Sunday, November 17, 2019

Young adult siblings and twins are less alike in cognitive ability in highly educated families than in less educated families

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Does sibling and twin similarity in cognitive ability differ by parents’ education? Tina Baier. ZfF – Journal of Family Research, 1-2019, pp...

Unlike other forms of antisocial behavior, the findings do not reveal a relationship between two different heart rate measures and white-collar offending

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Heart Rate Fails to Predict White Collar Crime. Nicole Leeper Piquero et al. American Journal of Criminal Justice, October 17 2019. https://...

The large sex differences in being arrested, pleading guilty, being sentenced, & being incarcerated are consistent with lifetime violent behavior, low self-control, IQ, parental socialization, & social support; that is, the differences seem justified

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Self-Reported Male-Female Differences in Criminal Involvement Do Not Account for Criminal Justice Processing Differences. Kevin M. Beaver, J...
Saturday, November 16, 2019

Kyoko interjects, “Isn’t life disappointing?” Noriko smiles back at her. “Yes,” she nods. “Nothing but disappointment.”

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Pain in Japanese Cinema. Abe Callard. Garden of Forking Paths Blog, November 12, 2019.  https://gardenofforkingpaths.home.blog/2019/11/12/pa...

Supposedly, high levels of sexual arousal can promote sexual willingness and approach tendencies toward a priori low attractive mates; these authors did not see such lowering of standards

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The Influence of Sexual Arousal on Self-Reported Sexual Willingness and Automatic Approach to Models of Low, Medium, and High Prior Attracti...

Humor could be the feeling of Rapid Anxiety Reduction, with strong correspondencies to False Alarm Theory, Benign Violation Theory, and Cognitive Debugging Theory

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Rapid Anxiety Reduction (RAR): A unified theory of humor. Adam Safron. arXiv, Nov 8 2019. https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02364 Abstract: Here ...

There seems to be an optimal level of humility, such that those participants who somewhat underestimated their morality with respect to their peers were liked and respected the most

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Shared Reality or Shared Illusions? Evaluating Moral Impressions. Maxwell Barranti. PhD Thesis, Psychology Dept, Toronto U, 2019. https://ts...

Nonconsensual somnophilia: Seems driven by an underlying interest in “passivity, power, and the elimination, in degrees, of the possibility of rejection,” not an overt interest in sexual aggression

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Somnophilia: Examining Its Various Forms and Associated Constructs. Elizabeth T. Deehan, Ross M. Bartels. Sexual Abuse, November 15, 2019. h...

While psychological pain led to more empathic concern, physical pain led to higher ratings of personal distress

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Empathic concern and personal distress depend on situational but not dispositional factors. Sarah Fabi, Lydia Anna Weber, Hartmut Leuthold. ...
Friday, November 15, 2019

Europe: Height is positively associated with leadership for women, no effect for men; for women, absolute and relative height are about equally strong

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About the Relation between Height and Leadership: Evidence from Europe. Felix Bittmann. Economics & Human Biology, November 15 2019, 100...

Believers are more likely to justify their own passive immorality, & to commit everyday acts of passive immorality such as parking across multiple spaces & keeping overdue library books

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When a good god makes bad people: Testing a theory of religion and immorality. Jackson, Joshua Conrad Gray, Kurt. Journal of Personality and...

Narcissism & Machiavellianism were positive predictors of task performance; psychopathy & sadism were negative predictors; narcissism was positively related to contextual performance

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Bad guys perform better? The incremental predictive validity of the Dark Tetrad over Big Five and Honesty-Humility. Elena Fernández-del-Río,...

The tendency of political journalists to form insular groups/packs, chasing the same angles & quoting the same sources, is a well-known issue in journalism & has long been criticized for its role in groupthink & homogenous coverage

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Exploring Political Journalism Homophily on Twitter: A Comparative Analysis of US and UK Elections in 2016 and 2017. Kelly Fincham. Media an...

Conservatives do not generally form more negative attitudes than liberals; the cognitive processes underlying exploration of novel stimuli & attitude formation are similar for both, but these processes are evoked by different kinds of stimuli

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Of deadly beans and risky stocks: Political ideology and attitude formation via exploration depend on the nature of the attitude stimuli. Mi...