Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Umbrella review: Most adolescents experienced no or negligible effects of social media use on mental health

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Social media use and its impact on adolescent mental health: An umbrella review of the evidence. Patti M. Valkenburg, Adrian Meier, Ine Beye...

Politically-motivated reasoning is similar for both men and women, but only men find it particularly attractive to believe that they outperform others

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Gender differences in motivated reasoning. Michael Thaler. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 191, November 2021, Pages...

Three key ways people/organisms can differ in a trait: Mean averages (personality), how variable they are in trait intraindividually over time/context (predictability), & how reactive/responsive the trait is across differing ecologies/contexts (plasticity)

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Unifying individual differences in personality, predictability and plasticity: A practical guide. Rose E. O'Dea, Daniel W. A. Noble, Shi...

Successful blinding is an important feature of double-blind randomized controlled trials, & ensures that the safety and efficacy of treatments are accurately appraised; but blinding is not successful among either patients or investigators

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A systematic review and meta-analysis of the success of blinding in antidepressant RCTs. Amelia J Scott, Louise Sharpe, Ben Colagiuri. Psych...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Contra Duckworth and Seligman’s seminal work: Only intelligence predicted developmental changes in each measure of academic performance over time, self-control did not

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Does Self-control Outdo IQ in Predicting Academic Performance? Alexander T. Vazsonyi, Magda Javakhishvili & Marek Blatny. Journal of You...

Death reminders caused less negative affect and more positive affect than toothache reminders; & reactions to death were quite diverse and did not show signs of being dominated by existential anxiety

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Storelv, Sina, and Bjørn Sætrevik. 2021. “Nothing Is Certain Except Taxes and the Other Thing: Searching for Death Anxiety in a Large Online...

The smaller preferences for sexually dimorphic facial cues in older adults compared to young adults suggest that older adults may shift away from mating-oriented psychology as they become less fertile

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The Autumn Years: Age Differences in Preferences for Sexually Dimorphic Faces. Chengyang Han, Xiangqian Li, Xiyue Chen, Xue Lei, Chuanjing L...

Consistent low-to-moderate alcohol consumption in early-to-middle adulthood predicted lower depressive symptoms at age 50; his work offers preliminary evidence that such protective effects may be causal

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Visontay, Rachel, Louise Mewton, Tim Slade, Izzuddin M. Aris, and Matthew Sunderland. 2021. “Moderate Alcohol Consumption and Depressive Sym...

Rolf Degen summarizing... Comic book bodies are supernormal stimuli that cater to the unrealistic sexual imagination of a predominantly male audience

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Burch, R. L., & Widman, D. R. (2021). Comic book bodies are supernormal stimuli: Comparison of DC, Marvel, and actual humans. Evolutiona...

Our review of the malevolent creative processes suggest that we have unintentionally avoided uncomfortable truths around who is capable of generating & instantiating malevolent ideas

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Malevolent Creativity and Malevolent Innovation: A Critical but Tenuous Linkage. Samuel T. Hunter, Kayla Walters, Tin Nguyen, Caroline Manni...

Financial crises and political radicalization: How failing banks paved Hitler's path to power, and to more pogroms and deportations in the most affected areas

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Financial crises and political radicalization: How failing banks paved Hitler's path to power. Sebastian Doerr, Stefan Gissler, Jose-Lui...
Monday, November 22, 2021

Sniffing the human body volatile hexadecanal blocks aggression in men but triggers aggression in women; our results imply that sniffing babies may increase aggression in mothers but decrease aggression in fathers

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Sniffing the human body volatile hexadecanal blocks aggression in men but triggers aggression in women. Eva Mishor et al. Science Advances, ...

Immigration quotas in the 20s targeted “undesirable” nationalities to stem the inflow of low-skilled Eastern and Southern Europeans; this study measure effects in inventions and scientific production

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Moser, Petra and San, Shmuel, Immigration, Science, and Invention. Lessons from the Quota Acts (March 21, 2020). SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10....

These findings cast doubt on claims that a low-tax, low-regulation capitalism will generate extreme capital accumulation, & that persistent wealth equalization requires large shocks to capital coming from wars or progressive taxation

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Wealth and History: An Update. Daniel Waldenström. CEPR DP16631, October 2021. cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=16...
Sunday, November 21, 2021

Male researchers more often value and engage in research mainly aimed at scientific progress, which is more cited; females more often value & engage in research mainly aimed at contributing to societal progress, which has more abstract views (usage)

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Gender differences in the aims and impacts of research. Lin Zhang, Gunnar Sivertsen, Huiying Du, Ying Huang & Wolfgang Glänzel. Scientom...

Holding heavily invested political beliefs makes individuals reluctant to update their beliefs in the face of contradictory information; providing ambiguous information caused them to become further divided based on their political ideology

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Updating Politicized Beliefs: How Motivated Reasoning Contributes to Polarization. Siyan Su. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economic...

Social Networks Facilitate Informed Option Trading? Evidence from Alumni Reunion Networks

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Cheong, Harvey and Kim, Joon Ho and Münkel, Florian and Spilker III, Harold D., Do Social Networks Facilitate Informed Option Trading? Evide...

Loosening the definition of culture... An investigation of gender and cultural tightness: We find that American women felt their gender culture is “tighter” than men

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Loosening the definition of culture: an investigation of gender and cultural tightness. Alexandra S. Wormley et al. Current Research in Ecol...