Friday, March 12, 2021

Cultural values emphasizing the desire to acquire status, as well as cultures values devaluing similarity with others & gender egalitarianism, predict higher levels of competitiveness toward members of one’s own gender

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Buunk, A. P. (2020). Cultural dimensions associated with intrasexual competitiveness. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, Mar 2021. https://do...

Robust evidence that monozygotic twins are more likely to be concordant for handedness than dizygotic twins; this finding supports a partially genetic determination of handedness

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Pfeifer, Lena S., Judith Schmitz, Marietta Papadatou-Pastou, Jutta Peterburs, Silvia Paracchini, and Sebastian Ocklenburg. 2021. “Handedness...

A memory must be malleable to maintain its predictive value in a dynamic environment; after being retrieved, a consolidated memory may become susceptible to updating (via reconsolidation, extinction, or forgetting)

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Understanding the dynamic and destiny of memories. Lucas de Oliveira Alvares, Fabricio H. Do-Monte. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews...

The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Disposable Bag Regulation

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Skipping the Bag: The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Disposable Bag Regulation. Tatiana Homonoff, Lee-Sien Kao, Javiera Selman ...

Meta-analysis: The amygdala is significantly involved in the ha-ha experience of decoding punchlines

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Humor and emotion: Quantitative meta analyses of functional neuroimaging studies. Andrew H. Farkas et al. Cortex, March 11 2021. https://doi...
Thursday, March 11, 2021

Contemporary Post-mortem Survival Narratives are popular & convincing, in part, because they meet default cognitive assumptions about what human survival would look like if it were possible

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From 2018... How to Know You’ve Survived Death: A Cognitive Account of the Popularity of Contemporary Post-mortem Survival Narratives. Clair...

Lifestyle and mental health disruptions during COVID-19

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Lifestyle and mental health disruptions during COVID-19. Osea Giuntella et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2, 202...

We consider whether Orgasmic Meditation (OM), a structured, partnered, largely non-verbal practice that includes genital touch, also increases relationship closeness with both romantic & non-romantic partners

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Prause N, Siegle GJ, Coan J (2021) Partner intimate touch is associated with increased interpersonal closeness, especially in non-romantic p...

Aphantasia: We show that this condition, but not the general population, is associated with a flat-line physiological response (skin conductance levels) to reading and imagining frightening stories

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The critical role of mental imagery in human emotion: insights from fear-based imagery and aphantasia. Marcus Wicken, Rebecca Keogh and Joel...

We judge others to be more deserving of the liar label than one’s self; and we think that the others lie based on their disposition

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You Liar! Attributions of Lying. Drew A. Curtis. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, March 11, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X...

Analysis of 10 countries: Men behaved more prosocially than women, transferring more to an anonymous partner in a prisoner’s dilemma game; this difference in behavior is bigger in more gender egalitarian countries

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Dorrough, A. R., & Glöckner, A. (2020). Sex differences concerning prosocial behavior in social dilemmas are (partially) mediated by ris...

From 2020... Personality matters for student behavior: Higher conscientiousness and agreeableness predict less absenteeism, cheating, misuse of resources, lack of effort, rule-breaking, etc.

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Cuadrado D, Salgado JF, Moscoso S (2020) Individual differences and counterproductive academic behaviors in high school. PLoS ONE 15(9): e02...

Having tried a classic psychedelic at least once in life had significantly higher odds of greater self-reported overall health & significantly lower odds of being overweight or obese vs. having a normal weight

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Associations between lifetime classic psychedelic use and markers of physical health. Otto Simonsson, James D Sexton, Peter S Hendricks. Jou...

The Difficulty of Listening to Talkers With Masks: Meta-cognitive monitoring (the ability to adapt self-judgments to actual performance) worsens

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Unmasking the Difficulty of Listening to Talkers With Masks: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. Elena Giovanelli et al. i-Perception, March...