Sunday, December 29, 2019

Surprise: Consuming 1–5 cups of coffee/day was related to lower mortality among never smokers; they forgot to discount/adjust for pack-years of smoking, healthy & unhealthy foods, & added sugar

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Dietary research on coffee: Improving adjustment for confounding. David R Thomas, Ian D Hodges. Current Developments in Nutrition, nzz142, D...

Persistent effects of cohort size & nonmarital births on cohort-specific homicide rates: These effects follow Black birth cohorts across the life course, leading to higher rates of homicides (victims & perpetrators)

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The Enduring Influence of Cohort Characteristics on Race-Specific Homicide Rates. Matt Vogel, Kristina J Thompson, Steven F Messner. Social ...

Review of Jennifer A. Jones's The Browning of the New South

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Review of Jennifer A. Jones's The Browning of the New South. Angel Adams Parham. Social Forces 1–4, soz141, Dec 2019, https://doi.org/10...

YouTube radicalization: The recommendation algorithm actively discourages viewers from visiting radicals/extremists, favors left-leaning or neutral channels & mainstream media over independent channels

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Algorithmic Extremism: Examining YouTube's Rabbit Hole of Radicalization. Mark Ledwich, Anna Zaitsev. arXiv Dec 24 2019. https://arxiv.o...

There is less support for redistribution & race-targeted aid among blacks in the U.S. today than in the 70s; anti-black stereotypes have had consequences for political attitudes for whites, but for blacks too

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Inequality, Stereotypes and Black Public Opinion: The Role of Distancing. Emily M. Wager. . http://www.emilymwager.com/uploads/1/2/7/2/12726...

From 2017... Under what conditions factual misperceptions may be effectively corrected: Ingroup members, specifically co-partisans and peers, are perceived to be more credible & more effective correctors

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Correcting Factual Misperceptions: How Source Cues Matter. Emily Wager. Master's Thesis, North Carolina University at Chapel Hill. 2017....

Love the Science, Hate the Scientists: Conservative Identity Protects Belief in Science and Undermines Trust in Scientists

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Love the Science, Hate the Scientists: Conservative Identity Protects Belief in Science and Undermines Trust in Scientists. Marcus Mann, Cyr...

Women who quitted Instagram, users who are no longer exposed to direct evaluative feedback about their images, reported significantly higher levels of life satisfaction and positive affect

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Taking a Short Break from Instagram: The Effects on Subjective Well-Being. Giulia Fioravanti, Alfonso Prostamo, and Silvia Casale. Cyberpsyc...

Participants rated the neuroscience abstract as having stronger findings and as being more valid and reliable than the parapsychology abstract, despite the fact that the two abstracts were identical

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Bias in the Evaluation of Psychology Studies: A Comparison of Parapsychology Versus Neuroscience. Bethany Butzer. EXPLORE, December 28 2019....

No strong evidence for a causal role of testosterone in promoting human aggression, positive but weakly correlations

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Is testosterone linked to human aggression? A meta-analytic examination of the relationship between baseline, dynamic, and manipulated testo...

Having too many men – although sex ratio skew might increase competition and violence among some members of the population, overall levels of those same behaviors might decline

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Ecological Sex Ratios and Human Mating. Jon K.Maner, Joshua M.Ackerman. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, December 28 2019. https://doi.org/10.1...

The avoidance of obese people is well documented, but its psychological basis is poorly understood; we think obesity triggers equivalent emotional and avoidant‐based responses as a contagious disease

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Is obesity treated like a contagious disease? Caley Tapp  Megan Oaten  Richard J. Stevenson  Stefano Occhipinti  Ravjinder Thandi. Journal o...

From 2013... Of the 7,000 languages spoken today, some 2,500 are generally considered endangered; this vastly underestimates the danger, less than 5% of all languages can still ascend to the digital realm

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Kornai A (2013) Digital Language Death. PLoS ONE 8(10): e77056. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0077056 Abstract: Of the approximatel...