Friday, December 11, 2020

4 million tweets on two controversial topics were examined via sentiment analysis; negative sentiment of a person’s own tweets increased polarization; negative sentiment of tweets from a person’s friends reduced polarization

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Does Negatively Toned Language Use on Social Media Lead to Attitude Polarization? Jürgen Buder et al. Computers in Human Behavior, December ...

From 2019... What Do People Do, Say, and Feel When They Have Affairs? Compared to women, men reported stronger agreement with "sex with their affair partners was better than sex with primary partners"

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Has supplemental materials for What Do People Do, Say, and Feel When They Have Affairs? Associations between Extradyadic Infidelity Motives ...

Rats fed tasty but unhealthy food products that people eat (e.g. hot dogs, muffins); did not reduce junk food intake in the presence of cues that predicted shocks, demonstrating the high rewarding level of junk food

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The Cafeteria Diet: a standardized protocol and its effects on behavior. Jaume F. Lalanza, Eelke M.S. Snoeren. Neuroscience & Biobehavio...

Truth-making institutions: From divination, ordeals and oaths to judicial torture and rules of evidence

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Truth-making institutions: From divination, ordeals and oaths to judicial torture and rules of evidence. Hugo Mercier, Pascal Boyer. Evoluti...

Critical review of uniform color effects in sports

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Critical review of uniform color effects in sports. Nadav Goldschmied, Philip Furley & Ruth Bush. International Review of Sport and Exer...
Thursday, December 10, 2020

Advertising a healthy default reduces interest in visiting the restaurant; that is, advertising healthy defaults drives away first-time sales

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Dodging dietary defaults: Choosing away from healthy nudges. Helen Colby, Meng Li, GretchenChapman. Organizational Behavior and Human Decisi...

Having a nondifficult partner is associated with lower loneliness compared to having no partner, but having no partner and having a difficult partner are related to similar levels of loneliness

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They Drive Me Crazy: Difficult Social Ties and Subjective Well-Being. Shira Offer. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, September 10, 2020...

The Neuroscience of Positive Emotions and Affect: Implications for Cultivating Happiness and Wellbeing

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The Neuroscience of Positive Emotions and Affect: Implications for Cultivating Happiness and Wellbeing. Rebecca Alexander et al. Neuroscienc...