Friday, October 30, 2020

The more narcissistic people are, the more they find leadership theories appealing and the more interest they have in learning about the ideas behind particular theories

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Steffens, N. K., & Haslam, S. A. (2020). The narcissistic appeal of leadership theories. American Psychologist, Oct 2020. https://doi.or...

In a recent paper, Bloom et al. (2020) find evidence for a substantial decline in research productivity in the U.S. economy during the last 40 years; we replicate their findings for China and Germany

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A global decline in research productivity? Evidence from China and Germany. Philipp Boeinga, Paul Hünermund. Economics Letters, October 29 2...

Germany: Egalitarianism is more popular than efficiency ideals; females are more egalitarian than men; young and high-educated participants hold different fairness ideals than the rest of the population

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Fairness views and political preferences: evidence from a large and heterogeneous sample. Daniel Müller & Sander Renes. Social Choice an...
Thursday, October 29, 2020

Facial pictures of women & men with higher refined glycaemic loads consumption were preferred by opposite-sex raters, possibly due to an increase in apparent age for men & an increase in femininity for women

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Refined Carbohydrate Consumption and Facial Attractiveness. Claire Berticat, Valérie Durand, Michel Raymond. Evolutionary Psychology, Octobe...

From 1990... Mate Choice in Experimentally Parasitized Rock Doves: Individuals might avoid parasitized mates by detecting reduced plumage brightness, reduced courtship display, or increased grooming

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From 1990... Mate Choice in Experimentally Parasitized Rock Doves: Lousy Males Lose. Dale Clayton. American Zoologist, Volume 30, Issue 2, M...

Intelligence & physical violence are especially likely to boost number of lifetime sex partners & nonrelationship partners in men, consistent with evolutionary ideas regarding costly signaling as an effective mating strategy

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Brains, brawn, and beauty: The complementary roles of intelligence and physical aggression in attracting sexual partners. Patrick Seffrin  P...

Drug and alcohol use is associated with risky sexual behavior, but they are not the cause of this riskiness

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Etiological Overlap Between Sex Under the Influence and Number of Lifetime Sexual Partners. Brooke M. Huibregtse, Alexander S. Hatoum, Robin...

Humans are probably unique among among the great apes in providing care for older individuals with challenging physical injuries and disabilities

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Aging, Life History, and Human Evolution. Richard G. Bribiescas. Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 49:101-121, October 2020. https://doi.o...

Partisanship independently modulated the optimism of forecasts & participants’ support for COVID-19 policies; informing the public about the pandemic severity will not substantially change support for COVID-19 interventions

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Freira, Lucia, Marco Sartorio, Cynthia Boruchowicz, Florencia L. Boo, and Joaquin Navajas. 2020. “The Irrational Interplay Between Partisans...
Wednesday, October 28, 2020

The overall finding of this study suggests that experiencing a divorce is unlikely to lead to permanent personality change

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Does divorce change your personality? Examining the effect of divorce occurrence on the Big Five personality traits using panel surveys from...

From 2016... Women and girls, too, suffer from relative deprivation & are exposed to the same cultural influences promoting capitalist & individualist materialist acquisition, all of which should give them the motivation needed to commit crimes in rural areas

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Contemporary Issues in Left Realism. Walter DeKeseredy. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 5(3): 12‐26. 2016. DOI...
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

We found comparable and large deficits in autism spectrum disorder for both face identity recognition & discrimination; these findings suggest that deficits in face identity processing may represent a core deficit in ASD

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Griffin, J. W., Bauer, R., & Scherf, K. S. (2020). A quantitative meta-analysis of face recognition deficits in autism: 40 years of rese...

Gratitude for one’s perception of a positive outcome resulting from an outside entity seems to protect against psychopathologies such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), promoting resilience or reducing severity

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Giving Thanks is Associated with Lower PTSD Severity: A Meta-Analytic Review. Angela L. Richardson & Matthew W. Gallagher. Journal of Ha...

Evidence against benefits from cognitive training and transcranial direct current stimulation in healthy older adults

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Evidence against benefits from cognitive training and transcranial direct current stimulation in healthy older adults. Kristina S. Horne, Ha...

It is not true that political beliefs aim at truth, or that many citizens have stable and meaningful political beliefs, or that citizens choose to support political candidates or parties on the basis of their political beliefs

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The Point of Political Belief. Michael Hannon & Jeroen de Ridder. Forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology. Micha...

Reconstructing prehistoric demography: What role for extant hunter‐gatherers?

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Reconstructing prehistoric demography: What role for extant hunter‐gatherers? Abigail E. Page  Jennifer C. French. Evolutionary Anthropology...

Rolf Degen summarizing... The will to combat anti-vaccination misinformation feeds on the third-person effect, the belief that others are more susceptible to (bad) media effects than oneself

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The Battle is On: Factors that Motivate People to Combat Anti-Vaccine Misinformation. Yanqing Sun et al. Health Communication, Oct 23 2020. ...

Finland is known for its high-performing educational system but performance has declined during the past decade; we may not be dealing with a true anti-Flynn effect, the decline may be explained by reduced motivation & effort

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Three Studies on Learning to Learn in Finland: Anti-Flynn Effects 2001–2017. Mari-Pauliina Vainikainen ORCID Icon &Jarkko Hautamäki. Sca...

In primates the capacity to inhibit behaviour when making decisions correlates better with the demands of social contexts than the demands of foraging contexts

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The Evolution of Self-Control. Robin I.M. Dunbar, Susanne Shultz. bioRxiv, Oct 26 2020. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.26.354852 Rolf Degen...

Encouraging individuals to attribute political ideology to biology leads to decreased political prejudice, decreased political intolerance, and a perception of less political polarization

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Baker, Melissa, and Ingrid J. Haas. 2020. “Biological Attributions for Political Ideology Decrease Political Prejudice and Intolerance.” Psy...
Monday, October 26, 2020

The repetition-induced truth effect refers to a phenomenon where people rate repeated statements as more likely true than novel statements; a minority do the opposite—they reliably discount the validity of repeated statements

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The truth revisited: Bayesian analysis of individual differences in the truth effect. Martin Schnuerch, Lena Nadarevic & Jeffrey N. Roud...