Saturday, September 26, 2020

From 2000... A glimpse at the metaphysics of Bongard problems

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A glimpse at the metaphysics of Bongard problems. Alexandre Linhares. Artificial Intelligence, Volume 121, Issues 1–2, August 2000, Pages 25...
Friday, September 25, 2020

Both in more hierarchical & patriarchal communities, 6 in less ones, men who were ranked as having more marital conflict with their spouses had higher testosterone than men in more harmonious relationships

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Sharing and caring: Testosterone, fathering, and generosity among BaYaka foragers of the Congo Basin. Lee T. Gettler, Sheina Lew-Levy, Malli...

Trustworthiness in painted portraits increased over the period 1500–2000 paralleling the decline of interpersonal violence & the rise of democratic values; further analyses suggest association with increased living standards

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Tracking historical changes in trustworthiness using machine learning analyses of facial cues in paintings. Lou Safra, Coralie Chevallier, J...

IQ does not correlate with the number of brain cells in the human neocortex and was only weakly correlated to brain weight or the volume of key areas in the gray & white matter and of the cerebral ventricles

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Is There a Correlation Between the Number of Brain Cells and IQ? Nicharatch Songthawornpong, Thomas W Teasdale, Mikkel V Olesen, Bente Pakke...
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. ...