Wednesday, March 2, 2022

In electronic interactions, on average, the public of all ethnic groups (except Blacks themselves) is less likely to respond to emails from people they believe to be Black (rather than White)

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Are Americans less likely to reply to emails from Black people relative to White people? Ray Block Jr. et al. Proceedings of the National Ac...

People were better at detecting Twitter bots when they came from the opposite political camp, while greater experience with social media had a detrimental effect on the hit rate

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Duped by Bots: Why Some are Better than Others at Detecting Fake Social Media Personas. Ryan Kenny et al. Human Factors: The Journal of the ...

Storytelling is inter alia an entertainment technology used as recruitment tool: Allows to attract and potentially cooperate with those that matter to the story creator by signaling one’s qualities & enhancing one's reputation as a cooperative partner

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Why and How Did Narrative Fictions Evolve? Fictions as Entertainment Technologies. Edgar Dubourg and Nicolas Baumard. Front. Psychol., March...

The election of a new non-Democratic school board member causes home values in their neighborhood to rise about 4pct on average relative to those of losing Democratic candidates

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Self-Interest in Public Service: Evidence from School Board Elections. Stephen B. Billings, Hugh Macartney, Geunyong Park & John D. Sing...

Rolf Degen summaring... Although "nice" personality traits are beneficial in many areas of life, there is no correlation with physical health or career success

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Agreeableness and Its Consequences: A Quantitative Review of Meta-Analytic Findings. Michael P. Wilmot, Deniz S. Ones. Personality and Socia...

It’s complicated: People emotionally tied to robots can undermine relationships with co-workers

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Subgroup formation in human–robot teams: A multi-study mixed-method approach with implications for theory and practice. Sangseok You,Lionel ...
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

U.S. states with higher aggregate intelligence exhibit higher levels of alcohol consumption; regional alcohol consumption is also linked to better health, less health issues, and better well-being

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Updated IQ and Well-Being Scores for the 50 U.S. States. Bryan J. Pesta. J. Intell. 2022, 10(1), 15; February 27 2022. https://doi.org/10.33...

Based on objective hormonal changes, these authors confirm that in this case, the woman was able to put herself into a relatively continuous orgasmic state after years of yoga and tantric training

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A Case of Female Orgasm Without Genital Stimulation. James G. Pfaus, Karolin Tsarski. Sexual Medicine, Volume 10, Issue 2, April 2022, 10049...

Feelings of desire for an attractive alternative increase ambivalence toward the current partner, above & beyond how much people actually value their partner, & this has short- & long-term negative consequences for personal & relational well-being

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Zoppolat, G., Faure, R., Alonso-Ferres, M., & Righetti, F. (2022). Mixed and conflicted: The role of ambivalence in romantic relationshi...

Endogenous oxytocin, cortisol, and testosterone in response to group singing: "We conclude that singing together can have biological and psychological effects associated with affiliation and social bonding"

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Endogenous oxytocin, cortisol, and testosterone in response to group singing. D.L. Bowling et al. Hormones and Behavior, Volume 139, March 2...