Saturday, April 17, 2021

Strikingly, compared with younger adults, older people were more willing to put in effort for others and exerted equal force for themselves and others

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Aging Increases Prosocial Motivation for Effort. Patricia L. Lockwood et al. Psychological Science, April 16, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1177/...
Friday, April 16, 2021

Mindfulness Decreases Prosocial Behavior for Those with Independent Self-construals

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Poulin, Michael, Lauren Ministero, Shira Gabriel, Carrie Morrison, and Esha Naidu. 2021. “Minding Your Own Business? Mindfulness Decreases P...

Moral panic about fake news? It is problematic to establish causal relationships between fake news and the effects it has been said to produce

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Misinformation about fake news: A systematic critical review of empirical studies on the phenomenon and its status as a ‘threat’. Fernando M...

Life satisfaction predicted by different "recipes" (or sets) of personal values between 5 regions of the world in massive study of over 100,000 people; community, voluntary, satisfaction with finances, and exercise were common

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Alternative Recipes for Life Satisfaction: Evidence from Five World Regions. Bruce Headey, Gisela Trommsdorff & Gert G. Wagner. Applied ...

Japan: Narcissism encourages guilt and therefore inhibits lying behavior

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Daiku Y, Serota KB, Levine TR (2021) A few prolific liars in Japan: Replication and the effects of Dark Triad personality traits. PLoS ONE 1...
Thursday, April 15, 2021

Opening up relationships: Those with perceptions of higher‐quality alternatives had clearly more interest in consensual non‐monogamy

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Quality of alternatives positively associated with interest in opening up a relationship. Geoff MacDonald  Yoobin Park  Alathea Hayes  Isabe...

How Narcissism Shapes Responses to Antisocial and Prosocial Behavior: Hypo-Responsiveness

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How Narcissism Shapes Responses to Antisocial and Prosocial Behavior: Hypo-Responsiveness or Hyper-Responsiveness? Jiafang Chen et al. Perso...

The tendency toward last-minute cancellations (“social zapping”) is mainly predicted by Machiavellianism & narcissism; attentional impulsivity & timeliness procrastination are additional predictors

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Predictors of social-zapping behavior: Dark Triad, impulsivity, and procrastination facets contribute to the tendency toward last-minute can...

Professionals keep overestimating replicability of research

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Gordon M, Viganola D, Dreber A, Johannesson M, Pfeiffer T (2021) Predicting replicability—Analysis of survey and prediction market data from...