Thursday, April 2, 2020

Lay People Are Unimpressed by the Effect Sizes Typically Reported in Psychology

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McPhetres, Jonathon, and Gordon Pennycook. 2020. “Lay People Are Unimpressed by the Effect Sizes Typically Reported in Psychological Science...

Why Do so Few People Share Fake News? It Hurts Their Reputation

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Altay, Sacha, Anne-Sophie Hacquin, and Hugo Mercier. 2019. “Why Do so Few People Share Fake News? It Hurts Their Reputation.” PsyArXiv. Octo...

How Many Jobs Can be Done at Home? About 34pct of the labor force could work from home in the US

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How Many Jobs Can be Done at Home? Jonathan Dingel, Brent Neiman. Chicago U, March 27, 2020. https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/BFI...

When individuals are exposed to their own image in a mirror, known to increase self-awareness, they may show increased accessibility of suicide-related words (the mirror effect); replication fails in this paper

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Monéger, J., Chatard, A., & Selimbegović, L. (2020). The Mirror Effect: A Preregistered Replication. Collabra: Psychology, 6(1), 18. htt...
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...