Friday, April 24, 2020

Students are at elevated risk for mental health problems; despite increasing rates of infections & COVID-19 deaths, they had slight decreases of mental health problems & and loneliness

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Fried, Eiko I. 2020. “Mental Health and Social Contact During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.” PsyArXiv. Ap...

The Psychology of Queuing

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Furnham, A. , Treglown, L. and Horne, G. (2020) The Psychology of Queuing. Psychology, 11, 480-498. doi: 10.4236/psych.2020.113033. ABSTRA...

‘They can’t fool me, but they can fool the others!’ Third person effect and fake news detection.

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‘They can’t fool me, but they can fool the others!’ Third person effect and fake news detection. Nicoleta Corbu et al. European Journal of C...

“Wonderful but Weak”: Children’s Ambivalent Attitudes Toward Women

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“Wonderful but Weak”: Children’s Ambivalent Attitudes Toward Women. Matthew D. Hammond & Andrei Cimpian. Sex Roles, Apr 23 2020. https:/...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

The Light Triad predicts Tinder use for love (long-term mating)

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Looking from the bright side: The Light Triad predicts Tinder use for love. Barış Sevi, Burak Doğruyol. Journal of Social and Personal Relat...

Average happiness is high in modern societies & tends to rise even higher, which contradicts longstanding pessimism about modernization; also, happiness doesn't depend primarily on one’s social position

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World Database of Happiness. A ‘findings archive.’ Ruut Veenhoven. Chapter prepared for Handbook of Wellbeing, Happiness and the Environment...

Foraging minds in modern environments: Individuals consistently displayed an enhanced memory for locations of high-calorie and savory-tasting foods

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Foraging minds in modern environments: High-calorie and savory-taste biases in human food spatial memory. Rachelle de Vries, Emely de Vet, K...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Impatience and savoring versus dread: Asymmetries in anticipation explain consumer time preferences for positive versus negative events

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Impatience and savoring versus dread: Asymmetries in anticipation explain consumer time preferences for positive versus negative events. Dav...

Climate assessments misuse scenarios due to competing demands & exploratory & policy relevant pathways, research practices that normalize careless use of scenarios in a vacuum of plausibility, & inherent complexity

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Pielke, Roger and Ritchie, Justin, Systemic Misuse of Scenarios in Climate Research and Assessment (April 21, 2020). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/...

With self-threat assuaged, similarity signals self-relevance, which draws people toward those who are similar to them despite negative characteristics

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Can Bad Be Good? The Attraction of a Darker Self. Rebecca J. Krause, Derek D. Rucker. Psychological Science, April 21, 2020. https://doi.org...

Sexual attraction modulates interpersonal distance and approach-avoidance movements towards virtual agents in males

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Sexual attraction modulates interpersonal distance and approach-avoidance movements towards virtual agents in males. Robin Welsch, Christoph...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

The majority of studies, & especially the higher quality studies, showed that those who avoided meat consumption had significantly higher rates or risk of depression, anxiety, or self-harm behaviors

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Meat and mental health: a systematic review of meat abstention and depression, anxiety, and related phenomena. Urska Dobersek et al. Critica...

Bilingualism Affords No General Cognitive Advantages: A Population Study of Executive Function in 11,000 People

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Bilingualism Affords No General Cognitive Advantages: A Population Study of Executive Function in 11,000 People. Emily S. Nichols et al. Psy...
Monday, April 20, 2020

Discrimination in Harvard Admissions: Asian Americans would be admitted at a rate 19% higher absent discrimination

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Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions. Peter Arcidiacono Josh Kinsler Tyler Ransom. April 20, 2020. http://public.econ.duke.ed...

Cognitive sophistication (indexed by analytic thinking, numeracy, basic science knowledge, and bullshit skepticism) was a negative predictor of COVID-19 misperceptions

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Pennycook, Gordon, Jonathon McPhetres, Bence Bago, and David G. Rand. 2020. “Predictors of Attitudes and Misperceptions About COVID-19 in Ca...

We tend to overstate the improvement in well-being over time and to understate past happiness; it thus seems that feeling happy today implies feeling better than yesterday

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Alberto Prati, Claudia Senik. Feeling good or feeling better?. 2020. ffhalshs-02545228f Abstract: Can people remember correctly their past...

Gullibility impressions are based on cues linked to low levels of perceived threat, like babyfacedness & smiles, making judgments based on perceived harmlessness (i.e., positive intentions & low capabilities)

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Jaeger, Bastian, and Erdem O. Meral. 2020. “Who Can Be Fooled? Modeling Perceptions of Gullibility from Facial Appearance.” PsyArXiv. April ...

The presence of sex differences in social cognition is controversial; these authors found no significant sex differences in most of social cognition tasks; conversely, women reported higher scores on empathy

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Social cognition and sex: Are men and women really different? Marialaura Di Tella, Francesca Miti, Rita B. Ardito, Mauro Adenzato. Personali...

Disgust-sensitive people find little similarity between themselves and strangers; pathogen disgust predicts similarity perceptions beyond sexual and moral disgust

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We're not of the same feather: Disgust sensitivity and reduced perceived similarity to unknown others. Sari Mentser, Ravit Nussinson. Pe...

Losing stinks! The effect of competition outcome on body odour quality

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Losing stinks! The effect of competition outcome on body odour quality. Jitka Fialová, Vít Třebický, Radim Kuba, David Stella, Jakub Binter ...