Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Quality of service provision (effectiveness, rule of law, regulatory quality, and absence of corruption) is correlated with happiness whereas kind of democracy and government spending is not

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Happiness and the Quality of Government John F. Helliwell, Haifang Huang, Shun Wang. NBER Working Paper No. 26840, March 2020. https://www.n...

Social network size is a negative predictor of incivility; Twitter users who have built larger networks and gained positive responses from others are less likely to use uncivil language

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Effects of Social Grooming on Incivility in COVID-19. Bumsoo Kim. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, Apr 8 2020. https://doi....

We find that cognitive effort as measured by response times increases by 40% when payments are very high; performance, on the other hand, improves very mildly or not at all as incentives increase

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Cognitive Biases: Mistakes or Missing Stakes? Benjamin Enke, Uri Gneezy, Brian Hall, David Martin, Vadim Nelidov, Theo Offerman, Jeroen van ...
Tuesday, April 7, 2020

The increased facial attractiveness of women in the most fertile phase of the menstrual cycle is not driven by changes in facial shape; might instead stem from other changes like more attractive skin tone

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Stability of women's facial shape throughout the menstrual cycle. U. M. Marcinkowska and I. J. Holzleitner. Proceedings of the Royal Soc...

Women with smaller waists & lower waist-to-hip ratios were found most attractive; men with broader shoulders and higher shoulder-to-waist (or hips) ratios were more attractive; taller individuals were preferred by both

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Preferences for Sexually Dimorphic Body Characteristics Revealed in a Large Sample of Speed Daters. Morgan J. Sidari et al. Social Psycholog...

People systematically judged slower responses as less sincere for a range of scenarios; response delays are perceived to be the result of the responder suppressing automatic, truthful thoughts

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Ziano, Ignazio, and Deming Wang. 2019. “Slow Lies: Response Delays Promote Perceptions of Insincerity.” PsyArXiv. May 22. doi:10.31234/osf.i...

The morbidly curious reported increased interest in pandemic/virus/horror/thriller genres; it may reflect an adaptive predisposition toward learning about the dangerous & disgusting aspects of a threat

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Scrivner, Coltan. 2020. “An Infectious Curiosity.” PsyArXiv. April 8. doi:10.31234/osf.io/7sfty Abstract: In this study conducted during t...

Consumers: Being observed prior to reaching the decision threatens consumers’ sense of autonomy in making the decision, resulting in an aversion to being observed

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On My Own: The Aversion to Being Observed During the Preference-Construction Stage. Yonat Zwebner, Rom Y Schrift. Journal of Consumer Resear...

Cross-national data: Consistent, substantial, and replicable connection between deep-seated pathogen avoidance motivations and socially conservative party preferences

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The behavioral immune system shapes partisan preferences in modern democracies: Disgust sensitivity predicts voting for socially conservativ...

The Great Depression: Over the long run, firms in more affected areas compensate for the decline in entrepreneurial innovation and produce patents with greater impact

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Babina, Tania and Bernstein, Asaf and Mezzanotti, Filippo, Crisis Innovation (April 2, 2020). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3567425 Abst...
Monday, April 6, 2020

Preliminary Investigation of the Association Between COVID-19 and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in the U.S.

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Ammerman, Brooke A., Taylor A. Burke, Ross Jacobucci, and Kenneth McClure. 2020. “Preliminary Investigation of the Association Between COVI...

COVID-19 risk perception and trust in science both independently predict compliance with COVID-19 prevention guidelines

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Plohl, Nejc, and Bojan Musil. 2020. “Modeling Compliance with COVID-19 Prevention Guidelines: The Critical Role of Trust in Science.” PsyArX...

Although sometimes debated, our results imply that false memories for repeated events can be implanted and are perhaps even easier to induce than false memories for single events

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Calado, Bruna, Timothy J. Luke, Deb Connolly, Sara Landström, and Henry Otgaar. 2020. “Implanting False Autobiographical Memories for Repeat...

Meta-analytic evidence, overall, suggests a small negative association between social media use and mental health

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Meier, Adrian, and Leonard Reinecke. 2020. “Computer-mediated Communication, Social Media, and Mental Health: A Conceptual and Empirical Met...

Triage Protocol Design for Ventilator Rationing in a Pandemic: A Proposal to Integrate Multiple Ethical Values through Reserves

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Triage Protocol Design for Ventilator Rationing in a Pandemic: A Proposal to Integrate Multiple Ethical Values through Reserves. Parag A. Pa...

Letters To A Spanish Youngster III

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Letters To A Spanish Youngster III [...] Your Honor gift of the gods, the most gentle and amiable being, Who teaches the stars new paths ...

People cheat to the degree that their actions match their deception goals and they can still be seen as a good person

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It’s the Situation and Your Disposition: A Test of Two Honesty Hypotheses. David M. Markowitz, Timothy R. Levine. Social Psychological and P...

The Development of a Scarcity Bias: Although a scarcity bias is not present in infancy, it emerges at 5 yo, prior to comprehension of market forces

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The Development of a Scarcity Bias. Matar Ferera  Avi Benozio  Gil Diesendruck. Child Development, April 5 2020. https://doi.org/10.1111/cde...

American and Korean Perceptions of Sex Differences in Deception: Women from both cultures and American men perceived that men tell a greater number of serious (i.e., nonwhite or high-stakes) lies

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American and Korean Perceptions of Sex Differences in Deception. Eric T. Steiner, Young-Jae Cha, Sojung Baek. Evolutionary Psychology, April...
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...