Sunday, January 3, 2021

Humans are an ultrasocial species; this sociality, however, cannot be fully explained by the canonical approaches found in evolutionary biology, psychology, or economics

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The Origins and Psychology of Human Cooperation. Joseph Henrich and Michael Muthukrishna. Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 72:- (Volume pub...

Patients with focal lesions to the vmPFC were selectively impaired in projecting themselves to the future and in recognizing relative-future events

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An asymmetry in past and future mental time travel following vmPFC damage. Elisa Ciaramelli, Filomena Anelli, Francesca Frassinetti. Social ...

Temporal Distancing During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Letter Writing with Future Self Can Mitigate Negative Affect

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Chishima, Yuta, I-Ting H. Liu, and Anne E. Wilson. 2021. “Temporal Distancing During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Letter Writing with Future Self ...

Seeing others yawn selectively enhances vigilance: An eye-tracking study of snake detection

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Seeing others yawn selectively enhances vigilance: an eye-tracking study of snake detection. Andrew C. Gallup & Kaitlyn Meyers. Animal C...

Two forms of victimhood (an egocentric one entailing only perceptions of one’s own victimhood, & one focused on blaming “the system”) are confined to neither “actual” victims nor those partisans on the losing side of elections

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‘Why Me?’ The Role of Perceived Victimhood in American Politics. Miles T. Armaly & Adam M. Enders. Political Behavior, Jan 2 2021. https...
Saturday, January 2, 2021

Permanently Online—Always Stressed Out? The Effects of Permanent Connectedness on Stress Experiences

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Permanently Online—Always Stressed Out? The Effects of Permanent Connectedness on Stress Experiences. Anna Freytag, Katharina Knop-Huelss, A...

Unfamiliar faces look sicker; familiar ones look healthier; and during a pandemic the ramifications of neither proposition look good

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Strangers look sicker (with implications in times of COVID‐19). Paola Bressan. BioEssays, November 20 2020. https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.202...