Saturday, January 16, 2021

Many therapists search online for information about patients; meanwhile, while they believe their patients search for them, they find it difficult to raise the topic directly in therapy

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Secret powers: Acts of Googling in the therapeutic relationship. Leora Trub  Danielle Magaldi. Journal of Clinical Psychology, January 15 20...

Youth who perceive themselves as more attractive engage in more—not less—offending; depression, which is treated as a form of negative affect, does not appear to mediate this relationship

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Self-Perceptions of Attractiveness and Offending During Adolescence. Thomas J. Mowen et al. Crime & Delinquency, January 12, 2021. https...

Through different administrations, liberals are shown more likely than self-identified conservatives to avoid interactions with and exposure to ideological disagreement; liberals are largely ideologically consistent

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Ideological Bubbles and Two Types of Conservatives. Deborah J Schildkraut, Jeffrey M Berry, James M Glaser. Public Opinion Quarterly, nfaa02...

Calado et al. (2020)'s study not only showed that repeated events can be implanted, it raised doubts about the idea that repeated events might be harder to implant than single events

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What science tells us about false and repressed memories. Henry Otgaar ORCID Icon,Mark L. Howe & Lawrence Patihis. Memory, Jan 12 2021. ...

How does memory for the public past differ from memory for the personal past?

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The good old days and the bad old days: evidence for a valence-based dissociation between personal and public memory. Sushmita Shrikanth ...
Friday, January 15, 2021

Facial recognition technology: Political orientation was correctly classified in 72% of liberal–conservative face pairs, remarkably better than chance (50%), human accuracy (55%), or 100-item questionnaire (66%)

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Facial recognition technology can expose political orientation from naturalistic facial images. Michal Kosinski. Scientific Reports volume 1...

This is a clear indication that the global signal from human-induced climate change is now as powerful as the force of nature, said Prof. Taalas

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2020 was one of three warmest years on record. World Meteorological Organization Press Release Number 14012021. January 14 2021. https://pub...

Although some mating strategies among gay people resemble heterosexuals of the same sex, others resemble heterosexuals of the opposite sex, & yet in others, the pattern is different than among either heterosexual men or women

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Valentova, Jaroslava V., and Marco Antonio C. Varella. 2021. “Initiation of Non-heterosexual Relationships.” PsyArXiv. January 14. doi:10.31...

Monkeys Prefer Reality Tee Vee

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Bliss-Moreau, Eliza, Anthony Santistevan, and Christopher Machado. 2021. “Monkeys Prefer Reality Television.” PsyArXiv. January 12. doi:10.3...

Much of science, including public health research, focuses on means (averages); the purpose of the present paper is to reinforce the idea that variability matters just as well

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Variability Matters. Maarten Jan Wensink, Linda Juel Ahrenfeldt and Sören Möller. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(1), 157; Dece...

Discrimination was positively associated with anxiety and negative affect, operationalized by a common latent factor; anxiety and related disorders are not a result of common genetic liability alone

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Discrimination and anxiety: Using multiple polygenic scores to control for genetic liability. Adolfo G. Cuevas, Frank D. Mann, David R. Will...

The Serpentine Illusion: A Visual Motion Illusion Induced by Phase-Shifted Line Gratings

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The Serpentine Illusion: A Visual Motion Illusion Induced by Phase-Shifted Line Gratings. Junxiang Luo et al. Front. Neurosci., December 7 2...