Sunday, December 20, 2020

Why are Bats a Reservoir of Virulent Zoonotic Diseases? Inter alia, colonies can reach densities of 3000 bats/sq.m., in populations of up to a million individuals per roost

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On the Evolution of Virulent Zoonotic Viruses in Bats. Frans L. Roes. Biological Theory volume 15, pages223–225(2020). https://link.springer...

Sixteen facial expressions occur in similar contexts worldwide

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Sixteen facial expressions occur in similar contexts worldwide. Alan S. Cowen, Dacher Keltner, Florian Schroff, Brendan Jou, Hartwig Adam ...

It is argued that when cultural values provide a rationale for ostracism, this can eliminate ostracism distress

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Can cultural values eliminate ostracism distress? Erez Yaakobi. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Volume 80, January 2021, P...

Not only individuals overestimate their intelligence & do so particularly for domains in which they perform poorly; estimates given by others are equally accurate or sometimes even more accurate than self-estimates

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Chp 49 - Self- and Other-Estimates of Intelligence. Aljoscha C. Neubauer, Gabriela Hofer. In The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence, Edited ...

Gender Differences in Competition & Evidence From a Matrilineal & a Patriarchal Society: Maasai men opt to compete at roughly twice the rate as Maasai women; Khasi women choose the competitive environment more often than men

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From 2009... Gender Differences in Competition: Evidence From a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal Society. Uri Gneezy  Kenneth L. Leonard  John ...

Rolf Degen summarizing... The personality trait that keeps people most strongly from infidelity is the "dutifulness" component of conscientiousness

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The five factor model and infidelity: Beyond the broad domains. C.J.J. van Zyl. Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 172, April 20...

COVID-19 until Aug 2020: Overall, we find that fear steadily decreased after a peak in April 2020; elevated fear was predicted by region (i.e., North America), anxious traits, and media use

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Mertens, Gaëtan, Stefanie Duijndam, Paul Lodder, and Tom Smeets. 2020. “Pandemic Panic? Results of a 6-month Longitudinal Study on Fear of C...

Bisexual disclosure was positively associated with well-being after accounting for the contribution of sexual minority disclosure

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Brownfield, J. M., & Brown, C. (2020). The relations among outness, authenticity, and well-being for bisexual adults. Psychology of Sexu...

Thus, we cannot conclude from this study that lies always travel faster than the truth

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Bruns, Axel & Keller, Tobias (2020) News diffusion on Twitter: Comparing the dissemination careers for mainstream and marginal news. In ...
Saturday, December 19, 2020

Is the Myth of Left-wing Authoritarianism Itself a Myth?

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Conway, Lucian G., III, Alivia Zubrod, Linus Chan, James McFarland, and Evert Van de Vliert. 2020. “Is the Myth of Left-wing Authoritarianis...

Traditional (print and audiovisual) media, including popular outlets, continue to be the major contributors to people’s knowledge about current affairs and that social media hardly contribute at all

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What do people learn from following the news? A diary study on the influence of media use on knowledge of current news stories. Kathleen Bec...

Less youth crime not related to changes in attachment/commitment to school, community involvement, or parental supervision, but to a decrease in unstructured socializing & alcohol consumption, & less preference for risky activities

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The contemporary transformation of american youth: An analysis of change in the prevalence of delinquency, 1991–2015. Eric P. Baumer  Kelsey...

Risk Taking for Potential Losses (but Not Gains) Increases with Time of Day

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Bedder, Rachel, Matilde M. Vaghi, Raymond J. Dolan, and Robb Rutledge. 2020. “Risk Taking for Potential Losses but Not Gains Increases with ...
Friday, December 18, 2020

Heritability of sedentary behavior: Genetic factors explained 56% of the individual differences in objective sedentary behavior & 26% of the individual differences in self‐reported sedentary behavior

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Heritability of objectively assessed and self‐reported sedentary behavior. Nienke M. Schutte  Charlotte Huppertz  Stieneke Doornweerd  Meike...

Although surgeons & laypeople generally fail to recognize cosmetic surgery benefits beyond mere aesthetics, men & women bragging about cosmetic surgeries are deemed as higher in status; women gain in attractiveness

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Folwarczny, Michal, and Tobias Otterbring. 2020. “Cosmetic Surgeries as Conspicuous Consumption: Disclosing Information About Having Undergo...

Helpers anticipated less appreciation for partial help than help-seekers felt in receiving it

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Halfway to My Request Is Not Halfway to My Heart: Underestimating Appreciation for Partial Help. Yilu Wang, Xiaofei Xie. Personality and Soc...

Early blindness does not critically impact on the development of the “social brain,” with social tasks performed on the basis of auditory or tactile information driving consistent node activations like those of the sighted

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Social cognition in the blind brain: A coordinate‐based meta‐analysis. Maria Arioli  Emiliano Ricciardi  Zaira Cattaneo. Human Brain Mapping...