Tuesday, July 23, 2019

The public is more accepting of psychologists’ involvement in national security settings, including involvement in many of the activities highlighted as problematic, than are psychologists

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Thornewill, A., DeMatteo, D., & Heilbrun, K. (2019). In the immediate wake of Hoffman’s independent review: Psychologist and general pu...

From 2015... Envy would be most strongly experienced in response to others who had highly divisible resources that participants did not believe would be shared

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Effects of resource divisibility and expectations of sharing on envy. Yumi Inoue et al. Motivation and Emotion, December 2015, Volume 39, Is...

In recent years, equity-based compensation represents almost 45% of total compensation to high-skilled labor; ignoring such income results in incorrect measurement of the returns to such labor

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Human Capitalists. Andrea L. Eisfeldt, Antonio Falato, and Mindy Z. Xiaolan. Stanford Univ, Jul 2019. https://economics.stanford.edu/sites/g...

Declines in vocabulary of American adults, 1974–2016: As educational attainment has increased, those at each educational level are less verbally skilled

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Declines in vocabulary among American adults within levels of educational attainment, 1974–2016. Jean M. Twenge et al. Intelligence, Volume ...

Despite the popularity of the Ancient Greek maxim ‘know thyself’, the importance of self-insight for adjustment, or effective psychological functioning, is not there: There is no better adjustment

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Self-insight into emotional and cognitive abilities is not related to higher adjustment. Joyce C. He & Stéphane Côté. Nature Human Behav...

Women strongly prefer a highly educated potential partner in dating app Tinder; men have not aversion to a highly educated partner; & there is no preference for a partner with a similar education level

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Are Men Intimidated by Highly Educated Women? Undercover on Tinder. Brecht Neyt et al. Economics of Education Review, July 22 2019, 101914. ...

The presence of laughter enhances how funny people find jokes, even recorded laughter; this effect is increased for spontaneous laughter; effect was present for both neurotypical & autistic participants

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Modulation of humor ratings of bad jokes by other people’s laughter. Qing Cai, Sinead Chen, Sarah J. White, Sophie K. Scott. Current Biology...
Monday, July 22, 2019

The potential role of testosterone as a relationship protection mechanism, activated by threats to one's pair-bond (e.g., devaluation of attractive alternatives)

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The potential role of testosterone as a relationship protection mechanism. Stefan Mattias-Maria Goetz, Justin M. Carré. Human Behavior and E...

The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation: Women's interest in other women, as seen by Francis T McAndrew

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