Saturday, July 25, 2020

Minimal social interactions with strangers—just taking a moment to greet, thank, & express good wishes to strangers—contribute to happiness (subjective well-being) of individuals who initiate these interactions

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Minimal Social Interactions with Strangers Predict Greater Subjective Well-Being. Gul Gunaydin, Hazal Oztekin, Deniz Hazal Karabulut & S...

We test the hypothesis that our social predictions resist change because perceivers place high subjective value on having their expectations of others confirmed

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Confirmation of interpersonal expectations is intrinsically rewarding. Niv Reggev, Anoushka Chowdhary, and Jason P. Mitchell. bioRxiv, Jul 1...

Female Ejaculation: an update on anatomy, history, and controversies

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Female Ejaculation: an update on anatomy, history, and controversies. Felix D. Rodriguez  Amarilis Camacho  Stephen J. Bordes  Brady Gardner...

Dishonesty is affected by BMI status: Obese subjects lie more than lean subjects, and they lie more to avoid the lowest payoff than to get the highest payoff

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Dishonesty is more affected by BMI status than by short-term changes in glucose. Eugenia Polizzi di Sorrentino, Benedikt Herrmann & Mari...

Participants made less accurate metacognitive other-judgments than self-judgments; metacognitive other-judgments were also more overconfident than self-judgments

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Taking another perspective on overconfidence in cognitive ability: A comparison of self and other metacognitive judgments. Robert Tirso, Lis...
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:/...