Tuesday, August 18, 2020

You Can Learn a Lot About Religion From Food

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You Can Learn a Lot About Religion From Food. Adam B Cohen. Current Opinion in Psychology, August 6 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2...

The development of narrative identity & the emergence of personality disorders in adolescence: Adolescents & adults with PD narrate their lives in ways that are more negative & express lower agency

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The development of narrative identity and the emergence of personality disorders in adolescence. Rebecca Shiner et al. Current Opinion in Ps...

Religions facilitate long-term, committed mating strategies by increasing paternal certainty or by pooling parenting resources; religious individuals are seen as sexually restricted, which has implications for mate choice & trust

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Why are world religions so concerned with sexual behavior? Jordan W Moon. Current Opinion in Psychology, August 8 2020. https://doi.org/10.1...

Death anxiety and religious belief relationship is inconsistent & probably near zero; extremely religious & irreligious individuals report lower death anxiety; nonbelievers pursue nonreligious forms of literal immortality

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Death anxiety and religion. Jonathan Jong. Current Opinion in Psychology, August 19 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.08.004 Hig...

Self-reported ideology does drift left at liberal arts colleges, but this is explained by a peer effect: students at liberal arts colleges drift more to the left because they have more liberal peers

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Why College Students Drift Left: The Stability of Political Identity and Relative Malleability of Issue Positions among College Students. Ma...

Common wisdom in paleoanthropology is that Neandertals had bigger brains than recent humans; but only had significantly larger endocranial volume when compared with recent human females

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Did Neandertals have large brains? Factors affecting endocranial volume comparisons. Caroline VanSickle  Zachary Cofran  David Hunt. America...

Those who believed they had contracted COVID-19 engaged in greater rates of concealment of their social distancing practices & evaluated concealment more positively compared to those without the virus

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Dishonesty during a pandemic: The concealment of COVID-19 information. Alison M O’Connor, Angela D Evans. Journal of Health Psychology, Augu...

Participants preferred quality over quantity when choosing for a friend vs for themselves because of heightened self-presentation concerns: People choosing for friends are more concerned about conveying poor taste

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The Quality Versus Quantity Trade-Off: Why and When Choices for Self Versus Others Differ. Peggy J. Liu, Ernest Baskin. Personality and Soci...
Monday, August 17, 2020

Both rivalry and admiration-seeking increased with time on task & were particularly enhanced in individuals high in trait dominance or narcissism; we saw more rivalry when pitted against high-ranked opponents

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Szücs, Anna, Katalin Szanto, Jade Adalbert, Aidan G. Wright, Luke Clark, and Alexandre Dombrovski. 2020. “Status, Rivalry and Admiration-see...

The Threat of Symbolic Incompatibility Looms Larger Than the Threat of Status Rivalry: Symbolic Threat from Others Determines Feelings for Them More Than Status Threat

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Bai, Max H., and Jeremy C. Simon. 2020. “The Threat of Symbolic Incompatibility Looms Larger Than the Threat of Status Rivalry: Symbolic Thr...

There is a consistent, substantial, & replicable connection between deep‐seated pathogen‐avoidance motivations & socially conservative party preferences due to individual differences in disgust sensitivity

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The Behavioral Immune System Shapes Partisan Preferences in Modern Democracies: Disgust Sensitivity Predicts Voting for Socially Conservativ...

Germany: Like-minded discussions increase one’s likelihood to perceive media as hostile; yet, only among those more politically engaged & ideologically on the left

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Whose media are hostile? The spillover effect of interpersonal discussions on media bias perceptions. Laia Castro, David Nicolas Hopmann and...

What Processes Are Disrupted During the Attentional Blink?

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Zivony, Alon, and Dominique Lamy. 2020. “What Processes Are Disrupted During the Attentional Blink? An Integrative Review of Event-related P...

Observers underestimated the egocentric distances when there was a fence on the ground surface relative to the no-fence condition; the effect of widely spaced thick fences was larger than that of narrowly spaced ones

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Inaccurate Space Perception Seeing Through Fences. Bo Dong et al. Perception, August 16, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006620946525 Ab...
Sunday, August 16, 2020

How does meaning come to mind when hearing a word? Principles of Semantic Processing include that the relationship between form & meaning is not so arbitrary; that more semantic richness is better, & that experience matters

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Pexman, Penny M. 2020. “How Does Meaning Come to Mind? Four Broad Principles of Semantic Processing.” PsyArXiv. August 16. doi:10.31234/osf....

Anxiety & compulsivity have been linked to a belief that the environment is uncontrollable; we lack a mechanistic explanation of how such a belief might form; seems a difficulty in building probabilistic internal maps between actions & environmental states

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Sharp, Paul B., Raymond J. Dolan, and Eran Eldar. 2020. “Cognitive Map Learning Is Disrupted in Compulsivity and Anxious Arousal.” PsyArXiv....

From ‘it Has Stopped Our Lives’ to ‘spending More Time Together Has Strengthened Bonds': The Varied Experiences of Australian Families During COVID-19

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Evans, Subhadra, Antonina Mikocka-Walus, Anna Klas, Lisa Olive, Emma Sciberras, Gery Karantzas, and Elizabeth Westrupp. 2020. “From ‘it Has ...

Gratitude promotes prosociality and long-term reciprocal relationships; the Dark Triad, specifically psychopathy and Machiavellianism, is negatively associated with trait gratitude

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Puthillam, Arathy, Sampada Karandikar, Hansika Kapoor, and Aneree Parekh. 2020. “Gratitude Blindness: How Does the Dark Triad Experience Gra...

South India: Consistent with Western findings, environmental stress appeared to hasten sexual debut, decrease self-regulation & educational attainment, & increase current environmental stress in the peri-urban sample

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Environmental stress and human life history strategy development in rural and peri-urban South India. George B. Richardson et al. Evolution ...

Cultural and reproductive success and the causes of war: A Yanomamö perspective

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Cultural and reproductive success and the causes of war: A Yanomamö perspective. Raymond Hames. Evolution and Human Behavior, Volume 41, Iss...

Welfare trade-off ratios (the computational element which dictate our willingness to benefit others at some cost to ourselves) & moral elevation (social emotion triggered by observing third parties behaving benevolently)

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Moral elevation: Indications of functional integration with welfare trade-off calibration and estimation mechanisms. Amy Monroe. Evolution a...

Impulsive behavior is not always adaptive in harsh & unpredictable conditions, it depends on the exact definitions of harshness, unpredictability, & impulsivity; may be adaptive when resource encounters are likely to be interrupted

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Is impulsive behavior adaptive in harsh and unpredictable environments? A formal model Jesse Fenneman, Willem E. Frankenhuis. Evolution and...
Saturday, August 15, 2020

People with greater olfactory discrimination acuity were higher in dispositional sexual disgust, but not pathogen or moral disgust; were also less inclined towards short-term mating

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Investigating the relationship between olfactory acuity, disgust, and mating strategies. Marjorie L. Prokosch Zachary Airington Damian R. Mu...

Women’s demand for redistribution is higher; the gender difference appears only when the source of inequality is based on relative abilities, but not when it is based on luck; men are more overconfident on their abilities

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Overconfidence and gender gaps in redistributive preferences: Cross-Country experimental evidence. Thomas Buser et al. Journal of Economic B...

Speed of perceived time is slower for those of higher IQ

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Measures of Temporal Perception as Predictive Factors for Individual Intelligence and Further Relationships Between Intelligence and Tempora...

Voting Republican was associated with higher levels of commitment compared with voting Democrat; being partnered with someone voting Republican was associated with higher relationship adjustment & commitment

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Fangmeier, T. L., Stanley, S. M., Knopp, K., & Rhoades, G. K. (2020). Political party identification and romantic relationship quality. ...

Although there is a small segment that chooses the newer option for what they infer to be its higher efficacy, most consumers believe that an older drug is both safer and more efficacious

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Older is better: Consumers prefer older drugs. Yun Jie. Psychology & Marketing, August 13 2020. https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21395 Abst...

16 Possible Factors for Sweden’s High Covid Death Rate among the Nordics: It is plausible that Sweden’s lighter lockdown accounts for but a small part of Sweden’s higher Covid death rate

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16 Possible Factors for Sweden’s High Covid Death Rate among the Nordics. Daniel B. Klein, Joakim Book, Christian Bjørnskov. SSRN, August 14...
Friday, August 14, 2020

Gender gaps in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) participation are larger in societies where women have greater freedom of choice... Why?

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A Cultural Psychological Model of Cross-National Variation in Gender Gaps in STEM Participation. Nur Soylu Yalcinkaya, Glenn Adams, Personal...

Male secondary sexual characters may have evolved to advertise males that carry large numbers of beneficial sexually transmitted microbes highly potent against pathogens

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Reinoculation of Ideas about the Benefits of Copulation: Reply to Rowe et al. Michael P. Lombardo, Patrick A. Thorpe, Harry W. Power. Trends...

Screening for Dark Personalities: The authors say they uncovered a novel link between sadism and sexuality, but sadists are not maladjusted

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Screening for Dark Personalities: The Short Dark Tetrad (SD4). Delroy L. Paulhus et al. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, July 2...

We found that men and women told larger and more frequent lies to their parents, with women telling the largest and most frequent lies of all to their fathers; both men & women frequently say they are chaster than really are

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Papa Don’t Preach? Using Lies to Expose the Truth about Who Suppresses Female Sexuality. Dax J. Kellie, Barnaby J. W. Dixson & Robert C....

Subjective age changed during a global health crisis, with people feeling younger with the emergence of COVID-19; partly reflects a coping process of psychological distancing from older age (the most vulnerable group)

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Changes in Subjective Age During COVID-19. Antonio Terracciano et al. The Gerontologist, gnaa104, August 7 2020. https://doi.org/10.1093/ger...

How does animal welfare taste? Information regarding animal welfare affects hedonic liking & willingness to pay; consumers rated the organic product higher than those with animal welfare labels

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How does animal welfare taste? Combining sensory and choice experiments to evaluate willingness to pay for animal welfare pork. Sabine Gross...

We investigated whether jurors assign more weight to evidence if obtained through technological means-and the impact of crime severity on juror decision-making (CSI Effect & Tech Effect)

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Lodge, Chloe, and Mircea Zloteanu. 2020. “Jurors' Expectations and Decision-making: Revisiting the CSI Effect.” PsyArXiv. August 13. doi...

The positive effect of expressed affection exceeded the effect of received affection

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Affectionate communication and health: A meta-analysis. Colin Hesse et al. Communication Monographs, Aug 12 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/03...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

Recent studies point to a “cynical” view of social perceivers who assume that even moderately moral people could engage in moderately immoral behaviors; this view seems to vary among cultures

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Patrice Rusconi, Simona Sacchi, Marco Brambilla, Roberta Capellini, and Paolo Cherubini (2020). Being Honest and Acting Consistently: Bounda...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Older adults do not access less negatively emotional memories or describe the memories more positively, but they just evaluate these memories more positively than the young

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The happiest and the saddest autobiographical memories and aging. Simay Ikier & Çağla Duman. Current Psychology (2020). Aug 12 2020. htt...

Participants indicated they would stand, sit or walk closer to the stranger when either of them was wearing a mask; this form of risk compensation was stronger for those who believed masks were effective

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Luckman, Ashley, Hossam Zeitoun, Andrea Isoni, Graham Loomes, Ivo Vlaev, Nattavudh Powdthavee, and Daniel Read. 2020. “Risk Compensation Dur...

There is little evidence for obesity-related differences in enhanced neural reactivity to visual food cues & that such differences might be mediated by additional factors that are often not considered

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Is obesity related to enhanced neural reactivity to visual food cues? A review and meta-analysis. Filip Morys, Isabel García-García, Alain D...

Despite Australia’s skills-based immigration policy, immigrants report worse labor market outcomes than in the US; skills-based imm. policy don't result in more selected immigrants, nor in better integration

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The Integration Paradox: Asian Immigrants in Australia and the United States. Van C. Tran, Fei Guo, Tiffany J. Huang. The ANNALS of the Amer...

Myths and Misconceptions About Hypnosis and Suggestion: Separating Fact and Fiction

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Myths and Misconceptions About Hypnosis and Suggestion: Separating Fact and Fiction. Steven Jay Lynn  Irving Kirsch  Devin B. Terhune  Josep...