Saturday, December 4, 2021

Advancing mathematics by guiding human intuition with AI

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Advancing mathematics by guiding human intuition with AI. Alex Davies, Petar Veličković, Lars Buesing, Sam Blackwell, Daniel Zheng, Nenad To...

Daily Memory Lapses and Affect: Mediation Effects on Life Satisfaction

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Daily Memory Lapses and Affect: Mediation Effects on Life Satisfaction. Jennifer R. Turner, Jacqueline Mogle, Nikki Hill, Sakshi Bhargava ...

What does your favourite colour say about your personality? Not much

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Jonauskaite, D., Thalmayer, A. G., Müller, L., & Mohr, C. What does your favourite colour say about your personality? Not much. Personal...

Aguado and his team recently found that cells taken from the heart valve tissues of men and women with aortic valve disease respond very differently to the same drug

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Developing Sex-specific Treatments for Heart Disease: UC San Diego bioengineer advances equity in science, and among scientists. Univ. of Ca...

Participants feel more positive when in the presence of others; however, mood enhancement for women only occurred when the task was nondemanding; in the case of life satisfaction, only women were sensitive to the presence of others

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Feeling better in the presence of others: It may depend on whether you are a man or a woman. Teresa Garcia-Marques, Marília Prada, Ricardo F...

The prevalence of aphantasia (imagery weakness) in the general population: Prevalence of 3.9%, the most extreme aphantasia subtype (absent imagery) has a prevalence of 0.8%

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The prevalence of aphantasia (imagery weakness) in the general population. C. J. Dance, A. Ipser, J. Simner. Consciousness and Cognition, Vo...
Thursday, December 2, 2021

Examining effects within the same individuals over time indicated that climate concern predicted a small residual increase in psychological distress, but not in life satisfaction, one year later

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Longitudinal relations between climate change concern and psychological wellbeing. Sarah E. McBride et al. Journal of Environmental Psycholo...

How Bad Are Weather Disasters for Banks? Not very, we find that weather disasters over the last quarter century had insignificant or small effects on U.S. banks’ performance

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How Bad Are Weather Disasters for Banks? Kristian S. Blickle, Sarah N. Hamerling, and Donald P. Morgan. Federal Reserve Bank of New York, St...

Rates of positive changes related to therapy varied between 26.6% (relationship to parents) & 67.7% (improvement in depressed mood); deteriorations were related to physical well-being (13.1%), ability to work (13.1%) & vitality (11.1%)

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Negative effects of psychotherapy: estimating the prevalence in a random national sample. Bernhard Strauss, Romina Gawlytta, Andrea Schleu a...

Asexuals reported lower satisfaction, investment size, & commitment, and higher quality of alternatives, than did allosexual individuals across both romantic relationships & friendships

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Asexuality and relationship investment: Visible differences in relationship investment for an invisible minority. Jared Edge, Jennifer Vonk ...

We do not seem more responsive to evolutionary-based threats: The results of behavioral experiments pose a challenge to established theories, as they show faster reaction time to modern threats, which is the opposite of what some evolutionary theories predict

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Snakes vs. Guns: a Systematic Review of Comparisons Between Phylogenetic and Ontogenetic Threats. Soheil Shapouri & Leonard L. Martin. A...

Although discredited, the five stages of grief is mentioned in 60pct of sites included a description (from brief mention to detailed elaboration) of the those stages

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Stages of Grief Portrayed on the Internet: A Systematic Analysis and Critical Appraisal. Kate Anne Avis, Margaret Stroebe and Henk Schut. Fr...