Sunday, December 26, 2021

Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray /1

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Chp 2, What a Wonderful World, in Sabine Hossenfelder's Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray. Basic Books, NY. 2018. [Commentin...

Cognitive uncertainty explains various core empirical regularities, such as why people often appear very impatient, why per-period impatience is smaller over long than over short horizons, why choices frequently violate transitivity, etc

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Cognitive Uncertainty in Intertemporal Choice. Benjamin Enke & Thomas Graeber. NBER Working Paper 29577, DOI 10.3386/w29577. December 20...

The rise and fall of rationality in language

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The rise and fall of rationality in language. Marten Scheffer, Ingrid van de Leemput, Els Weinans, and  View ORCID ProfileJohan Bollen. Proc...
Saturday, December 25, 2021

Participants overestimate the risks of nuclear accidents, except for disasters that should also trigger the behavioral immune system; & were more interested in reading/sharing a news article about a nuclear accident than about other types of accidents

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Disgust sensitivity and public opinion on nuclear energy. Anne-Sophie Hacquin, Sacha Altay, Lene Aarøe, Hugo Mercier. Journal of Environment...
Friday, December 24, 2021

A number of popular research areas suggest that cognitive performance can be manipulated via relatively brief interventions; however, recent evidence indicates that cognitive abilities might not be as malleable as preliminary findings implied

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Moreau, D. (2021). How malleable are cognitive abilities? A critical perspective on popular brief interventions. American Psychologist, Dec ...

The golden ratio as an ecological affordance leading to aesthetic attractiveness

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The golden ratio as an ecological affordance leading to aesthetic attractiveness. Daniela De Bartolo,Maria De Luca,Gabriella Antonucci,Stefa...

An Eye-Tracking Investigation on Mirror Gazing: Those of higher self-esteem spent less time checking themselves in a mirror

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Effects of Self-Esteem on Self-Viewing: An Eye-Tracking Investigation on Mirror Gazing. Jonas Potthoff, Anne Schienle. Behav. Sci. 2021, 11(...

We preferably copy the behavior of our own group’s members, even if group the group is arbitrary and novel, and even if one's peers are less competent than others

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Copy the In-group: Group Membership Trumps Perceived Reliability, Warmth, and Competence in a Social-Learning Task. Marcel Montrey, Thomas R...