Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Male Urogenital System Mapped Onto the Sensory Cortex Thru Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: The nipple was found to project to the same cortical region as the genitals

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Allen K, Wise N, Frangos E, et al. Male Urogenital System Mapped Onto the Sensory Cortex: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Evidence. J ...

Rolf Degen summarizing: People with a nice personality were more ready to fall for mundane bullshit

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Expanding the bullshit research out of pseudo-transcendental domain. Vladimíra Čavojová, Ivan Brezina, Marek Jurkovič. Current Psychology, J...

Women who reported to have sex weekly during the study period were 28% less likely to experience menopause than women who had sex less than monthly

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Sexual frequency is associated with age of natural menopause: results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation. Megan Arnot an...

Firms with higher H-1B visa lottery win rates are more likely to receive additional venture capital funding, to have a successful exit via an IPO or acquisition, & to receive more patents & patent citations

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Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your High-Skilled Labor: H-1B Lottery Outcomes and Entrepreneurial Success. Stephen G. Dimmock, Jiekun Huang,...

Approval & regulation processes for pharmaceutical agents have increased in complexity; FDA review times have shortened, but total time from the authorization of clinical testing to approval has remained at approx 8 years

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FDA Approval and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals, 1983-2018. Jonathan J. Darrow, Jerry Avorn, Aaron S. Kesselheim. JAMA. 2020;323(2):164-176. ...

Just How Important Is Breast Size in Attraction? Across cultures, men do not consistently prefer large breasts

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Just How Important Is Breast Size in Attraction? Across cultures, men do not consistently prefer large breasts. Robert D. Martin, Jan 14, 20...

Psychological impact of positive & negative information in memory: Positive content is often favored & the affect prompted is more temporally persistent than the affect prompted by memories of negative events

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In Human Memory, Good Can Be Stronger Than Bad. Constantine Sedikides, John J. Skowronski. Current Directions in Psychological Science, Janu...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Contrary to findings from previous correlational studies, we do not find any impact of social media usage on well-being and academic success

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Collis, Avinash, and Felix Eggers. 2020. “Effects of Restricting Social Media Usage.” SocArXiv. January 14. doi:10.31235/osf.io/udgxt Abstra...

People valorize the unproductive efforts of others in part because they believe such efforts reflect one’s inner virtues

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Celniker, Jared, Andrew Gregory, Hyunjin Koo, Paul K. Piff, Peter Ditto, and Azim Shariff. 2020. “The Moralization of Unproductive Effort....

We suggest greater aesthetic relevance, face for facial aesthetics, of the mobile and communicative parts for the female face and, conversely, of the rigid, structural, parts for the male one

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Filtered beauty in Oslo and Tokyo: A spatial frequency analysis of facial attractiveness. Morten Øvervoll et al. PLOS, January 14, 2020. htt...

Overall effect of music training programs in cognitive & academic benefits is consistently null, regardless of the type of outcome measure (verbal, non-verbal, speed-related, etc.)

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Sala, Giovanni, and Fernand Gobet. 2020. “Cognitive and Academic Benefits of Music Training with Children: A Multilevel Meta-analysis.” PsyA...

Whole-apple intake was associated with a reduced risk of CVD mortality, ischemic heart disease mortality, stroke mortality, all-cause mortality, and severe abdominal aortic calcification

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The effects and associations of whole-apple intake on diverse cardiovascular risk factors. A narrative review. Berner Andrée Sandoval-Ramíre...

Crimes that were written in a foreign language were systematically evaluated as less severe, maybe due to attenuated emotional processing in a nonnative language

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Woumans, E., Van der Cruyssen, I., & Duyck, W. (2020). Crime and punishment: Morality judgment in a foreign language. Journal of Experim...

Oxytocin administration can promote self‐serving lying when given repeated opportunities to lie; sensitivity to these effects might be moderated by individual differences in the oxytocin receptor gene

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The role of oxytocin on self‐serving lying. Cornelia Sindermann, Ruixue Luo, Benjamin Becker, Keith M. Kendrick, Christian Montag. Brain and...

Individuals living under gang control have significantly worse education, wealth, and less income than individuals living only 50 meters away in areas not controlled by gangs

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Melnikov, Nikita and Schmidt-Padilla, Carlos and Sviatschi, Maria Micaela, Gangs, Labor Mobility, and Development (October 29, 2019). SSRN: ...
Monday, January 13, 2020

If you were to force America's 11 largest cities to be no larger than Miami, real income per American would fall by 7.9%; if planning regulations were lifted entirely, real income would rise by 25.7%

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Urban Growth and its Aggregate Implications. Gilles Duranton, Diego Puga. NBER Working Paper No. 26591, December 2019. https://www.nber.org/...

The better people are educated, the less positive their other-perceptions are; a potential explanation could be that a good education goes along with a sense of self-importance & haughtiness

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Seeing the Best or Worst in Others: A Measure of Generalized Other-Perceptions. Richard Rau, Wiebke Nestler, Michael Dufner, Steffen Nestler...

Humans judge faces in incomplete photographs as physically more attractive

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Humans judge faces in incomplete photographs as physically more attractive. Diana Orghian & César A. Hidalgo. Scientific Reports volume ...