Tuesday, January 26, 2021

The majority of studies observed beneficial effects of restricted social media use on measures of subjective well-being—but few found advantage in being disconnected from their environment

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The Effects of Restricting Social Media Use on Subjective Well-Being – A Systematic Review. Richard Eriksen. Thesis, Bergen Univ, Jan 2020. ...

Reversing the political gender gap, women boycott "evil" products more often than men, partly because they have "nicer" personality traits

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Explaining the Reversed Gender Gap in Political Consumerism: Personality Traits as Significant Mediators. Birte Gundelach  Deborah Kalte. Sw...

Memory of eating was more accurate than memory for other similar behaviors; foods higher in calories were better remembered than foods lower in calories

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Calories count: Memory of eating is evolutionarily special. Benjamin M. Seitz, Aaron P. Blaisdell, A. Janet Tomiyama. Journal of Memory and ...
Monday, January 25, 2021

Women had more favorable attitudes toward the police; those who were victims of crime or had more fear of crime had less satisfaction with the police

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What matters in citizen satisfaction with police: A meta-analysis. Michelle A. Bolger, Daniel J. Lytle, P. Colin Bolger. Journal of Criminal...

Unknowing, indifferent, or committed: Relations between age and assessments of the German population’s involvement and inaction during the time of National Socialism

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Unknowing, indifferent, or committed: Relations between age and assessments of the German population’s involvement and inaction during the t...
Sunday, January 24, 2021

A critical review of mechanisms of adaptation to trauma: Implications for early interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder

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A critical review of mechanisms of adaptation to trauma: Implications for early interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder. Richard A. ...

Exceptionality effect is the phenomenon that people associate stronger negative affect with a negative outcome when it is a result of an exception (abnormal behaviour) compared to when it is a result of routine (normal behaviour)

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Impact of past behaviour normality: meta-analysis of exceptionality effect. Adrien Fillon, Lucas Kutscher & Gilad Feldman. Cognition and...

Increasing the minimum wage could result in low loss of headcounts, but a noticeable reduction of lower-pay hours worked

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RCTs, Epistemology, and the Minimum Wage: Can experimental evidence clear up the debate on the Minimum wage? Maxwell Tabarrok. Jan 22 2021. ...