Friday, July 26, 2019

Germany: Sales of green cars continue to decline; the high-consumption SUVs and off-road vehicles again lead the new registration statistics with a 21pct increase in registration

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New cars: Sales of green efficiency classes continue to decline. dena Press release, Berlin. Jul 25 2019. https://www.dena.de/newsroom/meldu...

Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy lost its superiority over Supportive Psychotherapy after two years

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Two-Year Follow-Up after Treatment with the Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy versus Supportive Psychotherapy for Early-...

Children of gay fathers received significantly lower scores on internalizing (anxiety, depression) & externalizing (aggression, rule-breaking); daughters had significantly lower internalizing scores

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Green, R.-J., Rubio, R. J., Rothblum, E. D., Bergman, K., & Katuzny, K. E. (2019). Gay fathers by surrogacy: Prejudice, parenting, and w...

Are people who create or consume art more prosocial (e.g., more likely to volunteer and make charitable donations)? It seems they are.

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Kou, X., Konrath, S., & Goldstein, T. R. (2019). The relationship among different types of arts engagement, empathy, and prosocial behav...

Found a preference for more trustworthy-looking faces when participants considered a long-term versus a short-term relationship; social anxiety correlated positively with trustworthiness preferences

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Carrito, M. L., Santos, I. M., Bem-Haja, P., Lopes, A. A., Silva, C. F., & Perrett, D. I. (2019). The attractive side of trustworthiness...

Brain regions in response to character feedback associated with the state self-esteem

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Brain regions in response to character feedback associated with the state self-esteem. Maoying Peng et al.  Biological Psychology, July 25 2...

The More You Have, the More You Want? Higher Social Class Predicts a Greater Desire for Wealth and Status

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The More You Have, the More You Want? Higher Social Class Predicts a Greater Desire for Wealth and Status. Zhechen Wang  Jolanda Jetten  Nik...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

General belief superiority (GBS)—the tendency for people to think their beliefs are superior to alternatives— is mostly a male phenomenon

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General belief superiority (GBS): Personality, motivation, and interpersonal relations. Kaitlin T. Raimi & Katrina P. Jongman-Sereno. Se...

Perpetrators of discrimination are held less accountable and often seen as less worthy of punishment when their behavior is attributed to implicit rather than to explicit bias

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Consequences of attributing discrimination to implicit vs. explicit bias. Natalie M. Daumeyer et al. Journal of Experimental Social Psycholo...

The Terrifying Rise of Authoritarian Populism

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The Terrifying Rise of Authoritarian Populism. Tom G. Palmer. Cato, Jul 24 2019. https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/terrifying-ris...

At least superficially, conservative political and religious ideology is thought to be associated with rule following and morality; the opposite was found at least in relation to bullying behavior

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The curious link between politics, religion, and bullying behavior. Kilian James Garvey. Human Behavior and Evolution Society 31st annual me...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Women are less competitive than men in most contexts; men are more likely to believe that competition improves performance, builds character, and leads to creative problem-solving

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Lay beliefs about competition: Scale development and gender differences. Selin Kesebir, Sun Young Lee, Andrew J. Elliot, Madan M. Pillutla. ...

HAHAHAHAHA: Apparently genuine cases of ghost possession (in this case, patient's criminal behavior was due to episodic ghost possession) can be exorcism-resistant; clopenthixol may relieve symptoms

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Exorcism-resistant Ghost Possession Treated with Clopenthixol. Anthony S. Hale and Narsimha R. Pinninti. The British Journal of Psychiatry, ...

Let's stop the unfairness of having the same rights! 18–27yr olds: 6x voting weight; 68+yr olds: 1x voting weight

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Age-Weighted Voting. William MacAskill. Jul 12 2019. https://medium.com/@william.macaskill/age-weighted-voting-8651b2a353cc. Crossposted fro...

Adults demonstrate aesthetic preferences for natural environments over urban ones; children aged 4–11 years do not show that preference for nature; there is a gradual development of that preference

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The gradual development of the preference for natural environments. Kimberly L. Meidenbauer et al. Journal of Environmental Psychology, July...

A Closer Look at China’s Supposed Misappropriation of U.S. Intellectual Property

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A Closer Look at China’s Supposed Misappropriation of U.S. Intellectual Property. Ana Maria Santacreu and Makenzie Peake. St Louis Fed, 2019...

The peasants, the Guardian class, and trust in institutions and the elites

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Notes from a nameless conference. Martin Gurri. July 23, 2019. https://thefifthwave.wordpress.com/2019/07/23/notes-from-a-nameless-conferenc...
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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