Saturday, January 30, 2021

Recordings of our voice: We can hear with pitiless objectivity all aspects of how we speak, including the unconscious ways we manipulate prosody, pace, and pronunciation to create the voice we wish we had

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John Colapinto: This Is the Voice.  Simon & Schuster (January 26, 2021). https://www.amazon.com/This-Voice-John-Colapinto/dp/1982128747/...

The researchers perceived a high prevalence of duplicate publication (66.5%) & self-plagiarism (59.0%), use of personal influence (57.5%) & citation manipulation (44.0%); low perceived incidence of data falsification (10.0%)

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Research Misconduct in the Fields of Ethics and Philosophy: Researchers’ Perceptions in Spain. Ramón A. Feenstra, Emilio Delgado López-Cózar...

Despite the prominence of feminist anti-porn groups & arguments in past decades, it is not true that support for anti-porn legislation has been discernibly driven by egalitarianism, but for patriarchal beliefs & values

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Protection or Patriarchy? Gender Ideology and Support for Anti-pornography Legislation, 1988–2018. Samuel L. Perry & Elizabeth E. McElro...

Girls have worse average mental health than boys across 4 measures of mental health; this sex gap is largely ubiquitous cross-culturally; more gender equal countries have larger gender gaps in mental health

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The gender gap in adolescent mental health: a cross-national investigation of 566,829 adolescents across 73 countries. O.L.K. Campbell, Davi...

People have a more positive relationship with action than with inaction, expect more favorable outcomes from it, and would rather act than refrain from acting when in doubt

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Are actions better than inactions? Positivity, outcome, and intentionality biases in judgments of action and inaction. Aashna Sunderrajan, D...

Individual variation in religiosity is well explained by the interaction of increased levels of social mistrust and increased needs to moralize other people’s sexual behaviors

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Predictive modeling of religiosity, prosociality, and moralizing in 295,000 individuals from European and non-European populations. Pierre O...

Towards a neuropsychology of political orientation: exploring ideology in patients with frontal and midbrain lesions

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Hannah Nam H, Jost JT, Meager MR, Van Bavel JJ. Towards a neuropsychology of political orientation: exploring ideology in patients with fron...

Mental Imagery of Free Fall: We do not see acceleration, but a constant speed

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Mental Imagery of Free Fall: Does a Falling Apple Accelerate in Our Minds? Daniel Bratzke and Rolf Ulrich. Timing & Time Perception, Jan...

When husbands are somewhat older than wives (but neither much older nor much younger), selective fitness is high, as operationalized by rates of short-term infant survival and neonatal breastfeeding

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Pelham, B. W. (2021). The husband-older age gap in marriage is associated with selective fitness. Journal of Personality and Social Psycholo...
Friday, January 29, 2021

Arab Countries: First large-scale multi-national survey to be conducted in Arab countries to investigate pornography viewing

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MA Eljawad, H Se'eda, S Ghozy, et al. Pornography Use Prevalence and Associated Factors in Arab Countries: A Multinational Cross-Section...
Thursday, January 28, 2021

Rolf Degen summarizing... Our memory helps preserve a rosy view, wiping out inconvenient truths about ourselves

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Optimistic Amnesia: How Online and Offline Processing Shape Belief Updating and Memory Biases in Immediate and Long-Term Optimism Biases. Zi...

We could thus find no link between handedness and depression

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Packheiser, Julian, Judith Schmitz, Gesa Berretz, Lena S. Pfeifer, Clara C. Stein, Marietta Papadatou-Pastou, Jutta Peterburs, et al. 2021. ...

To Avoid More Political Violence, Allow Americans To Escape Each Other's Control - Let people join with the like-minded to reject officials and laws that don’t suit them and to construct systems that do

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To Avoid More Political Violence, Allow Americans To Escape Each Other's Control. J D Tuccille. Reason, Jan 19 2021. https://reason.com/...

Receptivity to casual sexual requests: The more attractive the requester, the higher the proportion of agreement; heterosexuals were most impacted by the attractiveness of the target

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Receptivity to casual sexual requests. John E. Edlund ,Dailyn Q. Clark,Alissa M. Kalmus &Aquene Sausville. The Journal of Social Psychol...

Secular rituals might play a similar role to religious ones in fostering feelings of social connection and boosting positive affect

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Charles SJ, van Mulukom V, Brown JE, Watts F, Dunbar RIM, Farias M (2021) United on Sunday: The effects of secular rituals on social bonding...

Europe & marriage of the unequals: Authors confirm the decline of hypergamy as women gain advantage in education, with only 4 countries out of 27 showing some remnants of a male educational lead

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Educational assortative mating and the decline of hypergamy in 27 European countries: An examination of trends through cohorts. Dávid Erát. ...

People more receptive to bullshit grossly overestimate their ability to detect it and believe they are better able to detect it than others (i.e., “bullshit blind spot”)

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A bullshit blind spot? Dunning-Kruger effects in bullshit detection. Shane Littrell and Jonathan Fugelsang. Waterloo Univ., Jan 2021. https:...