Saturday, August 29, 2020

Humans in specific instances are psychologically prepared to prioritize misinformation over truth to, inter alia, mobilize the ingroup against the outgroup & signal commitment to the group to fellow ingroup members

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Petersen, Michael Bang, Mathias Osmundsen, and John Tooby. 2020. “The Evolutionary Psychology of Conflict and the Functions of Falsehood.” P...

The likelihood of having had first sex with an older partner is also higher (25% higher) for females with at least one older brother if compared to females without older brothers

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The “dating game”: age differences at first sex of college students in Italy. Maria Carella, Thaís García-Pereiro, Roberta Pace and Anna Pat...

A Mental Winner Effect? Competitive Mental Imagery Impacts Self-Assurance but not Testosterone in Women

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A Mental Winner Effect? Competitive Mental Imagery Impacts Self-Assurance but not Testosterone in Women. Jennifer M. Gray, Emilie Montemayor...

Predictive processing in sensory hierarchies may be well-modeled as (folded, sparse, partially disentangled) variational autoencoders, with beliefs discretely-updated via the formation of synchronous complexes

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Safron, Adam. 2020. “Integrated World Modeling Theory (IWMT) Implemented: Towards Reverse Engineering Consciousness with the Free Energy Pri...

Public understanding & perception of sensory experience & scientific understanding: Even in a sample with fairly high educational attainment, many respondents were unaware of fairly common forms of sensory variation

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Cuskley, Christine, and Charalampos Saitis. 2020. “What Do People Know About the Senses? Understanding Perceptions of Variation in Sensory E...

How People Know Their Risk Preference: We recount diagnostic behaviours & experiences, focusing on voluntary, consequential acts & experiences from which we seem to infer our risk preference

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Arslan, Ruben C., Martin Brümmer, Thomas Dohmen, Johanna Drewelies, Ralph Hertwig, and Gert Wagner. 2019. “How People Know Their Risk Prefer...

Fluctuations in Grandiose and Vulnerable Narcissistic States: A Momentary Perspective

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Edershile, Elizabeth A., and Aidan G. Wright. 2019. “Fluctuations in Grandiose and Vulnerable Narcissistic States: A Momentary Perspective.”...

Language Is Less Arbitrary Than One Thinks: Iconicity and Indexicality in Real-world Language Learning and Processing

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Murgiano, Margherita, Yasamin Motamedi, and Gabriella Vigliocco. 2020. “Language Is Less Arbitrary Than One Thinks: Iconicity and Indexicali...
Friday, August 28, 2020

Despite compliment givers’ anxiety at the prospect of giving compliments, they felt better after having done so; we misestimate our compliments’ value to others, & so we refrain from engaging in this prosocial behavior

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Why a Simple Act of Kindness Is Not as Simple as It Seems: Underestimating the Positive Impact of Our Compliments on Others. Erica J. Boothb...

Spontaneous remission of dementia before death: Results from a study on paradoxical lucidity

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Batthyány, A., & Greyson, B. (2020). Spontaneous remission of dementia before death: Results from a study on paradoxical lucidity. Psych...

We find considerable warming biases in the CMIP6 modeled trends, & we show that these biases are linked to biases in surface temperature (these models simulate an unrealistically large global warming)

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The vertical profile of recent tropical temperature trends: Persistent model biases in the context of internal variability. Dann M. Mitchell...

Swingers and polyamorists: Discrediting varied aspects of monogamy can alter gender power dynamics and, under certain circumstances, substantially erode gender hierarchy

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From 2019... Swingers and polyamorists: A comparative analysis of gendered power dynamics. Michelle Wolkomir. Sexualities, October 24, 2019....

There has long been skepticism among both scientists and laypersons that male bisexual orientation exists; paper finds robust evidence that male sexual orientation is expressed on a continuum

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Robust evidence for bisexual orientation among men. Jeremy Jabboura et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Jun 2020. https:...

From 2019... Foundational assumptions of the "random effects" model used pervasively in psychology impose far stronger constraints on the generalizability of results than most researchers appreciate

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From 2019... Yarkoni, Tal. 2019. “The Generalizability Crisis.” PsyArXiv. November 22. doi:10.31234/osf.io/jqw35 Abstract: Most theories a...

School bullying victimization was far less frequently recalled by the Chinese sample (6.2%–12.6%) than the German sample (29.3%–37.0%); bullies in China had poor mental health comparable to victims

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Bullies Get Away With It, But Not Everywhere: Mental Health Sequelae of Bullying in Chinese and German Students. Muyu Lin et al. Journal of ...

Bisexual people had up to six times the odds of engaging in Non-Suicidal Self-Injury compared to other sexualities. Mental health variables of anxiety and depression symptoms were found to be most common

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Bisexuality and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI): A narrative synthesis of associated variables and a meta-analysis of risk. Brendan J. Dunlo...

Cross-country study: Mothers were predominantly more authoritative than fathers, and fathers were mostly more authoritarian than mothers (based on both parent and descendant reports)

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Systematic review of the differences between mothers and fathers in parenting styles and practices. Yosi Yaffe. Current Psychology (2020). A...
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...