Monday, January 20, 2020

Extended Penfield’s findings of the primary somatosensory cortex’s homunculus to the higher level of somatosensory processing suggest a major role for somatosensation in human cognition

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The "creatures" of the human cortical somatosensory system: Multiple somatosensory homunculi. Noam Saadon-Grosman, Yonatan Loewens...

The division-of-labor may result in modular & assortative social network of strong associations among those performing the same task: DOL & political polarization may share a common mechanism

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Social influence and interaction bias can drive emergent behavioural specialization and modular social networks across systems. Christopher ...

US: The share of job vacancies requiring a bachelor’s degree increased by more than 60 percent between 2007 and 2019, with faster growth in professional occupations and high-wage cities

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Structural Increases in Skill Demand after the Great Recession. Peter Q. Blair, David J. Deming. NBER Working Paper No. 26680. January 2020....

Non-conscious prioritization speed is not explained by variation in conscious cognitive speed, decision thresholds, short-term visual memory, and by the three networks of attention (alerting, orienting and executive)

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Sklar, Asael, Ariel Goldstein, Yaniv Abir, Ron Dotsch, Alexander Todorov, and Ran Hassin. 2020. “Did You See It? Robust Individual Variance ...

Another nation in which the Flynn effect (IQ in Romania was increasing with approximately 3 IQ points/decade) seems to reverse: The continuous positive outlook is in question as modern generations show signs of IQ “fatigue”

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Time and generational changes in cognitive performance in Romania. George Gunnesch-Luca, Dragoș Iliescu. Intelligence, Volume 79, March–Apri...

Associations between cognitive ability & education, from middle childhood to old age, as well as their links with wealth, morbidity and mortality: The strong genetic basis in the association is amplified by environmental experiences

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Cognitive ability and education: how behavioural genetic research has advanced our knowledge and understanding of their association. Margher...

High intellect/imagination predicted digital aggression in lab and Twitter; low conscientiousness predicted digital aggression on Twitter and self-reports

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A Multi-Method Investigation of the Personality Correlates of Digital Aggression. M. Kim, SL. Clark, MB. Donnellan, SA. Burt. Journal of Res...

Ideological orientations are substantially heritable, but the public is largely non-ideological; what happens is that ideological orientations are extraordinarily heritable for the most informed citizens, much less for the others

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Genes, Ideology, & Sophistication. Nathan P. Kalmoe. Jan 2020. https://www.dropbox.com/s/4q14j1qwx94ub7d/Kalmoe%20-%20Genes%2C%20Ideolog...
Sunday, January 19, 2020

Real ideological coherence, stability of political beliefs: Results show polar, coherent, stable, and potent ideological orientations only among the most knowledgeable 20-30% of citizens

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Uses and abuses of ideology in political psychology. Nathan P. Kalmoe. Political Psychology, forthcoming. Jan 2020. https://www.dropbox.com/...

Immigrants to the US live disproportionately in metropolitan areas where nominal wages are high & real wages are low; they accept such wages to locate in cities that are coastal, larger, & offer deeper immigrant networks

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Immigration and the pursuit of amenities. David Albouy  Heepyung Cho  Mariya Shappo. Journal of Regional Science, November 23 2019. https://...

CEO Pay in Perspective: A typical employee of the S&P500 firms implicitly “contributes” to the salary of his CEO on average one half of one percent on an individual salary basis

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CEO Pay in Perspective. Marcel Boyer. Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en analyse des organisations, Dec 2019. https://cirano.qc.ca/fi...

A Museum Is a Terrible Place for a Date

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A Museum Is a Terrible Place for a Date. Sophia Benoit. GQ, January 16, 2020. https://www.gq.com/story/museum-dates-are-bad Strictly-enfor...

Generalized trust in others lowers mortality, mainly that caused by CVD; trust seems to acts as buffer reducing the axiety stemming from the others' behavior

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Trust, happiness and mortality: Findings from a prospective US population-based survey. Social Science & Medicine, January 18 2020, 1128...

Small associations between the amount of daily digital technology usage & adolescents’ well‐being: Unlikely to be of clinical or practical significance

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Annual Research Review: Adolescent mental health in the digital age: facts, fears, and future directions. Candice L. Odgers, Michaeline R. J...
Saturday, January 18, 2020

From 2011... False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant

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From 2011... False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant. J...

From 2015... Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science: Innovation points out paths that are possible; replication points out paths that are likely; progress relies on both

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From 2015... Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. "Open Science Collaboration." Science, Vol. 349, Issue 6251,...