaining in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), the effect of cost, amount of gift, reciprocity, and communication: Absence of inequity aversion

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Bueno-Guerra, N., Völter, C. J., de las Heras, Á., Colell, M., & Call, J. (2019). Bargaining in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): The effec...
Friday, June 28, 2019

Do Women Give Up Competing More Easily? Evidence from the Lab and the Dutch Math Olympiad

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Do Women Give Up Competing More Easily? Evidence from the Lab and the Dutch Math Olympiad. Thomas Buser and Huaiping Yuan. American Economic...

Freudian Slip? The Changing Cultural Fortunes of Psychoanalytic Concepts

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Freudian Slip? The Changing Cultural Fortunes of Psychoanalytic Concepts. Nick Haslam and Lotus Ye. Front. Psychol., June 28 2019. https://d...

No Personality Change Following Unemployment: A Registered Replication of Boyce, Wood, Daly, and Sedikides (2015)

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No Personality Change Following Unemployment: A Registered Replication of Boyce, Wood, Daly, and Sedikides (2015). Timo Gnambs, Barbara Stig...

Female sexual desire during courtship & newlywed phases is often followed by a loss of sexual desire; men may be gullible in terms of entering into a long-term commitment based on false assumptions about the amount of sex involved

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The Mask of Love and Sexual Gullibility. Roy F. Baumeister, Jessica A. Maxwell, Geoffrey P. Thomas. SSSP 2018, http://www.sydneysymposium.un...

An examination of psychosocial factors associated with malicious online trolling behaviors: Taken together, these results provide new information that may help to identify those at risk of engaging in trolling behavior

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An examination of psychosocial factors associated with malicious online trolling behaviors. Krista Howard et al. Personality and Individual ...

Gay Asian Americans Are Seen as More American Than Asian Americans Who Are Presumed Straight

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Gay Asian Americans Are Seen as More American Than Asian Americans Who Are Presumed Straight. Mika Semrow et al. Social Psychological and Pe...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

Ghosting, or avoiding technologically-mediated contact with a partner instead of providing an explanation for a breakup, is a relatively new breakup strategy in modern romantic relationships

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Koessler, R. B., Kohut, T., & Campbell, L. (2019). When Your Boo Becomes a Ghost: The Association Between Breakup Strategy and Breakup R...

Assortative mating shaped patters of inheritance throughout human evolution such that mate value is not distributed randomly across individuals: Desired traits covary around mate value

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Assortative mating and the evolution of desirability covariation. Daniel Conroy-Beam et al. Evolution and Human Behavior, June 27 2019. http...

Poland: The estimated number of people viewing pornography on the Internet increased over three times (310%) between Oct 2004 & Oct 2016; 25% of Internet users aged 7 to 12 saw online pornography during a monthly period

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Lewczuk, Karol, Adrian Wojcik, and Mateusz Gola. 2019. “Increase in the Prevalence of Online Pornography Use – Objective Data Analysis from ...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

In vegetarians, aversion towards nonvegetarian food prevails at the subjective level and is consistent with their personal beliefs. In contrast, at the neural level, the intrinsic motivational salience of this type of food is preserved

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Food processing and emotion regulation in vegetarians and omnivores: An event-related potential investigation. Matteo Giraldo, Giulia Buodo,...

Contrary to previous reports, our analyses found no significant effects of Internet exposure on brain structure & across a range of executive functions (impulse inhibition, attention control, task-switching & fluid intelligence)

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Loh, Kep Kee, Priyanka Chakraborty, Anup Sadhu, Moumita Mukherjee, Himadri Datta, Garga Chatterjee, and Ryota Kanai. 2019. “Longitudinal Cog...

Indirect effect through sexual disgust sensitivity explains over 50% of the total effect of sex on censorship support & renders the direct effect of sex non-significant; the indirect effect through pathogen disgust sensitivity is also significant

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Sexual disgust sensitivity mediates the sex difference in support of censoring hate speech. Jinguang Zhang. Personality and Individual Diffe...

The More Modest You are, the Happier You are: The Mediating Roles of Emotional Intelligence and Self-esteem

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The More Modest You are, the Happier You are: The Mediating Roles of Emotional Intelligence and Self-esteem. Chuhua Zheng, Yanhong Wu. Journ...

Time Use and Happiness of Millionaires: Evidence From the Netherlands

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Time Use and Happiness of Millionaires: Evidence From the Netherlands. Paul Smeets et al. Social Psychological and Personality Science, June...
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 ...