Friday, January 17, 2020

High-IT-adoption banks originated mortgages with better performance & did not offload low-quality loans; banks led by more “tech-oriented” managers experienced lower non-performing loans during the crisis

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Tech in Fin before FinTech: Blessing or Curse for Financial Stability? Nicola Pierri; Yannick Timmer. IMF Working Paper No. 20/14, January 1...

Victims, perpetrators, or both? The vicious cycle of disrespect and cynical beliefs about human nature

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Stavrova, O., Ehlebracht, D., & Vohs, K. D. (2020). Victims, perpetrators, or both? The vicious cycle of disrespect and cynical beliefs ...

Male individuals are more willing to forgive all forms of infidelity to a greater extent than female individuals; attachment insecurity moderated this relationship

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Understanding Infidelity Forgiveness: An Application of Implicit Theories of Relationships. Ashley E. Thompson, Dallas Capesius, Danica Kuli...

Becoming sexy: Contrapposto pose increases attractiveness ratings and modulates observers’ brain activity

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Becoming sexy: Contrapposto pose increases attractiveness ratings and modulates observers’ brain activity. Farid Pazhoohi et al. Biological ...

Perceived versus actual autism knowledge: Participants least knowledgeable about ASD overestimated their own knowledge; those most knowledgeable underestimated it

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Perceived versus actual autism knowledge in the general population. Camilla M. McMahon, Brianna Stoll, Meghan Linthicum. Research in Autism ...

Black Americans, relative to White Americans, generate images of police officers’ faces that are more negative, less positive, & more dominant

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Good Cop, Bad Cop: Race-Based Differences in Mental Representations of Police. E. Paige Lloyd et al. Personality and Social Psychology Bulle...

In total, our results are consistent with the likelihood of considerable genetic variation in the expression of male gender nonconformity, and possibly even in its causes

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Familiality of Gender Nonconformity Among Homosexual Men. J. Michael Bailey. Archives of Sexual Behavior, January 16 2020. https://link.spri...
Thursday, January 16, 2020

Young men had higher proportions of sexual abstinence than middle-aged men due to unavailability of a partner, lower educational levels, low socioeconomic status, conservative & religious conditions

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Irfan M, Hussain NHN, Noor NM, et al. Sexual Abstinence and Associated Factors Among Young and Middle-Aged Men: A Systematic Review. J Sex M...

Failure to replicate: We found no short-term or long-term effects of the 4th of July on social distance from partisan and ideological ingroups or outgroups

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Brandt, Mark J., and Felicity M. Turner-Zwinkels. 2020. “Proximity to the July 4th Holiday Does Not Affect Affective Polarization.” PsyArXiv...

Age trends for all dark personality features were progressive through adolescence, but negative through adulthood; trends for agreeableness partly mirrored these trends & changes in dark personality features & agreeableness were correlated

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The Unfolding Dark Side: Age Trends in Dark Personality Features. Theo A.Klimstra et al. Journal of Research in Personality, January 16 2020...

A comparison of men’s and women’s perceptions of the female body using a multidimensional scaling analysis of naturalistic stimuli

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A comparison of men’s and women’s perceptions of the female body using a multidimensional scaling analysis of naturalistic stimuli. Deana D ...

Same sex sexual attraction evolved as just one of a suite of traits responding to strong selection for prosocial behavior (reduced reactive aggression, increased social affiliation, social communication, & ease of social integration)

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Prosociality and a Sociosexual Hypothesis for the Evolution of Same-Sex Attraction in Humans. Andrew B. Barron and Brian Hare. Front. Psycho...