Friday, January 1, 2021

Police stations are more likely to be located within walking distance of foreign religious sites (churches) than temples, even after controlling for the estimated population within 1km of each site & a set of key site attributes

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Standing By: The Spatial Organization of Coercive Institutions in China. Adam Y. Liu, Charles Chang. Social Science Research, January 1 2021...

92pct were willing to sacrifice at least some money to help their inparty & hurt the ouparty; strong partisans & extreme ideologues sacrificed more resources for the inparty, wherereas the opposite occured for the outparty

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Altruism and Spite in Politics: How the Mind Makes Welfare Tradeoffs About Political Parties. Alessandro Del Ponte, Andrew W. Delton & P...

The End of the Wilsonian Era: Why Liberal Internationalism Failed

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The End of the Wilsonian Era: Why Liberal Internationalism Failed. Walter Russell Mead. Foreign Affairs, January/February 2021. https://www....
Thursday, December 31, 2020

One of the tested childhood scents, bubblegum, was considered the most familiar but also the most nostalgic, eliciting higher self-esteem, social connection, optimism, and inspiration

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Psychological Implications of Nostalgic Scents of Childhood. Eirini Petratou, Nasia Paradisi, Odysseas Diamantis, Anastasios Stalikas. Psych...

Women were more stigmatized for being overweight when the fat came in the wrong, non-canonical, "unwomanly" shape, sometimes even more strongly stigmatizing targets with less rather than more body mass

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Krems, Jaimie, and Steven L. Neuberg. 2020. “Updating Long-held Assumptions About Fat Stigma: For Women, Body Shape Plays a Critical Role.” ...

The prevailing orthodoxy is that single cells cannot learn; Beatrice Gelber & more recent studies suggest that such learning may be evolutionarily more widespread & fundamental to life than previously thought

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Reconsidering the evidence for learning in single cells. Samuel J. Gershman et al. Dec 2020. https://gershmanlab.com/pubs/cell_learning.pdf ...

White individuals have become less supportive of trade than minorities and that whites are more likely than minorities to favor trade with highly similar countries

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The Racialization of International Trade. Diana Mutz  Edward D. Mansfield  Eunji Kim. Political Psychology, December 15 2020. https://doi.or...

Decline in Marriage Associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States

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Decline in Marriage Associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States. Brandon G. Wagner, Kate H. Choi, Philip N. Cohen. Socius, De...

It is documented that the elderly are more religious and that religiosity is associated with better health & lower mortality; contrary to wide‐held beliefs, religiosity decreases with greater expected proximity to death

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Aging, Proximity to Death, and Religiosity. Marie Lechler  Uwe Sunde. Population and Development Review, August 24 2020. https://doi.org/10....