Saturday, April 18, 2020

The stereotype (familiar since at least the time of Plato's description of the mad genius) that stand-up comedians are an extraordinarily troubled lot is wrong

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Stand-Up Comedy and Mental Health: Critiquing the Troubled Stand-Up Stereotype. Sheila Lintott. Chapter in The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy ...

Self-reported Compliance and Attitudes About Social Distancing During the COVID-19 Outbreak

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Lab, Brauer G. 2020. “Self-reported Compliance and Attitudes About Social Distancing During the COVID-19 Outbreak.” OSF Preprints. April 13....

Educational attainment & being Democrat is positively related to reduction in distance traveled & non-essential visitations, but the opposite effect is observed for human encounters (selectively engaging)

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Im, Hohjin, Christopher Ahn, Peiyi Wang, and Chuansheng Chen. 2020. “An Early Examination: Psychological, Health, and Economic Correlates an...

Cross-cultural analysis illustrated that the relationship between infectious diseases and authoritarianism was pronounced for infectious diseases that can be acquired from other humans

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Zmigrod, Leor, Tobias Ebert, Friedrich M. Götz, and Jason Rentfrow. 2020. “The Psychological and Socio-political Consequences of Infectious ...

Religiosity, shared identity, trust, and punishment of norm violations: No evidence of generalized behavioral prosociality, only of self-reported prosociality

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Galen, L. W., Kurby, C. A., & Fles, E. H. (2020). Religiosity, shared identity, trust, and punishment of norm violations: No evidence of...

Political humility: engaging others with different political perspectives

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Political humility: engaging others with different political perspectives. Adam S. Hodge,Joshua N. Hook,Daryl R. Van Tongeren,Don E. Davis ...
Friday, April 17, 2020

Rethinking the concept of capitalism: a historian’s perspective

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Rethinking the concept of capitalism: a historian’s perspective. Youngsoo Bae. Social History, Volume 45, 2020 - Issue 1, Pages 1-25, Feb 7 ...

From 2017... Class struggles we may not like are those provoked by cholera, with riots of 10,000, murdering state officials & doctors, destroying hospitals, town halls, & in the case of Donetsk, an entire city

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From 2017... Cholera revolts: a class struggle we may not like. Samuel Kline Cohn Jr. Social History, Volume 42, 2017 - Issue 2, Pages 162-1...

Humans & primates’ reactions to death-related threats highlight a general tendency to “cling to the group” & to display increased social motivation in the face of death and deadly events

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Adam-Troian, J., Bonetto, E., Varet, F., Arciszewski, T., & Dezecache, G. (2020). Explaining social behavior in response to death-relate...

Participants considered harm to a pedestrian more permissible with an autonomous car as compared to self as the decision agent in a regular car, driven by the attribution of responsibility to the autonomous one

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Blame It on the Self-Driving Car: How Autonomous Vehicles Can Alter Consumer Morality. Tripat Gill. Journal of Consumer Research, ucaa018, A...
Thursday, April 16, 2020

News consumption of any sort is heavily outweighed by other forms of media consumption; fake news comprises only 0.15% of Americans’ daily media diet

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Evaluating the fake news problem at the scale of the information ecosystem. Jennifer Allen et al. Science Advances Apr 3 2020, Vol. 6, no. 1...

Using femme theory, Foucault, and queer failure as analytical frameworks, the current paper demonstrates the role of feminine failure in resisting and subverting systems of oppression

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Femme resistance: the fem(me)inine art of failure. Rhea Ashley Hoskin, & Allison Taylor. Psychology & Sexuality, Volume 10, 2019 - I...

The colors of love: facial thermal reactions of people thinking about their lovers

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The colors of love: facial thermal reactions of people thinking about their lovers. Fabio Cannas Aghedu et al. Psychology & Sexuality, A...
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

What prevents people from making friends: The most important factor was “Low trust,” followed by the “Lack of time” and the “Introversion;” significant sex-differences were found for 3 out of the 6 factors

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What prevents people from making friends: A taxonomy of reasons. Menelaos Apostolou, Despoina Keramari. Personality and Individual Differenc...

Those religious (but not secular) that self-enhance saying they have more religious knowledge ("religious overclaiming") show more support for, and willingness to engage in, religious aggression

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Religious Overclaiming and Support for Religious Aggression. Daniel N. Jones et al. Social Psychological and Personality Science, April 14, ...

Third- (TPP) and second-party (SPP) punishment share neural patterns & cognitive functions; TPP loads more brain regions associated with social cognition & SPP brain regions associated with affective processing

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The Emerging Neuroscience of Social Punishment: Meta-Analytic Evidence. Gabriele Bellucci et al. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, A...

Subjective well-being: Users with a tendency to engage in social comparison are especially likely to be negatively impacted by social networking sites

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Social comparison on social networking sites. Philippe Verduyn et al. Current Opinion in Psychology, Apr 14 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j....

Trigger warnings failed to reduce anxiety to distressing content, reliably causing small increases in anxiety

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Bellet, B. W., Jones, P. J., Meyersburg, C. A., Brenneman, M. M., Morehead, K. E., & McNally, R. J. (2020). Trigger warnings and resilie...

Two of the best known phenomena in memory research were carried out as dissertations in the same era at the same university, each supervised by an influential researcher working within the Gestalt framework...

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Zeigarnik and von Restorff: The memory effects and the stories behind them. Colin M. MacLeod. Memory & Cognition, Apr 6 2020. https://rd...

Polish sample: Higher level of extraversion and lower level of agreeableness were the best predictors of a higher number of sexual partners

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The Relationship of Number of Sexual Partners with Personality Traits, Age, Gender and Sexual Identification. Aleksandra Rogowska, Magdalena...

Contrary to 84pct of experts polled, children's delay of gratification times are increasing over the past 50 years in a fifth of a standard deviation increase in ability per decade, mirroring IQ gains seen over decades

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Kids These Days! Increasing delay of gratification ability over the past 50 years in children. ohn Protzko. Intelligence, Volume 80, May–Jun...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Understanding "Wage Theft"... Evasion and Avoidance Responses to Minimum Wage Increases: Minimum wage noncompliance is an important reality in the low-wage labor market

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Understanding "Wage Theft": Evasion and Avoidance Responses to Minimum Wage Increases. Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain. NBER Wo...

The “return trip effect” (trip back from a destination is experienced as shorter than the trip to the destination) is due not to different familiarity of places, but to greater anticipation going out

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Are We There Yet? An Anticipation Account of the Return Trip Effect. Zoey Chen, Ryan Hamilton, Derek D. Rucker. Social Psychological and Per...

American adolescents and young adults spent less time on non‐digital social interaction in the 2010s, with a less pronounced decline among those ages 26 and over

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Declines in non‐digital social interaction among Americans, 2003–2017. Jean M. Twenge  Brian H. Spitzberg. Journal of Applied Social Psychol...
Monday, April 13, 2020

More than fantasy: Prosocial daydreams relate to prosocial dispositions and behaviour

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More than fantasy: Prosocial daydreams relate to prosocial dispositions and behaviour. Peter O. Kearns  James M. Tyler  William G. Graziano....
Sunday, April 12, 2020

Meat consumption, depressive symptomatology and cardiovascular disease incidence in apparently healthy men and women: highlights from the ATTICA cohort study (2002–2012)

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Meat consumption, depressive symptomatology and cardiovascular disease incidence in apparently healthy men and women: highlights from the AT...

Those who thought about donation decisions by either deliberating about the cost-effectiveness of charities we judged of less positive moral character than those deciding based on empathy

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Montealegre, Andres, Lance Bush, David Moss, David Pizarro, and William Jimenez-Leal. 2020. “Does Maximizing Good Make People Look Bad?.” Ps...
Saturday, April 11, 2020

The case for releasing the young from lockdown: A briefing paper for policymakers

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The case for releasing the young from lockdown: A briefing paper for policymakers. Andrew J. Oswald, Nattavudh Powdthavee. Warwick Business ...

Changes in Sleep Pattern, Sense of Time, and Digital Media Use During COVID-19 Lockdown in Italy

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Cellini, Nicola, Natale Canale, Giovanna Mioni, and Sebastiano Costa. 2020. “Changes in Sleep Pattern, Sense of Time, and Digital Media Use ...

People see victims as moral in order to motivate adaptive justice-restorative action (i.e., punishment of perpetrators and helping of victims)

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Jordan, Jillian, and Maryam Kouchaki. 2020. “Virtuous Victims.” PsyArXiv. April 11. doi:10.31234/osf.io/yz8r6 Abstract: Humans ubiquitousl...
Friday, April 10, 2020

How Does Household Spending Respond to an Epidemic? Consumption During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic

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Baker, Scott R. and Farrokhnia, R.A. and Meyer, Steffen and Pagel, Michaela and Yannelis, Constantine, How Does Household Spending Respond t...

Kids These Days: Overall, however, the results represent a challenge to the dominant narrative that social skills are declining due to technological change

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Douglas B. Downey and Benjamin G. Gibbs, "Kids These Days: Are Face-to-Face Social Skills among American Children Declining?," Ame...

Tattoo Visibility Status, Egalitarianism, and Personality are Predictors of Sexual Openness Among Women

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Showing Skin: Tattoo Visibility Status, Egalitarianism, and Personality are Predictors of Sexual Openness Among Women. Kaylee Skoda, Flora O...

We show that relationship satisfaction and infidelity are associated and that the influence of infidelity on relationship satisfaction is greater for women than for men

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Translated from German... Relationship Satisfaction and Infidelity: One Connection, Two Directions. Christiane Bozoyan & Claudia Schmi...

Participants perceive actors who demonstrate virtue in public to be less virtuous than actors who demonstrate virtue in private, and, critically, this effect is greater for generosity than impartiality

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Kraft-Todd, Gordon, Max Kleiman-Weiner, and Liane Young. 2020. “Differential Virtue Discounting: Public Generosity Is Seen as More Selfish T...
Thursday, April 9, 2020

Women have higher magical beliefs than men, & have stronger reliance on intuition than men; reliance on intuition helps to explain why women report higher magical beliefs than men do

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Examining the roles of Intuition and Gender in Magical Beliefs. Sarah J.Ward, Laura A.King. Journal of Research in Personality, April 9 2020...

Women Do Not Need to Have Children in Order to Be Fulfilled

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Do Women Need to Have Children in Order to Be Fulfilled? A System Justification Account of the Motherhood Norm. Alexandra Suppes. Social Psy...

The conversations we seek to avoid: Commonly avoided topics include politics, money, sex, religion, work, relationships; motivations are privacy and conflict concerns

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The conversations we seek to avoid. Katherine Qianwen Sun, Michael L.Slepian. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Volume 1...

Do False Memories Look Real? Evidence That People Struggle to Identify Rich False Memories of Committing Crime and Other Emotional Events

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Do False Memories Look Real? Evidence That People Struggle to Identify Rich False Memories of Committing Crime and Other Emotional Events. J...
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...