Wednesday, July 8, 2020

It was alleged that neuroscience evidence bring bias because of its over-persuasiveness for people without neuroscience training; but in severe criminal cases, neuroscientific evidence is not more persuasive than behavioral one

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Yin, Ji-Xing, Yuepei Xu, and Chuan-Peng Hu. 2020. “Neuroscience Evidence Is Not More Persuasive Than Behavioral Evidence for Both Adults and...

Noninvasive acoustic manipulation of objects in a living pigs using a phased array: These beams were shown to levitate & steer solid objects (3-mm-diameter glass spheres) along preprogrammed paths

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Noninvasive acoustic manipulation of objects in a living body. Mohamed A. Ghanem, Adam D. Maxwell, Yak-Nam Wang, Bryan W. Cunitz, Vera A. Kh...

Why chimpanzees carry dead infants: an empirical assessment of existing hypotheses

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Why chimpanzees carry dead infants: an empirical assessment of existing hypotheses. Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Michael L. Wilson, Emily Boehm, J...

Rolf Degen summarizes: Psychopaths have more social ties to others who have no contact with each other, which may give them greater potential to manipulate

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Are Psychopathic Traits Associated with Core Social Networks? An Exploratory Study in University Students. Kylie S. Reale et al. Social Psyc...

Intranasal Oxytocin (InOT): Tested interactive InOT effects were highly heterogeneous; for most published interactions, no replication was attempted; when attempted, replications were largely unsuccessful

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How Can Intranasal Oxytocin Research Be Trusted? A Systematic Review of the Interactive Effects of Intranasal Oxytocin on Psychosocial Outco...
Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Neither the dark triad nor general intelligence are meaningfully related to lying ability

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The ability to lie and its relations to the dark triad and general intelligence. Moritz Michels, Günter Molz, Frederic Maas. Personality and...

Mating implicit compromise is lowering of ideal preferences to match one's own mate value, explicit compromise is choosing a mate who falls short of one's ideal preferences; both sexes engage in extensive implicit compromise

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Implicit and explicit compromises in long-term partner choice. Melinda Williams, Danielle Sulikowski. Personality and Individual Differences...

500 U.S. adults report on the likelihood they would engage in criminal behavior if all crime were legal on one day each year—18% of participants would be likely to take parte on some crime

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Who Would ‘Purge’? Low Self-Control, Psychopathy, and Offending in the Absence of Legal Controls. Ryan C. Meldrum, Peter S. Lehmann, Jamie L...

UK COVID-19 lockdown: A slowing of the passage of time was associated with increasing age, increasing stress, reduced task load and reduced satisfaction with current levels of social interaction

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The passage of time during the UK Covid-19 lockdown. Ruth S. Ogden. PLoS One, July 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235871 A...

Spiritual training is assumed to reduce self-enhancement, but may have the paradoxical effect of boosting superiority feelings, contributing to self- worth and communal narcissism

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Vonk, Roos. 2020. “Spiritual Superiority.” PsyArXiv. July 4. doi:10.31234/osf.io/qh457 Abstract: Spiritual training is assumed to reduce s...

We argue that the ability to covertly monitor others without executing a look towards them is an important process that compensates for the risk of looking directly during certain social situations

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I spy without my eye: Covert attention in human social interactions. Jill A. Dosso, Michelle Huynh, Alan Kingstone, Cognition, 104388, Jul 6...

Results, therefore, suggest that the bilingual advantage in children’s executive control is small, variable, and potentially not attributable to the effect of language status

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Lowe, Cassandra J. 2020. “The Bilingual Advantage in Children: A Meta-analytic Review.” PsyArXiv. July 7. doi:10.31234/osf.io/spjfg Abstra...

Rather than making marriage less desirable, some forms of "low-cost sexual gratification" (pornography) imply a higher desire for marriage, one in which sex would be more consistently available

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Does Low-Cost Sexual Gratification Make Men Less Eager to Marry? Pornography Use, Masturbation, Hookup Sex, and Desire to be Married among S...
Monday, July 6, 2020

Concerns about long-term social/emotional effects of acceleration for high-potential students appear to be unwarranted, as has been demonstrated for short-term effects

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Bernstein, B. O., Lubinski, D., & Benbow, C. P. (2020). Academic acceleration in gifted youth and fruitless concerns regarding psycholog...

Two systems of belief change: One adheres, mostly, to epistemological norms of updating; the other (a psychological immune system) guards our most centrally held beliefs from potential inconsistency with new beliefs

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The science of belief: A progress report. Nicolas Porot  Eric Mandelbaum. WIREs Cognitive Science, July 6 2020. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs....

Those of the most pessimistic (optimistic) expectations in financial realizations experienced a 21.8% (13.5%) reduction in long-run well-being due to the decision errors and counteracting emotions of biased beliefs

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Neither an Optimist Nor a Pessimist Be: Mistaken Expectations Lower Well-Being. David de Meza, Chris Dawson. Personality and Social Psycholo...

Ugliness judgments respond to cues of pathogen presence; ugliness may activate the behavioral immune system, alerting us to stimuli that pose pathogen risk

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Ugliness Judgments Alert us to Cues of Pathogen Presence. Christoph Klebl et al. Social Psychological and Personality Science, July 6, 2020....

Links between screen use and depressive symptoms in adolescents over 16 years: It is concluded that screens and social media use are unlikely to bear major responsibility for youth suicide trends

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Links between screen use and depressive symptoms in adolescents over 16 years: Is there evidence for increased harm? Christopher J. Ferguson...

Breakfast skipping may have a modest impact on weight loss compared to breakfast consumers, and may increase LDL cholesterol in the short term

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Breakfast Skipping, Body Composition, and Cardiometabolic Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis of Randomized Trials. Jonathan P. Bonn...
Sunday, July 5, 2020

Chemical engineers, computer & information systems managers, & management analysts are virtually all Republican; epidemiologists, computer programmers, & historians are virtually all Democrats

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Occupational Engagement and Partisanship in the United States. Darin DeWitt. Political Studies Review, July 4, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1177...