Friday, March 26, 2021

STEM education: Compared with the US, students in China, India & Russia do not gain critical thinking skills over 4 years; & while students in India & Russia gain academic skills during the first 2 years, students in China do not

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Skill levels and gains in university STEM education in China, India, Russia and the United States. Prashant Loyalka, Ou Lydia Liu, Guirong L...

Belgian representative sample: Young adults 16 - 24 years are twice as likely to be victimized in their lifetimes & more than three times more likely in the past 12 months compared to adults aged 50 - 69 years

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Schapansky, Evelyn, Joke Depraetere, Ines Keygnaert, and Christophe Vandeviver. 2020. “Prevalence and risk factors of sexual victimization: ...

Women are more liberal and more conservative than men at the same time

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Gender Differences in Social and Political Attitudes: It’s Protection versus Freedom, not Liberalism versus Conservatism. Gerhard Meisenberg...

Challenging the Link Between Early Childhood Television Exposure and Later Attention Problems

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Challenging the Link Between Early Childhood Television Exposure and Later Attention Problems: A Multiverse Approach. Matthew T. McBee, Rebe...

Collectively, our results reveal spatially covarying transcriptomic and cognitive architectures, highlighting the influence that molecular mechanisms exert on psychological processes

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Mapping gene transcription and neurocognition across human neocortex. Justine Y. Hansen, Ross D. Markello, Jacob W. Vogel, Jakob Seidlitz, D...

Who Likes What Kind of News? It appears that men have higher interest in news categories characterized by competition aspects

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Who Likes What Kind of News? The Relationship Between Characteristics of Media Consumers and News Interest. Kai Kaspar, Lisa Anna Marie Fuch...

Authoritarian family types are, against Todd's predictions, linked to increased levels of the rule of law & innovation; communitarian family types are linked to racism, low levels of the rule of law, & late industrialization, as predicted

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Gutmann, J., & Voigt, S. (2021). Testing Todd: Family types and development. Journal of Institutional Economics, 1-18. https://www.cambr...
Thursday, March 25, 2021

People with schizophrenia, and possibly forensic personality disorders populations, demonstrate a range of reading skills deficits

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Reading skills deficits in people with mental illness: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Martina Vanova et al. European Psychiatry, Vol...

Promoting a message that highlights threat to life may be effective in raising levels of adherence to measures of infection control, but may also lead to a reduction in health-promoting behaviours

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Brown, Richard D., Lynne Coventry, and Gillian V. Pepper. 2020. “COVID-19: The Relationship Between Perceptions of Risk and Behaviours Durin...

No convincing evidence outgroups are denied uniquely human characteristics: Distinguishing intergroup preference from trait-based dehumanization

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No convincing evidence outgroups are denied uniquely human characteristics: Distinguishing intergroup preference from trait-based dehumaniza...