Monday, December 27, 2021

The energetics of uniquely human subsistence strategies: Efficiency leads to leisure, allowing our ancestors to spend more time in contexts that facilitated social learning and cultural development

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The energetics of uniquely human subsistence strategies. Thomas Kraft et al. Science Dec 24 2021, Vol 374, Issue 6575. https://www.science.o...

Choosing from too many options can lead to suboptimal results (choice overload); monkeys do not experience choice overload

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No evidence of the choice overload effect in a computerized paradigm with rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) and capuchin monkeys (Sapajus ape...

Unpleasant odors are registered in the brain particularly fast and at an early stage of olfactory information processing

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Localizing the human brain response to olfactory stimulation: A meta-analytic approach. A.Torske, K. Koch, S. Eickhoff, J. Freiherr. Neurosc...

National Latino and Asian American Study: Extramarital sex associated with marital satisfaction, religious attendance; odds of men reporting engaging in extramarital sex was 3.52 times greater than odds of women

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Diversity in the prevalence and correlates of extramarital sex in a probability sample of Latino adults. Sanchez, L., Whisman, M. A., Hughes...
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(...