Monday, August 16, 2021

Rolf Degen summarizing... The brain circuit for pain is different from that for suffering, and the latter adds the bite to the former, and to other kinds of disorder

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The anatomy of pain and suffering in the brain and its clinical implications. Dirk De Ridder, Divya Adhia, Sven Vanneste. Neuroscience &...

The various disclosure & internal governance rules lead to a total compliance cost of 4.1% of the market capitalization for a median U.S. public firm; these regulatory costs only explain a small fraction of the decline in number of public firms

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Regulatory Costs of Being Public: Evidence from Bunching Estimation. Michael Ewens, Kairong Xiao & Ting Xu. NBER Working Paper 29143, Au...

Will this "up to five times" be reproducible?: Exposure to continuous or fluid theories of sexual orientation leads some heterosexuals to embrace less-exclusive heterosexual orientations

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Will this "up to five times" be reproducible?: Exposure to continuous or fluid theories of sexual orientation leads some heterosex...

Bureaucracy adaptation: Why Didn't the 2009 Recovery Act Improve the Nation's Highways and Bridges?

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From 2017... Dupor, William Daniel, So, Why Didn't the 2009 Recovery Act Improve the Nation's Highways and Bridges? (2017). SSRN: ht...
Sunday, August 15, 2021

Things do not become more desirable just because we have chosen them before: The "mere choice effect", an economic psychology classic, fails under scrutiny

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Does choice change preferences? An incentivized test of the mere choice effect. Carlos Alós-Ferrer & Georg D. Granic. Experimental Econo...

Women that score high on agreeableness are significantly less likely to discuss politics online than men with the same trait; also find significant differences in the way the personality traits extraversion & openness influence women’s & men’s participation

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It’s a man’s (online) world. Personality traits and the gender gap in online political discussion. Simone Abendschön & Gema García-Albac...

From 2020... There are few things as irrefutable as the evidence that our limbs belong to us, but persons with body integrity dysphoria deny the ownership of one of their fully functional limbs and seek its amputation

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From 2020... Neural Correlates of Body Integrity Dysphoria. Gianluca Saetta et al. Current Biology, May 07, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j....

Meanings Ascribed to Sex and Commitment Among College-Attending and Non-College Emerging Adults: 5 Types, i.e. committers, connectors, flexibles, testers, & recreationers

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Meanings Ascribed to Sex and Commitment Among College-Attending and Non-College Emerging Adults: A Replication and Extension. Spencer B. Olm...

A man who had been partnered up for a longer time was more highly appreciated by women for long- and short term mating

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Women’s Sensitivity to Men’s Past Relationships: Reliable Information Use for Mate-Choice Copying in Humans. Yoichi Amano & Yoshinori Wa...

In municipalities where the Spanish Inquisition persecuted more citizens, incomes are lower, trust is lower, and education is markedly lower than in other comparable towns and cities

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The long-run effects of religious persecution: Evidence from the Spanish Inquisition. Mauricio Drelichman, Jordi Vidal-Robert, and Hans-Joac...

A man who had been partnered up for a longer time was more highly appreciated by women for long- and short term mating

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Meanings Ascribed to Sex and Commitment Among College-Attending and Non-College Emerging Adults: A Replication and Extension. Spencer B. Olm...

Unusual sexual interests could be clustered into 5 factors that were largely comparable for women and men: submission/masochism, forbidden sexual activities, dominance/sadism, mysophilia, and fetishism

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Schippers EE, Smid WJ, Huckelba AL, et al. Exploratory Factor Analysis of Unusual Sexual Interests. J Sex Med 2021;XX:XXX–XXX. https://doi.o...

Claim: One-third of Investors Trade While Drunk

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One-third of Investors Trade While Drunk. John Sullivan. 401k Specialist, August 12, 2021. https://401kspecialistmag.com/one-third-of-invest...

Very preliminary, fragmentary, with lots of limitations... Exploring Male Multiple Orgasm in a Large Online Sample: Refining Our Understanding

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Griffin-Mathieu G, Berry M, Shtarkshall RA, Amsel R, Binik YM, Gérard M. Exploring Male Multiple Orgasm in a Large Online Sample: Refining O...

A reduction in state, due to a negative stimulus, reduces fitness more than a positive stimulus of equal objective magnitude increases it, producing a negativity bias due to the difference in subjective stimulus potency

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Negativity bias: An evolutionary hypothesis and an empirical programme. John Lazarus. Learning and Motivation, Volume 75, August 2021, 10173...