Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Rolf Degen summarizing... The expression of moral outrage on Twitter is at least partly maintained by reinforcement learning, the reaping of social rewards

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Brady, William J., Killian L. McLoughlin, Tuan N. Doan, and Molly Crockett. 2021. “How Social Learning Amplifies Moral Outrage Expression in...

If platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter are the engines of social media use, what is the gasoline? The answer can be found in the psychological dynamics behind consumer habit formation & performance

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Habits and the electronic herd: The psychology behind social media’s successes and failures. Ian A. Anderson  Wendy Wood. Consumer Psycholog...

People sometimes treat the moral value of a belief as an independent justification for belief, and on that basis, sometimes prescribe evidentially poor beliefs to others

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Morality justifies motivated reasoning in the folk ethics of belief. Corey Cusimano, Tania Lombrozo. Cognition, January 19 2021, 104513. htt...

Are big and small lies complementary or supplementary? The participants who lie more in the big lie, also do so in the small lie and vice versa

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Big and Small Lies. Diogo Geraldes, Franziska Heinicke, Duk Gyoo Kim. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, January 18 2021, 101...
Monday, January 18, 2021

Inequity aversion and fairness sensitivity in rats suggest that rudiments for such social motives can be found in evolutionary distant relatives to humans, implying conserved origins

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From 2019... Inequity aversion in social species. Lina Oberliessen. PhD Thesis, Mathematisch Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Heinrich-H...

Disclosure of sexual secrets almost never resulted in relationship dissolution & over 1/3 of the sample said they appreciated the honest disclosure; plus, keeping sex secrets was related to lower relationship satisfaction

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“Thanks for Telling Me”: The Impact of Disclosing Sex Secrets on Romantic Relationships. Lacey J. Ritter, Tara Martin, Keely Fox, David Knox...
Sunday, January 17, 2021

Exposure to high testosterone levels in the womb led girls to exhibit more male gender-typed behavior and to show increased interest in boys as playmates

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Prenatal androgen exposure and children's gender-typed behavior and toy and playmate preferences. Debra Spencer et al. Hormones and Beha...

Placebo makeup: Women in the simulation phase considered themselves more feminine, healthier, and with higher self-esteem than without makeup

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Valentova, Jaroslava V., Anthonieta L. Mafra, Natália Machado, and Marco Antonio C. Varella. 2021. “Makeup and Its Application Simulation Af...
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 ...