Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Females are more proactive, males are more reactive: neural basis of the gender-related speed/accuracy trade-off in visuo-motor tasks

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Females are more proactive, males are more reactive: neural basis of the gender-related speed/accuracy trade-off in visuo-motor tasks. V. Bi...

It has been shown that a gamble is judged to be more attractive when its zero outcome is designated as “losing $0” rather than “winning $0,” an instance of what we refer to as the mutable-zero effect

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The framing of nothing and the psychology of choice. Marc Scholten, Daniel Read, Neil Stewart. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, December 3 2...

Results provide a cautionary tale for the naïve application of VAMs to teacher evaluation and other settings; they point to the possibility of the misidentification of sizable teacher “effects”where none exist

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Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Cautionary Tale. Marianne Bitler, Sean Corcoran, Thurston Domina, Emily Penner. NBER Wo...

Political imagery on money relates to less political freedom & more gender inequality; more scientific & agricultural images on money relate to less economic, political freedom, human development & gender equality.

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Using currency iconography to measure institutional quality. Kerianne Lawson. The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Volume 72, May ...

Narcissistic individuals were no better at accurately identifying other narcissists, but such individuals demonstrated considerable aversion to narcissistic faces

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The Relation Between Narcissistic Personality Traits and Accurate Identification of, and Preference for, Facially Communicated Narcissism. M...

For years, SAT developers & administrators have declined to say that the test measures intelligence, despite the fact that the SAT can trace its roots through the Army Alpha & Beta tests, & others

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What We Know, Are Still Getting Wrong, and Have Yet to Learn about the Relationships among the SAT, Intelligence and Achievement. Meredith C...

Merely Possessing a Placebo Analgesic Reduced Pain Intensity: Preliminary Findings from a Randomized Design

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Merely Possessing a Placebo Analgesic Reduced Pain Intensity: Preliminary Findings from a Randomized Design. Victoria Wai-lan Yeung, Andrew ...

A message coming from behind is interpreted as more negative than a message presented in front of a listener; social information presented from behind is associated with uncertainty and lack of control

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Rear Negativity:Verbal Messages Coming from Behind are Perceived as More Negative. Natalia Frankowska  Michal Parzuchowski  Bogdan Wojciszke...
Monday, December 2, 2019

Neural correlates of moral goodness & moral beauty judgments: Moral beauty judgment induced greater brain activity implicated in theory of mind, suggesting that it needs to understand the others' mental states, unlike moral goodness

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Neural correlates of moral goodness and moral beauty judgments. Qiuping Cheng et al. Brain Research, Volume 1726, January 1 2020, 146534. h...

Chinese astrology, numerological preferences, timing of births and the long-term effect on schooling: People born on auspicious days are more likely to attend college

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Numerological preferences, timing of births and the long-term effect on schooling. Cheng Huang, Xiaojing Ma, Shiying Zhang, Qingguo Zhao. Jo...

Singapore: Individuals’ attention to media messages about climate change and elaboration of these messages were positively related to the illusion of knowing

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Does media exposure relate to the illusion of knowing in the public understanding of climate change? Xiaodong Yang, Liang Chen, Shirley S. H...