Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Camille Paglia on Emily Dickinson

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Camille Paglia on Emily Dickinson (Sexual Personae, Yale Univ. Press, 1990, p 638-9) Changed formatting, changed continuity, split whenever ...

Remembering everyday events typically takes less time than the actual duration of the retrieved episodes, a phenomenon that has been referred to as the temporal compression of events in episodic memory

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Slices of the past: how events are temporally compressed in episodic memory. Arnaud D’Argembeau, Olivier Jeunehomme & David Stawarczyk. ...

Trying to make someone else happy leads to greater subjective well-being than trying to make oneself happy; trying to make others happy is more personally beneficial than when others try to make us happy

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Happiness comes from trying to make others feel good, rather than oneself. Liudmila Titova & Kennon M. Sheldon. The Journal of Positive ...

Sociopolitical conservatism is extraordinarily heritable (74%) for the most informed fifth of the public, much more so than population-level results (57%), or 29% for the public’s bottom half

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Kalmoe, N., & Johnson, M. (2021). Genes, Ideology, and Sophistication. Journal of Experimental Political Science, 1-12, Mar 2021. doi:10...
Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Assessed 3 a priori defined cohorts of sexual minorities (born 1956–1963, b. 1974–1981, & b. 1990–1997): Psychological distress & suicide behavior were not improved, were worse for the younger than the older cohorts

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Meyer IH, Russell ST, Hammack PL, Frost DM, Wilson BDM (2021) Minority stress, distress, and suicide attempts in three cohorts of sexual min...

Childhood gender nonconformity & stability of self-reported sexual orientation: Girls reporting being lesbian were more likely to report changes in their sexual orientation than gay adolescent boys

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Xu, Y., Norton, S., & Rahman, Q. (2021). Childhood gender nonconformity and the stability of self-reported sexual orientation from adole...

Jiaolong Co. built a city by being a central contractor, which acquired planning rights by contract, & signed a series of tax sharing contracts with government, farmers, tenants, & businesses, reducing greatly the transaction costs

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From 2016... The Contractual Nature of the City. Qian Lu. Man and the Economy Volume 3 Issue 1, 2016. DOI 10.1515/me-2016-0013 Abstract: Urb...

Association between subjective inequality & less well-being, more depression, anxiety, stress, status anxiety, and less trust: Happened only in the US & in Canada, but not in England, Sweden, Japan, & South Africa

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The Construct of Subjective Economic Inequality. Anita Schmalor, Steven J. Heine. Social Psychological and Personality Science, March 9, 202...

Deceptive up-pricing of low-price wine significantly influenced ratings for pleasantness, whereas deceptive down-pricing of high-price wine had no effect on pleasantness ratings

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Price information influences the subjective experience of wine: A framed field experiment. Christoph Patrick et al. Food Quality and Prefere...

Genetic factors had a regionally variable influence on brain organization, such that the heritability of network topography was greatest in prefrontal, precuneus, and posterior parietal cortex

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Heritability of individualized cortical network topography. Kevin M. Anderson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March ...

OkCupid data: Women are no longer waiting for someone to message them

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One Year Later: How Covid-19 Changed Dating. OkCupid, Feb 26 2021. https://theblog.okcupid.com/one-year-later-how-covid-19-changed-dating-9c...

A large proportion of voters live with virtually no exposure to voters from the other party in their residential environment: Democrats & Republicans living in the same city are segregated by party

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The measurement of partisan sorting for 180 million voters. Jacob R. Brown & Ryan D. Enos. Nature Human Behaviour, March 8 2021. https:/...

For ordinary folk, especially the more educated population in the US, free will is a dynamic construct centred on the ability to choose following one’s goals & desires, whilst being uncoerced & reasonably free from constraints

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Lam, Alison. 2021. “Folk Conceptions of Free Will: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis of Psychological Research.” Thesis Commons. M...
Monday, March 8, 2021

Brain Development and Physical Aggression: Regardless of gender, children’s physical aggressiveness peaks at 2-4 years of age but then starts diverging, as girls learn more quickly than boys to suppress such behaviors

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Brain Development and Physical Aggression: How a Small Gender Difference Grows into a Violence Problem. Lise Eliot. Current Anthropology, Vo...

The Human Brain Is Best Described as Being on a Female/Male Continuum: Evidence from a Neuroimaging Connectivity Study

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The Human Brain Is Best Described as Being on a Female/Male Continuum: Evidence from a Neuroimaging Connectivity Study. Yi Zhang et al. Cere...