Saturday, November 2, 2019

Evolutionary Psychology and Suicidology

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Evolutionary Psychology and Suicidology. John F. Gunn III, Pablo Malo, and C. A. Soper. SAGE Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, Vol 3, Par...

Association between childhood adoption & bad mental health: Not fully to be attributed to stressful environments; it is partly explained by differences in genetic risk between adoptees & those not-adopted

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Childhood adoption and mental health in adulthood: The role of gene-environment correlations and interactions in the UK Biobank. Kelli Lehto...

Happiness is not best understood as an affective state, but better understood within its behavioral context, as an emergent property of activity

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Imaging Happiness: Meta Analysis and Review. Joshua Ray Tanzer, Lisa Weyandt. Journal of Happiness Studies, October 31 2019. https://link.sp...

Fear‐containing dreams serve an emotion regulation function; the stronger the recruitment of fear‐responsive regions during dreaming, the weaker their response to actual fear‐eliciting stimuli during wakefulness

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Fear in dreams and in wakefulness: Evidence for day/night affective homeostasis. Virginie Sterpenich et al. Human Brain Mapping, October 30...
Friday, November 1, 2019

Are atheists unprejudiced? Forms of nonbelief and prejudice toward antiliberal and mainstream religious groups

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Uzarevic, F., Saroglou, V., & Muñoz-García, A. (2019). Are atheists unprejudiced? Forms of nonbelief and prejudice toward antiliberal an...

Theories link threat with right-wing political beliefs; our findings show that political beliefs and perceptions of threat are linked, but that the relationship is nuanced

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Worldview conflict and prejudice. Mark J.Brandt, Jarret T.Crawford. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, October 31 2019. https://do...

Individuals with high grandiose narcissism based their well‐being partly on intelligence and considered intelligence important for success in different life domains, especially for social relations

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What Do Highly Narcissistic People Think and Feel about (Their) Intelligence? Marcin Zajenkowski  Anna Z. Czarna  Kinga Szymaniak  Michael D...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Unemployed individuals who do not suffer from material deprivation may not experience a life satisfaction decrease and may even experience a life satisfaction increase

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A Pecuniary Explanation for the Heterogeneous Effects of Unemployment on Happiness. Jianbo Luo. Journal of Happiness Studies, October 30 201...

We explore two key contexts of humility, intellectual and cultural

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Humility. Daryl R. Van Tongeren et al. Current Directions in Psychological Science, July 2, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721419850153 ...

When Media Violence Awakens our Better Nature: The Effect of Unpleasant Violence on Reactivity toward and Enjoyment of Media Violence

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When Media Violence Awakens our Better Nature: The Effect of Unpleasant Violence on Reactivity toward and Enjoyment of Media Violence. T. Fr...

Beyond sex differences, factors such as early environmental cues of relationship instability, individuals’ motivation for engaging in casual sex, and higher number of their casual sex partners contribute to the positive view of casual sex

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Beyond Sex Differences: Predictors of Negative Emotions Following Casual Sex. Jessica A. Hehman, Catherine A. Salmon. Evolutionary Psycholog...

Alcohol-related harms have been decreasing for more recent cohorts of young adults over the past three decades, which is consistent with previously-reported declines in alcohol consumption among this age group

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Visontay, Rachel, Louise Mewton, Matthew Sunderland, Katrina Prior, and Tim Slade. 2019. “Declining Alcohol-related Harms in Young Adults: A...

Money is generally seen as good, but what about when it is morally tainted?

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The Dilemma of Dirty Money. Arber Tasimi, James J. Gross. Current Directions in Psychological Science, October 29, 2019. https://doi.org/10....

Cumulative technological evolution: There is a brain network for tool-use action observation (the tool-use observation network), mostly situated in the left hemisphere, & distinct from the non-tool-use observation network

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To Watch is to Work: a Review of NeuroImaging Data on Tool Use Observation Network. Emanuelle Reynaud, Jordan Navarro, Mathieu Lesourd, Fran...

The past decade contained almost half the cases (13%) that existed at the 80s peak of serial homicide (27%); technology, shifts in offending behavior, proactive law enforcement action, & vigilance of society contributed

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Yaksic, Enzo, Clare Allely, Raneesha De Silva, Melissa Smith-Inglis, Daniel Konikoff, Kori Ryan, Dan Gordon, et al. 2019. “Detecting a Decli...

In addition, individuals who perceived themselves as being more attractive tended to have a higher sexual desire and higher relationship quality

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Extradyadic behaviors and gender: How do they relate with sexual desire, relationship quality, and attractiveness. Joana Arantes, Helena M. ...

Real-life revenge may not effectively deter norm violations, as a response that must take place almost immediately and in the same domain to be effective

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Real-life revenge may not effectively deter norm violations. Maartje Elshout, Rob M. A., Nelissen, Ilja van Beest, Suzan Elshout & Wilco...
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...