Thursday, May 13, 2021

On days when employees reflected on their best possible leader self, they engaged in more helping and visioning via positive affect

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Reflecting on one's best possible self as a leader: Implications for professional employees at work. Remy E. Jennings  Klodiana Lanaj  J...

Desire for power mediates associations between narcissism and mate retention behaviors; the present studies provide additional support for the importance of distinguishing between different aspects of narcissism

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Desire for power mediates associations between narcissism and mate retention behaviors. Virgil Zeigler‐Hill  David Andrews  Karla Borgerding...

High‐Status people are more individualistic and analytic‐thinking in the west and wheat‐farming areas, but not rice‐farming areas

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High‐Status people are more individualistic and analytic‐thinking in the west and wheat‐farming areas, but not rice‐farming areas. Haotian Z...

Body-wide unique photoreceptor cells that allows head-removed flatworms to move like intact animals reveals the mechanistic framework underpinning one of the most sensitive eye–brain-independent responses known

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Discovery of a body-wide photosensory array that matures in an adult-like animal and mediates eye–brain-independent movement and arousal. Ni...

Many initiatives have been put in place to reduce the effect of gender differences in negotiation; the strongest evidence on effectiveness in narrowing gender disparities is found for policies that increase transparency

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Gender Differences in Negotiation and Policy for Improvement. Maria Recalde & Lise Vesterlund. NBER Working Paper 28183, December 2020. ...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

More-men-more-violence association holds particularly for male violence against other men, but is insignificant for violence against women; significant among childless men, but not fathers; robustness checks question causality of associations

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Are skewed sex ratios associated with violent crime? A longitudinal analysis using Swedish register data. Andreas Filser et al. Evolution an...

CRED Louvain climate disaster events “This is creating weather-related disasters that are completely unprecedented”

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Dot Earth NEW YORK TIMES BLOG SEARCH Gore Pulls Slide of Disaster Trends BY ANDREW C. REVKIN FEBRUARY 23, 2009 12:31 PM February 23, 2009 1...

From 2019... Middle‐aged women with a greater number of recent stressful life events demonstrate memory decline over a decade later

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Stressful life events and cognitive decline: Sex differences in the Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area Follow‐Up Study. Cynthia A. Munro...

From “NASA Lies” to “Reptilian Eyes”: Mapping Communication About 10 Conspiracy Theories

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From “Nasa Lies” to “Reptilian Eyes”: Mapping Communication About 10 Conspiracy Theories, Their Communities, and Main Propagators on Twitter...

Since it is difficult to hold politicians accountable for personal welfare changes, to protect our self-image we tend to take personal responsibility for positive changes & hold the government responsible for negative changes

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How Do Voters Hold Politicians Accountable for Personal Welfare? Evidence of a Self-Serving Bias. Martin Vinæs Larsen. The Journal of Politi...
Tuesday, May 11, 2021

We strongly overestimate the power of self-interest on others' blood donation willingness and smoking policies

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Self-interest Is Overestimated: Two Successful Pre-registered Replications and Extensions of Miller and Ratner (1998). Cameron Brick et al. ...

Negative events and experience, although lower in frequency, are more salient and have a higher urgency; negative ties are more consequential for individual outcomes than positive ones

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Negative Social Ties: Prevalence and Consequences. Shira Offer. Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 47, July 2021, online May 3, 2021. https:...

We identify several methodological & conceptual factors—in particular, an overreliance on self-reports—that likely inflated, or even wholly created, the apparent associations between disgust sensitivity, ideology, & pandemic response

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Ruisch, Benjamin, Shelby Boggs, Courtney Moore, Javier G. Samayoa, Jesse T. Ladanyi, Steffen Steinert, and Russell Fazio. 2021. “Investigati...

We identify weaknesses and inconsistencies in the Sperm Count Decline hypothesis; sperm count varies within a wide range, much of which can be considered non-pathological and species-typical

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The future of sperm: a biovariability framework for understanding global sperm count trends. Marion Boulicault et al. Human Fertility, May 1...