Sunday, December 27, 2020

Appreciation of achievement and a behavioural preference to view failure (Schadenfreude online): Poorer decision makers prefer that high achievers fail

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Appreciation of achievement and a behavioural preference to view failure: Schadenfreude online. James G.Phillips, C. Erik Landhuis, Jay Wood...

11 children (6-13 years old) diagnosed with disorders known to be receptive to placebos and suggestion entered an inactive MRI scanner which they were told could help their brain heal itself through the power of suggestion

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Olson, Jay A., Michael Lifshitz, Amir Raz, and Samuel P. L. Veissière. 2020. “Super Placebos: A Feasibility Study Combining Contextual Facto...

Political humor increases the likelihood to share political information with others & enhances people’s memory for information; also increases brain response in regions associated with understanding other people’s mental states

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Political Humor, Sharing, and Remembering: Insights from Neuroimaging. Jason C Coronel, Matthew B O’Donnell, Prateekshit Pandey, Michael X D...
Saturday, December 26, 2020

Economic development may not reduce women’s murders by itself, but it can mitigate the effects of male backlash against women who challenge the status quo

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Women’s Murders and the Interaction Between Gender (In)equality and Economic Development: A Subnational Analysis in Turkey. Kerim Can Kavakl...

People are even more outraged by a self-driving car that deliberately kills a less preferred group (e.g., an elderly person over a child) than by one that indiscriminately kills a more preferred group (e.g., a child)

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Deliberately prejudiced self-driving vehicles elicit the most outrage. Julian De Freitas, Mina Cikara. Cognition, Volume 208, March 2021, 10...

No strong evidence for any steroid hormonal effects on mate atraction; further, found no compelling robust evidence for mate preference shifts across the ovulatory cycle

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A longitudinal evaluation of ovulatory cycle shifts in women’s mate attraction and preferences. Julia Stern, Tobias L. Kordsmeyer, & Lar...

The volume of traffic contracted sharply after COVID-19 lockdowns, but motor vehicle fatality rates, injury accidents, & speeding violations went up, and remained elevated even as traffic began returning toward normal

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COVID Lockdowns, Social Distancing, and Fatal Car Crashes: More Deaths on Hobbesian Highways? Marshall W. Meyer . Cambridge Journal of Evide...
Friday, December 25, 2020

There are substantial sex differences in brain activity during long-term memory retrieval: There are sex differences (male > female) in the lateral prefrontal cortex, visual processing regions, parahippocampal cortex, & the cerebellum

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Are there sex differences in brain activity during long-term memory? A systematic review and fMRI activation likelihood estimation meta-anal...

Striving to systematize the conditions under which a generalized coalitional psychology gets activated—the recognition of another’s capacity for and likelihood of coordination not only with oneself but with others

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Cikara, Mina. 2020. “Causes and Consequences of Coalitional Cognition.” OSF Preprints. December 17. doi:10.31219/osf.io/ktpf7 Abstract: What...

Evolutionary advantage view of symmetry preference: Symmetry is expected be higher for potential partners (here human faces) and higher post-puberty when partner choice becomes more relevant

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Preferring and Detecting Face Symmetry: Comparing Children and Adults Judging Human and Monkey Faces. Anthony C. Little and Jack A. F. Griff...

Of the distinct pathways to hypocrisy, violating a moral value that you have signaled to others that you adhere to, & violating a moral value that you genuinely hold, the first is evaluated more negatively

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Jordan, Jillian, and Roseanna Sommers. 2020. “False Signaling and Personal Moral Failings: Two Distinct Pathways to Hypocrisy with Unequal M...

Dreams reflect nocturnal cognitive processes: Early-night dreams are more continuous with waking life, and late-night dreams are more emotional and hyperassociative

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Dreams reflect nocturnal cognitive processes: Early-night dreams are more continuous with waking life, and late-night dreams are more emotio...

Sexual murderers who dismembered their victims: Criminal dismemberment occurred more often as part of a sexual deviance, not as a rational behavior aimed at avoiding detection

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Body dismemberment in sexual homicide cases: lust murder or rational decision? Julien Chopin & Eric Beauregard. Psychology, Crime & ...
Thursday, December 24, 2020

Financial constraints decrease the happiness consumers derive from their purchases; this, in turn, leads to a consequential outcome: less favorable consumer reviews

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Dias, Rodrigo S., Eesha Sharma, and Gavan Fitzsimons. 2020. “Financial Constraints and Purchase Happiness.” PsyArXiv. December 22. doi:10.31...

Younger adults saw themselves as being as “energetic” but “wiser” than their age peers, while older adults saw themselves as being more “energetic” but less “wise” than their age peers

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Young people feel wise and older people feel energetic: comparing age stereotypes and self-evaluations across adulthood. Catherine E. Bowen,...

Brain structure and clinical profile point to neurodevelopmental factors involved in pedophilic disorder

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Brain structure and clinical profile point to neurodevelopmental factors involved in pedophilic disorder. Christoph Abé  Roberth Adebahr  Be...

Not only Trolls are Trolling the Internet: A study on dark personality traits, online environment, and commentary styles

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Not only Trolls are Trolling the Internet: A study on dark personality traits, online environment, and commentary styles. Anna M. Connysdott...

Fatherhood Is Associated with Increased Infidelity In The Current Relationship

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Fatherhood Is Associated with Increased Infidelity and Moderates the Link between Relationship Satisfaction and Infidelity. Tim Jonas Lacker...

Are Men Who Buy Sex Different from Men Who Do Not?: Exploring Sex Life Characteristics Based on a Randomized Population Survey in Sweden

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Are Men Who Buy Sex Different from Men Who Do Not?: Exploring Sex Life Characteristics Based on a Randomized Population Survey in Sweden. Ch...
Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Various indicators of moral character (justice sensitivity, moral value, & moral identity) predicted harsher judgments of others’ than own transgressions, specially when people possessed strong "reputation management" motivation

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Dong, Mengchen, Tom Kupfer, and Jan-Willem van Prooijen. 2020. “Being Good to Look Good: Moral Character Is Positively Associated with Hypoc...

Rolf Degen summarizing... Groups are as susceptible to "choice blindness" as individuals, failing to notice that they had been given false feedback about their previous choices, making the case for the planted ones

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Pärnamets, Philip, Jorina von Zimmermann, Ramsey Raafat, Gabriel Vogel, Lars Hall, Nick Chater, and Petter Johansson. 2020. “Choice Blindnes...

Many people take an essentialist stance toward social categories, leading them to infer that being gay is genetically determined & not subject to free choice or moral responsibility, nor mutable & worth attempting to change

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Kumar, Victor, Aditi Kodipady, and Liane Young. 2020. “A Psychological Account of the Unique Decline in Anti-gay Attitudes.” PsyArXiv. Decem...

From 2019... Two million faces detected from greater than 6 million photos: Much of the emotional variation at different places can be explained by a few factors such as openness

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From 2019... Extracting human emotions at different places based on facial expressions and spatial clustering analysis. Yuhao Kang  Qingyuan...