Friday, August 7, 2020

Rather than the crisis fundamentally changing people psychologically, genetic differences between individuals seem to play a fundamental role in shaping psychological & behavioural responses to the COVID-19 crisis

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Genetic correlates of psychological responses to the COVID-19 crisis in young adult twins in Great Britain. Kaili Rimfeld et al. Aug 2020. h...

Imagining the future, remembering the past: Future events were simulated at proportionally higher speed than past events; the density of experience units representing the unfolding of events was lower for future episodes

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The temporal compression of events during episodic future thinking. Olivier Jeunehomme, Nathan Leroy, Arnaud D'Argembeau. Cognition, Aug...

Trait mindfulness do not reliably translate into a pattern of healthful behaviours in general, although trait mindfulness shows a stronger associations with health behaviours under certain conditions

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Trait mindfulness and health behaviours: a meta-analysis. Margarita Sala ,Catherine Rochefort,P. Priscilla Lui &Austin S. Baldwin. Healt...

Increasing Population Densities Predict Decreasing Fertility Rates over Time: A 174-nation Investigation

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Rotella, Amanda M., Michael E. W. Varnum, PhD, Oliver Sng, and Igor Grossmann. 2020. “Increasing Population Densities Predict Decreasing Fer...

Intelligence manifests itself in the brain in breaking a problem down into multiple subtasks, which are worked on in widely distributed processing units, showing signs of being focused on the common plan

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Integrated Intelligence from Distributed Brain Activity. John Duncan, Moataz Assem, Sneha Shashidhara. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, August ...

Creative behaviors seem to yield survival & reproductive benefits; however, individuals often have to violate social norms; this deviance entails consequences detrimental for both survival and reproduction

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The paradox of creativity. Eric Bonetto et al. New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 60, January 2021, 100820. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideaps...
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...