Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Losing Elections' Effects on Political and Social Attitudes and Subjective Well-being: Most effects are bigger for those with strong partisan attachments, some are bigger for men

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Toshkov, Dimiter, and Honorata Mazepus. 2020. “Winning and Losing Democratic Elections: Effects on Political and Social Attitudes and Subjec...

For people with an unrestricted sociosexual orientation (i.e., interested in a short-term, sexual relationship), however, self-control was related to lower selectivity...

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The role of self-control and sociosexual orientation in partner selection: A speed-dating study. Tila M. Pronk et al. Journal of Social and ...

I thought this was already debunked, but these authors say that higher-class individuals made more errors than lower-class individuals in the Director Task (requires participants to assume the visual perspective of another person)

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Social Class Predicts Emotion Perception and Perspective-Taking Performance in Adults. Pia Dietze, Eric D. Knowles. Personality and Social P...

Is Touch in Romantic Relationships Universally Beneficial for Psychological Well-Being? The Role of Attachment Avoidance

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Is Touch in Romantic Relationships Universally Beneficial for Psychological Well-Being? The Role of Attachment Avoidance. Anik Debrot et al....

No Detectable Electroencephalographic Activity 24-hours After Clinical Declaration of Death among Tibetan Buddhist Meditators in apparent tukdam, a putative postmortem meditation state

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No Detectable Electroencephalographic Activity 24-hours After Clinical Declaration of Death among Tibetan Buddhist Meditators in apparent tu...

Genetic predispositions may make some children more likely to start musical training early; they may be encouraged by other people who recognize their talent

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Why Is an Early Start of Training Related to Musical Skills in Adulthood? A Genetically Informative Study. Laura W. Wesseldijk, Miriam A. Mo...
Monday, December 14, 2020

Some participants described sexual boredom as feeling obligated to engage in undesired sexual acts

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Perceptions of sexual boredom in a community sample. Leonor de Oliveira,Joana Carvalho & Pedro Nobre. Journal of Sex & Marital Thera...

Maybe our visual cortex has, beyond the 2 posited pathways (one computes the identity of an object, the other the location), a 3d one for moving faces & bodies (expressions, eye-gaze, audio-visual integration, intention, mood)

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Evidence for a Third Visual Pathway Specialized for Social Perception. David Pitcher, Leslie G. Ungerleider. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, D...

For the first time in history, neuroscience is beginning to shed light on this long-held mystery of why ental imagery & perception look and feel so different

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Why do imagery and perception look and feel so different? Roger Koenig-Robert and Joel Pearson. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Soci...

The popular Paul Ekman hypothesis of facial micro-expressions as indicators of lies has no scientific support

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Research on Non-verbal Signs of Lies and Deceit: A Blind Alley. Tim Brennen and Svein Magnussen. Front. Psychol., December 14 2020. https://...
Sunday, December 13, 2020

Rolf Degen summarizing... Women who interpreted their significant other's pornography use more favorably reported higher sexual and relationship satisfaction

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A Mixed-Method Analysis of Women’s Attributions about Their Partner’s Pornography Use. Uzma S. Rehman et al. The Journal of Sex Research, De...

We find no evidence that female, minority and low in implicit-bias (thru an IB test) engineers exhibit lower bias or discrimination in their code; but there can be performance improvements through demographic mixing

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Cowgill, Bo and Dell'Acqua, Fabrizio and Deng, Sam and Hsu, Daniel and Verma, Nakul and Chaintreau, Augustin, Biased Programmers? Or Bia...

Nonbelievers endorse a variety of beliefs and rationalistic & humanistic worldviews, which may serve compensatory functions; report meaningful & healthy lives; can show limited prejudice toward ideological opponents

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The psychology of nonbelievers. Filip Uzarevic, Thomas J. Coleman III. Current Opinion in Psychology, Volume 40, August 2021, Pages 131-138....

Heterosexual women reported greater body image disturbance compared to lesbian women on global measures of body image disturbance; gay men reported greater body image disturbance compared to heterosexual men

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Body image disturbance and sexual orientation: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis. Sophie C. Dahlenburg et al. Body Image, Volum...

People find it justified to condemn those who do not keep a distance to others in public & blame ordinary citizens for the severity of the pandemic; predictors are age, behavioral change, social trust, & trust in the government

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Bor, Alexander, Marie F. Lindholt, Frederik J. Jørgensen, and Michael Bang Petersen. 2020. “Moralizing Physical Distancing During the COVID-...

We present workers with misleading advice perceived to be the results of AI calculations and measure their conformity to the erroneous recommendations; such algorithmic recommendations hold strong persuasive power

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What If an AI Told You That 2 + 2 Is 5? Conformity to Algorithmic Recommendations. Yotam Liel, Lior Zalmanson. Conference: International Con...

They reported an average of about 9 opportunities to empathize per day, mostly with very close others; and they empathize with positive emotions three times as frequently as with negative emotions

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Depow, Gregory J., Zoë L. Francis, and Michael Inzlicht. 2020. “The Experience of Empathy in Everyday Life.” PsyArXiv. December 11. doi:10.3...
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...