Thursday, August 19, 2021

Madam Speaker: Are Female Presenters Treated Worse in Econ Seminars? The evidence seems statistically weak & conceptually inconclusive

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Madam Speaker: Are Female Presenters Treated Worse in Econ Seminars? Uri Simonsohn. Data Colada, April 30, 2021. http://datacolada.org/96 A ...

Migration during the last 500 years induced differences in contemporary health outcomes: Due to vitamin D deficiency, migration from high UV radiation places to low radiation ones takes a toll on health

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Historical migration and contemporary health. Thomas Barnebeck Andersen, Carl-Johan Dalgaard, Christian Volmer Skovsgaard, Pablo Selaya. Oxf...
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

When forming personality impressions from faces, people rely on features that resemble "frozen" emotional expressions

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Which Facial Features Are Central in Impression Formation? Bastian Jaeger, Alex L. Jones. Social Psychological and Personality Science, Augu...

Episodic-like memory (what, where and when specific things happened) is preserved with age in cuttlefish, molluscs that lack a hippocampus, maybe due to reproductive pressure

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Episodic-like memory is preserved with age in cuttlefish. Alexandra K. Schnell, Nicola S. Clayton, Roger T. Hanlon and Christelle Jozet-Alve...

From 2019... In the U.S. and Côte d’Ivoire, highly educated people make decisions that are less consistent with the rational model while low-income respondents make decisions more consistent with the rational model

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From 2019... Are We All Predictably Irrational? An Experimental Analysis. John A. Doces & Amy Wolaver. Political Behavior volume 43, pp...

Uncommon case of complete loss of hunger following an isolated left insular stroke

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Uncommon case of complete loss of hunger following an isolated left insular stroke. Benjamin Hébert-Seropian, Olivier Boucher, Didier Jutras...

Found some evidence that higher income is associated with less happiness and no substantive benefit to higher household income in the US after $35-40K and in Germany after €14-18K (in daily life, not as an assessment of the whole)

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Kudrna, Laura, and Kostadin Kushlev. 2021. “Money Does Not Always Buy Happiness, but Are Richer People Less Happy in Their Daily Lives? It D...

From 2019... Greater male cognitive variability has implications for both tails of the distribution: Danish data (n = 1.3 million) finds that twice as many boys than girls are diagnosed with intellectual disability

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From 2019... Incidence Rates and Cumulative Incidences of the Full Spectrum of Diagnosed Mental Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence. Søre...

Faecal transplants from young mice can enhance cognitive function in older animals

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Microbiota from young mice counteracts selective age-associated behavioral deficits. Marcus Boehme et al. Nature Aging volume 1, pages666–67...

Challenging the binary: Gender/sex and the bio-logics of normalcy

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Challenging the binary: Gender/sex and the bio-logics of normalcy. L. Zachary DuBois, Heather Shattuck-Heidorn. American Journal of Human Bi...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Population affinity and variation of sexual dimorphism in three-dimensional facial forms: comparisons between Turkish and Japanese populations

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Population affinity and variation of sexual dimorphism in three-dimensional facial forms: comparisons between Turkish and Japanese populatio...