Thursday, August 6, 2020

From 2012... Comparative Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Conventional and Electric Vehicles

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From 2012... Comparative Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Conventional and Electric Vehicles. Troy R. Hawkins, Bhawna Singh, Guillaume...

The incidence rate of dementia in Europe and North America has declined by 13% per decade over the past 25 years, consistently across studies; incidence is similar for men and women

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Twenty-seven-year time trends in dementia incidence in Europe and the United States. The Alzheimer Cohorts Consortium, Frank J. Wolters et a...

The Origin of Our Modern Concept of Depression—The History of Melancholia From 1780-1880

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The Origin of Our Modern Concept of Depression—The History of Melancholia From 1780-1880: A Review. Kenneth S. Kendler. JAMA Psychiatry. 20...

Blatantly dehumanizing representations of Arabs seem as prevalent among individuals exhibiting low levels of explicit dehumanization (liberals) as among those of high levels of explicit dehumanization (conservatives)

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Petsko, Christopher D., Ryan Lei, Jonas R. Kunst, Emile Bruneau, and Nour Kteily. 2020. “Blatant Dehumanization in the Mind's Eye: Preva...

Does merely referencing that an object or entity has changed affect people’s attitudes and intentions toward it? It boosts curiosity and promotes persuasion

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Change Appeals: How Referencing Change Boosts Curiosity and Promotes Persuasion. Daniella Kupor et al. Personality and Social Psychology Bul...
Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Current anthropological hypotheses do not sufficiently explain why habitual concealment of mating evolved in humans but is only seldom exhibited by other social species

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Why do human and non-human species conceal mating? The cooperation maintenance hypothesis. Yitzchak Ben Mocha. Proceedings of the Royal Soci...

Undergraduates enrolled in introductory psychology courses: Certain misconceptions about mental illness & treatments are widely held; tend to possess weaker critical thinking skills & accept more some paranormal claims

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Basterfield, C., Lilienfeld, S. O., Cautin, R. L., & Jordan, D. (2020). Mental illness misconceptions among undergraduates: Prevalence, ...

The intertemporal cortex of untrained primates can serve as a precursor of orthographic processing; the acquisition of reading in humans seems to rely on the recycling of a brain network evolved for other visual functions

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The inferior temporal cortex is a potential cortical precursor of orthographic processing in untrained monkeys. Rishi Rajalingham, Kohitij K...

Rolf Degen summarizing... Among children from highly educated parents, genetic factors had a far greater effect on educational attainment than among those whose parents had low levels of education, accounting for 75% of the individual differences

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How Social and Genetic Influences Contribute to Differences in Educational Success within the Family. Tina Baier. Doctoral thesis, Faculty o...

Males crabs benefit from grooming because females prefer males with clean claws over dirty claws but also that the time spent grooming detracts from the amount of time available for courting females

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Cost of an elaborate trait: a trade-off between attracting females and maintaining a clean ornament. Erin L McCullough, Chun-Chia Chou, Patr...

Understanding Personality through Patterns of Daily Socializing: Neuroticism is shown to be associated with shorter periods of extended conversation (periods of at least 12 minutes)

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Understanding Personality through Patterns of Daily Socializing: Applying Recurrence Quantification Analysis to Naturalistically Observed In...

Mobile carrying devices: The fundamental relationship between mobile containers & foresight is easily overlooked, resulting in their significance in the study of human cognitive development being largely unrecognized

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Mobile containers in human cognitive evolution studies: Understudied and underrepresented. Michelle C. Langley  Thomas Suddendorf. Evolution...
Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Persistence of gross domestic product below precrisis trends remains puzzling; transitory events, especially extreme ones, generate persistent changes in beliefs and macro outcomes

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The Tail That Wags the Economy: Beliefs and Persistent Stagnation. Julian Kozlowski, Laura Veldkamp, Venky Venkateswaran. Journal of Politic...

Younger adults report more distress and less well‐being: A cross‐cultural study of event centrality, depression, post‐traumatic stress disorder and life satisfaction

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Younger adults report more distress and less well‐being: A cross‐cultural study of event centrality, depression, post‐traumatic stress disor...

In financial cities we observe that on average online porn viewing decreases as financial stress increases; evidence suggests the causing channel to be altered mood

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Sex and “the City”: Financial stress and online pornography consumption. Michael Donadelli, Marie Lalanne. Journal of Behavioral and Experim...

Does Using Social Media Jeopardize Well-Being? The conclusions about the causal impact of social media on rising mental health problems in the population might be premature

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Does Using Social Media Jeopardize Well-Being? The Importance of Separating Within- From Between-Person Effects. Olga Stavrova, Jaap Denisse...