Sunday, December 19, 2021

Psilocybin microdosing: In a pre-registered, double-blind, placebo-controlled, within-subject crossover design study, they found not affect emotion processing or symptoms of anxiety and depression compared with placebo

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Psilocybin microdosing does not affect emotion-related symptoms and processing: A preregistered field and lab-based study. Josephine Marscha...

The psychologists with tattoos were viewed as less professional, but the ones with provocative tattoos were seen as more competent in interventions, empathy, ability to practice in a forensic setting, & as more confident, interesting, likable, & less lazy

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Zidenberg, A. M., Dutrisac, S., & Olver, M. (2021). “No ragrets”: Public perceptions of tattooed mental health professionals. Profession...
Saturday, December 18, 2021

Simulation of 100 000 years of evolution in hunter-gatherers: Evolutionary shifts in disgust as polygenic trait occurred (consequence of germ-cell mutations), but cultural transmission between generations operated more quickly & at greater magnitude

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The human behavioural immune system is a product of cultural evolution. Edwin S. Dalmaijer, Thomas Armstrong. arXiv Dec 17 2021, https://arx...

Meat consumption: Health or environmental information has no main effect on attitude and no effect on intention or behavior

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Can information influence meat consumption behaviour? An experimental field study in the university canteen. Nina Weingarten et al. Food Qua...

Countries that became less wealthy and more morally polarized over time also became less trustful

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Stavrova, O., Evans, A. M., & Brandt, M. J. (2021). Ecological dimensions explain the past but do not predict future changes in trust. A...

The story of how cognition and fitness relate may not be simple, but simple stories and complex systems rarely go together

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Cognition and reproductive success in cowbirds. David J. White, J. Arthur, H. B. Davies & M. F. Guigueno. Learning & Behavior, Dec 1...

Several adverse perinatal events were associated with an increased risk of violent and non-violent criminal convictions; low birth weight, smallness relative to gestational age and preterm birth with non-violent convictions were higher for men

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Adverse perinatal events and offspring criminal convictions in men and women: A population-based study. Sofi Oskarsson et al. Journal of Cri...