Saturday, December 5, 2020

COVID-19 & stay-at-home orders: Users residing in lockdown states create more content after the lockdown, but find a decrease in the novelty level and optimism of the content generated by the latter group

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The Unintended Consequences of Stay-at-Home Policies on Work Outcomes: The Impacts of Lockdown Orders on Content Creation. Xunyi Wang, Reza ...

Social Hedonic Editing: People Prefer to Experience Events at the Same Time as Others; excepton are very emotionally impactful events

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Social Hedonic Editing: People Prefer to Experience Events at the Same Time as Others. Franklin Shaddy, Yanping Tu, Ayelet Fishbach. Social ...

Rolf Degen summarizing... The more people liked something, the more patient they were and the more prepared to accept longer waiting times

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Love is patient: People are more willing to wait for things they like. Annabelle Roberts, Franklin Shaddy, and Ayelet Fishbach. Journal of E...

Same-sex sexual behaviour can be maintained by selection for indiscriminate sexual behaviour because indiscriminate mating is the optimal strategy under a wide range of conditions

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Same-sex sexual behaviour and selection for indiscriminate mating. Brian A. Lerch & Maria R. Servedio. Nature Ecology & Evolution, N...
Friday, December 4, 2020

Patients with smell loss with subjective flavor perception might be experiencing unconscious memory recall from previously experienced cross‐modal sensory interactions

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Retronasal olfactory function in patients with smell loss but subjectively normal flavor perception. David Tianxiang Liu et al. The Laryngos...

Neoliberal economics, planetary health, and the COVID-19 pandemic: a Marxist ecofeminist analysis

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Neoliberal economics, planetary health, and the COVID-19 pandemic: a Marxist ecofeminist analysis. Simon Mair. The Lancet, December, 2020. h...

While men's orgasm consistency is linearly associated with relational and sexual satisfaction, for women, with each unit increase in orgasm consistency, the increase in those satisfactions became progressively smaller

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Leavitt CE, Leonhardt ND, Busby DM, et al. When Is Enough Enough? Orgasm's Curvilinear Association With Relational and Sexual Satisfacti...

Short-term mating was unrelated or even negatively related to reproductive success; conversely, long-term mating was positively associated with reproductive success

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Međedović, Janko M. 2020. “Reproductive Ecology of Short and Long-term Mating: Implications for Sexual Selection and Life History Theory.” P...

LGBs show higher in levels of political interest, turnout & other forms of political participation in Western Europe over & above what can be determined by socio-economic determinants of political participation

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Political engagement and turnout among same-sex couples in Western Europe. Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte, Joshua Townsley. Research & Polit...

Bystanders help immediately when they are alone but help later & are less likely to help when part of a larger group; those in need of help are helped earlier & are more likely to be helped in larger groups because it is easier to find an altruistic guy

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The volunteer’s dilemma explains the bystander effect. Pol Campos-Mercade. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, December 3 2020....

Empathy and Schadenfreude in Human–robot Teams

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de Jong, Dorina, Ruud Hortensius, Te-Yi Hsieh, and Emily S. Cross. 2020. “Empathy and Schadenfreude in Human–robot Teams.” PsyArXiv. Decembe...
Thursday, December 3, 2020

Men perceived affirmative action more negatively than women, but women were more put off by being rejected rather than selected based on gender

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Carlsson, Rickard, and Samantha Sinclair. 2020. “Preprint_selected or Rejected: Men and Women’s Reactions to Affirmative Action Procedures i...

High cognition helps more a team when there is high category heterogeneity, high external interdependence, low authority differentiation, temporal dispersion, and geographic dispersion

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Conditioning team cognition: A meta-analysis. Ashley A. Niler et al. Organizational Psychology Review, December 3, 2020. https://doi.org/10....

Who Cares If You Vote? We find that citizens are more likely to perceive normative pressure to vote from fellow partisans

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Who Cares If You Vote? Partisan Pressure and Social Norms of Voting. Edward Fieldhouse, David Cutts & Jack Bailey. Political Behavior, D...

Contrary to existing research, both liberals and conservatives are more fearful of different circumstances

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Dispositional Fear and Political Attitudes. Peter K. Hatemi & Rose McDermott. Human Nature, Dec 3 2020. https://rd.springer.com/article/...

There is less of a disproportionate conservative antipathy toward protests than of a disproportionate liberal enthusiasm

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Clarifying the Ideological Asymmetry in Public Attitudes Toward Political Protest. David Barker, Kimberly Nalder, Jessica Newham. American P...
Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Conservative opposition to refugee resettlement can be weakened if conservatives are given reasons to believe those refugees will support the Republican Party; liberal support for refugees drops when they receive that information

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Cui Bono? Partisanship and Attitudes Toward Refugees. Richard Hanania. Social Science Quarterly, November 30 2020. https://doi.org/10.1111/s...

Cultural anthropology’s love-hate relationship with evolution: what will the future bring?

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van Schaik, Carel P (2020). Cultural anthropology’s love-hate relationship with evolution: what will the future bring? Zeitschrift für Ethno...

‘Garbage language’: chief pollinator, iconicity, loincloth strategy, talent pipeline, going granular, value prop, first moved advantage, proactive technology, paralellization, leading edge-solutions

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Playing the Bullshit Game: How Empty and Misleading Communication Takes Over Organizations. André Spicer. Organization Theory, June 4, 2020....

Cooperative breeding system in small‐scale (hunter‐gatherer, horticultural, and agropastoral), sub‐Saharan populations

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Life history and socioecology of infancy. Courtney Helfrecht  Jennifer W. Roulette  Avery Lane  Birhanu Sintayehu  Courtney L. Meehan. Ameri...

Heavy coffee drinkers differed from low/non-consumers by displaying increased wanting but not liking for coffee

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Dissociation between wanting and liking for coffee in heavy drinkers. Nicolas Koranyi et al. Journal of Psychopharmacology, May 21, 2020. ht...