Friday, October 1, 2021

Corrupt government hiring is common in developing countries; hires pay bribes averaging 17 months of salary

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Weaver, Jeffrey. 2021. "Jobs for Sale: Corruption and Misallocation in Hiring." American Economic Review, 111 (10): 3093-3122. Oct...

We need to apply more surveillance & control techniques: Some pledged to being meat-free, but, although "pledges can encourage meat consumers to reduce their intake, [...] additional mechanisms are needed to sustain commitments"

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Monitoring a meat-free pledge with smartphones: An experimental study. Jared Piazza et al. Appetite, October 1 2021, 105726. https://doi.org...

LGBT Americans are clearly liberal compared to straight & cisgender respondents)—also, bisexual & transgender respondents are frequently less liberal than lesbians and gay men

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Political Distinctiveness and Diversity Among LGBT Americans. Philip Edward Jones. Public Opinion Quarterly, nfab030, September 25 2021. htt...
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Our moral successes are exceeded by our moral failures; one influential reason for such failure is that compliance with moral norms is motivated not by an intrinsic interest in being moral, but by an interest in appearing moral

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Moral failure and the evolution of appearing moral. Scott M. James. Philosophical Psychology, Sep 29 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089....

Juvenile zebrafish: Some environmental enrichment paradigms produce anxiolytic-like effects and improve immunity

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Different Influences of Anxiety Models, Environmental Enrichment, Standard Conditions and Intraspecies Variation (sex, personality and strai...

Human mortality at extreme age: Power calculations make it implausible that there is an upper bound below 130 years

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Human mortality at extreme age. Léo R. Belzile, Anthony C. Davison, Holger Rootzén and Dmitrii Zholud. Royal Society Open Science, Volume 8,...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Psychology Within and Without the State

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Psychology Within and Without the State. H. Clark Barrett. Annual Review of Psychology, September 21, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-...

Effective incentives for increasing COVID-19 vaccine uptake

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Effective incentives for increasing COVID-19 vaccine uptake. Gul Deniz Salali, Mete Sefa Uysal. Psychological Medicine, September 20 2021. h...

Industrial policy in Korea: Although output, input use, & labor productivity of the targeted industries/regions grew significantly faster, the misallocation of resources within them got significantly worse, so TFP did not increase

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The Plant-Level View of an Industrial Policy: The Korean Heavy Industry Drive of 1973. Minho Kim, Munseob Lee & Yongseok Shin. NBER Work...

Perceivers’ impressions of others are largely dictated by their individual characteristics and local environment, rather than their cultural background... it's mostly not them, nor your culture, it's mostly just you

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Hester, Neil, Sally Y. Xie, and Eric Hehman. 2021. “Little Between-region and Between-country Variance When Forming Impressions of Others.” ...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Men in same-sex relationships reported less frequent public displays of affection & greater display-related vigilance than women, while women reported greater overall variability in their gender expression

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The feminine target: Gender expression in same-sex relationships as a predictor of experiences with public displays of affection. Lauren Mat...

Induced appearance comparisons predicted increased envy, which in turn predicted greater willingness to spread negative (but not positive) gossip about an attractive woman

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Envy Mediates the Relationship Between Physical Appearance Comparison and Women’s Intrasexual Gossip. Rachael Morgan, Ashley Locke & Ste...

Why do people eat the same breakfast every day? Goals and circadian rhythms of variety seeking in meals

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Why do people eat the same breakfast every day? Goals and circadian rhythms of variety seeking in meals. Romain Cadario, Carey K. Morewedge....

The Best Years of Older Europeans’ Lives: The likelihood of living the happiest period in life exhibits a concave relationship with age, with a turning point at about 30–34 years and a decreasing trend from that point onward

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The Best Years of Older Europeans’ Lives. Begoña Álvarez. Social Indicators Research, Sep 25 2021. https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s...

It is known that heat & cold can influence a person’s productivity and performance in simple tasks; with respect to social cognition, it has also been suggested that temperature impacts on relatively high-level forms of decision-making

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The Role of Temperature in Moral Decision-Making: Limited Reproducibility. Ryunosuke Sudo et al. Front. Psychol., September 28 2021. https:/...

Data from 9,319 adult Finnish twins and siblings of twins: Abstention from meat (i.e., vegetarianism/veganism) was 75% heritable

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Çınar, Çağla, Laura Wesseldijk, Annika Karinen, Patrick Jern, and Joshua M. Tybur. 2021. “Sex Differences in the Genetic and Environmental U...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Personality traits, immune function, and health are related: Inflammatory processes may be the mechanistic driver in these relationships; personality traits predict both in vivo and in vitro measures of inflammation

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Exploring the links between personality and immune function. Summer Mengelkoch, Jeff Gassen, Emily K. Corrigan, Sarah E. Hill. Personality a...

Trait charisma (having the ability to influence people, making people feel comfortable) is a trait linked with higher sexual communal motivation, associated with higher desire & sexual satisfaction in romantic relationships

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Leading Better Sex Lives: Is Trait Charisma Associated with Higher Sexual Desire and Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships? Eric Tu, Stepha...

Do Racial Differences in Coping Resources Explain the Black–White Paradox in Mental Health? (better mental health than whites despite experiencing greater stress exposure)

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Do Racial Differences in Coping Resources Explain the Black–White Paradox in Mental Health? A Test of Multiple Mechanisms. Patricia Louie et...

Are people willing to pay to reduce others' income when inequalities are based on individual performance or based on arbitrary decisions?

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Disadvantageous inequalities, effort and money burning: are people willing to pay to reduce others' income when inequalities are based o...

Rather than being structurally unconscious, many higher mental processes might instead be victims of internal inattentional blindness: missing an otherwise consciously-accessible internal event because your attention was elsewhere

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Morris, Adam. 2021. “Invisible Gorillas in the Mind: Internal Inattentional Blindness and the Prospect of Introspection Training.” PsyArXiv....
Sunday, September 26, 2021

After 2 years, gaming positively impacted intelligence, but socializing had no effect, consistent with cognitive benefits documented; unexpectedly, watching videos also benefited intelligence, contrary to prior research on watching TV

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Sauce, Bruno, Magnus Liebherr, Nicholas Judd, and Torkel Klingberg. 2021. “The Impact of Digital Media on Children’s Intelligence While Cont...

Lower socioeconomic status harms psychological well-being, effect assumed to weaken as nations develop economically; evidence is opposite to this assumption; lower national religiosity explains the burden

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National religiosity eases the psychological burden of poverty. Jana B. Berkessel et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Se...

Het women: Masculinized faces were perceived as slightly more attractive, slightly healthier, & much more formidable; pathogen prevalence lowered the preference for masculinized faces while resource scarcity weakly elevated it

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Differential Effects of Resource Scarcity and Pathogen Prevalence on Heterosexual Women's Facial Masculinity Preferences. S. Adil Sariba...