Thursday, January 23, 2020

From 2019: Synaptic and brain-expressed gene sets relate to the shared genetic risk across five psychiatric disorders

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Synaptic and brain-expressed gene sets relate to the shared genetic risk across five psychiatric disorders. Anke R. Hammerschlag, Christiaan...

Crocodile tears: Pretenders are seen as significantly more manipulative, less reliable, less warm, less competent; are less welcomed as friends, colleagues, neighbors, & babysitter

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The damaging effects of perceived crocodile tears for an individual’s image. Inge van Roeyen, Madelon Riem, Marko Toncic and Ad Vingerhoets....

Men's odds of marriage are decreased by working in predominantly female occupations; working in a predominately female occupation increases the odds that men have never married by ages 30 & 40

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Occupational Sex Composition and Marriage: The Romantic Cost of Gender‐Atypical Jobs. Elizabeth Aura McClintock. Journal of Marriage and Fam...

The “mystical stance” – the capacity to become immersed in the religious experience, to enter into trance states, arose as one of several mechanisms we developed to bond our relatively large social groups

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Dunbar, RIM. 2019. “Religion, the Social Brain and the Mystical Stance.” Archive for Psychology of Religion. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uu...

Gore on climate: This is Thermopylae. This is Agincourt. This is Dunkirk. This is the Battle of the Bulge. This is 9/11

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Al Gore compares climate crisis to historic events like 9/11. Sam Meredith. CNBC, Jan 23 2020. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/22/wef-2020-al-g...

A surprising fact about the 2016 election is that Trump received fewer votes from whites with the highest levels of racial resentment than Romney did in 2012

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Who Put Trump in the White House? Explaining the Contribution of Voting Blocs to Trump’s Victory. Justin Grimmer, William Marble. ecember 12...

Across primate species, immature females demonstrate greater interest in infants than males do, likely because practice with infant care increases a mother's chance of keeping her baby alive

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Sex Differences in Primate Social Relationships During Development. Joyce F. Benenson. In The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and...

Religious attendance as factors in wellbeing and social engagement

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Religiosity and religious attendance as factors in wellbeing and social engagement. R.I.M. Dunbar. Religion, Brain & Behavior, Jan 22 20...

How to get along with your tc

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From absolutecarrot blog, no date, Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/search/absolutecarrot , accessed Jan 23 2020: How to get along with your t...

Contrary to previous findings, higher psychopathic traits were not associated with higher liking ratings for bitter stimuli, but instead associated with higher disgust ratings

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Exploring the Relationship Between Psychopathy and Taste Perception. Mehmet K. Mahmut & Breanna Banzer, Chemosensory Perception, Jan 23 ...

Congruence with the president, in terms of party and ideology, matters the most for those with extreme political views, and is deeply linked to their self-reported higher happiness than that of those with moderate political views

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Presidential congruence and happiness: the role of extreme political views. Jeremy Jackson. Applied Economics Letters, May 12 2019. https://...

Undergraduate freshmen’s self, parent, and peer ratings of Conscientiousness significantly predicted GPA at graduation; the other four five-factor personality domains did not correlate with undergraduate GPA

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Prospective prediction of academic performance in college using self- and informant-rated personality traits. Morgan N. McCredie, John E.Kur...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Moderating uncivil comments leads to lower task accuracy, & to more emotional exhaustion & lower task satisfaction; emotional exhaustion leads to lower comment moderation accuracy

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The downsides of digital labor: Exploring the toll incivility takes on online comment moderators. Martin J.Riedl, Gina Masullo Chen, Kelsey ...

From 2008: Is it a boy or a girl? The father’s family might provide a clue

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From 2008: Trends in Population Sex Ratios May be Explained by Changes in the Frequencies of Polymorphic Alleles of a Sex Ratio Gene. Corry ...

Optimal Subjective Age Bias: Feeling Younger by a Set Amount, but No More, Is Beneficial for Life Satisfaction

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Blöchl, Maria, Steffen Nestler, and David Weiss. 2020. “An Optimal Margin of Subjective Age Bias: Feeling Younger by a Set Amount, but No Mo...

The past is regularly the only thing that can determine present social realities such as commitments, entitlements, & obligations; episodic memory may have developed only once humans were able to represent the social effects of events

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Witnessing, Remembering, and Testifying: Why the Past Is Special for Human Beings. Johannes B. Mahr, Gergely Csibra. Perspectives on Psychol...

Inferences of Parenting Ability from Bodily Cues: High-fat female targets were perceived to have more positive & less negative parenting abilities; breast size did not influence perceptions of female parenting ability

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Dad and Mom Bods? Inferences of Parenting Ability from Bodily Cues. Donald F. Sacco, Kaitlyn Holifield, Kelsey Drea, Mitch Brown & Alici...

Declines in Religiosity Predict Increases in Violent Crime—but Not Among Countries With Relatively High Average IQ

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Declines in Religiosity Predict Increases in Violent Crime—but Not Among Countries With Relatively High Average IQ. Cory J. Clark et al. Psy...

Not replicable: Self-objectified women might themselves contribute to the maintenance of the patriarchal status quo, for instance, by participating less in collective action

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Two Preregistered Direct Replications of “Objects Don’t Object: Evidence That Self-Objectification Disrupts Women’s Social Activism”. Matthi...

Forgetfulness contributes to the maintenance of a positive and coherent self-image (“Guardian”), the facilitation of efficient cognitive function ("Librarian"), & the development of a creative and flexible worldview (“Inventor”)

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The Many Faces of Forgetting: Toward a Constructive View of Forgetting in Everyday Life. Jonathan M.Fawcett, Justin C.Hulbert. Journal of Ap...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

UK: Wind farms paid up to £3 million per day to not produce electricity last week, between 25 pct & 80 pct more than the firms, which own giant wind farms in Scotland, would have received had they been producing electricity

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Wind farms paid up to £3 million per day to switch off turbines. Edward Malnick. The Telegraph, January 19 2020. https://www.telegraph.co.uk...

The Puritans of the Left are nostalgic of the Prohibition era: The Atlantic wishes that "we treated booze more like we treat cigarettes"

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America’s Favorite Poison... Whatever happened to the anti-alcohol movement? Olga Khazan. The Atlantic, January 14, 2020. https://www.theatl...