Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Both parents and non-parents lie and do so to a similar extent; however, when parents are reminded of their children prior to the task, they lie less compared to a treatment without a reminder

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Kajackaite, Agne, and Pawel Niszczota. 2021. “Lying (non-)parents: Being a Parent Does Not Reduce Dishonesty.” PsyArXiv. September 8. doi:10...

Cultural similarity among coreligionists within and between countries: There are a pervasive cultural signature of religion & a role of world religions in sustaining superordinate identities that transcend geographical boundaries

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Cultural similarity among coreligionists within and between countries. Cindel J. M. White, Michael Muthukrishna, and Ara Norenzayan. Proceed...

In a large and diverse international sample of older adults, they found that abstinence from alcohol is associated with an increased risk for all-cause dementia

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Mewton, Louise, Rachel Visontay, Nicholas Hoy, Darren Lipnicki, John D. Crawford, Ben Chun Pan Lam, Dr., Tim Slade, et al. 2021. “The Relati...

Sex differences in genetic architecture in the UK Biobank: Our results suggest the need to consider sex-aware analyses for future studies to shed light onto possible sex-specific molecular mechanisms

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Sex differences in genetic architecture in the UK Biobank. Elena Bernabeu, Oriol Canela-Xandri, Konrad Rawlik, Andrea Talenti, James Prender...

Systematic Bias in the Progress of Research: The authors analyze the extent to which citing practices may be driven by strategic considerations

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Systematic Bias in the Progress of Research. Amir Rubin and Eran Rubin. Journal of Political Economy, Volume 129, Number 9, September 2021. ...

Neurodualism... People Assume that the Brain Affects the Mind more than the Mind Affects the Brain, & distort claims about the brain from the wider culture to fit their dualist belief that minds and brains are distinct, interacting entities

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Neurodualism: People Assume that the Brain Affects the Mind more than the Mind Affects the Brain. Jussi Valtonen, Woo-kyoung Ahn, Andrei Cim...

Pandemics Initially Spread Among People of Higher (Not Lower) Social Status: Evidence From COVID-19 and the Spanish Flu

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Pandemics Initially Spread Among People of Higher (Not Lower) Social Status: Evidence From COVID-19 and the Spanish Flu. Jana B. Berkessel e...

Negative plastic surgery effect: Women seeking plastic surgery were perceived less favorably than those planning to complete control activities across all outcome variables (warmth, competence, morality, & humanness)

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Bonell S, Murphy SC, Griffiths S (2021) Under the knife: Unfavorable perceptions of women who seek plastic surgery. PLoS ONE 16(9): e0257145...