Wednesday, April 1, 2020

High prevalence of lying to cover up others’ unethical behavior, which increased with increasing bribes; unethical loyalty decreased with individuals’ Honesty–Humility levels

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Buying Unethical Loyalty: A Behavioral Paradigm and Empirical Test. Isabel Thielmann, Robert Böhm, Benjamin E. Hilbig. Social Psychological ...

Going Upstream to Advance Psychosis Prevention and Improve Public Health

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Going Upstream to Advance Psychosis Prevention and Improve Public Health. Deidre M. Anglin, Sandro Galea, Peter Bachman. JAMA Psychiatry, Ap...

Dreams: “A person now dead as alive” is more frequent in older people, while “A person now alive as dead” in children; adults & older adults dream more often of “Trying something again and again” and “Arriving too late”

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Maggiolini, A., di Lorenzo, M., Falotico, E., & Morelli, M. (2020). The typical dreams in the life cycle. International Journal of Dream...

Population-Based Estimates of Health Care Utilization and Expenditures by Adults During the Last 2 Years of Life in Canada’s Single-Payer Health System: Costs going up

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Population-Based Estimates of Health Care Utilization and Expenditures by Adults During the Last 2 Years of Life in Canada’s Single-Payer He...

Consistently, the only predictor of positive behavior change (e.g., social distancing, improved hand hygiene) was fear of COVID-19, with no effect of politically-relevant variables

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Harper, Craig A., Liam Satchell, Dean Fido, and Robert Latzman. 2020. “Functional Fear Predicts Public Health Compliance in the COVID-19 Pan...

Gay men displayed significantly higher pitch modulation patterns and less breathy voices compared to heterosexual men, with values shifted toward those of heterosexual women

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Speech Acoustic Features: A Comparison of Gay Men, Heterosexual Men, and Heterosexual Women. Alexandre Suire, Arnaud Tognetti, Valérie Duran...

With no real competition for food, subjects in pairs immediately exhibited a systematic behavioural shift to reaching for smaller amounts more frequently; seems a built-in tactic in humans & possibly in other animals

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Mere presence of co-eater automatically shifts foraging tactics toward ‘Fast and Easy' food in humans. Yukiko Ogura, Taku Masamoto and T...
Tuesday, March 31, 2020

“When in Danger, Turn Right: Covid-19 Threat Promotes Social Conservatism and Right-wing Presidential Candidates

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Karwowski, Maciej, Marta Kowal, Agata Groyecka, Michal Bialek, Izabela Lebuda, Agnieszka Sorokowska, and Piotr Sorokowski. 2020. “When in Da...

Perceived political and nonpolitical dissimilarity were associated with negative emotions, prejudice, and lower affiliative intentions among both liberals and conservatives, more strongly in the former

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Ideological Conflict and Prejudice: An Adversarial Collaboration Examining Correlates and Ideological (A)Symmetries. Chadly Stern, Jarret T....

Females are more likely to tweet about the virus in the context of family, social distancing & healthcare, males are more likely to tweet about sports cancellations, the virus global spread & political reactions

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Covid-19 Tweeting in English: Gender Differences. Mike Thelwall. Institute of Health, University of Wolverhampton. https://arxiv.org/ftp/arx...

Quantifying, and Correcting For, the Impact of Questionable Research Practices on False Discovery Rates in Psychological Science

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Kravitz, Dwight, and Stephen Mitroff. 2020. “Quantifying, and Correcting For, the Impact of Questionable Research Practices on False Discove...

Even Prosocially Oriented Individuals Save Themselves First: Social Value Orientation, Subjective Effectiveness and the Usage of Protective Measures During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany

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Leder, Johannes, Alexander Pastukhov, and Astrid Schütz. 2020. “Even Prosocially Oriented Individuals Save Themselves First: Social Value Or...
Monday, March 30, 2020

Robin Hanson: Variolation May Cut Covid19 Deaths 3-30X

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Variolation May Cut Covid19 Deaths 3-30X. Robin Hanson. Overcoming Bias, March 30, 2020. http://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/03/variolation-m...