Sunday, January 12, 2020

Participants with the lowest assessed weather knowledge do overestimate their weather knowledge, a result consistent with previous psychological studies

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What People Know About the Weather. Christopher Nunley, Kathleen Sherman-Morris. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Jan 2020. ...

Common postcoital symptoms: In women were mood swings & sadness, whereas in men, it was unhappiness and low energy; 46.6% experienced symptoms also after masturbation

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Burri A, Hilpert P. Postcoital Symptoms in a Convenience Sample of Men and Women. J Sex Med 2019; XX:XXX–XXX. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsxm...
Saturday, January 11, 2020

Would I Be Hurt? Cross-national CCTV Footage Shows Low Victimization Risk for Bystander Interveners in Public Conflicts (approx 4pct)

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Liebst, Lasse S., Richard Philpot, Mark Levine, and Marie R. Lindegaard. 2020. “Would I Be Hurt? Cross-national CCTV Footage Shows Low Victi...

Sports fans provided forecasts about an upcoming game between a favorite & rival team; participants demonstrated reduced wishful thinking effects when thinking about how a rival fan might see the game going

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“To hope was to expect”: The impact of perspective taking and forecast type on wishful thinking. Jason P. Rose  Olivia Aspiras. Journal of B...

Older men more than older women report interest in a greater number of sexual partners; need less time before consenting to sex; have higher frequency of sexual arousal & sexual fantasies

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Later life sex differences in sexual psychology and behavior. Gavin Vance et al. Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 157, 15 Apri...

Adoption of Robotic Surgery for Common Surgical Procedures, (169 404 patients in 73 hospitals): The use of robotic surgery for all general surgery procedures increased from 1.8% to 15.1%, 2012-2018

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Trends in the Adoption of Robotic Surgery for Common Surgical Procedures. Kyle H. Sheetz, Jake Claflin, Justin B. Dimick. JAMA Netw Open. 20...

The Prevalence of Paraphilic Interests in the Czech Population: The high prevalence of some paraphilic patterns might render their pathologization problematic

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The Prevalence of Paraphilic Interests in the Czech Population: Preference, Arousal, the Use of Pornography, Fantasy, and Behavior. Klára Bá...

Anxiety about the robot workforce reduces prejudice toward outgroups, makes people more accepting of outgroup members as leaders & family members, & increases wage equality across ingroup & outgroup members

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Jackson, J. C., Castelo, N., & Gray, K. (2020). Could a rising robot workforce make humans less prejudiced? American Psychologist. Jan 2...
Friday, January 10, 2020

Subjective ethical standards of generosity: Most feel strapped for cash, but believe higher earners are flush with spare money; higher earners report having much less spare money than what lower earners expect

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Passing the buck to the wealthier: Reference-dependent standards of generosity. Jonathan Z.Berman et al. Organizational Behavior and Human D...

From 2017... Approaches to Measuring Creativity: A Systematic Literature Review

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Approaches to Measuring Creativity: A Systematic Literature Review. Sameh Said-Metwaly, Eva Kyndt, Wim van den Noortgate. Creativity, Vol. 4...