Wednesday, September 8, 2021

People considered hypocrites (as opposed to non-hypocrites) as less moral persons, & appraised their identical transgressive behavior more negatively, when they were high rather than low on competence

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Calculating Hypocrites Effect: Moral judgments of word-deed contradictory transgressions depend on targets' competence. Mengchen Dong, J...

Early visual areas seem not to be processing visual input in a neutral or passive way; rather, their activation seems to be the result of anticipatory, task-driven processes, constituting an active engagement with the environment

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The Anticipatory and Task-Driven Nature of Visual Perception. Sebo Uithol, Katherine L Bryant, Ivan Toni, Rogier B Mars. Cerebral Cortex, bh...
Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Diversity as a source of division requires taking seriously cultural differences & investing in resources to help facilitate common language and common culture that reduce coordination and communication costs while keeping diversity

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Muthukrishna, M., Sep 2021. The Ties that Bind Us. LSE Public Policy Review, 2(1), p.3.  http://doi.org/10.31389/lseppr.35 Abstract: This pa...

From 2020... When two sexually dimorphic androgen dependent facial traits are judged in concert, ornamental (facial hair) rather than structural masculine facial features (bones) underpin men’s intra-sexual judgments of formidability

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Multivariate Intra-Sexual Selection on Men’s Perceptions of Male Facial Morphology. Valeriya Mefodeva, Morgan J. Sidari, Holly Chau, Brett F...