Saturday, June 20, 2020

Why are consistently-handed individuals more authoritarian? The role of need for cognitive closure

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Why are consistently-handed individuals more authoritarian? The role of need for cognitive closure. Keith B. Lyle  & Michael C. Grillo. ...

The current west-east asymmetry of Antarctic surface climate change is undoubtedly of natural origin because no external factors (e.g., orbital or anthropogenic factors) contribute to the asymmetric mode

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The internal origin of the west-east asymmetry of Antarctic climate change. Sang-Yoon Jun et al. Science Advances Jun 12 2020, Vol. 6, no. 2...

Countries with more embedded and hierarchical cultural systems were more narcissistic; & women were less likely to be narcissistic in developed (vs. less developed) countries

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Country‐Level Correlates of the Dark Triad Traits in 49 Countries. Peter K. Jonason et al. Journal of Personality, June 2020. https://doi.o...

An adult joke sneaks a payload of ordinary-seeming, actually combustible ingredients into the mind; the "Aha" moment produces an unmentionable thought that pops up unexpectedly into your head

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Raizada, Rajeev. 2020. “A Payload-ignition Theory of Adult-oriented Humour: TUUTU (a Thought That Is Unmentionable and Unmentioned, Triggere...

Alcohol, Placebo & The Role of Expectations and Social Influence: It seems that it is enough for people to believe they have consumed alcohol to feel inebriated

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Alcohol and Placebo: The Role of Expectations and Social Influence. Vivien Bodnár, Krisztina Nagy, Ádám Cziboly & György Bárdos. Interna...

Helzer and Pizarro’s (2011) showed that standing near a hand-sanitizer dispenser (signal of cleanliness and purity), individuals rated their political attitudes more conservative; replication fails

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Burnham, B. R. (2020). Are liberals really dirty? Two failures to replicate Helzer and Pizarro’s (2011) study 1, with meta-analysis. Journal...
Friday, June 19, 2020

The Dunning–Kruger Effect (a common failure of metacognitive insight in which people who are incompetent in a given domain are unaware of their incompetence) seems applicable to face perception

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Dunning–Kruger effects in face perception. Xingchen Zhou, Rob Jenkins. Cognition, Volume 203, October 2020, 104345. https://doi.org/10.1016/...

U.S. college women talked about sex an average of 13 times per week; most conversations were with friends, face-to-face, and mostly about previous sexual encounters, dating, and potential sexual activity

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“We talked about our hookups”: A diary study of sexual communication among U.S. college women. Katrina L. Pariera, Brianna Abraham. Journal ...

Despite parturition pain, regardless of pain modality (electrical, ischaemic, cold, heat, pressure or muscle) or dependen masure, women are more sensitive to pain and less tolerant of pain than men

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Qualitative sex differences in pain processing: emerging evidence of a biased literature. Jeffrey S. Mogil. Nature Reviews Neuroscience volu...

Students tended to think the influence of hate speech on others was greater than on themselves

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Third-Person Effect and Hate Speech Censorship on Facebook. Lei Guo, Brett G. Johnson. Social Media + Society, June 18, 2020. https://doi.or...

More inclined to share information consistent with our political orientation than information that is not; liberals are most biased with their political opponents, conservatives are most biased with their political allies

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Ekstrom, Pierce D., and Calvin K. Lai. 2020. “The Selective Communication of Political Information.” PsyArXiv. June 18. doi:10.31234/osf.io/...

Infidelity rates, families of British troops, North Africa, 1940s

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Infidelity rates, families of British troops, North Africa, 1940s Source: Tyler Cowen, Jun 18 2020, https://marginalrevolution.com/margina...
Thursday, June 18, 2020

Political partisans both on the Left and on the Right sincerely adopt inaccurate beliefs that cast their party in a favorable light, rather than merely signalling support

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Partisan Gaps in Political Information and Information‐Seeking Behavior: Motivated Reasoning or Cheerleading? Erik Peterson  Shanto Iyengar....
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Religious and Spiritual Factors Help Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer In Their Subjective Outcomes of Anxiety, Depressive Symptoms, Fatigue, and Pain Interference

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Association of Religious and Spiritual Factors With Patient-Reported Outcomes of Anxiety, Depressive Symptoms, Fatigue, and Pain Interferenc...

Identification of aggressive driving from naturalistic data in car-following situations

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Identification of aggressive driving from naturalistic data in car-following situations. Jordanka Kovaceva, Irene Isaksson-Hellman, Nikolce ...

Consumers Believe That Products Work Better for Others

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Polman, Evan, Ignazio Ziano, Kaiyang Wu, and Anneleen Van Kerckhove. 2020. “Consumers Believe That Products Work Better for Others.” PsyArXi...

Nocebo & lessebo effects: Defined as the expectation of harm in the form of adverse events in a placebo arm & the reduction of therapeutic benefit due to the uncertainty of being allocated to placebo

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Chapter Six - Nocebo and lessebo effects. Tiago A. Mestre. In Part of volume: Placebo Effects in Neurologic Disease. Edited by Natalie P. W...

Heterosexual men pornography use (in terms of both overall level of pornography use and use of violent and humiliating pornography) was not predictive of old-fashioned and modern sexism

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Pornography use and sexism among heterosexual men. Dan J. Miller, Garry Kidd, Peter T. F. Raggatt, Kerry Anne McBain & Wendy Li. Communi...

Do We Know What We Enjoy? Accuracy of Forecasted Eating Happiness

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Do We Know What We Enjoy? Accuracy of Forecasted Eating Happiness. Karoline Villinger et al. Front. Psychol., June 17 2020. https://doi.org/...