Saturday, November 30, 2019

Beijing females growing up during the communist regime are more competitively inclined than males, females growing up during the market regime, & Taipei females

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Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete: The Role of Culture and Institutions. Alison Booth, Elliott Fan, Xin Meng, Dandan Zhang. The E...

An intentionally slower response to an interpersonal request (time-taking) leads to inferences of higher status, but lower judgments of competence and warmth

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Ziano, Ignazio, and Vanessa Patrick. 2019. ““Time-takers” Are Important Jerks: Mixed Reputational Consequences of Speed of Response to Reque...

Inbreeding avoidance in primates

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A Cul-de-sac of Sexual Evolution. Takeshi Furuichi. Chapter 2 of Bonobo and Chimpanzee: The Lessons of Social Coexistence; pp 37-62. Novembe...

Beliefs need to be pragmatic, grounded in reality, but there are other incentives influencing our beliefs and behavior, like being a good group member, the need to appear as beneficent & effective

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On the Function of Beliefs in Strategic Social Interactions. Arnaud Wolff. Bureau d’Économie Théorique et Appliquée, Document de Travail n°...

Positive “good” information is more frequent compared to negative “bad” information despite our great focusing in bad behaviors/events; bad events/traits/etc. have more diversity of descriptions

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The evaluative information ecology: On the frequency and diversity of “good” and “bad”. Christian Unkelbach, Alex Koch & Hans Alves. Eur...

Is Orgasmic Meditation a Form of Sex?

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Siegel, Vivian, Caryn Roth, Elisabeth Bolaza, and Benjamin Emmert-Aronson. 2019. “Is Orgasmic Meditation a Form of Sex?” SocArXiv. November ...

Individuals with dark traits have the ability to empathize, but have a low disposition to do so

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Individuals with dark traits have the ability but not the disposition to empathize. Petri J. Kajonius, Therese Björkman. Personality and Ind...
Friday, November 29, 2019

Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Cryptographic (expected to be solvable with purely mathematical techniques), consensus theory (improvements to proof of work and proof of stake), and economic

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Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later. Vitalik Buterin. No 22 2019. https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/11/22/progress.html [Check...