Sunday, April 5, 2020

PhD Thesis from 2018: The Human Fallibility of Scientists - Dealing with Error and Bias in Academic Research

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Veldkamp, Coosje L. S. 2017. “Doctoral Thesis: The Human Fallibility of Scientists - Dealing with Error and Bias in Academic Research.” PsyA...

Letters To A Spanish Youngster II

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Letters To A Spanish Youngster II [...] Su Señoría reina de los jardines *, Who sets the city on fire**, while causing a little  !   in H...

Letters To A Spanish Youngster I

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Letters To A Spanish Youngster I [...] Your Honour the little good wizard-magician / Meritíssima, a pequena maga-bruxa boa / Su Señoría m...
Saturday, April 4, 2020

People Judge Others to Have More Control over Beliefs Than They Themselves Do

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Cusimano, Corey, and Geoffrey Goodwin. 2020. “People Judge Others to Have More Control over Beliefs Than They Themselves Do.” PsyArXiv. Apri...

The unique social sense of puerperium: Increased empathy and Schadenfreude in parents of newborns

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The unique social sense of puerperium: Increased empathy and Schadenfreude in parents of newborns. Ana-María Gómez-Carvajal, Hernando Santam...

Rats find occupancy of a restraint tube rewarding; these results are difficult to reconcile with accounts of rat empathy based on the thesis that tube restraint distresses occupants

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Rats (Rattus norvegicus) find occupancy of a restraint tube rewarding. Yosuke Hachiga  Alan Silberberg  Burton Slotnick  Maria Gomez. Journa...
Friday, April 3, 2020

These findings suggest that regulatory risk is a major cost to firms, but the largest firms are able to manage that risk better

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Measuring the Cost of Regulation: A Text-Based Approach Charles W. Calomiris, Harry Mamaysky, Ruoke Yang. NBER Working Paper No. 26856, Marc...

Women were 4x more likely than men to report to think it was right to limit people’s freedom in order to block the virus spread, and 3x more likely to request more severe punishment for risky behaviors

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Simione, Luca, and Camilla Gnagnarella. 2020. “Differences Between Health Workers and General Population in Risk Perception, Behaviors, and ...

From 2019... Bacha posh in Afghanistan: factors associated with raising a girl as a boy

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From 2019... Bacha posh in Afghanistan: factors associated with raising a girl as a boy. Julienne Corboz, Andrew Gibbs & Rachel Jewkes....
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...