Thursday, April 29, 2021

Within age-gap relationships, older men & women were perceived as reaping greater rewards than their younger partners; perceived inequity predicted prejudice towards age-gap, but not age-matched, couples

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Perceived inequity predicts prejudice towards age-gap relationships. Brian Collisson & Luciana Ponce De Leon. Current Psychology volume ...

As a rule, regulation is not acquired by “the industry,” and it is not designed and operated primarily for its benefit; it greatly matters whether regulators believe that regulations will, all things considered, have good consequences

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Sunstein, Cass R., Interest-Group Theories of Regulation: A Skeptical Note (April 18, 2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3829993 Abstrac...

Safetyism (cultures that treat safety as a sacred value): Students’ self-reported prevalence of cognitive distortions positively predicted their endorsement of safetyism beliefs; they saw the opposite for analytic thinking

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Celniker, Jared, Megan Ringel, Karli Nelson, and Peter Ditto. 2021. “Correlates of “coddling”: Cognitive Distortions, Believing Words Can Ha...

Media use on well-being (music, TV, films, video games, (e-)books, (digital) magazines, and audiobooks): The effects were generally small & do not support policies intended to encourage or discourage media use because of well-being

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Johannes, Niklas, Tobias Dienlin, Hasan Bakhshi, and Andrew K. Przybylski. 2021. “No Effect of Different Types of Media on Well-being.” PsyA...
Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Lack of transgenerational effects of ionizing radiation exposure from the Chernobyl accident

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Lack of transgenerational effects of ionizing radiation exposure from the Chernobyl accident. Meredith Yeager et al. Science  Apr 22 2021:ea...

Compared to controls, professional comedians had greater cortical surface area in brain regions that have been previously implicated in abstract, divergent thinking and the default-mode network

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Mapping the “Funny Bone”: Neuroanatomical Correlates of Humor Creativity in Professional Comedians. Jacob Brawer, Ori Amir. Social Cognitive...

Science Skepticism Across 24 Countries: General faith in science was predicted by spirituality, suggesting that it, more than religiosity, may be the ‘enemy’ of science acceptance

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Science Skepticism Across 24 Countries. Bastiaan T. Rutjens et al. Social Psychological and Personality Science, April 28, 2021. https://doi...

Privacy intuitions evolved in an environment that was radically different from the one found online; this evolved privacy psychology leaves people disconnected from the consequence of online privacy threats

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The Privacy Mismatch: Evolved Intuitions in a Digital World. Azim Shariff, Joe Green, William Jettinghoff. Current Directions in Psychologic...

Selling well even when there is no gain... Trigger warning efficacy/impact: Warnings had no significant effect on changes to affect or test scores but did significantly increase perceptions of warnings as necessary

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Boysen, G. A., Isaacs, R. A., Tretter, L., & Markowski, S. (2021). Trigger warning efficacy: The impact of warnings on affect, attitudes...

Hydras, without a central nervous system, seem to have a sleep-like state; seems a conserved sleep mechanisms during the evolutionary development of the central nervous system

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A sleep-like state in Hydra unravels conserved sleep mechanisms during the evolutionary development of the central nervous system. Hiroyuki ...
Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Nationality, age, services offered, ethnicity, region & sexual orientation influenced rates & popularity in the market for commercial sexual services; research consistently underestimates the importance & number of men in sex work

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Selling sex: what determines rates and popularity? An analysis of 11,500 online profiles. Alicia Mergenthaler & Taha Yasseri. Culture, H...

David Schmitt summarizing... From 2020... Contributions to cheating: Age, education, gender, race/ethnicity, religiosity; after statistically accounting for those, people who were less conscientious (less hard-working, organized) were more likely to have a partner cheat on them

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Self‐reported Big Five personality traits of individuals who have experienced partner infidelity. Meghna Mahambrey. Personal Relationships, ...

Beware of correlations: When correlating two signals which both evolve slowly over time, the chances of finding a significant correlation between the two are much higher than when comparing signals which lack this property

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Meijer, Guido. 2021. “Neurons in the Mouse Brain Correlate with Cryptocurrency Price: A Cautionary Tale.” PsyArXiv. April 27. doi:10.31234/o...

Sets of cultural dimensions in the literature: Instead of looking at dimensions from different sets one by one, each set of dimensions can be viewed as one unit covering a certain space of values, norms, beliefs, attitudes

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Merging Hofstede, Schwartz, and Inglehart into a Single System. Anneli Kaasa. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, April 19, 2021. https://...