Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Organic food labels: Participants showed an organic halo effect leading them to consider the organic cookie as healthy as a conventional one despite containing 14% more of the daily reference intake for sugar and 30% more for fat

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Organic food labels bias food healthiness perceptions: Estimating healthiness equivalence using a Discrete Choice Experiment. Juliette Riche...

In contrast to substance use or gambling, excessive behaviors (compulsive shopping, sex) are transient for most, and their comparatively lower levels of chronicity questions their designations as ‘addictions’

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Addiction chronicity: are all addictions the same? Nolan B. Gooding, Jennifer N. Williams, Robert J. Williams. Addiction Research & Theo...

By contrast to other tastes, sour taste does not appear to have been lost in any major vertebrate taxa; but for most species, sour taste is aversive: Animals, including humans, that enjoy the sour taste triggered by acidic foods are exceptional

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The evolution of sour taste. Hannah E. R. Frank, Katie Amato, Michelle Trautwein, Paula Maia, Emily R. Liman, Lauren M. Nichols, Kurt Schwen...

Positive effect of swearing on strength: Humorous disinhibition as a potential mediator

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Effect of swearing on strength: Disinhibition as a potential mediator. Richard Stephens et al. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology,...
Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Some suggest that humans are ‘domesticated’ apes; the wolf–dog comparison has been used to support the idea of the human self-domestication hypothesis, but more recent results are not in line with this claim

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Comparing wolves and dogs: current status and implications for human ‘self-domestication’. Friederike Range, Sarah Marshall-Pescini. Trends ...

Men & women tend to exhibit meaningful differences in personality & psychopathology, as well as in omnibus morphometry & regional morphometric brain differences, but those differences appear unrelated to the psychological differences

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Structural brain differences do not mediate the relations between sex and personality or psychopathology. Courtland S. Hyatt et al. In press...
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...