Saturday, June 5, 2021

Rolf Degen summarizing... The sources of information by which people were most often exposed to politically dissimilar news were search engines and social media, once again giving the lie to the condescending notion of "echo chambers"

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Avenues to News and Diverse News Exposure Online: Comparing Direct Navigation, Social Media, News Aggregators, Search Queries, and Article H...

Insufficiently Complimentary?: Underestimating the Positive Impact of Compliments Creates a Barrier to Expressing Them

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Zhao, Xuan, and Nicholas Epley. 2021. “Insufficiently Complimentary?: Underestimating the Positive Impact of Compliments Creates a Barrier t...

The share of participants willing to be vaccinated increased with the payment amount; a significant change required large rewards of €3,250 or more

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Sprengholz, Philipp, Luca Henkel, and Cornelia Betsch. 2021. “Payments and Freedoms: Effects of Monetary and Legal Incentives on COVID-19 Va...

Romantic Partners Are Similar in Their Well-Being and Sociopolitical Attitudes but Change Independently Over Time

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Romantic Partners Are Similar in Their Well-Being and Sociopolitical Attitudes but Change Independently Over Time. Matthew D. Hammond, Chris...

Those with simple number systems (an upper limit not much higher than ‘four’) often had few material possessions, such as weapons, tools or jewellery; those with elaborate systems always had a richer array of possessions

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How did Neanderthals and other ancient humans learn to count? Colin Barras. Nature 594, 22-25, Jun 2 2021. https://www.nature.com/articles/d...
Friday, June 4, 2021

Based on a panel between 1980 & 2016, I find that one more Sunday with precipitation at the time of church increases yearly drug-related, alcohol-related & white-collar crimes, but not for violent or property crimes

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Sinning in the Rain: Weather Shocks, Church Attendance and Crime. Jonathan Moreno-Medina. The Review of Economics and Statistics 1–46. Mar 1...

Emotions and temperature are closely related through embodied processes, and people seem to associate temperature concepts with emotions

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Barbosa Escobar F, Velasco C, Motoki K, Byrne DV, Wang QJ (2021) The temperature of emotions. PLoS ONE 16(6): e0252408, Jun 3 2021. https://...

Similar to humans, Eurasian jays are susceptible to magic effects that utilize fast movements, but unlike us, they do not appear to be misled by magic effects that rely on the observer’s intrinsic expectations in human object manipulation

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Exploring the perceptual inabilities of Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius) using magic effects. Elias Garcia-Pelegrin, Alexandra K. Schnell...

Observed significant increases in frequencies of alleles of more body fat in females contradicts hypotheses that sex differences have adaptively decreased following subsistence transitions from hunting & gather'g to agric

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Arner AM, Grogan KE, Grabowski M, Reyes-Centeno H, Perry GH (2021) Patterns of recent natural selection on genetic loci associated with sexu...
Thursday, June 3, 2021

Young men & women overestimate their future wages; when given realistic future wage information, women properly adjust down, but men adjust even further up

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Gender differences in wage expectations. Ana Fernandes, Martin Huber, Giannina Vaccaro. PLoS One, June 2, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Higher order cognition is related to baseline pupil size; baseline pupil size is uniquely related to fluid intelligence

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The relationship between baseline pupil size and intelligence. Jason S. Tsukahara, Tyler L. Harrison, Randall W. Engle. Cognitive Psychology...

The intensities of felt shame and of various motivations of shame (hiding, lying, destroying evidence, & threatening witnesses) vary in proportion to one another, & to the degree to which audiences devalue the disgraced individual

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Are Emotions Natural Kinds After All? Rethinking the Issue of Response Coherence. Daniel Sznycer, Adam Scott Cohen. Evolutionary Psychology,...

Protective techniques: Turkana in our sample had a high prevalence of PTSD symptoms, but those with high symptom severity had lower prevalence of depression-like symptoms than American service members

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Combat stress in a small-scale society suggests divergent evolutionary roots for posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms. Matthew R. Zefferma...