Thursday, December 5, 2019

Large US-representative adolescent sample: A Flynn Effect was found for IQs ≥ 130, a negative one for ≤ 70; this challenge the practice of generalizing IQ trends with non-representative data samples

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The Flynn effect for fluid IQ may not generalize to all ages or ability levels: A population-based study of 10,000 US adolescents. Jonathan ...

On psychological researcher's strategic behavior: High prevalence of effect declines with each new study of some question, yielding a ratio of 2:1; these declines are systematic, strong, and ubiquitous

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Effect Declines are Systematic, Strong, and Ubiquitous: A Meta-Meta- Analysis of the Decline. Jakob Pietschnig et al. Front. Psychol., Nov 2...
Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Not only assholes drive Mercedes; besides disagreeable men, also conscientious people drive high‐status cars

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Not only assholes drive Mercedes. Besides disagreeable men, also conscientious people drive high‐status cars. Jan Erik Lönnqvist, Ville‐Juha...

The introduction of a new machine translation system has significantly increased international trade on this platform, increasing exports by 10.9%; found too a substantial reduction in translation costs

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Does Machine Translation Affect International Trade? Evidence from a Large Digital Platform. Erik Brynjolfsson, Xiang Hui, Meng Liu. Managem...

From 2018... Estimates fail to associate gender equality measures with gender segregation in higher education; religiosity is significantly associated with lower gender segregation in higher education

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Graduates’ opium? Cultural values, religiosity and gender segregation by field of study. Izaskun Zuazu. Jun 2018. http://www.iaffe.org/media...

As expected, exploitation had concurrent and longitudinal associations with bullying, but unexpectedly empathic concern only had concurrent associations and no longitudinal associations with bullying

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Empathy, Exploitation, and Adolescent Bullying Perpetration: a Longitudinal Social-Ecological Investigation. Ann H. Farrell, Anthony A. Volk...

Induced Mate Abundance Increases Women’s Expectations for Engagement Ring Size and Cost

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Induced Mate Abundance Increases Women’s Expectations for Engagement Ring Size and Cost. Ashley Locke, Jessica Desrochers, Steven Arnocky. E...

Are Sex Differences in Mating Preferences Really “Overrated”? The Effects of Sex and Relationship Orientation on Long-Term and Short-Term Mate Preference

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Are Sex Differences in Mating Preferences Really “Overrated”? The Effects of Sex and Relationship Orientation on Long-Term and Short-Term Ma...

Education's marginal cognitive benefit does not reach a plateau until 17 years of education; those with low childhood intelligence derive the largest benefit of education

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The influence of educational attainment on intelligence. Emilie Rune Hegelund et al. Intelligence. Volume 78, January–February 2020, 101419....

Self-reported ratings of deception ability were positively correlated with telling a higher frequency of white lies & exaggerations, & telling the majority of lies to colleagues, friends, & romantic partners

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Verigin BL, Meijer EH, Bogaard G, Vrij A (2019) Lie prevalence, lie characteristics and strategies of self-reported good liars. PLoS ONE 14(...
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...