Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Video game play is positively correlated with well-being

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Video game play is positively correlated with well-being. Niklas Johannes, Matti Vuorre and Andrew K. Przybylski. Royal Society Open Science...

This leads me to speculate on the consequences of adding a lot of women to formerly male domains

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Academic corruption 2: Emasculated culture. Arnold Kling, February 16, 2021. http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/feminized-culture/ Excerpts: [....

Findings suggest that individuals are unable to accurately identify AI-generated artwork and they are likely to associate representational art to humans and abstract art to machines

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The Role of AI Attribution Knowledge in the Evaluation of Artwork. Harsha Gangadharbatla. Empirical Studies of the Arts, February 16, 2021. ...

Among professionals at entrepreneurship events, those who had started their own business were more likely to be Toxoplasmosis gondii positive

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Toxoplasmosis: Recent Advances in Understanding the Link Between Infection and Host Behavior. Stefanie K. Johnson1 and Pieter T.J. Johnson. ...
Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Rats exhibit behavioral biases similar to human investors, emphasizing the suitability of the rat stock market model to future work into the behavioral neuroscience of suboptimal financial decision-making

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Huttunen, A. W., Reeve, H. M., & Bowman, E. M. (2020). Bull, bear, or rat markets: Rat “stock market” task reveals human-like behavioral...

The persuasiveness of a disregard for the truth

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Bullshitting and persuasion: The persuasiveness of a disregard for the truth. John V. Petrocelli. British Journal of Social Psychology, Febr...

Wearing high heels consistently increased the models’ attractiveness, regardless of whether or not it decreased their natural difference from the theoretically optimal angle of lumbar curvature; both men & women showed this effect

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Women Walk in High Heels: Lumbar Curvature, Dynamic Motion Stimuli and Attractiveness. Norbert Mesk et al. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Heal...

The Contribution of Sex to Quality of Life in Modern Societies: Is Sex Distorted in Modern Societies?

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The Contribution of Sex to Quality of Life in Modern Societies. Bjørn Grinde. Applied Research in Quality of Life, Feb 15 2021. https://rd.s...