Saturday, September 12, 2020

Jinping Xi : Swift shift from collective leadership to strongman rule was the result of a widely shared consensus among China’s ruling elite that the regime was facing a severe crisis that necessitated a return to such rule

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A Strong Leader for A Time of Crisis: Xi Jinping’s Strongman Politics as A Collective Response to Regime Weakness. Nimrod Baranovitch. Journ...

The Washington Consensus, 1970-2015: Despite the unpopularity of the Washington Consensus, its policies reliably raise average incomes; countries that had sustained reform were 16% richer 10 years later

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The Washington Consensus Works: Causal Effects of Reform, 1970-2015. Kevin B. Grier, Robin M. Grier. Journal of Comparative Economics, Septe...

Effects of the Black Death: Growth of Europe relative to the rest of the world, demise of serfdom in Western Europe, decline in the authority of religious institutions, and emergence of stronger states

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Jedwab, Remi and Johnson, Noel D. and Koyama, Mark, The Economic Impact of the Black Death (August 18, 2020). SSRN, Aug 18 2020. https://pap...

In addition to reported genetic and hormonal effects, there are cell type–specific sex differences in tissue composition

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The impact of sex on gene expression across human tissues. Meritxell Oliva et al. Science  Sep 11 2020:Vol. 369, Issue 6509, eaba3066. https...

Tattooed women perceive themselves as less attractive, & women's self-rated attractiveness impacts whether or not men's tattoos matter when judging attractiveness, trustworthiness, & potential as a father

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Effects of gender, self-rated attractiveness, and mate value on perceptions tattoos. Karlyn Molloy, Danielle Wagstaff. Personality and Indiv...

Morningness in males correlated with a higher other-attractiveness-rating & dating desire; the causes of higher mating success in eveningness remains unclear; eveningness is related to a higher choosiness

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Chronotype dependent choosiness and mate choice. Naomi Staller, Christoph Randler. Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 168, Janua...

The Collapse and Regeneration of Complex Societies

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Peñaherrera-Aguirre M., Figueredo A.J., Hertler S.C. (2020) The Collapse and Regeneration of Complex Societies. In: Multilevel Selection. Pa...
Friday, September 11, 2020

Greater crying proness in women relative to men are found in wealthier, more democratic, or more feminine countries

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Bylsma, L. M., Gračanin, A., & Vingerhoets, A. J. J. M. (2020). A clinical practice review of crying research. Psychotherapy, Sep 2020. ...

Social Class Predicts Emotion Perception and Perspective-Taking Performance in Adults

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Social Class Predicts Emotion Perception and Perspective-Taking Performance in Adults. Pia Dietze, Eric D. Knowles. Personality and Social P...

Mountainous areas were lower on agreeableness, extraversion, neuroticism and conscientiousness but higher on openness to experience

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Physical topography is associated with human personality. Friedrich M. Götz, Stefan Stieger, Samuel D. Gosling, Jeff Potter & Peter J. R...

Given the small mean effect size and small-study effects, this meta-analysis gives little support for a bilingual advantage on overall executive function

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Gunnerud, H. L., ten Braak, D., Reikerås, E. K. L., Donolato, E., & Melby-Lervåg, M. (2020). Is bilingualism related to a cognitive adva...

Partisanship & stereotyping: Learning what car one drives (hybrid/pickup truck), where one buys coffee / eats fast food (Chipotle/Chick-fil-A), or where one works (college/bank) affect our willingness to interact

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How the Politicization of Everyday Activities Affects the Public Sphere: The Effects of Partisan Stereotypes on Cross-Cutting Interactions. ...

We find those who disagree with our art evaluations as more influenced by biases (conformity, financial incentives); reminding us of art preferences as “matters of opinion” reduced this thinking, but did not eliminate it

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Seeing the subjective as objective: People perceive the taste of those they disagree with as biased and wrong. Nathan N. Cheek  Shane F. Bla...

These studies confirm pets can be perpetrators of rejection and such rejection hurts similarly to if a human perpetrated it

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Stephanie B. Richman (2020). Man's Best Friend? The Effects of Being Rejected by a Pet. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology: Vol. ...

This research documents a perfection premium in evaluative judgments wherein individuals disproportionately reward perfection on an attribute compared to near-perfect values on the same attribute

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The Perfection Premium. Mathew S. Isaac, Katie Spangenberg. Social Psychological and Personality Science, September 10, 2020. https://doi.or...

Learning have long been implicated in influencing eating behavior; memory of recent eating modulates future food consumption; overweight and obesity is associated with impaired memory performance

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Seitz, Benjamin M., A. J. Tomiyama, and Aaron Blaisdell. 2020. “Eating Behavior as a New Frontier in Memory Research.” PsyArXiv. September 1...
Thursday, September 10, 2020

When there is no alternative, boredom increases sadistic behavior across the board, even among individuals low in dispositional sadism

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Pfattheicher, Stefan, Ljiljana B. Lazarevic, Erin C. Westgate, and Simon Schindler. 2020. “On the Relation of Boredom and Sadistic Aggressio...

Development of sex differences in the human brain: Systematic sex difference in brain structure ocurred already during childhood, and subsequent increase of this difference during adolescence was large

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Development of sex differences in the human brain. Florian Kurth , Christian Gaser & Eileen Luders. Cognitive Neuroscience, Sep 8 2020. ...

High Replicability of Newly-discovered Social-behavioral Findings Is Achievable; past failures to replicate may be attributable to departures from optimal procedures

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Protzko, John, Jon Krosnick, Leif D. Nelson, Brian A. Nosek, Jordan Axt, Matthew Berent, Nick Buttrick, et al. 2020. “High Replicability of ...

Single, childless women in psychology programs (other than clinical psychology) are 8.7% more likely than single, childless men to obtain a tenure-track job within six years of receiving their doctorate; men in the field are twice as likely to self-cite

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The Future of Women in Psychological Science. June Gruber et al. Perspectives On Psychological Science, Sep 2020. https://news.nd.edu/assets...

Conservatives tended to show a greater interest in preserving their youthfulness, & had more resistant attitudes toward aging; & exhibited higher preferences for anti-aging benefits, compared to liberals & moderates

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The Relationship between Political Ideology and the Pursuit of Staying Forever Young. Ga-Eun (Grace) Oh. Journal of Population Ageing (2020)...

145 countries: subjective well-being is minimum, or nadir, in midlife around age 50

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Is happiness U-shaped everywhere? Age and subjective well-being in 145 countries. David G. Blanchflower. Journal of Population Economics (20...

Caffeine Increases the Reinforcing Efficacy of Alcohol, an Effect that is Independent of Dopamine D2 Receptor Function

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Caffeine Increases the Reinforcing Efficacy of Alcohol, an Effect that is Independent of Dopamine D2 Receptor Function. Sarah E Holstein, Gi...