Thursday, September 24, 2020

Meta-analysis: Purchasing experiences buys greater happiness than purchasing material possessions, but mostly when consumed together with others and among the well-to-do

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Re-examining the Experiential Advantage in Consumption: A Meta-Analysis and Review. Evan Weingarten, Joseph K Goodman. Journal of Consumer R...

Psychopathy is inversely associated with nature connectedness; high scoring on psychopathy was associated with a preference for inner-city living, but did not match residential history

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Examining the connection between nature connectedness and dark personality. D. Fido et al. Journal of Environmental Psychology, September 24...

Motivated reasoning and policy information: Politicians are more resistant to debiasing interventions than the general public

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Motivated reasoning and policy information: Politicians are more resistant to debiasing interventions than the general public. Julian Christ...

The brain: Evidence for improvement in personality & behavior following frontal polar & anterior dorsolateral prefrontal damage; both lesion location & premorbid functioning contribute to improvements

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Neural correlates of improvements in personality and behavior following a neurological event. Marcie L. King et al. Neuropsychologia, Volume...

Smaller amygdala is associated with neuroticism, anxiety; it is not associated with depression symptoms

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Smaller amygdala volume and increased neuroticism predict anxiety symptoms in healthy subjects: A volumetric approach using manual tracing. ...

Information processing is widely influenced by the presence of others; the influence on cognitive processing extends from the sensitivity to others’ attention and action, their perceptions, perspectives, beliefs & goals

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Altercentric Cognition: How Others Influence Our Cognitive Processing. Dora Kampis, Victoria Southgate. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Septem...

Participants preferred to interact (being friends or developing a relationship) with an intelligent person regardless of whether or not that person was sexist

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When sexism is not a problem: The role of perceived intelligence in willingness to interact with someone who is sexist. Elena Agadullina. Th...
Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Childhood violence exposure, but not social deprivation, was associated with reduced adolescent resting-state neural network density

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Association of Childhood Violence Exposure With Adolescent Neural Network Density. Leigh G. Goetschius et al. JAMA Netw Open. 2020;3(9):e201...

Genetic differences in religiousness and extra-familial environmental influences increased with age, whereas shared environmental influences within families declined – in particular in the first half of life

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 A meta-analytic review of nature and nurture in religiousness across the lifespan. Christian Kandler. Current Opinion in Psychology, Septem...

Prevalent emotion‐theories of psychopathy appear to operate with the assumption that psychopaths have no emotions, leading to the hypothesis that psychopaths are (almost) completely unable to make moral judgments

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Are psychopaths moral‐psychologically impaired? Reassessing emotion‐theoretical explanations. Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen. Mind & Language, ...

No evidence that modern types of wheat have lower quality for human nutrition and health, with the exception of decreased levels of some minerals (including iron, zinc and magnesium)

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Do modern types of wheat have lower quality for human health? P. R. Shewry  K. L. Hassall  H. Grausgruber  A. A. M Andersson  A.‐M. Lampi  V...

Does Sex Really Sell? Paradoxical Effects of Sexualization in Advertising on Product Attractiveness and Purchase Intentions

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Does Sex Really Sell? Paradoxical Effects of Sexualization in Advertising on Product Attractiveness and Purchase Intentions. Sarah Gramazio,...
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 ...