Tuesday, October 29, 2019

We now know that disgust sensitivity is heritable, and that parental modeling does not appear to shape it; but idiosyncratic experience does shape it

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Tybur, Joshua M., and Annika Karinen. 2019. “Measurement and Theory in Disgust Sensitivity.” PsyArXiv. October 29. doi:10.31234/osf.io/64fvp...

Participants (n = 828) reported how they perceived sexual & romantic fantasizing; despite the current sentiment on socially & morally unacceptable physical acts, fantasizing towards themselves are not perceived as unacceptable

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Perceived Acceptability of Sexual and Romantic Fantasizing. Tara M. Busch. Sexuality & Culture, October 29 2019. https://link.springer.c...

Male husbands: These results reflect the stress associated with being the sole breadwinner, & more significantly, with gender norm deviance due to husbands being outearned by their wives

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Spousal Relative Income and Male Psychological Distress. Joanna Syrda. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, October 28, 2019. https:/...

Self-driving cars are sensitive to color patches attacks, patches artfully made to interfere with optical estimation

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Attacking Optical Flow. Anurag Ranjan, Joel Janai, Andreas Geiger, Michael J. Black. arXiv, Oct 22 2019. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.10053.pd...

Volitional Control of Piloerection: Objective Evidence and Its Potential Utility in Neuroscience Research

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Katahira, Kenji, Ai Kawakami, Akitoshi Tomita, and Noriko Nagata. 2019. “Volitional Control of Piloerection: Objective Evidence and Its Pote...
Monday, October 28, 2019

Be Cautious with the Precautionary Principle: Evidence from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident Suggests that the increase in mortality from higher electricity prices outnumbers the accident itself

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Be Cautious with the Precautionary Principle: Evidence from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident. Matthew J. Neidell, Shinsuke Uchida, Marcel...

Long-Term Effects of California's 2004 Paid Family Leave Act: It reduced the number of children born; also, we find little evidence that PFLA increased women’s employment, wage earnings, or attachment to employers

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The Long-Term Effects of California's 2004 Paid Family Leave Act on Women's Careers: Evidence from U.S. Tax Data. Martha J. Bailey, ...

Digital Detox: The Effect of Smartphone Abstinence on Mood, Anxiety, and Craving

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Wilcockson, Thomas, Ashley Osborne, and David A. Ellis, Dr. 2019. “Digital Detox: The Effect of Smartphone Abstinence on Mood, Anxiety, and ...

Mothers’ genetics were associated with children’s attainment over and above children's own genetics, via cognitively stimulating parenting—an environmentally mediated effect

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Using DNA From Mothers and Children to Study Parental Investment in Children’s Educational Attainment. Jasmin Wertz et al. Child Development...

Mexican Cartel Wars Fight for the Opioid U.S Market: Homicide rates increase along with the number of active cartels per municipality, with higher increases when a second, third, fourth and fifth cartel become active

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Mexican Cartel Wars: Fighting for the Opioid U.S. Market. Fernanda Sobrino. October 25, 2019. https://www.fersobrino.com/files/DraftPaper.pd...

Postnatal depressive symptoms in women display marked similarities across continents

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Postnatal depressive symptoms display marked similarities across continents. Rikke Wesselhoeft et al. Journal of Affective Disorders, Volume...

Significant correlations were found between social comparisons made on SNS (i.e., general and upward comparisons) & depression; social comparisons were more strongly related to depression than was time spent there

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Is social network site usage related to depression? A meta-analysis of Facebook–depression relations. Sunkyung Yoon et al. Journal of Affect...

Costly signaling: The historical and cultural popularity of tattooing may be partly due to honest information tattoos convey about enhanced immune response, similar to physical benefits of exercise

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The evolutionary adaptation of body art: Tattooing as costly honest signaling of enhanced immune response in American Samoa. Christopher D. ...
Sunday, October 27, 2019

People with disabilities were just as participatory, if not more so, & reported being even more interested in politics than those without disabilities

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Patterns and Mechanisms of Political Participation among People with Disabilities. Sierra Powell ; April A. Johnson . J Health Polit Policy ...

Any “radicalization” that occurs on YouTube happens according to the standard model of persuasion: People adopt new beliefs about the world by combining their prior beliefs with new information

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A Supply and Demand Framework for YouTube Politics. Kevin Munger & Joseph Phillips. Penn State Political Science, October 1, 2019. http...

People Become More Conservative as They Age Less Frequently Than Believed; but when attitudes do shift across the lifespan, liberals are more likely to become conservatives than the opposite

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Do People Really Become More Conservative as They Age? Johnathan C. Peterson, Kevin B. Smith, and John R. Hibbing. The Journal of Politics, ...

Woman’s status brand displays: Materialistic men interpret women’s conspicuous consumption as high financial mating standards & are socially deterred by women’s such consumption

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Setting the bar: The influence of women’s conspicuous display on men’s affiliative behavior. Jill M.Sundie et al. Journal of Business Resear...

Economist trying to model optimal choosing, under- and over-reaction, mental accounting, rational inattention, etc., under cognitive constraints

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A Theory of Narrow Thinking. Chen Lian. MIT, May 24, 2019. https://economics.mit.edu/files/15186 Abstract: I develop an approach, which I ...

Does Childhood Religiosity Delay Death? Only for those confined to those who downgraded their religiosity

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Does Childhood Religiosity Delay Death? Laura Upenieks, Markus H. Schafer, Andreea Mogosanu. Journal of Religion and Health, October 25 2019...
Saturday, October 26, 2019

Why does the mind wander? Maybe when the agent’s current goal is deemed insufficiently rewarding, the cognitive control system initiates a search for a new, more rewarding goal

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Why does the mind wander? Joshua Shepherd. Neuroscience of Consciousness, Volume 2019, Issue 1, October 22 2019, niz014, https://doi.org/10....

Neuronal detection chemoreceptor in the accessory olfactory system helps avoid peptides derived from a virulence regulator of bacteria; nematodes, fruitflies, fishes & humans seem to have it too

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Bacterial MgrB peptide activates chemoreceptor Fpr3 in mouse accessory olfactory system and drives avoidance behaviour. Bernd Bufe, Yannick ...