Thursday, February 27, 2020

Compared to resumes that list no study abroad experience, resumes that list study abroad experience are 20-35pct less likely to receive any callback or callback for interviews

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Cheng, Albert and Florick, Laura, The Value of Study Abroad Experience in the Labor Market: Findings from a Resume Audit Experiment (Februa...

Bright mind, moral mind? Intelligence is unrelated to consequentialist moral judgment in sacrificial moral dilemmas

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Bright mind, moral mind? Intelligence is unrelated to consequentialist moral judgment in sacrificial moral dilemmas. D. H. Bostyn, J. De Kee...

Cultural items that use more second-person pronouns are liked & purchased more: Rather than addressing the audience, communicating norms, or encouraging perspective taking, second-person pronouns help us think of someone in our lives

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Thinking of You: How Second-Person Pronouns Shape Cultural Success. Grant Packard, Jonah Berger. Psychological Science, February 26, 2020. h...

The neural bases of visual mental imagery are the object of intense debate; in patients with acquired brain damage, the consensus model predicts a systematic co-occurrence of perceptual and imaginal deficits; however...

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Visual mental imagery engages the left fusiform gyrus, but not the early visual cortex: A meta-analysis of neuroimaging evidence. Alfredo Sp...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

We conclude that antitrust restrictions seeking to limit intra-industry common ownership are not currently warranted

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Koch, Andrew and Panayides, Marios A. and Thomas, Shawn, Common Ownership and Competition in Product Markets (February 6, 2020). 29th Annual...

Not as cold as a fish... Relationships between the Dark Triad personality traits and affective experience during the day

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As cold as a fish? Relationships between the Dark Triad personality traits and affective experience during the day: A day reconstruction stu...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

The overall effect of manipulating cognitive resources to promote the “intuitive” system at the expense of the “deliberative” system is very close to zero

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Altruism, fast and slow? Evidence from a meta-analysis and a new experiment. Hanna Fromell, Daniele Nosenzo & Trudy Owens. Experimental...

Animals use many different types of traits to attract mates & outcompete rivals, including colours, songs, & horns, but it remains unclear why, for example, some taxa have songs, others colours, & others horns

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Songs versus colours versus horns: what explains the diversity of sexually selected traits? John J. Wiens, E. Tuschhoff. Biological Reviews,...

Money: An Integrated Review and Synthesis From a Psychological Perspective

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Money: An Integrated Review and Synthesis From a Psychological Perspective. Xijing Wang, Zhansheng Chen, Eva G. Krumhuber. Review of General...

Laws against wrongdoing may originate in intuitions that are part of universal human nature, according to the adaptationist theory, which proposes that laws can be traced to neurocognitive mechanisms and ancestral selection pressures

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The origins of criminal law. Daniel Sznycer & Carlton Patrick. Nature Human Behaviour, February 24 2020. https://www.nature.com/articles...

Single dose testosterone administration increases men’s facial femininity preference in a Chinese population

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Single dose testosterone administration increases men’s facial femininity preference in a Chinese population. Chengyang Han et al. Psychoneu...
Monday, February 24, 2020

Less agreeable, better preserved? Lower Agreeableness is associated with better preservation of limbic area; aging-related hippocampal volume decrease is lower in elders with higher openness

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Less agreeable, better preserved? A PET amyloid and MRI study in a community-based cohort. Panteleimon Giannakopoulos et al. Neurobiology of...

White-faced capuchin monkey dyads in Costa Rica practice idiosyncratic interaction sequences that involve an unusual intensity of focus on the partner, behaviours of no immediate utilitarian purpose that sometimes involve "sacred objects"

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Capuchin monkey rituals: an interdisciplinary study of form and function. Susan Perry, Marco Smolla. bioRxiv, Feb 24 2020. https://doi.org/1...

Democrats overestimate the explicit prejudice of the American electorate, & thus see disadvantaged groups as less electable; Democrats who frequently interacted with Republicans had more accurate estimations of explicit prejudice

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Mercier, Brett, Jared Celniker, and Azim Shariff. 2020. “Overestimating Explicit Prejudice Causes Democrats to Believe Disadvantaged Groups ...

Ability self-estimates (SEs) exhibit strong correlations with personality traits; in most domains, personality explains more variance in SEs than abilities do

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Self-estimates of abilities are a better reflection of individuals’ personality traits than of their abilities and are also strong predictor...

Individuals rated their past relationship quality more negatively in retrospect than they saw when in the relation; this bias ma ybe a motivated cognition that helps individuals let go of their ex-partners after a breakup

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Ex-appraisal bias: Negative illusions in appraising relationship quality retrospectively. Aidan P. J. Smyth, Johanna Peetz, Adrienne A. Capa...

Personality, behavioral strengths and difficulties and performance of adolescents with high achievements in science, literature, art and sports

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Personality, behavioral strengths and difficulties and performance of adolescents with high achievements in science, literature, art and spo...

Adults spontaneously make moral judgments consistent with the logic of universalization, and children show a comparable pattern of judgment as early as 4 years old

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Levine, Sydney, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Laura Schulz, josh tenenbaum, and Fiery A. Cushman. 2020. “Universalization Reasoning Guides Moral Judgm...
Sunday, February 23, 2020

In Spain, the percentage of old drivers (65 an over) has raised from 10.2% in 2007 to 14.3% in 2016; cost of crashes involving 75+ y.o. drivers is 4.3 times higher than accidents involving 65–75 y.o. drivers

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Does longevity impact the severity of traffic crashes? A comparative study of young-older and old-older drivers. Mercedes Ayuso, Rodrigo Sán...

Despite several methods requiring significantly more time facing mortal fear, differences in ability to enact a suicide attempt with a particular method was not associated with fearlessness about death

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Fearlessness about death does not differ by suicide attempt method. Brian W. Bauer et al. Journal of Psychiatric Research, February 22 2020....

Pedohebephilia could be considered a form of sexual orientation for age, which includes both sexual and romantic attraction

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Sexual Attraction and Falling in Love in Persons with Pedohebephilia. Frederica M. Martijn, Kelly M. Babchishin, Lesleigh E. Pullman & M...

Laboratory: Women avoid competing with men; men seem to anticipate the lower competitiveness of female opponents, as evidenced by their greater tendency to compete against women

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Gender and Willingness to Compete for High Stakes. Dennie van Dolder, Martijn J. van den Assem and Thomas Buser. Tinbergen Institute Discuss...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

Sophie Lewis: We Can't Have a Feminist Future Without Abolishing the Family, which create the infrastructure for capitalism, exploiting people of color and disowning queer children

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We Can't Have a Feminist Future Without Abolishing the Family. Marie Solis. Vice, Feb 21 2020. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdzwb...