Saturday, July 18, 2020

Feynman on utter honesty & scientific integrity: "Cargo Cult Science," 1974

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Feynman on utter honesty & scientific integrity: "Cargo Cult Science," 1974. http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCu...

Effects of Leaving a Covenantal Religion: Those who experienced more push toward disaffiliation, reported decreased current wellness; significant differences in the experiences of disaffiliation between men & women

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Engelman, Joel, Glen Milstein, Irvin S. Schonfeld, and Joshua B. Grubbs. 2019. “Leaving a Covenantal Religion: Orthodox Jewish Disaffiliatio...

Initiation of Drug and Alcohol Use and Personality Development During Adolescence: initiation of substance use leads to changes in personality; cocaine and cigarettes were the substances that had the largest impact

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Wright, Amanda J., and Joshua J. Jackson. 2020. “What Happens After Your First Time? Initiation of Drug and Alcohol Use and Personality Deve...

Gray Matter Microstructure: While macrostructural features, like brain volume, are mainly genetically influenced, there are genetic & environmental influences on microstructure

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Quantifying Genetic and Environmental Influence on Gray Matter Microstructure Using Diffusion MRI. Madhura Baxi, Maria A Di Biase, Amanda E...
Friday, July 17, 2020

At least 16 species of deep-sea fishes have ultra-black skin; by reducing reflectance, ultra-black fish can reduce the sighting distance of visual predators more than 6-fold compared to fish with 2% reflectance

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Ultra-black Camouflage in Deep-Sea Fishes. Alexander L. Davis, Kate N. Thomas, Freya E. Goetz, Bruce H. Robison, Sonke Johnsen, Karen J. Osb...

Negative relationship quality, notably, criticism received from one’s spouse or partner, heightens older adults’ risk of mortality

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Bookwala, J., & Gaugler, T. (2020). Relationship quality and 5-year mortality risk. Health Psychology, 39(8), 633–641. https://doi.org/1...

Individuals who moved in with a partner/got married/separated from a partner primarily experienced changes in openness in the first year; & those who separated from a partner/got divorced became less emotionally stable

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Asselmann, E., & Specht, J. (2020). Taking the ups and downs at the rollercoaster of love: Associations between major life events in the...

Ordinary citizens increasingly moderate online forums, blogs, & social media feeds, selectively removing opposing political viewpoints from online contexts even when opposing comments were inoffensive & courteous

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Ashokkumar, Ashwini, Sanaz Talaifar, William T. Fraser, Rodrigo Landabur, Michael Burhmester, Ángel Gómez, Borja Paredes, et al. 2020. “Cens...

Physical Exercise Increases Perceived Musical Pleasure: Modulatory Roles of Arousal, Mood, or Dopamine?

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Hove, Michael J., Steven A. Martinez, and Samantha R. Shorrock. 2020. “Physical Exercise Increases Perceived Musical Pleasure: Modulatory Ro...

The development and use of highly reliable and valid facial grimace scales for pain measurement in animals: Grimace scales to measure pain now exist for 10 species

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The development and use of facial grimace scales for pain measurement in animals. Jeffrey S.Mogil et al. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Re...
Thursday, July 16, 2020

Average-Size Erect Penis: Fiction, Fact, and the Need for Counseling

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Average-Size Erect Penis: Fiction, Fact, and the Need for Counseling. Bruce M. King. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, Jul 15 2020. http...

Growth mindset was studied longitudinally from high school through 4 college years; the mindset was not associated with grades at any point, even in students for whom university was especially challenging

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Testing the association of growth mindset and grades across a challenging transition: Is growth mindset associated with grades? Yue Li, Timo...

Does Growth Mindset Do What It Promises? It doesn't

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Does Growth Mindset Work? Marc Effron, Talent Strategy Group, May 2020. https://talentstrategygroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Does-Grow...

The Effects of Personality Traits and Situational Factors on the Deliberativeness and Civility of User Comments on News Websites

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The Effects of Personality Traits and Situational Factors on the Deliberativeness and Civility of User Comments on News Websites. Johannes B...
Wednesday, July 15, 2020

The same information about scientific findings was generally found less credible when presented on Twitter than on other platforms

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Boothby, Clara, Dakota Murray, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Anna P. Waggy, and Andrew Tsou. 2020. “Credibility of Scientific Information on Social M...

For women, using pornography was associated with their own & their partner’s higher sexual desire & with higher odds of partnered sexual activity; for men coupled with women, with lower odds of partnered sexual activity

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Pornography use and romantic relationships: A dyadic daily diary study. Marie-Pier Vaillancourt-Morel et al. Journal of Social and Personal ...

Role of internal variability in the temperature we expect to observe: We show that even out to 30 years large parts of the globe (or most of the globe in MPI-GE & CMIP5) could still experience no-warming due to internal variability

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Quantifying the role of internal variability in the temperature we expect to observe in the coming decades. Nicola Maher, Flavio Lehner and ...

Although most of the literature on shared experiences and social bonds concern humans, we cannot exclude the presence of similar mechanisms in non-human vertebrates

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The dawn of social bonds: what is the role of shared experiences in non-human animals? Laura Busia and Matteo Griggio. Biology Letters, Vol ...

In a Representative Sample Grit Has a Negligible Effect on Educational and Economic Success Compared to Intelligence

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In a Representative Sample Grit Has a Negligible Effect on Educational and Economic Success Compared to Intelligence. Chen Zissman, Yoav Gan...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Quality of Research on Mental Health Effects of COVID-19: Low compliance with open science recommendations, which raise concerns about the validity, generalisability, and reproducibility of the findings

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Nieto, Ines, Juan F Navas, and Carmelo Vazquez. 2020. “The Quality of Research on Mental Health Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Note of ...

Long-term low-dose ethanol intake improves healthspan and resists high-fat diet-induced obesity in mice

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Long-term low-dose ethanol intake improves healthspan and resists high-fat diet-induced obesity in mice. Yan Diao et al. Aging, July 8, 2020...

Magnificent Sex: Lessons from Extraordinary Lovers

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Kleinplatz, P. J., & Ménard, A. D. (2020). Magnificent Sex: Lessons from Extraordinary Lovers. Routledge, 2020. https://www.amazon.com/M...

Denial of Gender Discrimination is Associated with Better Subjective Well‐Being among Women; these authors think that denial is just a coping mechanism & that it may perpetuate gender inequality

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Denial of Gender Discrimination is Associated with Better Subjective Well‐Being among Women: A System Justification Account. Jaime L. Napier...
Monday, July 13, 2020

Labor Market Outcomes for Post Great Recession Entrants: There was a dramatic negative structural break in college graduates’ employment rates, beginning around the 2005 entry cohort, that shows no sign of abating

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The Lost Generation? Labor Market Outcomes for Post Great Recession Entrants. Jesse Rothstein. NBER Working Paper No. 27516, July 2020. http...

Rally held in Tulsa, OK, attracted 6,000 to 12,000 individuals to an indoor arena; this study, the first to explore the impact of this event on the spread of COVID-19, finds no net effect

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Did President Trump's Tulsa Rally Reignite COVID-19? Indoor Events and Offsetting Community Effects. Dhaval M. Dave, Andrew I. Friedson,...

Higher levels of internet gaming disorder exist in males & higher levels of social media addiction exist in females; the effect sizes were larger in Europe and the Americas than in Asia

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Do men become addicted to internet gaming and women to social media? A meta-analysis examining gender-related differences in specific intern...

Quantile-Specific Heritability of Intakes of Alcohol but not Other Macronutrients

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Quantile-Specific Heritability of Intakes of Alcohol but not Other Macronutrients. Paul T. Williams. Behavior Genetics (2020), Jul 13 2020. ...

White Americans’ expressed anti-Black & anti-Hispanic prejudice declined after Trump’s political emergence; results suggest the limits of racially charged rhetoric’s capacity to heighten prejudice among Whites

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The Rise of Trump, The Fall of Prejudice? Tracking White Americans’ Racial Attitudes Via A Panel Survey, 2008–2018. Daniel J Hopkins, Samant...
Sunday, July 12, 2020

Sexual activity appears to be a health indicator of all-cause and cancer mortality in US middle-aged adults in a dose-response manner

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Cao C, Yang L, Xu T, et al. Trends in Sexual Activity and Associations With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Among US Adults. J Sex Me...

Attributions of Democratic vs Republican blame or responsibility for anti‐Semitism & perceptions of threat are primarily explained by political ideology & partisan vote choice over & above awareness, engagement, or personal experience

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Polarization and American Jews: The Partisan Debate Over Attribution of Blame and Responsibility for Rising Anti‐Semitism in the United Stat...
Saturday, July 11, 2020

Participants accepted more offers, including more unfair offers, from surgical mask-wearing opponents than from opponents without a mask; effect was enhanced when participants ascribed more altruistic motives

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Fatfouta, Ramzi, and Yulia Oganian. 2020. “Bargaining Under Social Distancing Requirements: Effects of Face Masks on Socio-economic Decision...

In the mid-2000s, "hate" appears with a relative frequency that is about 70pct higher than in 1980

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Haslam, N., & Murphy, S. C. (2020). Hate, dehumanization, and “hate”. In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.), Perspectives on hate: How it originates,...

Media coverage over time (2011‐2016) has used more negative tone in discussing police‐citizen interactions; relative to other jobs, policing was categorized as a pervasively stigmatized job

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Is Policing Becoming a Tainted Profession? Media, Public Perceptions, and Implications. Deepshikha Chatterjee  Ann Marie Ryan. Journal of Or...

Although conflict (operationalized as one partner doing something the other did not like) was unassociated with the likelihood of sex on a given day, it predicted a lower likelihood the following day

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Kiss and Makeup? Examining the Co-occurrence of Conflict and Sex. Jessica A. Maxwell & Andrea L. Meltzer. Archives of Sexual Behavior (2...

Concern for distressed others was seen early in the first year of life, long before previous theories assumed: Empathic concern was moderately consistent across both situation & age, from as early as 3‐months

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Caring Babies: Concern for Others in Distress during Infancy. Maayan Davidov  Yael Paz  Ronit Roth‐Hanania  Florina Uzefovsky  Tal Orlitsky ...

Perceptions of fake news prevalence, partisanship strength, and political interest were associated with a higher likelihood of providing a politicized and accusatory response about fake news

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“Fake News is Anything They Say!” – Conceptualization and Weaponization of Fake News Among the American Public. Chau Tong, Hyungjin Gill,Jia...
Friday, July 10, 2020

Heterosexual women placed more value on orgasm frequency and the frequency of sex than lesbian and bisexual women

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Female Sexual Satisfaction and Sexual Identity. Laura L. Holt , Y. Barry Chung, Erick Janssen & Zoë D. Peterson. The Journal of Sex Rese...