Monday, August 24, 2020

The Dark Triad Predicted by Belief in Determinism, which may be a belief that allows some to abrogate moral responsibility, which may facilitate other antisocial tendencies like objectification

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Boros, Rachel, "The Dark Triad Predicted by Belief in Determinism and Objectification" (2020). Theses and Dissertations. 1239. Apr...

Ideological Responses to the Breaking of COVID-19 Social Distancing Recommendations: Both liberals and conservatives condemn outgroup guidance flouting more than ingroup flouting

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Harper, Craig A., and Darren Rhodes. 2020. “Ideological Responses to the Breaking of COVID-19 Social Distancing Recommendations.” PsyArXiv. ...

Moral grandstanding is related to endorsing more extreme ideological positions; motivation by a desire to seek prestige is related to ideological extremism

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Moral Grandstanding and Political Polarization: A Multi-Study Consideration. Joshua B. Grubbs et al. Journal of Research in Personality, Aug...

Does the Dark Triad predict self-perceived attractiveness, mate value, and number of sexual partners both in men and women?

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Does the Dark Triad predict self-perceived attractiveness, mate value, and number of sexual partners both in men and women? Javier I. Borráz...

We find that the relationship between racial resentment and opposition to redistribution is weaker for lower income whites than for whites with higher incomes

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The color of class politics: Economic position, racial resentment, and attitudes about redistribution. Andrew Bloeser & Tarah Williams. ...

As economic inequality grows, more people stand to benefit from wealth redistribution; yet in many countries, increasing inequality has not produced growing support for redistribution

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Cognitive Barriers to Reducing Income Inequality. Joshua Conrad Jackson, Keith Payne. Social Psychological and Personality Science, June 26,...

Individuals with higher status were more motivated to have high status than were individuals with low status; this in part happens because they were more confident in their ability to achieve (or retain) such status

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The Possession of High Status Strengthens the Status Motive. Cameron Anderson, John Angus Hildreth & Daron Sharps. Personality and Socia...

Learning of the others' success in investing leads to a significant increase in risk taking of subjects; even more true with copy trading (getting info on the other agents in financial markets and to directly copy their trades)

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Copy Trading. Jose Apesteguia, Jörg Oechssler, Simon Weidenholzer. Management Science, Jul 14 2020. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2019.3508 ...

The depressive realism hypothesis states that mild forms of depression improve judgment tasks because of higher attention to detail and slower information processing

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Depressive Realism and Analyst Forecast Accuracy. Sima Jannati, Sarah Khalaf & Du Nguyen University of Missouri Working Paper, July 1 2...

We show that molecular variation in DNA related to cognition, personality, health, & body shape, predicts an individual’s equity market participation & risk aversion; also predict individuals’ return perceptions (which are mostly biased)

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Molecular Genetics, Risk Aversion, Return Perceptions, and Stock Market Participation. Richard Sias, Laura Starks & Harry Turtle. NBER W...

Physicians actively sort along political lines: A Democratic physician in a predominantly Republican area is twice as likely to relocate as a Republican counterpart living there; same for Republicans in Democratic areas

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Ideological Sorting of Physicians in Both Geography and the Workplace. Adam Bonica; Howard Rosenthal; Kristy Blackwood; David J. Rothman. J ...
Sunday, August 23, 2020

It is likely that a large proportion of people who purport to believe fake news really do, but this proportion might be significantly smaller than thought; assertion of belief is inflated, we suggest, by insincere report

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Levy, Neil L., and Robert M. Ross. 2020. “The Cognitive Science of Fake News.” PsyArXiv. August 23. doi:10.31234/osf.io/3nuzj. Forthcoming b...

In the self-experienced (vs. other-experienced) jealousy condition, activity was greater, inter alia, in the fronto-striato-thalamo-frontal circuit, a network implicated in habit formation & obsessive-compulsive disorder

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From 2019... The obsessions of the green-eyed monster: jealousy and the female brain. Nadine Steis et al. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, M...

Fear of receiving compassion from others, and related fears, are potentially important factors in the persistence of depression, stress disorders, and eating disorders; they may play a role in anxiety and related difficulties

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Scared of compassion: Fear of compassion in anxiety, mood, and non‐clinical groups. Olivia A. Merritt, Christine L. Purdon. British Journal ...

Seeing the Whole Picture? Avoided Negative Affect and Processing of Others’ Suffering

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Seeing the Whole Picture? Avoided Negative Affect and Processing of Others’ Suffering. Birgit Koopmann-Holm et al. Personality and Social Ps...

(How) Do You Regret Killing One to Save Five? Affective and Cognitive Regret Differ After Utilitarian and Deontological Decisions

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(How) Do You Regret Killing One to Save Five? Affective and Cognitive Regret Differ After Utilitarian and Deontological Decisions. Jacob Gol...

In cognitive diagnosis models, the condensation rule reflects how latent attributes influence individuals’ observed item responses; in practice, multiple condensation rules may be involved in an item simultaneously

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Zhan, Peida. 2020. “Deterministic-inputs, Noisy Mixed Modeling for Identifying Coexisting Condensation Rules.” PsyArXiv. February 12. doi:10...
Saturday, August 22, 2020

Does language change what we perceive? Does speaking different languages cause us to perceive things differently?

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Lupyan, Gary, Rasha Abdel Rahman, Lera Boroditsky, and Andy Clark. 2020. “Effects of Language on Visual Perception.” PsyArXiv. April 28. doi...

The higher individuals are in trait ambivalence, the smaller their bias towards attributing behavior to a person’s disposition; we find the same for self-serving bias

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Schneider, Iris, Sheida Novin, Frenk van Harreveld, and Oliver Genschow. 2020. “Benefits of Being Ambivalent: The Relationship Between Trait...

We primarily rely on personal cost rather than social benefit when evaluating prosocial actors; this occurs because sacrifice, but not benefit, is taken as a signal of moral character & an input to reputational judgments

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Johnson, Samuel G. B. 2020. “Dimensions of Altruism: Do Evaluations of Prosocial Behavior Track Social Good or Personal Sacrifice?.” PsyArXi...

Depersonalization is common in anxiety disorders; on a trait level, anxiety & depersonalization more frequently co-occur when people catastrophically misinterpret their symptoms or have lower emotional distress tolerance

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French, Noah J., Jeremy W. Eberle, and Bethany Teachman. 2020. “Moderators of the Relationships Between State and Trait Anxiety and Deperson...

Low Base Rates and a High IQ Selection Threshold Prevented Terman from Identifying Future Nobelists

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Low Base Rates and a High IQ Selection Threshold Prevented Terman from Identifying Future Nobelists. Russell T. WarneRoss LarsenJonathan Cla...

Compared with firefighters and soldiers, inmates had more biological- and stepsiblings, experienced their sexual onset earlier, had offspring with more women, and reported lower life expectancy

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Do Criminals Live Faster Than Soldiers and Firefighters? A Comparison of Biodemographic and Psychosocial Dimensions of Life History Theory. ...