Monday, November 8, 2021

The illiterate Himba, Namibia, are more intuitive, more religious, happier, and less utilitarian than the French participants

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A 21st century cognitive portrait of the Himba, a remote people of Namibia. Bastien Trémolière, Jules Davidoff, Serge Caparos. British Journ...

Females responding with greater self-protectiveness than males: Mount stronger immune responses to many pathogens; react to threats with greater fear, disgust and sadness; develop more threat-based clinical conditions than males

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Self-Protection as an Adaptive Female Strategy. Joyce F. Benenson, Christine E. Webb and Richard W. Wrangham. Behavioral and Brain Sciences ...

Those assigned to restrict social media reported relatively few benefits (increased mindfulness, but not higher life satisfaction autonomy, competence, & self-esteem, and reduced loneliness & stress) & even some costs (more negative emotion)

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Walsh, Lisa C., Annie Regan, Karynna Okabe-Miyamoto, and Sonja Lyubomirsky. 2021. “Does Putting Away Your Smartphone Make You Happier? the E...

Common sense: The mobile internet AND old media polarized the Left, but not so much the Right; "what polarized the Right was…the polarization of the Left"

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Mobile Internet and Political Polarization. Nikita Melnikov. November 1, 2021. https://b0ac9a84-177d-4e54-a19e-df525dfaf051.filesusr.com/ugd...

Significant difference between gifted and non-gifted participants in terms of Openness to Experience in favor of gifted individuals; no significant differences in terms of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, & neuroticism

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Personality differences in gifted versus non-gifted individuals: A three-level meta-analysis. Uzeyir Ogurlu &Adnan Özbey. High Ability S...
Sunday, November 7, 2021

We find that the introduction of potatoes led to a sizeable and permanent reduction in conflict

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From 2020... The Long-Run Effects of Agricultural Productivity on Conflict, 1400–1900. Murat Iyigun et al. November 24 2020. https://www.jor...

Sex significantly impacts the function of major depression-linked variants in vivo

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Sex significantly impacts the function of major depression-linked variants in vivo . Bernard Mulvey, Din Selmanovic, Joseph D. Dougherty. bi...

When women had no trait/financial information other than photos of potential mates, they showed mate-choice copying, not when they got personality trait or financial information (only for low-attractiveness and long-term potential mates)

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Trait/Financial Information of Potential Male Mate Eliminates Mate-Choice Copying by Women: Trade-Off Between Social Information and Persona...

Carnivores have good spirits: In a survey of over 2000 adults following a “carnivore diet” (i.e., one that aims to avoid plant foods), health benefits and satisfaction were generally reported

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Behavioral Characteristics and Self-reported Health Status Among 2029 Adults Consuming a “Carnivore Diet.” Belinda S Lennerz, Jacob T Mey, O...

Because firms are owned by risk-averse households, they exert more cognitive effort & make smaller input-choice mistakes in financial statements in aggregate downturns... macroeconomically attentive firms make smaller mistakes

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Attention Cycles. Joel P. Flynn, Karthik A. Sastry. MIT, November 5, 2021. https://economics.mit.edu/files/20302 Abstract: Using data from U...

Past-life memories represent a novel factor in Gender Nonconformity: Children who remembered a life involving a different natal sex were much more likely to exhibit Gender Nonconformity than children who remembered a same-sex life

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From 2018... Childhood Gender Nonconformity and Children’s Past-Life Memories. Marieta Pehlivanova, Monica J. Janke, Jack Lee & Jim B. T...

People agree with numerous myths about personality and personality testing, especially the idea that trauma greatly shapes personality and that personality cannot be measured

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Myths and misconceptions about personality traits and tests. Adrian Furnham, Charlotte Robinson. Personality and Individual Differences, Vol...

We find mean global aggregate damages in 2100 of 0.40% of GDP if global warming is limited to about 2 C, and a mean cost of 3.67% of GDP associated with global warming of 4 C

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Global and regional aggregate damages associated with global warming of 1.5 to 4 °C above pre-industrial levels. R. Warren, C. Hope, D. E. H...
Saturday, November 6, 2021

Using hand-collected data on birthplaces of US-born CEOs, we provide robust evidence that CEOs born in frontier counties with a higher level of individualistic culture promote innovation performance

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Gao, Lei and Han, Jianlei and Pan, Zheyao and Zhang, Huixuan, Individualistic CEO and Corporate Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Frontier Cult...

Therapists play a crucial role in cocreating new adaptive meanings and expectations that mobilize clients toward an increased sense of agency and mastery; these tasks depend on the persuasive, partially placebo, power of the psychotherapist

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Vaz, A., & Sousa, D. (2021). Persuasiveness: An underappreciated characteristic of effective therapists. Psychology of Consciousness: Th...

Children’s intelligence relative to their peers remains associated with social class, but the association may have weakened recently, mainly because the average intelligence in the highest-status classes may have moved closer to the mean

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Filial Intelligence and Family Social Class, 1947 to 2012. Lindsay Paterson. Sociological Science October 20, 2021. DOI 10.15195/v8.a16 Abst...

Memories of fiction can be considered similar to other forms of autobiographical remembering thanks to their unique property of being able to be repeatedly reexperienced in their original form

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Yang, B. W., Deffler, S. A., & Marsh, E. J. (2021). A comparison of memories of fiction and autobiographical memories. Journal of Experi...

Providing slides to students impacts negatively on their academic performance; & adversely impacts on free attendance to class

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Impact of the provision of PowerPoint slides on learning. Samuel P. León, Inmaculada García-Martínez. Computers & Education, Volume 173,...
Friday, November 5, 2021

Resilients maintained higher levels of mental health and recovered faster when faced with specific adversities (unemployment, disability, divorce, and widowhood)

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Unraveling Resilience: Personality Predicts Exposure and Reaction to Stressful Life Events. Eva Asselmann, Theo A. Klimstra, Jaap J. A. Deni...

News producers’ incentive to invest in news quality increases with the private knowledge of the topic; hence, when information is most needed, the generated news tends to be of lesser quality; & competition does not necessarily improve news quality

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Four Things Nobody Tells you About Online News: a Model for the New News Market. Melika Liporace. Bocconi University, October 2021. https://...
Thursday, November 4, 2021

Four patterns of dark personalities: The troublemaker, the self-absorbed, the manipulator, and the exploiter

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Into the heart of darkness: A person-centered exploration of the Dark Triad. Matthew J.W.McLarnon. Personality and Individual Differences, V...

Sin good purchases are highly concentrated with 10% of households paying more than 80% of taxes on alcohol and cigarettes; the two most taxed clusters comprise 8% of households, pay 68% of sin taxes, are older, less educated, and lower income

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 Who Pays Sin Taxes? Understanding the Overlapping Burdens of Corrective Taxes. Christopher Conlon, Nirupama L. Rao & Yinan Wang. NBER W...

Men with larger neck musculature are rated as stronger, more masculine, and higher in fighting ability and short-term attractiveness

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Caton, Neil R., and David M. G. Lewis. 2021. “Intersexual and Intrasexual Selection for Neck Musculature in Men: Attractiveness, Dominance, ...

Despite chimpanzee mothers continuing to care for and transport dead infants for days, weeks, or even longer, chimpanzees find the smell of decaying corpses aversive

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Putrescine-- a chemical cue of death—is aversive to chimpanzees. James R. Anderson, Hanling Yeow, Satoshi Hirata. Behavioural Processes, Nov...
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Whereas conscientiousness was more strongly associated with academic than job performance, extraversion & neuroticism were less strongly associated with academic performance

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Big five personality traits and performance: A quantitative synthesis of 50+ meta-analyses. Ethan Zell,Tara L. Lesick. Journal of Personalit...

Sexual desire functions as a mechanism encouraging investment in partners who are perceived to be worth pursuing and retaining

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Sexual Desire Mediates the Relationship-Promoting Effects of Perceived Partner Mate Value. Gurit E. Birnbaum, Yaniv Kanat-Maymon, Erica B. S...

Blacks and Hispanics are significantly less likely than whites to describe themselves as “anti-racist,” and only the “very liberal” are more likely than other political orientations to identify with the label

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Who Identifies as Anti-Racist? Racial Identity, Color-Blindness, and Generic Liberalism. Samuel L. Perry, Kenneth E. Frantz, Joshua B. Grubb...