Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Asocial free-ranging squirrels: Bolder individuals maintained larger core areas than shyer individuals; more proactive and sociable personality types had greater access to a preferred resource

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Bridging animal personality with space use and resource use in a free-ranging population of an asocial ground squirrel. Jaclyn R. Aliperti e...

Contrary to many scholars’ intuitions, social aggregates like ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups, as well as diverse socio-demographic categories, add negligible explained variance to that already captured by nations

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On “Nationology”: The Gravitational Field of National Culture. Plamen Akaliyski et al. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, September 11, 2...

The Bayesian brain: Agents set the balance between prior knowledge and incoming evidence based on how reliable or ‘precise’ these different sources of information are — lending the most weight to that which is most reliable

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Precision and the Bayesian brain. Daniel Yon, Chris D. Frith. Current Biology, V 31, Issue 17, PR1026-R1032, Sep 13 2021. https://doi.org/10...

The Psychological and Socio-Political Consequences of Infectious Diseases: Authoritarianism, Governance, and Nonzoonotic (Human-to-Human) Infection Transmission

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The Psychological and Socio-Political Consequences of Infectious Diseases: Authoritarianism, Governance, and Nonzoonotic (Human-to-Human) In...

Leftists Possess More National Consensus in Europe in One of Two Data Sets (as it happens in the US)

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Leftists Possess More National Consensus in Europe in One of Two Data Sets. Mark J. Brandt et al. Social Psychological and Personality Scien...

Older adults were significantly less likely to cheat and had higher ratings of honesty–humility compared to younger adults; greater honesty–humility predicted lower cheating behavior

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Examining honesty–humility and cheating behaviors across younger and older adults. Alison M. O’Connor et al. International Journal of Behavi...

An Industrial Organization Perspective on Productivity

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An Industrial Organization Perspective on Productivity. Jan De Loecker & Chad Syverson. NBER Working Paper 29229, Sep 2021. https://www....

Survey data show that up to 44% of the public support politically motivated violence; but estimates of support for partisan violence are too large; large majority support charging suspects who commit acts of political violence

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Westwood, Sean, Justin Grimmer, Matthew Tyler, and Clayton M. Nall. 2021. “Political Violence.” OSF Preprints. September 14. doi:10.31219/os...
Monday, September 13, 2021

Widespread Reach, not much Influence of Online News: In the absence of rigorous research on causal effects on mass political attitudes and behaviour, we do not know whether the impact of the new media is strong or weak

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Widespread Reach, not much Influence: Online News and Mass Political Attitudes and Behaviour in the UK. Kenneth Newton. The Political Quarte...

Chemosensory anxiety signals seem to act contagiously; reduce trust as well as risk behavior; predominantly affect women; & act independent of odor concentration

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It’s trust or risk? Chemosensory anxiety signals affect bargaining in women. Lukas Meister, Bettina M. Pause. Biological Psychology, Volume ...

Immigration to the USA adds 1.4 and 1.5 years to male & female life expectancy; immigration contributed roughly half of life expectancy gains 2007-2017; the post-2010 mortality stagnation is due to adverse trends among the US-born

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Immigration and improvements in American life expectancy. Arun S. Hendi, Jessica Y. Ho. SSM - Population Health, Volume 15, September 2021, ...
Sunday, September 12, 2021

We observed an association between frequent pornography use and not having had sex in the last year among men (which was in contrast with previous studies), but not women

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Malki K, Rahm C, Öberg KG, et al. Frequency of Pornography Use and Sexual Health Outcomes in Sweden: Analysis of a National Probability Surv...

Testing Women’s Trust in Other Women and Same-Sex Attracted Males in Three Cultures

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Testing Women’s Trust in Other Women and Same-Sex Attracted Males in Three Cultures. Scott W. Semenyna, Francisco R. Gómez Jiménez & Pau...

Helmholtz Versus Haute Couture: How Horizontal Stripes and Dark Clothes Make You Look Thinner

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Helmholtz Versus Haute Couture: How Horizontal Stripes and Dark Clothes Make You Look Thinner. Antonis Koutsoumpis, Elias Economou, Erik van...

Especially with the increasing devaluation of the other group, but also with the increasing conviction of their own position, the supporters of COVID restrictions accept restrictions regarding the others’ freedom of expression

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Polarisation and Silencing others During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Germany: An Experimental Study Using Algorithmically Curated Online Enviro...

Sex differences in total brain volume are not accounted for by sex differences in height and weight, and that once global brain size is taken into account, there remain numerous regional sex differences in both directions

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Sex differences in the brain are not reduced to differences in body size. Camille Michèle et al. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, S...
Saturday, September 11, 2021

Adoptive & biological families with 30-year-old offspring: Proportion of variance in IQ attributable to environmentally mediated effects of parental IQs was estimated at .01; heritability was estimated to be 0.42

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Genetic and environmental contributions to IQ in adoptive and biological families with 30-year-old offspring. Emily A. Willoughby, Matt McGu...

Asking the mayor's office how to start a business: Chinese & German cities responded to 36-37% requests; American cities responded to 22%; Chinese cities were more responsive to requests from men

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Köhler, Ekkehard A. and Matsusaka, John G. and Wu, Yanhui, Street-Level Responsiveness of City Governments in China, Germany, and the United...
Friday, September 10, 2021

Older Taiwanese people had slower processing speeds than their US peers; younger Taiwanese people had faster processing speeds than their US peers; physiological, environmental, and genetic factors contribute

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Development of processing speed in the United States and Taiwan: A brief report. Hsinyi Chen, Yung-Kun Liao, Richard Lynn. Personality and I...

Helping behavior, bystander intervention, violence, emergency, danger, systematic video observation

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Does Danger Level Affect Bystander Intervention in Real-Life Conflicts? Evidence From CCTV Footage. Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard et al. Soci...