Saturday, December 12, 2020

The greater the discrepancy in performance of the top performer and the other group members in terms of number of ideas, the greater the positive impact on the other group members

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Kenworthy, J. B., Marusich, L. R., Paulus, P. B., Abellanoza, A., & Bakdash, J. Z. (2020). The impact of top performers in creative grou...

Tyler Cowen summarizing... Elites are arguing from their class and demographic biases (a bias can be positive, to be clear), not from their expertise; that lowers the marginal value of expertise, at least given how our world operates

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Re-Assessing Elite-Public Gaps in Political Behavior. Joshua D. Kertzer. August 3, 2020, Forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Sc...

Just do it: Engaging in self-control on a daily basis improves the capacity for self-control

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de Ridder, D., van der Weiden, A., Gillebaart, M., Benjamins, J., & Ybema, J. F. (2020). Just do it: Engaging in self-control on a daily...

People tend to assume that karma will only overtake others, while they will fare well anyway

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Mata, A., & Simão, C. (2020). Karmic forecasts: The role of justice in forecasts about self and others. Motivation Science, 6(4), 335–34...

Although the two sexes do not differ in average cooperation levels, men are much more likely to behave either selfishly or altruistically, whereas women are more likely to be moderately cooperative

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Greater Male Variability in Cooperation: Meta-Analytic Evidence for an Evolutionary Perspective. Christian Thöni, Stefan Volk, Jose M. Corti...
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...