Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Drawing on dual-process theory, we suggest that the benefits that arise from combining several quantitative individual judgments will be heightened when the judgments are based on different cognitive processes

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Enhancing the Wisdom of the Crowd With Cognitive-Process Diversity: The Benefits of Aggregating Intuitive and Analytical Judgments. Steffen ...

Just kidding: the evolutionary roots of playful teasing

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Just kidding: the evolutionary roots of playful teasing. Johanna Eckert, Sasha L. Winkler and Erica A. Cartmill. Biology Letters, September ...

Psychological Profile of Extreme Trump Supporters: Many of these tendencies generalize to extreme Trump opposition, meaning that Trump support is in many ways an extrapolation of a long-standing and escalating Culture War

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A Psychological Profile of Extreme Trump Supporters. Laura Kinsman & Jeremy A. Frimer. Sep 2020. http://www.jeremyfrimer.com/uploads/2/1...

Thanksgiving Dinners: Politics is not straining family ties as much as previously thought

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Are Politically Diverse Thanksgiving Dinners Shorter Than Politically Uniform Ones? In press in PLOS One. Jeremy A. Frimer & Linda J. Sk...
Monday, September 21, 2020

Starks & colleagues speculated that HIV infection could alter host behavior in a manner that facilitated the spread of the virus; retrospective and self-report data from five studies now support this hypothesis

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Does HIV infection increase male sexual behavior? Philip T Starks, Maxfield M G Kelsey, David Rosania, Wayne M Getz. Evolution, Medicine, an...

Compensatory conspicuous communication: Low status increases jargon use; experiments provided a causal link from low status to jargon use

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Compensatory conspicuous communication: Low status increases jargon use. Zachariah C. Brown, Eric M. Anicich, Adam D. Galinsky. Organization...

Rolf Degen summarizes: People willingly accept inconveniences in order to satisfy their curiosity, even if the sought for information is unpleasant or will put them in a bad mood

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The seductive lure of curiosity: information as a motivationally salient reward. Lily Fitz Gibbon, Johnny King LLau, Kou Murayama. Current O...

Rolf Degen summarizes... Large parts of our life are governed by "phantom rules", flexible clauses whose violation we only find offensive when we see fit

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Wylie, Jordan, and Ana P. Gantman. 2020. “Doesn’t Everybody Jaywalk? On the Motivated Enforcement of Frequently Violated Rules.” PsyArXiv. S...

Criminalization of sex work increases sexually transmitted infections among female sex workers by 58 pct, driven by decreased condom access & use; earnings among women decreased, making easier that children begin working to supplement income

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 Crimes Against Morality: Unintended Consequences of Criminalizing Sex Work. Lisa Cameron, Jennifer Seager, Manisha Shah. NBER Working Paper...

63-year-old man, after gunshot to the head, became “content,” light-hearted, and prone to joking and punning; prior to his brain injury, he suffered from frequent depression and suicidal ideation

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Positive Emotions from Brain Injury: The Emergence of Mirth and Happiness. Mario F. Mendez and Leila Parand. Case Reports in Psychiatry, Vol...

When unethically-earned money is first "laundered" -the cash is physically exchanged for the same amount but from a different arbitrary source- people spent it as if it was earned ethically

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 Mental Money Laundering: A Motivated Violation of Fungibility. Alex Imas, George Loewenstein & Carey Morewedge. Carnegie Mellon Univers...

Why do we have big gluteal muscles?

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Why do we have big gluteal muscles? Daniel Kolitz. Gizmodo, September 21, 2020. https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/09/why-do-we-have-butts/ Som...

Moral Choice When Harming Is Unavoidable

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Moral Choice When Harming Is Unavoidable. Jonathan Z. Berman, Daniella Kupor. Psychological Science,  September 8, 2020. https://doi.org/10....
Sunday, September 20, 2020

Older chimpanzees have more propensities to engage with others

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Shifting sociality during primate ageing. Zarin P. Machanda and Alexandra G. Rosati. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biol...

Culture among animals is most likely more widespread and pervasive than commonly thought and an important avenue to local adaptation; we most likely built upon a very broad, pre-existing cultural capacity

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Animal cultures: how we've only seen the tip of the iceberg. Caroline Schuppli and Carel P. van Schaik. Evolutionary Human Sciences, Vol...