Sunday, September 15, 2019

From 2017... Under-reporting of total energy intake is a common and well-known source of measurement error in dietary assessment; this bias is particularly significant in obese individuals

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From 2017... People with a body mass index ⩾30 under-report their dietary intake: A systematic review. Helena Wehling, Joanne Lusher. Journa...

Masters Athletes and chess players reported a lower prevalence of chronic disease

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Masters or pawns? Examining injury and chronic disease in male Masters Athletes and chess players compared to population norms from the Cana...

These synthetic husbands have an average income that is about 58% higher, & 30% more likely to be employed, than the actual unmarried men that are currently available to unmarried women

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Mismatches in the Marriage Market. Daniel T. Lichter  Joseph P. Price  Jeffrey M. Swigert. Journal of Marriage and Family, September 4 2019....

Games of chance: A near miss is said to occur when feedback for a loss approximates a win (“cherry–cherry–lemon” on a slot machine); experiments failed to support the "near-miss effect" hypothesis

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The Near-Miss Effect in Slot Machines: A Review and Experimental Analysis Over Half a Century Later. Jeffrey M. Pisklak, Joshua J. H. Yong, ...
Saturday, September 14, 2019

Body Images of Blind and Sighted Women: No differences with regard to physical contact, vitality, and self-exaltation; significantly higher self-acceptance of body in the blind group

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Differences in the Body Images of Blind and Sighted Women. Carolin Gebauer, Verena Guenther and Kristina Stuerz. European Journal of Health ...

How do People Perceive the Cleanliness and Morality of Someone who Expresses Inappropriate Disgust: Showing either too much or too little disgust is perceived to be immoral

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Consequences of Agreement versus Disagreement on Physical Disgust: How do People Perceive the Cleanliness and Morality of Someone who Expres...

Instead of having an educative effect across contexts, the exposure to deterrence practices increases unethical behavior of fraudsters but also of non-fraudsters

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Fabio Galeotti, Valeria Maggian, Marie Claire Villeval. Fraud Deterrence Institutions Reduce Intrinsic Honesty. 2019. halshs-02281894. https...

Meat reducers (those who reduce Meath consumption) are less satisfied with their diet than true vegetarians, maybe because of the more effort applied, the more rewarded they feel

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Asher, Kathryn, and Paul Peters. 2019. “Go the Whole Nine Yards? How Extent of Meat Restriction Impacts Individual Dietary Experience.” SocA...

People Rely Less on Consumer Reviews for Experiential Than Material Purchases

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People Rely Less on Consumer Reviews for Experiential Than Material Purchases. Hengchen Dai, Cindy Chan, Cassie Mogilner. Journal of Consume...

When in middle childhood, no differences emerged as a function of parental sexual orientation in observations or self-reports of coparenting; & parents & teachers described children as well-adjusted overall

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Farr, R. H., Bruun, S. T., & Patterson, C. J. (2019). Longitudinal associations between coparenting and child adjustment among lesbian, ...

Most school shooters were not previously treated with psychotropic medications – and even when they were, no direct or causal association was found

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The myth of school shooters and psychotropic medications. Ryan Chaloner Winton Hall  Susan Hatters Friedman  Renee Sorrentino  Maria Lapchen...

Evidence of the intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment (“maltreatment begets maltreatment,”: Effect sizes seems real but modest

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Testing the cycle of maltreatment hypothesis: Meta-analytic evidence of the intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment. Sheri Madi...
Friday, September 13, 2019

Ridesharing: Socially superior outcomes may involve monopoly or competition under various multihoming regimes, depending on the density of the city

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Bryan, Kevin and Gans, Joshua S., A Theory of Multihoming in Rideshare Competition (July 27, 2018). SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.320...

The cooperative sex: Sexual interactions among female bonobos are linked to increases in oxytocin, proximity and coalitions

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The cooperative sex: Sexual interactions among female bonobos are linked to increases in oxytocin, proximity and coalitions. Liza R. Mosco...

Those who are interested in politics, who feel that they have a moral duty to vote in elections, and who feel close to a party are more prone to be satisfied with their decision to vote and to be dissatisfied if they chose to abstain

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From 2017... Was my decision to vote (or abstain) the right one? André Blais, Fernando Feitosa, Semra Sevi. Party Politics, July 20, 2017. h...

Search Advertising and Information Discovery: Are Consumers Averse to Sponsored Messages? Seems not so much.

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Sahni, Navdeep S. and Zhang, Charles, Search Advertising and Information Discovery: Are Consumers Averse to Sponsored Messages? (August 23, ...

We exhibit a bias to accept incoming information, because most claims in our environments are true; and we interpret feelings, like ease of processing, as evidence of truth, regardless of intelligence level or cognitive style

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Judging Truth. Nadia M. Brashier and Elizabeth J. Marsh. Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 71:- (Volume publication date Jan 2020), Septembe...

The experiments and paradigms that purportedly demonstrate spontaneous perspective-taking have not as yet convincingly demonstrated the existence of such a phenomenon

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The closing of the theory of mind: A critique of perspective-taking. Geoff G. Cole, Abbie C. Millett. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Sep...

Patients locked in state suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Cognitively intact, are completely paralyzed, eyes mostly closed, artificial ventilation & artificial nutrition, but we found a surprisingly healthy sleep pattern

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Sleep in the Completely Locked-in State (CLIS) in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Azim Malekshahi, Ujwal Chaudhary, Andres Jaramillo-Gonzal...
Thursday, September 12, 2019

Online media can induce opinion polarization even among users exposed to ideologically heterogeneous views, by heightening the emotional intensity of the content

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Thinking Fast and Furious: Emotional Intensity and Opinion Polarization in Online Media. David Asker, Elias Dinas. Public Opinion Quarterly,...

Violent Video Game Content & Aggressive Behaviour: Effect sizes are alike the sizes of significant yet nonsense effects of Extra Sensory Perception

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Drummond, Aaron, and James D. Sauer. 2019. “Divergent Meta-analyses Do Not Present Uniform Evidence That Violent Video Game Content Increas...

From 2017... Participants, particularly women, avoided receiving attractiveness feedback more when the ratings came from high-threat evaluators (university peers) than from low-threat evaluators (older adults, children)

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From 2017... Hot or not? How self-view threat influences avoidance of attractiveness feedback. Jennifer L. Howell, Kate Sweeny, Wendi Miller...

Some developmental theories of intelligence posit that gains in crystallized intelligence depend mainly on fluid intelligence but also on a range of so-called intellectual investment traits, like Openness to Experience and interest

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Should students be smart, curious, or both? Fluid intelligence, openness, and interest co-shape the acquisition of reading and math competen...

Relative to industrialized populations, men from subsistence groups exhibit lower testosterone values and more modest declines with age; paper discusses reasons for these lower values

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A Comparison of men’s Life History, Aging, and Testosterone Levels among Datoga Pastoralists, Hadza Foragers, and Qom Transitional Foragers....

There is evidence that naturally cycling women in their fertile phase, compared to their luteal phase, evaluate specific behavioral cues in men as more attractive for sexual relationships; but this effect is not reproducible

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Stern, Julia, Tanja M. Gerlach, and Lars Penke. 2018. “Probing Ovulatory Cycle Shifts in Women’s Preferences for Men’s Behaviors.” PsyArXiv....

How Virtue Signalling Makes Us Better: Moral Preferences with Respect to Autonomous Vehicle Type Choices

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Kopecky, Robin, Michaela Košová, Daniel D. Novotný, Jaroslav Flegr, and David Černý. 2019. “How Virtue Signalling Makes Us Better: Moral Pre...

Adults with no siblings reported significantly lower levels of conscientiousness & honesty-humility & higher levels of neuroticism and openness than adults with siblings, but mean differences failed to reach the small effect size

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Only Children in the 21st Century: Personality Differences between Adults With and Without Siblings are Very, Very Small. Samantha Stronge e...

Their orgasms were less pleasurable compared to other experiences, and suggested that their orgasm experiences had negative impacts on their relationships, sexuality, and/or psychological health

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When Orgasms Do Not Equal Pleasure: Accounts of “Bad” Orgasm Experiences During Consensual Sexual Encounters. Sara B. Chadwick, Miriam Franc...

Influence of experience on the performance of police criminal risk assessment of juveniles: Significantly higher accuracy of risk assessment, but accuracy did not increase with experience

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Influence of experience on the performance of police criminal risk assessment of juvenile offenders. Barbara Bergmann. Forensische Psychiatr...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Twitter: meta-features like the number of followers of the author, the count of tweets produced and the ratio of tweet number and days since account creation affect credibility judgments

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The Impact of Twitter Features on Credibility Ratings-An Explorative Examination Combining Psychological Measurements and Feature Based Sele...

The effect of stress on economic rationality: Rationality is not impaired by the stressor; if anything, participants are more consistent with rationality immediately after the stressor

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Cortisol meets GARP: the effect of stress on economic rationality. E. Cettolin et al. Experimental Economics, September 11 2019. https://lin...

Prisoner’s Dilemma game: Participants were more cooperative when they saw each other compared to when they could not, and when receiving reliable compared to unreliable or no feedback

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The Interplay Between Face-to-Face Contact and Feedback on Cooperation During Real-Life Interactions. Friederike Behrens, Mariska E. Kret. J...

Investigating the Dynamic Relationship of Emotions and Attention Toward Political Information With Mobile Experience

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Only One Moment in Time? Investigating the Dynamic Relationship of Emotions and Attention Toward Political Information With Mobile Experienc...

We are all saints and sinners: Some of our actions benefit other people, while other actions harm people. How do people balance moral rights against moral wrongs when evaluating others’ actions?

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Johnson, Samuel G. B., and Jaye Ahn. 2019. “Principles of Karmic Accounting: How Our Intuitive Moral Sense Balances Rights and Wrongs.” PsyA...

Under low budget conditions, Eastern & Western participants differed in their mate dollar allocation for almost every trait (culture influences prioritization); but the same priorities were given for traits needed for reproductive success

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Mate preference priorities in the East and West: A cross‐cultural test of the mate preference priority model. Andrew G. Thomas et al. Journa...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

We compare how much food others are eating as compared to our portions, what types of foods they eat, dimensions related to eating such as body weight & shape & other dimensions like social status

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C. Peter Herman, Janet Polivy, Patricia Pliner, Lenny R. Vartanian. Social Influences on Eating pp 147-162, September 6 2019. https://link.s...

We are poor at distinguishing knowledge that is in our heads from knowledge that resides in the community (KC); we overestimate how much we know or understand merely by participating in a KC

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Individual Representation in a Community of Knowledge. Nathaniel Rabb, Philip M. Fernbach, Steven A. Sloman. Volume 23, Issue 10, October 2...

When outdated norms are used, the Flynn Effect inflates IQs and potentially biases intellectual disability diagnosis; a Flynn Effect was found for IQs ≥ 130, and a negative effect for IQs ≤ 70

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The Flynn effect for fluid IQ may not generalize to all ages or ability levels: A population-based study of 10,000 US adolescents. Jonathan...

Genetic and Environmental Influences on Different Forms of Bullying Perpetration, Bullying Victimization, and Their Co-occurrence: Genes play a large role

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Genetic and Environmental Influences on Different Forms of Bullying Perpetration, Bullying Victimization, and Their Co-occurrence. Sabine A....

Moderate drinkers seem to higher earnings than constant abstainers, & both constant abstainers and former drinkers are less likely to be employed than moderate drinkers; at least for short-run estimations

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Adolescent Alcohol Consumption and Labor Market Outcomes. Laura Tikkanen. Jyväskylä University, School of Business and Economics. Master’s T...

Personality traits of low conscientiousness and low emotional stability are associated with reduced healthy life expectancy of individuals and population

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Personality, disability‐free life years, and life expectancy: Individual‐participant meta‐analysis of 131,195 individuals from 10 cohort stu...

Incels and the stories they tell: A narrative analysis of Incels’ shared stories on Reddit

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Incels and the stories they tell: A narrative analysis of Incels’ shared stories on Reddit. Thea Høiland. Master’s thesis in Sociology, Depa...

Rolf Degen summarizing: Individuals with a higher degree of pro-environmental attitudes were more prone to moral licensing, offsetting previous good environmental deeds with subsequent bad ones

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A behavioral rebound effect. Zack Dorner. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, September 4 2019, 102257. https://doi.org/10.10...

Persons with Disabilities: Association of Internet Use with Wellbeing, Mental Health and Health Behaviours

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The Association of Internet Use with Wellbeing, Mental Health and Health Behaviours of Persons with Disabilities. Mariusz Duplaga and Katarz...

While intuitively and theoretically sound, the empirical support for acute stress-reducing effects of immersion in natural environments is tentative due to small sample sizes and methodological weaknesses in the studies

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Effects of Public Green Space on Acute Psychophysiological Stress Response: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Experimental and Qu...