Friday, September 18, 2020

The findings suggest that the presence of two parents—or of a male parent—is not essential for children to flourish; family structure seems less influential in children’s adjustment than the quality of family relationships

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Golombok, S., Zadeh, S., Freeman, T., Lysons, J., & Foley, S. (2020). Single mothers by choice: Parenting and child adjustment in middle...

Our findings are a warning to researchers to use direct measures of biological events in order to measure life-history dynamics

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On the Incongruence between Psychometric and Psychosocial-Biodemographic Measures of Life History. Janko Međedović. Human Nature (2020). Sep...

Are we at all liberal at heart? High-powered tests find no effect of intuitive thinking on moral foundations

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Are we at all liberal at heart? High-powered tests find no effect of intuitive thinking on moral foundations. Ozan Isler, Onurcan Yilmaz, Bu...

Political identity exerted a strong influence on self-reports of emotional distress, threat perception, discomfort with exposure, support for restrictions, & perception of under/overreaction by individuals & institutions

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Collins, Robert N., David R. Mandel, and Sarah S. Schywiola. 2020. “Political Identity over Personal Impact: Early US Reactions to the COVID...
Thursday, September 17, 2020

Definitive benefits of breakfast omission or consumption are not supported by the best evidence-based research, & whether skipping breakfast per se is causally associated with cardiovascular outcomes remains unresolved

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Association of breakfast skipping with cardiovascular outcomes and cardiometabolic risk factors: an updated review of clinical evidence. Hei...

In this population-based cohort study of 2583 children with neuroimaging data, smaller hippocampal volumes were found in preadolescents exposed to prenatal maternal-reported poor family functioning

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Association of Poor Family Functioning From Pregnancy Onward With Preadolescent Behavior and Subcortical Brain Development. Yllza Xerxa et a...

But it is no longer reasonable, contra some predictions, to expect that advances in human genomics will reveal that the heritability of psychological phenotypes is entirely illusory

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“Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated”: Behavior Genetics in the Postgenomic Era. K. Paige Harden. Annual Review of Psychology, Vol....

COVID-19: Openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and neuroticism all predicted higher rates of sheltering-in-place, whereas extraversion was negatively related to staying at home

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Götz, Friedrich M., Andrés Gvirtz, adam galinsky, and Jon Jachimowicz. 2020. “How Personality and Policy Predict Pandemic Behavior: Understa...

Men have an advantage in concurrent multitasking, and that may be a result of the individual differences in cognitive abilities

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Gender Differences in Multitasking Experience and Performance. Kelvin F. H. Lui, Ken H. M. Yip, Alan C.-N. Wong. Quarterly Journal of Experi...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Anger increases susceptibility to misinformation: Anger did not affect either recognition or source accuracy for true details about the initial event, but suggestibility for false details increased with anger

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Greenstein, M., & Franklin, N. (2020). Anger increases susceptibility to misinformation. Experimental Psychology, 67(3), 202–209. https:...

Replication and Extension of Alicke (1985) Better-Than-Average Effect for Desirable and Controllable Traits

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Replication and Extension of Alicke (1985) Better-Than-Average Effect for Desirable and Controllable Traits. Ignazio Ziano, Pui Yan (Cora) M...

Mortality risk halves during the period of incarceration, with large declines in murders, overdoses, and better diet

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Norris, Samuel and Pecenco, Matthew and Weaver, Jeffrey, The Effect of Incarceration on Mortality (July 2, 2020). SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10...