Saturday, July 31, 2021

Individual selfishness in high-impact decisions affecting a large group is compatible with prosociality in bilateral low-stakes interactions; human beings can simultaneously be generous with others and selfish with large groups

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Generous with individuals and selfish to the masses. Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Jaume García-Segarra & Alexander Ritschel. Nature Human Behavio...

Are partisans able to accurately describe their opponents’ position, or do they instead generate unrepresentative “straw man” arguments?

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The straw man effect: Partisan misrepresentation in natural language. Michael Yeomans. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, July 20, ...

How colonialist attitudes toward native fishes were rooted in elements of racism and sexism; the term “rough fish” is pejorative and degrading to native fish

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Goodbye to “Rough Fish”: Paradigm Shift in the Conservation of Native Fishes. Andrew L. Rypel et al. Fisheries, July 21 2021. https://doi.or...

The Emergence of Cultural Attractors: How Dynamic Populations of Learners Achieve Collective Cognitive Alignment

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Falandays, James B., and Paul E. Smaldino. 2021. “The Emergence of Cultural Attractors: How Dynamic Populations of Learners Achieve Collecti...

U.N. climate panel confronts implausibly hot forecasts of future warming

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U.N. climate panel confronts implausibly hot forecasts of future warming. Paul Voosen. Science Magazine, Jul. 27, 2021. https://www.sciencem...

COVID-19: The compliants (90%) reported greater worries, & perceived protective measures as effective, whilst the non-compliant group (about 10%) saw them as problematic, were lower on agreeableness & more extraverted, & reactant

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To comply or not comply? A latent profile analysis of behaviours and attitudes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sabina Kleitman, Dayna J. Fulle...

Misplaced trust: When trust in science fosters belief in pseudoscience and the benefits of critical evaluation

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Misplaced trust: When trust in science fosters belief in pseudoscience and the benefits of critical evaluation. Thomas C. O'Brien, Ryan ...
Friday, July 30, 2021

When couples experienced less negative communication than usual, they were also more satisfied with their relationship; positive communication was rarely associated with relationship satisfaction at the within-person level

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Within-Couple Associations Between Communication and Relationship Satisfaction Over Time. Matthew D. Johnson et al. Personality and Social P...