Friday, July 24, 2020

Credit Rating Agencies: Sending A Clear Signal / Progressive Policy Institute

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Credit Rating Agencies: Sending A Clear Signal. Michael Mandel. Progressive Policy Institute, Jul 23, 2020. https://www.progressivepolicy.or...

Status & monetary downward comparisons activated brain regions associated with reward processing while upward comparisons yielded loss‐related activity, as if downward/upward comparisons resembled gains/losses

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Upward and downward comparisons across monetary and status domains. Zachary A. Yaple  Rongjun Yu. Human Brain Mapping, July 23 2020. https:/...

For strong believers, higher anxiety elicited by the coronavirus threat was associated with increased strengthening of religious beliefs; non-believers's higher anxiety was associated with increased scepticism of religion

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Rigoli, Francesco. 2020. “The Link Between Coronavirus, Anxiety, and Religious Beliefs in the United States and United Kingdom.” PsyArXiv. J...

Meta-analysis: Soup consumption is significantly related to lower odds ratio of obesity

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Association between soup consumption and obesity: a systematic review with meta-analysis. Motonaka Kuroda, Kumiko Ninomiya. Physiology &...

Moral values occupy a cardinal position in people’s evaluation of others, & so people sometimes prescribe morally-good but evidentially-poor beliefs

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Morality justifies motivated reasoning. Corey Cusimano, Tania Lombrozo. Princeton Univ 2020. https://cognition.princeton.edu/sites/default/f...

Same‐sex favouritism: Both sexes reacted less positively to the male‐favouring differences, judging the findings to be less important, less credible, and more offensive, harmful, and upsetting

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Reactions to male‐favouring versus female‐favouring sex differences: A pre‐registered experiment and Southeast Asian replication. Steve Stew...
Thursday, July 23, 2020

From 2015... The Evolutionary Psychology of Food Intake and Choice... Food choice is central in much of human behavior

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From 2015... The Evolutionary Psychology of Food Intake and Choice. Chapter in The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, 2015. 10.1002/978111...

A review of the literature on partner personality judgments in both approaches suggests that individuals tend to perceive their partners with both substantial accuracy & a considerable amount of bias

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Accuracy and Bias of Trait Judgments in Romantic Relationships. Shanhong Luo and David Watson. In The Oxford Handbook of Accurate Personalit...

When objective harm decreases, concepts of harm may expand to encompass new & previously innocuous phenomena, so it appears as widespread as ever; sometimes via intentional meaning changes engineered for political ends

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Harm inflation: Making sense of concept creep. Nick Haslam et al. European Review of Social Psychology, Volume 31, 2020 - Issue 1, Jul 22 20...

Intrasexual competition, indexed by the operational sex ratio & income inequality (Gini), predicts women’s beautification reflected by search queries for cosmetic surgery terms & the density of certificated plastic surgeons

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Women’s Intrasexual Competition Results in Beautification. Xijing Wang et al. Social Psychological and Personality Science, July 22, 2020. h...

Despite Conservatism being positively correlated with dogmatism & negatively correlated with openness to new experiences and uncertainty tolerance, Liberals report lower levels of attitudinal ambivalence

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Liberals Report Lower Levels of Attitudinal Ambivalence Than Conservatives. Leonard S. Newman, Rikki H. Sargent. Social Psychological and Pe...

Time Passes Slowly When You Are Concealing Something

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Time Passes Slowly When You Are Concealing Something. Izumi Matsuda, Ayano Matsumoto, Hiroshi Nittono. Biological Psychology, July 22 2020, ...

Boredom increase in teens: Maybe due to technological advances that divorce individuals from traditional sources of meaning, including social relationshiops, meaningful work, & stable routines and communities

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Westgate, Erin C. 2020. “Lost by Definition: Why Boredom Matters for Psychology and Society.” PsyArXiv. July 22. doi:10.31234/osf.io/q9fd5 ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Financial Decision Making and Individual Dispositions

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Sekścińska K., Markiewicz Ł. (2020) Financial Decision Making and Individual Dispositions. In: Zaleskiewicz T., Traczyk J. (eds) Psychologic...

Early-life cognitive enrichment was associated with late-life cognitive health in part through an association with fewer Alzheimer disease-related pathological changes

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Association of Early-Life Cognitive Enrichment With Alzheimer Disease Pathological Changes and Cognitive Decline. Shahram Oveisgharan et al....

Your Personality Does Not Care Whether You Believe It Can Change: Beliefs About Whether Personality Can Change Do Not Predict Trait Change Among Emerging Adults

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Your Personality Does Not Care Whether You Believe It Can Change: Beliefs About Whether Personality Can Change Do Not Predict Trait Change A...

Advanced career female academics are more likely than their male counterparts to underestimate the career commitment of women at the beginning of their academic careers

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The Queen Bee phenomenon in Academia 15 years after: Does it still exist, and if so, why? Klea Faniko  Naomi Ellemers  Belle Derks. British ...

Emotional responses and aggressive sentiments toward self-targeting and other-targeting moral violations: Disgust, Anger, Aggression, Physical Strength & Physical Attractiveness

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Tybur, J. M., Molho, C., Camak, B., Dores Cruz, T., Singh, G. D., & Zwicker, M. (2020). Disgust, Anger, and Aggression: Further Tests of...