Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Prevention of Psychosis—Advances in Detection, Prognosis, & Intervention; but evidence that favored any particular preventive intervention over another is currently of great uncertainty

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Prevention of Psychosis—Advances in Detection, Prognosis, and Intervention. Paolo Fusar-Poli et al. JAMA Psychiatry, March 11, 2020. doi:10....

Longer Religious Fasting Increases Support for Islamist Parties: Evidence from Ramadan

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Aksoy, Ozan, and Diego Gambetta. 2020. “Longer Religious Fasting Increases Support for Islamist Parties: Evidence from Ramadan.” SocArXiv. M...

Bullshitting frequency was negatively associated with sincerity, honesty, cognitive ability, open-minded cognition, and self-regard and positively related to overclaiming

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Littrell, Shane, Evan F. Risko, and Jonathan A. Fugelsang. 2019. “The Bullshitting Frequency Scale: Development and Psychometric Properties....

Does Honesty Require Time? Shalvi, Eldar, and Bereby-Meyer (2012) may have overestimated the true effect of time pressure on cheating and the generality of the effect beyond the original context

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Does Honesty Require Time? Two Preregistered Direct Replications of Experiment 2 of Shalvi, Eldar, and Bereby-Meyer (2012). Ine Van der Cruy...

In the context of romantic attraction, beautification can increase assertiveness in women

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In the context of romantic attraction, beautification can increase assertiveness in women. Khandis R. Blake, Robert Brooks, Lindsie C. Arthu...

Weather and suicide: Association between meteorological variables and suicidal behavior—a systematic qualitative review article

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Weather and suicide: Association between meteorological variables and suicidal behavior—a systematic qualitative review article. Charlotte ...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Among high-ability female students, being assigned a female professor leads to substantial increases in the probability of working in a STEM occupation & the probability of receiving a STEM master’s degree

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The Effects of Professor Gender on the Post-Graduation Outcomes of Female Students. Hani Mansour, Daniel I. Rees, Bryson M. Rintala, Nathan ...

Males generally have a higher level of body appreciation than females

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Meta-analysis of gender differences in body appreciation. Jinbo He et al. Body Image, Volume 33, June 2020, Pages 90-100. https://doi.org/10...

Blind at First Sight: On a first date, distinctive accuracy tends to be paired with lower romantic interest

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Blind at First Sight: The Role of Distinctively Accurate and Positive First Impressions in Romantic Interest. Lauren Gazzard Kerr1, Hasagani...

Contrary to widespread worries, health misinformation gains little traction on Facebook, and sex does not sell

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Berriche, Manon, and Sacha Altay. 2019. “Internet Users Engage More with Phatic Posts Than with Health Misinformation on Facebook.” PsyArXiv...
Monday, March 9, 2020

Aphantasia is associated with scientific & mathematical occupations; hyperphantasia with ‘creative’ professions; those with aphantasia report an elevated rate of difficulty with face recognition & autobiographical memory

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Zeman, Adam, Fraser Milton, Sergio Della Sala, Michaela Dewar, Timothy Frayling, James Gaddum, Andrew Hattersley, et al. 2020. “Phantasia - ...

Abortion attitudes have become less complex and more polarized over time, a trend largely driven by the pro-abortion camp

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Abortion Complexity Scores from 1972 to 2018: A Cross-Sectional Time-Series Analysis Using Data from the General Social Survey. Kristen N. J...

Cognitive ability was related to more affective prejudice towards relatively conservative groups; people with higher levels of cognitive ability were more in favor of freedom of speech for all groups

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De keersmaecker, Jonas, Dries H. Bostyn, Alain Van Hiel, and Arne Roets. 2020. “Disliked but Free to Speak: Cognitive Ability Is Related to ...

Consistent with Petry & others' work, nonmonetary outcomes are discounted more steeply than monetary outcomes; people who steeply discount monetary outcomes steeply discount nonmonetary outcomes as well

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Delay discounting of different outcomes: Review and theory. Amy L. Odum et al. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, March 8 202...

Canada: Rank mobility increases as the percentage of mothers with a high school diploma increases; weaker evidence that mobility increases with the percentage of mothers with a university degree

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Parental Education Mitigates the Rising Transmission of Income between Generations. Marie Connolly, Catherine Haeck, and Jean-William P. Lal...
Sunday, March 8, 2020

People have been accused of being excessively pessimistic about SARS-CoV-2's future consequences; but a large survey shows that the majority of respondents was actually overly optimistic

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Raude, Jocelyn, Marion Debin, Cécile Souty, Caroline Guerrisi, Clement Turbelin, Alessandra Falchi, Isabelle Bonmarin, et al. 2020. “Are Peo...

Links between spanking & delinquency, depression, & alcohol use are explained by moderate-to-large degrees of genetic covariation, & small-to-moderate degrees of nonshared environmental covariation

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Barbaro, Nicole. 2020. “The Effects of Spanking on Psychosocial Outcomes: Revisiting Genetic and Environmental Covariation.” PsyArXiv. March...

Are Humans Constantly but Subconsciously Smelling Themselves?

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Perl, Ofer, Eva Mishor, Aharon Ravia, Inbal Ravreby, and Noam Sobel. 2020. “Are Humans Constantly but Subconsciously Smelling Themselves?” P...

Swedish data: Those gamers who spend more time engaging in their favorite pastime become less interested in sociopolitical issues and less prosocial than non-gamers from year to year

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Gaming alone: Videogaming and sociopolitical attitudes. Pavel Bacovsky.  New Media & Society, March 7, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1177/146...
Saturday, March 7, 2020

Free bathrooms in Starbucks: Cellphone location data allows to know of a 7.3% decline in store attendance; remaining customers spent 4.1% less time in Starbucks relative to nearby coffee shops

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Gurun, Umit and Nickerson, Jordan and Solomon, David H., The Perils of Private Provision of Public Goods (January 31, 2020). SSRN: http://dx...

Aversion towards simple broken patterns predicts moral judgment

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Aversion towards simple broken patterns predicts moral judgment. Anton Gollwitzer et al. Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 160,...

Polarization is increasing not only among political parties adherents, also intraparty polarization between ideologically extreme and ideologically moderate partisans is on the rise

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Intraparty Polarization in American Politics. Eric Groenendyk, Michael W. Sances, and Kirill Zhirkov. The Journal of Politics, Aug 27 2019. ...
Friday, March 6, 2020

After Aesop's fable, the “sour-grape effect”: A systematic tendency to downplay the value of unattainable goals and rewards

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Greener grass or sour grapes? How people value future goals after initial failure. Hallgeir Sjåstad, Roy F. Baumeister. Michael Ent. Journal...

Local sleep and wakefulness & insomnia disorder:Wake-like activations (‘islands of wakefulness’) can occur during both major sleep stages (NREM & REM)

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Local sleep and wakefulness—the concept and its potential for the understanding and treatment of insomnia disorder. Lina Stålesen Ramfjord, ...

Substantial mobility in & out of poverty: 41 pct of those in poverty in 2007 were out of poverty in the following year; however, many of those who are poor spend multiple years in poverty or escape poverty only to fall back into it

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Presence and Persistence of Poverty in U.S. Tax Data. Jeff Larrimore, Jacob Mortenson, David Splinter. Feb 2020. http://www.davidsplinter.co...