Sunday, December 6, 2020

No negative Flynn effect in France: Why variations of intelligence should not be assessed using tests based on cultural knowledge

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No negative Flynn effect in France: Why variations of intelligence should not be assessed using tests based on cultural knowledge. Corentin ...

Only 54pct of newspapers than published erroneous research findings published the retraction; the retraction stories were balanced, but shorter than those on the article’s publication and often lacking in context & detail

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Dissemination of Erroneous Research Findings and Subsequent Retraction in High-Circulation Newspapers: A Case Study of Alleged MDMA-Induced ...

Lottery winners that keep working vs. retiring: Across samples and nations, participants morally praise needless work

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A creative destruction approach to replication: Implicit work and sex morality across cultures. Warren Tierney et al. Journal of Experimenta...

Participants evaluated the same costs (public shaming, deaths & illnesses, & police abuse of power) as more acceptable when they resulted from efforts to minimize C19's health impacts, than when they resulted from prioritizing economic costs

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Moralization of Covid-19 health response: Asymmetry in tolerance for human costs. Maja Graso, Fan Xuan Chen, Tania Reynolds. Journal of Expe...

Deficit Attention Disorder: Partisans systematically adjust the importance of government overspending based upon which party occupies the presidency; used both to protect one’s own party & rebuke the opposing party

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Kane, John V., and Ian G. Anson. 2020. “Deficit Attention Disorder:  Partisan-Motivated Reasoning About Government Overspending.” APSA Prepr...

Association between perceptions of mental illness and reduced mate value, as well as an association between self-reported mental illness and a strong tendency to select mates with mental illness

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Boysen, G. A. (2020). Mental illness and mate value: Evidence for reduced mate value among romantic partners perceived as having mental illn...
Saturday, December 5, 2020

Africa Investment Climate

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Africa Investment Climate Index 1 Background documentation 2 I nvestment guides 3 Trade Africa-EU 4 Relevant Laws (Commerce, ...