Saturday, January 9, 2021

Quantum money, which has recently been partially implemented in an experimental setting, offers the privacy & anonymity of physical cash, & the option to transact without the involvement of a third party

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Quantum Technology for Economists. Isaiah Hull, Or Sattath, Eleni Diamanti3, and Goran Wendin. Sveriges Riksbank Working Paper Series, No. 3...

Adjusting for absolute body mass index, individuals with high relative BMI are more likely to report low levels of life satisfaction; the link between relative BMI & life satisfaction is similar for both men & women

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Assessing the importance of relative body weight in shaping life satisfaction: Evidence from 1 million Americans. Jinho Kim. Current Psychol...

Playboy and Pornification: 65 Years of the Playboy Centerfold

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Playboy and Pornification: 65 Years of the Playboy Centerfold. Hannah Regan. Sexuality & Culture, Jan 9 2021. https://rd.springer.com/ar...

Buying local: This paper's main finding is that these justifications fail to provide a strong positive ethical reason for consumers in general to adopt the practice

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Should You Buy Local? Carson Young. Journal of Business Ethics, Jan 3 2021. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-020-04701-3 Abs...

On one hand, an informed citizenry is allegedly necessary for a democracy to flourish; on the other hand, the most knowledgeable and passionate voters are also the most likely to think in corrupted, biased ways

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Are Smarter Voters Better Voters? Michael Hannon. PhilPapers, Jan 2021. https://philpapers.org/rec/HANASV Abstract: It is widely believed th...

The Primacy of Morality in Impression Development: Sociability (e.g., friendliness & likeability) or competence are less important than morality (e.g., honesty & trustworthiness) in our valuations of persons or groups

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The Primacy of Morality in Impression Development: Theory, Research, and Future Directions. Marco Brambilla et al. Advances in Experimental ...

The overconfidence transmission effect persisted over time & task domains, elevating overconfidence even days after initial exposure; may be in part responsible for why local confidence norms emerge in groups/teams/organizations

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Cheng, J. T., Anderson, C., Tenney, E. R., Brion, S., Moore, D. A., & Logg, J. M. (2021). The social transmission of overconfidence. Jou...
Friday, January 8, 2021

Ageing in Better Mental Health

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Ageing in Better Mental Health. Marisa Cordella, Aldo Poiani. Fulfilling Ageing pp 201-354, January 5 2021. https://link.springer.com/chapte...

From 1999... Availability cascade is a belief formation process by which an expressed perception triggers a chain reaction that gives the perception of increasing plausibility through its rising availability in public discourse

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Kuran, Timur and Sunstein, Cass R., Availability Cascades and Risk Regulation. Stanford Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 4, 1999, U of Chicago, Publ...

Previous research has found that women at peak fertility show greater interest in extra-pair sex; however, recent replications have failed to detect this effect

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Current Fertility Status Does Not Predict Sociosexual Attitudes and Desires in Normally Ovulating Women. Andrew G. Thomas.  Evolutionary Psy...

Transgender Identity Is Associated With Bullying Involvement Among Finnish Adolescents: Both as victims and as perpetrators

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Transgender Identity Is Associated With Bullying Involvement Among Finnish Adolescents. Elias Heino et al. Front. Psychol., January 8 2021. ...

The Stock Market as a Casino: Associations Between Costly Excessive Stock Market Trading and Problem Gambling

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Mosenhauer, Moritz, Philip W. S. Newall, and Lukasz Walasek. 2021. “The Stock Market as a Casino: Associations Between Costly Excessive Stoc...
Thursday, January 7, 2021

The Psychology, Geography, and Architecture of Horror: How Places Creep Us Out

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The Psychology, Geography, and Architecture of Horror: How Places Creep Us Out. Francis T. McAndrew. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Cul...

Women: Of factors like sexual orientation/shame/pride/assertiveness/& attitudes (permissiveness, birth control &c), and endorsement of traditional gender roles & of the double standard, assertiveness better predicts more orgasms

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The Big “O”: Sociocultural Influences on Orgasm Frequency and Sexual Satisfaction in Women. Anna Maree Lentz & Yuliana Zaikman. Sexualit...

Drosophila brain: The systems that mediate the pleasure component of reward in mammals, including those involving the endogenous opioid & endocannabinoid systems, are unlikely to be present in insects

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Drosophila reward system - A summary of current knowledge. Jiri Dvoracek, Dalibor KodrIk. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, January ...

Comparison of the Hadza hunter-gatherers & non-human primates: The sexual division of labour likely co-evolved with increased sex differences in spatial behaviour and landscape use

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Gendered movement ecology and landscape use in Hadza hunter-gatherers. Brian M. Wood, Jacob A. Harris, David A. Raichlen, Herman Pontzer, Ka...