Thursday, August 27, 2020

Callousness, but not pornography use, significantly predicted self-reported sexual aggressiveness; more frequent pornography use was related to lower odds of reporting sexual aggressiveness

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Is Male Adolescents’ Sexual Aggressiveness Better Explained by Prior Pornography Use or Callousness? A Brief Report. Aleksandar Štulhofer. S...

Toxoplasma gondii is reported to manipulate the behavior of its non-definitive hosts in ways that promote lethal interactions with the parasite's definitive feline hosts; infected hyenas have less fear of lions

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Toxoplasma gondii infections are associated with boldness towards lions in wild hyena hosts. Eben Gering,  View ORCID ProfileZachary M. Laub...

COVID-19 lockdown policies & imprisonment: Psychological parallels can be drawn between the two forms of confinement, & ordinary citizens in lockdown have, to some extent, sensed the ‘pains of imprisonment’

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Dhami, Mandeep K., Leonardo Weiss-Cohen, and Peter Ayton. 2020. “Are People Experiencing the ‘pains of Imprisonment’ During the Covid-19 Loc...

Non-Hispanic White Americans generally conceptualize multicultural policies in nonzero-sum terms; even so, sometimes diversity efforts are likely to elicit backlash from majority group members

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Understanding Whites’ perceptions of multicultural policies: A (non)zero-sum framework? Taylor Ballinger & Jennifer Crocker. Journal of ...

These results do not support the use of probiotic, prebiotic, and fermented food interventions for cognitive performance

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Prebiotics, probiotics, fermented foods and cognitive outcomes: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Wolfgang Marx et al. Neuros...

Contrary to the generally accepted beliefs that wearing eyeglasses makes you look older & wearing sunglasses make you look younger, our results suggest that the effect of glasses on age perception is rather small

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Do Glasses Modulate Age Perception? Nicolas M. Brunet, Jonathan Sharp. i-Perception, August 26, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1177/20416695209534...

The posture adopted during a task can improve cognitive performance with a better answer for arithmetic in the sitting position than during walking but more correctly recalled words while walking

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Is it better to sit down, stand up or walk when performing memory and arithmetic activities? G. Abou Khalil, K. Doré-Mazars, P. Senot, D. P....

An interquartile increase in local individualism offsets 41% of the effect of state lockdown orders on social distancing and reduces COVID-related charitable fundraising by 48%

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Bian, Bo and Li, Jingjing and Xu, Ting and Foutz, Natasha, Individualism During Crises: Big Data Analytics of Collective Actions and Policy ...

Blind spots in self-perceptions: Because individuals and others differ in their susceptibility to biases or motivations and in the information they have access to, self- and other-knowledge will vary by trait

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Self–Other Knowledge Asymmetry (SOKA) Model. Kathryn L. Bollich-Ziegler. In The Oxford Handbook of Accurate Personality Judgment (edited by ...

Brain region becomes active in people born blind when they touch a 3D model of a face with their hands, suggesting that this area does not require visual experience to develop a preference for faces

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Visual experience is not necessary for the development of face-selectivity in the lateral fusiform gyrus. N. Apurva Ratan Murty, Santani Ten...
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...