Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Behavioral correlates in twin studies: There was a moderate genetic influence on subjective sleep quality and sleep duration

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Twin studies of subjective sleep quality and sleep duration, and their behavioral correlates: Systematic review and meta-analysis of heritab...
Monday, December 30, 2019

Impacts of market integration on the development of American manufacturing, as railroads expanded through the latter half of the XIX century: Much larger aggregate economic gains than previous estimates

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Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing. Richard Hornbeck, Martin Rotemberg. NBER Working Paper No. 26594, December ...

British adolescent twins study: Contact with the justice system—through spending a night in jail/prison, being issued an anti‐social behaviour order (ASBO), or having an official record—promotes delinquency

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Does contact with the justice system deter or promote future delinquency? Results from a longitudinal study of British adolescent twins. Rya...

Weak evidence that the national homicide rate spiked in 2015: The 2015 homicide rate increased above the 90% prediction interval for our model, but not more conservative intervals

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Yim, Ha-Neul, Jordan R. Riddell, and Andrew P. Wheeler. 2019. “Is the Recent Increase in National Homicide Abnormal? Testing the Application...

False awakenings in lucid dreamers: How they relate with lucid dreams, and how lucid dreamers relate with them

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False awakenings in lucid dreamers: How they relate with lucid dreams, and how lucid dreamers relate with them. Buzzi, Giorgio. Dreaming, Vo...
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....