Sunday, June 27, 2021

Ostensibly non-political objects and activities are becoming “partisan”; there is accordingly talk of a cultural divide between latte-drinking, Volvo-driving liberals & NASCAR-watching, truck-driving conservatives

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Cued by Culture: Political Imagery and Partisan Evaluations. Dan Hiaeshutter-Rice, Fabian G. Neuner & Stuart Soroka. Political Behavior,...

People rely on photos as memory cues as a means to mitigate the cognitive limitations in encoding, storing, and retrieving experiences, & sometimes treat cameras as an external memory device, offloading their memories onto the camera

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Henkel, L. A., Nash, R. A., & Paton, J. A. (2021). “Say cheese!”: How taking and viewing photos can shape memory and cognition. In S. M....

From 2018... Adult entertainment establishments in NY City decrease daily sex crime between 7% & 13% with no effect on other types of crimes or in other precints; potential sex offenders become customers of the entertainment establishments

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The Effects of Adult Entertainment Establishments on Sex Crime: Evidence from New York City. Riccardo Ciacci, Maria Micaela Sviatschi. Princ...
Saturday, June 26, 2021

Brain volumetric changes in the general population following the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown: The intense experience induced transient volumetric changes in brain regions commonly associated with stress & anxiety

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Brain volumetric changes in the general population following the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown. Tom Salomon et al. NeuroImage, June 26 2021...

Motivations—in particular, a need to belong—may be foundational for the development of social essentialism; children consider intentional behaviors performed by in-group members as normative

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A Motivational Perspective on the Development of Social Essentialism. Gil Diesendruck. Current Directions in Psychological Science, January ...
Friday, June 25, 2021

Fictions with imaginary worlds should be more appealing for individuals higher in Openness to experience, for younger people, & be more successful in more economically developed societies

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Why imaginary worlds? Exploratory preferences explain the cultural success of fictions with imaginary worlds in modern societies. Edgar Dubo...

Modern racial categorization may be a byproduct of a system designed for ancestral alliance detection; phenotype-based classifications are suppressed when valid cues of allegiance are made

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A Sufficiency Test of the Alliance Hypothesis of Race. Daniel Conroy-Beam. Human Behavior & Evolution Society HBES 2021, Jun-Jul 2021. h...

It is more permissible to harm a few animals to save a greater number of animals than to harm a few humans to save a greater number of humans, even when animals are described as having greater suffering capacity than some humans

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Caviola, L., Kahane, G., Everett, J. A. C., Teperman, E., Savulescu, J., & Faber, N. S. (2021). Utilitarianism for animals, Kantianism f...

The caution observed in medical decisions does not replicate in financial decisions with large amounts; in fact, risk-taking was accentuated for large amounts in the gain domain

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Batteux, E., Ferguson, E., & Tunney, R. J. (2021). Do we become more cautious for others when large amounts of money are at stake? Exper...

Toddlers from an indigenous people were considerably less likely to recognize themselves in the mirror, possibly due to lack of being imitated by their mothers

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Cebioğlu, S., & Broesch, T. (2021). Explaining cross-cultural variation in mirror self-recognition: New insights into the ontogeny of ob...

People With Larger Social Networks Show Poorer Voice Recognition

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People With Larger Social Networks Show Poorer Voice Recognition. Shiri Lev-Ari. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, June 24, 2021...

Beyond Aesthetic Judgment: Beauty Increases Moral Standing Through Perceptions of Purity

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Beyond Aesthetic Judgment: Beauty Increases Moral Standing Through Perceptions of Purity. Christoph Klebl, Yin Luo, Brock Bastian. Personali...

Work with infants suggests that the adaptive problems humans faced with respect to plants have left their mark on the human mind

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From 2019... How Plants Shape the Mind. Annie E.Wertz. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 23, Issue 7, July 2019, Pages 528-531. https://d...

Results robustly show that humans across the Globe (25 countries, 6 continents) respond with stronger preferences for dominant leaders when they find themselves in contexts of intergroup conflict

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Intergroup Conflict and Preferences for Dominant Leaders: Testing Universal Features of Human Followership Psychology across 25 Countries. L...
Thursday, June 24, 2021

Testing the buffering hypothesis: Breastfeeding problems, cessation, and social support in the UK

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Testing the buffering hypothesis: Breastfeeding problems, cessation, and social support in the UK. Abigail E. Page, Emily H. Emmott, Sarah M...