Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Seeing what you want to see: Sexual activation makes potential partners seem more appealing and romantically interested

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Seeing what you want to see: Sexual activation makes potential partners seem more appealing and romantically interested. Gurit E. Birnbaum e...

Forgoing earned incentives to signal pure motives: Financial incentives have self-image costs, those who receive incentives view their actions less positively due to the perceived incompatibility between incentives & intrinsic motives

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Forgoing earned incentives to signal pure motives. Erika Kirgios et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 21 2020, Pages...

Moral contagion effects may be explained more by self-presentation (observers infer immorality by association) than by physical contamination

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Reputation management as an alternative explanation for the “contagiousness” of immorality. Tom Kupfer & Roger Giner-Sorolla. Evolution ...

Having photos of close others in sight decreases the hegemony of an economic schema in people’s minds, which in turn decreases their propensity to commit unethical behavior

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Show me the ... family: How photos of meaningful relationships reduce unethical behavior at work. Ashley Hardin, Christopher Bauman & Da...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Consumers' schadenfreude over another's unrelated bad purchase as positive information about their own choices; & through such misattribution become more satisfied with their own choices

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So happy for your loss: Consumer schadenfreude increases choice satisfaction. Dmytro Moisieiev  Radu Dimitriu  Shailendra P. Jain. Psycholog...

Cultural pressure and biased responding in free will attitudes

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Cultural pressure and biased responding in free will attitudes. Emiel Cracco, Carlos González-García, Ian Hussey, Senne Braem and David Wisn...

Quiet Fires Fail to Impress: Introverted Expressions of Passion Receive Less Social Worth, so those who express their passion extravertedly are more likely to reach higher organizational echelons

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Cormier, Grace, and Jon Jachimowicz. 2020. “Quiet Fires Fail to Impress: Introverted Expressions of Passion Receive Less Social Worth.” PsyA...

I find support for pure altruism because individuals who received additional Social Security benefits passed on 15.4 percent to children via inter vivos transfers without receiving any additional care in return

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Intergenerational Altruism and Retirement Transfers: Evidence from the Social Security Notch. Anita Mukherjee. J. Human Resources August 6, ...

Adoptees: Parents’ over‐reactive and hostile parenting at 27 months were partially due to heritable (bio-mother internalizing problems and substance use) & prenatal factors (bio-mother illicit drug use during pregnancy)

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Child Effects on Parental Negativity: The Role of Heritable and Prenatal Factors. Chang Liu et al. Child Development, Aug 1 2020. https://do...

From 2019... They used the spin precession of the Rb atoms as a clock to measure the time it takes them to cross the classically forbidden region; traversal time was 0.61(7) ms

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Measurement of the time spent by a tunnelling atom within the barrier region. Ramón Ramos, David Spierings, Isabelle Racicot & Aephraim...

In the American and Dutch samples, we found that optimism increased across younger adulthood, plateaued in midlife, and then decreased in older adulthood

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Changes in optimism and pessimism in response to life events: Evidence from three large panel studies. William J. Chopik et al. Journal of R...

Honesty-Humility (HH) is negatively linked to dishonest behavior; the HH-dishonesty link is unaffected by the utility of incentives (irrespective of incentive size or a gain-vs-loss framing)

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On the robustness of the association between Honesty-Humility and dishonest behavior for varying incentives. Sina A. Klein et al. Journal of...

Desired personality traits in politicians: The ideal politician is more stable, extravert, conscientious, open, honest than voter

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Desired personality traits in politicians: Similar to me but more of a leader. ulian Aichholzer, Johanna Willmann. Journal of Research in Pe...

Feeling emotions for others that they don’t feel: Agency appraisals and vicarious anger

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Feeling emotions for others that they don’t feel: Agency appraisals and vicarious anger. Joshua Daniel Wondra. PsyArXiv, Aug 24, 2020. http:...

Is it obligatory to donate effectively? Judgments about the wrongness of donating ineffectively

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Is it obligatory to donate effectively? Judgments about the wrongness of donating ineffectively. Lucius Caviola, Stefan Schubert. PsyArXiv, ...

Comparing the morally relevant capacities (e.g., intelligence, emotional capacities) of an animal that is frequently eaten by Americans (pig) & one that is not (dog) shifted participants’ moral beliefs about eating meat

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Horne, Zachary, Josh Rottman, and Caroline Lawrence. 2018. “Can Coherence-based Interventions Change Dogged Moral Beliefs?.” PsyArXiv. Decem...

Charter schools increase quality of available teachers: Educators with high fixed-costs use charter schools to explore teaching careers before obtaining licenses required for higher paying public sector jobs

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Regulatory Arbitrage in Teacher Hiring and Retention: Evidence from Massachusetts Charter Schools. Jesse Bruhn, Scott Imberman & Marcus ...

Supporting previous evidence, it was found that individuals were more prosocial when gossip (both positive and negative) was possible, compared to when their behavior was completely anonymous

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Imada, H., Hopthrow, T., & Abrams, D. (2020). The role of positive and negative gossip in promoting prosocial behavior. Evolutionary Beh...