Monday, August 19, 2019

Are Attitudes Contagious? Exposure to Biased Nonverbal Signals Can Create Novel Social Attitudes

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Are Attitudes Contagious? Exposure to Biased Nonverbal Signals Can Create Novel Social Attitudes. Allison L. Skinner, Sylvia Perry. Personal...

Watching Television in a Home Environment: Effect on Children’s Attention, Comprehension and Behavior

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Rose, Sarah E., Dr, Alexandra Lamont, and Nicholas Reyland. 2019. “Watching Television in a Home Environment: Effect on Children’s Attention...

Preparing for the Worst: Evidence that Older Adults Proactively Downregulate Negative Affect

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Preparing for the Worst: Evidence that Older Adults Proactively Downregulate Negative Affect. Brittany Corbett, M Natasha Rajah, Audrey Duar...

Untangling Intelligence, Psychopathy, Antisocial Personality Disorder, and Conduct Problems

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Untangling Intelligence, Psychopathy, Antisocial Personality Disorder, and Conduct Problems: A Meta‐analytic Review. Olga Sánchez de Ribera,...

When an intervention to raise intelligence ends, effects fade away; recursive processes between IQ & the environment are not as strong as once thought; intelligence adapts to environmental demands, both upwards & downwards

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The environment in raising early intelligence: A meta-analysis of the fadeout effect. John Protzko. Intelligence, Volume 53, November–Decemb...

Correlation in intelligence of virtual twins, same-age unrelated siblings raised together from early infancy, drops to zero in adulhood; correlation in real twins is high, consistent with genetic roots

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Fullerton Virtual Twin Project: Overview and 2019 Update. Nancy L. Segal & Francisca J. Niculae. Twin Research and Human Genetics, July ...

I don't buy that there is "strong support" for a significant "increased" risk of children & adolescents who commit animal cruelty to perpetrate interpersonal violence against humans

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Childhood and adolescent animal cruelty and subsequent interpersonal violence in adulthood: A review of the literature. Heng Choon Chan (Oli...

Fence construction deters migration because the migration costs faced by prospective migrants are sensitive to the particular set of available crossing locations; plus the fence disproportionately deters low-skilled migrants

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Fenced Out: Why Rising Migration Costs Matter. Benjamin Feigenberg. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Forthcoming. https://www.a...

Opioids and social bonding: Effect of naltrexone on feelings of social connection and ventral striatum activity to close others

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Inagaki, T. K., Hazlett, L. I., & Andreescu, C. (2019). Opioids and social bonding: Effect of naltrexone on feelings of social connecti...
Sunday, August 18, 2019

An ultra-brief measure of the big-five personality domains implicates “agreeableness” as a risk for all-cause mortality

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Brief report: How short is too short? An ultra-brief measure of the big-five personality domains implicates “agreeableness” as a risk for al...

Beijing's Friendship with Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, 1954–1965

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Love the Tree, Love the Branch: Beijing's Friendship with Lee Kuan Yew, 1954–1965. Philip Hsiaopong Liu. The China Quarterly, August 9 2...

Endorsement of relationship rituals is associated with greater romantic relationship satisfaction, and increased commitment to the relationship mediates this positive association

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Rituals and Nuptials: Relationship Rituals Predict Relationship Satisfaction. Ximena Garcia-Rada, Ovul Sezer, Michael I. Norton. In European...

The effects of likes on public opinion perception and personal opinion

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The effects of likes on public opinion perception and personal opinion. Pablo Porten-Cheé, Christiane Eilders. The European Journal of Commu...
Saturday, August 17, 2019

In many different traits, men exhibit larger variation than women, being more likely to fall in the extremes, with the causes anything but resolved

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Studying Sex Differences in Psychosocial Life History Indicators. Lee T. Copping, George B. Richardson. Evolutionary Psychological Science, ...

Emoji use with potential partners is associated with maintaining connection beyond the first date, and more romantic and sexual interactions

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Worth a thousand interpersonal words: Emoji as affective signals for relationship-oriented digital communication. Amanda N. Gesselman, Vivia...

Sexual economic theory & the human mating market: Bisexual and pansexual women (but not men) enjoy a 7.3% market premium

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Sexual economic theory & the human mating market. Stephen Whyte, Robert C. Brooks & Benno Torgler. Applied Economics, Aug 12 2019. ...

The lifetime number of sex partners and sexual satisfaction of young adults: the roles of gender, relationship status, motivation and self-esteem

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The lifetime number of sex partners and sexual satisfaction of young adults: the roles of gender, relationship status, motivation and self-e...

Delusional Misidentification of the Mirror Image: Entails neurological, neuropsychological, as well as psychiatric aspects of the sense of self

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Delusional Misidentification of the Mirror Image. David M. Roane, Todd E. Feinberg, Taylor A. Liberta. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Re...

Deceptive Affectionate Messages: Mate Retention Deployed Under the Threat of Partner Infidelity

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Deceptive Affectionate Messages: Mate Retention Deployed Under the Threat of Partner Infidelity. Neil R. Caton, Sean M. Horan. Evolutionary...
Friday, August 16, 2019

Reducing the metabolic rate of walking and running with a versatile, portable exosuit - Summary

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Reducing the metabolic rate of walking and running with a versatile, portable exosuit. Jinsoo Kim et al. Science  Aug 16 2019: Vol. 365, Iss...

First indication that dog caretakers may transfer their racial biases onto their pet dogs; or that the caretakers projected their racial biases & perceived dog stereotypes onto their dogs

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Dhont, Kristof and Hodson, Gordon and Loughnan, Steve and Amiot, Catherine E. (2019) Rethinking Human-Animal Relations: The Critical Role of...

The results offer further evidence that psychosocial influences in the development of adolescent sexual orientation are weak or non‐existent

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A longitudinal birth cohort study of early life conditions, psychosocial factors, and emerging adolescent sexual orientation. Yin Xu, Sam No...

Gamification as it is currently operationalized in empirical studies is an effective method for instruction, although factors contributing to successful gamification are still somewhat unresolved, especially for cognitive learning

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The Gamification of Learning: a Meta-analysis. Michael Sailer, Lisa Homner. Educational Psychology Review, August 15 2019, https://link.spri...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

Empirical evidence for a statistically significant 4% gender wage gap among workers, at the project level; female workers propose lower wage bills and are more likely to win the competition for contracts, get higher revenues overall

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Gomez Herrera, Estrella and Mueller-Langer, Frank, Is There a Gender Wage Gap in Online Labor Markets? Evidence from Over 250,000 Projects a...

The “unmotivated bias” of overprecision causes partisan hostility; prior literature has focused on motivated reasoning and social identity theory;overprecision increases hostility directly and indirectly

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“Unmotivated bias” and partisan hostility: Empirical evidence. Daniel F. Stone. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Volume 79,...

Dollars do not determine detection: Monetary value associated with unexpected objects does not affect the likelihood of inattentional blindness

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Dollars do not determine detection: Monetary value associated with unexpected objects does not affect the likelihood of inattentional blindn...

Assessing the effects of vegetable consumption on the psychological health of healthy adults: a systematic review of prospective research

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Assessing the effects of vegetable consumption on the psychological health of healthy adults: a systematic review of prospective research. ...

Will Healthy Eating Make You Happier? A Research Synthesis Using an Online Findings Archive

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Will Healthy Eating Make You Happier? A Research Synthesis Using an Online Findings Archive. Ruut Veenhoven. Applied Research in Quality of ...

The Pot Rush: Is Legalized Marijuana A Positive Local Amenity?

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The Pot Rush: Is Legalized Marijuana A Positive Local Amenity? Diego Zambiasi  Steven Stillman. Economic Inquiry, August 14 2019. https://d...

Extraversion: The most important trait in sexual behavior (number of lifetime sexual partners, involvement in casual sex, marital infidelity, condom use, sexual coercion, & sexual harassment)

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The Role of Personality in Sexual and Reproductive Health. Mark S. Allen. Current Directions in Psychological Science, August 14, 2019. http...

After having used a catalyst (flipping a coin) to make a decision, we experience a stronger feeling of suddenly knowing what we want, even when discarding the suggestion of the decision aid

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Jaffé ME, Reutner L, Greifeneder R (2019) Catalyzing decisions: How a coin flip strengthens affective reactions. PLoS One 14(8): e0220736, A...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Comedians: Both amateurs and professionals showed higher openness-to-experience, extraversion, & lower conscientiousness; professionals also evidenced greater neuroticism

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Comedians’ Mean Level and Stage Personalities: Evidence for Goal-Directed Personality Adaptation. Paul Irwing et al. Personality and Social ...

Being in a romantic relationship, interacting & investing time with one’s partner predicted greater well-being; low-quality & not-so-great romantic relationships yield lower well-being than being unpartnered

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The Highs and Lows of Love: Romantic Relationship Quality Moderates Whether Spending Time With One’s Partner Predicts Gains or Losses in Wel...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

The microaggression research program: Excessively fuzzy boundaries of the microaggression construct + psychometric hazards of relying exclusively on subjective reports when detecting microaggressions

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Microaggression Research and Application: Clarifications, Corrections, and Common Ground. Scott O. Lilienfeld. Perspectives on Psychological...

It's only funny if we say it: Disparagement humor is better received if it originates from a member of the group being disparaged

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It's only funny if we say it: Disparagement humor is better received if it originates from a member of the group being disparaged. Micha...

Fellow travellers in cognitive evolution: Co-evolution of working memory and mental time travel? Mental time travel is not a privilege of the mammalian brain

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Fellow travellers in cognitive evolution: Co-evolution of working memory and mental time travel? Dorothea Dere, Armin Zlomuzica, Ekrem Dere....

Political conservatism was associated with lower pro‐environmental attitudes, but also with greater concern for the future generations

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Politics, concern for future generations, and the environment: Generativity mediates political conservatism and environmental attitudes. Mic...

From an evolutionary perspective, sexual stimuli are highly salient & are assumed to be processed with high priority, but impact is less than expected; men are higher propensity to distraction/interference

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Attentional bias towards and distractibility by sexual cues: A meta-analytic integration. J. Strahler, A. M. Baranowski, B. Walter, N. Huebn...

Childhood obesity has grown from 5% in 1978 to 18.5% in 2016; the rate of increase in childhood obesity has slowed from 2004 to 2016

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Understanding recent trends in childhood obesity in the United States. Patricia M. Anderson, Kristin F. Butcher, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach...

Individuals scoring high on dark personality exhibited a preference for inner-city, relative to suburban or rural living; no relationships between dark personality & the population densities of where participants had lived

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Fido, Dean, Alice Rees, Philip Clarke, Dominic Petronzi, and Miles Richardson. 2019. “Examining the Connection Between Nature Connectedness ...

Homophily and minority-group size explain perception biases in social networks

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Homophily and minority-group size explain perception biases in social networks. Eun Lee, Fariba Karimi, Claudia Wagner, Hang-Hyun Jo, Markus...

Somatic perception of floor inclination

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Somatic perception of floor inclination. Atsuki Higashiyama, Tadashi Yamazaki. Acta Psychologica, Volume 199, August 2019, 102896. https://d...

Socially excluded people indicate higher levels of darkness in perceptual judgments, & desire more brightness in a compensatory response; this coupling is not mediated by mood or needs but seems to exist more directly

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Out of the dark, into the light: The impact of social exclusion on judgments of darkness and brightness. Michaela Pfundmair, Sarah K. Danböc...

Aversion to organs donated by suicide victims: The role of psychological essentialism

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Aversion to organs donated by suicide victims: The role of psychological essentialism. Evan R. Balkcom et al. Cognition, Volume 192, Novembe...

Informing and persuading conversational partners are still main functions of everyday conversations on mass media; we do rarely criticize mass media references of our conversational partners or introduce alternative media content

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The role of mass media in everyday conversations: A comparison of two covert field observations. Nicole Podschuweit, Publizistik, August 201...

Sexual fantasies: More gender similarities than differences; when men and women differed, it was in specific sexual fantasies and interests rather than sexual experiences

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More than one flavour: University students’ specific sexual fantasies, interests, and experiences. Pari-Gole Noorishad et al. The Canadian...