Saturday, May 2, 2020

Does Commodification Corrupt? Lessons from Paintings and Male Prostitutes

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Does Commodification Corrupt? Lessons from Paintings and Prostitutes. Stephen Clowney. Seton Hall Law Review, Vol. 50, 1005. https://scholar...

Politicians change the topics they address as they are informed of polls; also, exposure to public opinion research alters politicians' substantive positions in the direction of majority opinion

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Does Public Opinion Affect Political Speech? Anselm Hager, Hanno Hilbig. American Journal of Political Science, May 1 2020. https://doi.org/...

Men Who Pay for Sex Are More Supportive Of Gender Role Equality & Have More Egalitarian Attitudes Toward Women Than Males Overall In The U.S.

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Are Men Who Pay for Sex Sexist? Masculinity and Client Attitudes Toward Gender Role Equality in Different Prostitution Markets. Barbara G. B...

Porn consumption was, overall, not significantly correlated with increased enjoyment of the staged sexual acts; but males were significantly more likely to report enjoying degrading or uncommon acts

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I (Dis)Like it Like That: Gender, Pornography, and Liking Sex. Matthew B. Ezzell, Jennifer A. Johnson, Ana J. Bridges & Chyng F. Sun. Jo...

Attractive sellers enjoy greater credibility due to perceived sociability & competence; unattractive ones are considered more believable due perceived competence; plain looking sellers perform worse

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The Faces of Success: Beauty and Ugliness Premiums in e-Commerce Platforms. Ling Peng et al. Journal of Marketing, April 27, 2020. https://d...

Individual differences in trust evaluations are shaped mostly by personal learning, not genes

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Individual differences in trust evaluations are shaped mostly by environments, not genes. Clare A. M. Sutherland et al. Proceedings of the N...

People see themselves as better than average in many domains, from leadership skills to driving ability; exception is remembering names, when they rate themselves as approx. the same as others their age

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Hargis, M. B., Whatley, M. C., & Castel, A. D. (2020). Remembering proper names as a potential exception to the better-than-average effe...

Participants refrained from bullshitting only when they possessed adequate self-regulatory resources and expected to be held accountable for their communicative contributions

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Self-Regulatory Aspects of Bullshitting and Bullshit Detection. John V. Petrocelli, Haley F. Watson, and Edward R. Hirt. Social Psychology, ...
Friday, May 1, 2020

Understanding Brain Death

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Understanding Brain Death. Robert D. Truog, Erin Talati Paquette, Robert C. Tasker. JAMA, May 1, 2020. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.3593 The conc...

For China as a whole, the longest warm period during the last 2000 years occurred in the 10th–13th centuries, although there were multi-decadal cold intervals in the middle to late 12th century

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Multi-scale temperature variations and their regional differences in China during the Medieval Climate Anomaly. Zhixin Hao, Maowei Wu, Yang ...

Sexual functioning was more strongly associated with self-esteem than were safe sex & sexual consent, and sexual permissiveness was unassociated with self-esteem

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From 2019... Self-esteem and sexual health: a multilevel meta-analytic review. John K. Sakaluk, James Kim, Emily Campbell, Allegra Baxter ...

Rolf Degen summarizing: To put oneself in the past or future with the power of thought engages largely the same brain areas, but future mental time travel draws particularly on the right hippocampus

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The radiation of autonoetic consciousness in cognitive neuroscience: A functional neuroanatomy perspective. Amnon Dafni-Merom, Shahar Arzy. ...

Conventional swearing: 30% increase in pain threshold & pain tolerance; new “swear” words, “fouch” & “twizpipe,” were rated as more emotional & humorous but did not affect pain threshold or tolerance

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Swearing as a Response to Pain: Assessing Hypoalgesic Effects of Novel “Swear” Words. Richard Stephens and Olly Robertson. Front. Psychol., ...