Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Interpreting Behavior Genetic Models: Complexity, compression, and the gloomy prospect

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Interpreting Behavior Genetic Models: Seven Developmental Processes to Understand. Daniel A. Briley et al. Behavior Genetics, March 2019, Vo...

From 2014... The ultra‐social animal

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The ultra‐social animal. Michael Tomasello. European Journal of Social Psychology, April 10 2014. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2015 Abstract...

Religious individuals had higher reproductive success (this association was especially pronounced in males); religiousness did not show associations with parental investment

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Examining the link between religiousness and fitness in a behavioural ecological framework. Janko Međedović. Journal of Biosocial Science, N...

Although many animals display bodily & behavioural changes consistent with the occurrence of affective states similar to those seen in humans, there is controversy about whether these are accompanied by conscious experiences

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Towards a comparative science of emotion: Affect and consciousness in humans and animals. Elizabeth S. Paul et al. Neuroscience & Biobe...

The better-than-average effect in comparative self-evaluation: a comprehensive review and meta-analysis

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Zell, E, J E, strickhourser, Sedikides, Constantine and Alicke, Mark D. (2019) The better-than-average effect in comparative self-evaluation...

The tax-financing of Medicare creates mounting economic costs & increasingly untenable policy constraints, which motivate reforms that shift towards a more basic public benefit that individuals can “top-up” with private spending

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Does One Medicare Fit All? The Economics of Uniform Health Insurance Benefits. Mark Shepard, Katherine Baicker, Jonathan S. Skinner. Nov 201...
Monday, November 25, 2019

Participants remembered their emotional responses more accurately than they predicted them. But, strikingly, they perceived their predictions to be more accurate than their memories.

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Predicted and remembered emotion: tomorrow’s vividness trumps yesterday’s accuracy. Linda J. Levine et al. Memory, Nov 23 2019. https://doi....

Later Life Sex Differences in Factors in Choosing a Long-Term Partner, Sexual Behaviors and Attitudes, and Sexual Fantasies

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Later Life Sex Differences in Sexual Psychology and Behavior. Gavin Vance, Todd K. Shackelford, Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford. [in press,...

Microgravity and Cosmic Radiations During Space Exploration as a Window Into Neurodegeneration on Earth

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Microgravity and Cosmic Radiations During Space Exploration as a Window Into Neurodegeneration on Earth. Giulia Sprugnoli, Yvonne D. Cagle, ...

Merit Ptah, The Non-Existent “First Woman Physician”: Crafting of a Feminist History with an Ancient Egyptian Setting

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Merit Ptah, “The First Woman Physician”: Crafting of a Feminist History with an Ancient Egyptian Setting. Jakub M Kwiecinski. Journal of the...

Impeachment Non-Bombshells Endanger Democrats in 2020. Aaron Maté

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Impeachment Non-Bombshells Endanger Democrats in 2020. Aaron Maté. The Nation, Nov 22 2019. Unmerited hype about Gordon Sondland’s testimo...

We argue against a “post-truth” interpretation, whereby people deliberately share false content because it furthers their political agenda

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Pennycook, Gordon, Ziv Epstein, Mohsen Mosleh, Antonio A. Arechar, Dean Eckles, and David G. Rand. 2019. “Understanding and Reducing the Spr...

Stress-tested banks have sharply reduced home equity loans to small businesses; & counties with a higher exposure to those banks have seen a decline in patent applications by young firms, as well as a fall in labour productivity

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Unintended side effects: stress tests, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Sebastian Doerr. BIS Working Papers, No 823, November 22 2019. htt...