Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Due to the social desirability bias, software pirates deny it when filling surveys; 47pct actual piracy rate vs 19pct self-reported piracy rate

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Liar, liar, pants on fire! Social desirability bias in software piracy research. Marton Gergely & V. Srinivasan (Chino) Rao. Behaviour ...

Haptic stimulation of endorphin acts to bond relationships in primates and humans; humans have found ways to trigger the endorphin system virtually without touch, allowing us to ‘groom’ at a distance with more individuals

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Virtual touch and the human social world. Robin IM Dunbar. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, Volume 43, February 2022, Pages 14-19. ht...

Reviewing theory and experimental evidence, they suggest that spontaneous BOLD activity may be more closely aligned with off-line plasticity and homeostatic processes than on-line fluctuations in cognitive content

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Brain activity is not only for thinking. Timothy OLaumann, Abraham ZSnyder. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, Volume 40, August 2021, ...

There is encouraging evidence of an association between low total cholesterol and aggression towards others as well as suicidality in schizophrenia; association was strongest for low total cholesterol

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How do lipids influence risk of violence, self-harm and suicidality in people with psychosis? A systematic review. Piyal Sen et al. Australi...

Sweden: Parental absences tend to be associated with earlier first births, and more reliably so for women; recent changes in effects may mean that fathers start influencing sons and daughters more similarly

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Historical Context Changes Pathways of Parental Influence on Reproduction: An Empirical Test from 20th-Century Sweden. Cristina Moya et al. ...

Sex differences are consistent in rest state fMRI and should be considered seriously in any study; features that discriminate males and females were found to be distributed across several different brain regions

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Machine Learning Evidence for Sex Differences Consistently Influences Resting-State fMRI Fluctuations Across Multiple Independently-Acquired...

The evidence is consistent with the possibility that urgent care centers—which are increasingly owned by or contract with hospital systems—induce greater spending on hospital care

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Do Urgent Care Centers Reduce Medicare Spending? Janet Currie, Anastasia Karpova & Dan Zeltzer. NBER Working Paper 29047. Jul 2021. DOI ...