Monday, February 7, 2022

Examined whether math ability was significant mediator of relation between gender and math anxiety; math ability accounted for a significant amount of the variance between gender and math anxiety, mostly due to manipulation ability

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Delage, V., Trudel, G., Retanal, F., & Maloney, E. A. (2021). Spatial anxiety and spatial ability: Mediators of gender differences in ma...

Watching Videos on a Smartphone: Do Small Screens Lead To A Shallower Narrative Experience?

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Watching Videos on a Smartphone: Do Small Screens Impair Narrative Transportation. Markus Appel & Christoph Mengelkamp. Media Psychology...

After the Yellow Vests movement, the French people would largely reject a tax and dividend policy (a carbon tax whose revenues are redistributed uniformly to each adult): overestimate their net monetary losses, wrongly think that the policy is regressive

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Yellow Vests, Pessimistic Beliefs, and Carbon Tax Aversion. Thomas Douenne and Adrien Fabre. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Feb...
Sunday, February 6, 2022

Semesters or Quarters? The Effect of the Academic Calendar on Postsecondary Student Outcomes

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Semesters or Quarters? The Effect of the Academic Calendar on Postsecondary Student Outcomes. Valerie Bostwick, Stefanie Fischer, and Matthe...

Women who earned more than their male partners—thereby making them feel insecure for being the "primary breadwinner"—were 2x as likely to fake orgasms than those who didn’t make more money than their partners

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Do Women Withhold Honest Sexual Communication When They Believe Their Partner’s Manhood is Threatened? Jessica A. Jordan et al. Social Psych...

Anti-Bisexual Bias

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Gendered Anti-Bisexual Bias: Heterosexual, Bisexual, and Gay/Lesbian People’s Willingness to Date Sexual Orientation Ingroup and Outgroup Me...

Spenders were more likely to have psychopathic tendencies, but less likely to be Machiavellian; savers rated themselves as more attractive, healthy, & intelligent than spenders; spenders had more liberal political views & report higher emotional intelligence

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Furnham, A., Robinson, C., & Grover, S. (2022). Spenders and savers, tightwads and spendthrifts: Individual correlates of personal ratin...

Consumers who avoid fast food do so not because they think it is unhealthy, but because eating it causes them guilt, and resisting the "sin" gives them a sense of accomplishment

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Why Do and Why Don’t People Consume Fast Food?: An Application of the Consumption Value Model. Kiwon Lee, Jonghan Hyun, Youngmi Lee. Food Qu...

Positive emotions produce no or weak and highly variable increases in autonomic nervous system activity

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Autonomic Nervous System Activity During Positive Emotions: A Meta-Analytic Review. Maciej Behnke et al. Emotion Review, February 4, 2022. h...
Saturday, February 5, 2022

Women perceived greater competitive tendencies in their fellow females when resources were plenty, rather than scarce

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Bradshaw, H. K., Krems, J. A., & Hill, S. E. (2022). Resource availability differentially influences women’s perceptions of same- (versu...

Do restaurant customers who receive an unreasonably low bill bring it to the server’s attention? A field experiment on dishonesty

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Do restaurant customers who receive an unreasonably low bill bring it to the server’s attention? A field experiment on dishonesty. Yossef To...
Friday, February 4, 2022

It appears some demonstrated experimental effects depend more heavily on personality than previously thought: Serious Problems With Interpreting Rubber Hand “Illusion” Experiments

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Serious Problems With Interpreting Rubber Hand “Illusion” Experiments. Warrick Roseboom; Peter Lush. Collabra: Psychology (2022) 8 (1): 3227...