Saturday, March 5, 2022

Reputation: A fundamental route to human cooperation

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Wu, J., Balliet, D., & Van Lange, P. A. M. (2021). Reputation: A fundamental route to human cooperation. In W. Wilczynski & S. F. Br...
Friday, March 4, 2022

Women in relationships may be disadvantaged by hookup culture norms suggesting sex is freely available, putting pressure on them to acquiesce to the withdrawal method

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Norms, Trust, and Backup Plans: U.S. College Women’s Use of Withdrawal with Casual and Committed Romantic Partners. Christie Sennott & L...

Trivialization of concepts of harm: Concept creep, the contemporary down-defining of notions of harm & trauma, makes people downplay the seriousness of the phenomenon as a whole

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Broadened Concepts of Harm Appear Less Serious. Brodie C. Dakin et al. Social Psychological and Personality Science, March 3, 2022. https://...

Specific cognitive abilities (fluid reasoning, processing speed, quantitative knowledge, & 13 another abilities) show a similar high heritability as general intelligence, some even a higher one

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The genetics of specific cognitive abilities. Francesca Procopio, Quan Zhou, Ziye Wang, Agnieska Gidziela,  View ORCID ProfileKaili Rimfeld,...

Increasing love feelings, marital satisfaction, and motivated attention to the spouse

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Langeslag, S. J. E., & Surti, K. (2022). Increasing love feelings, marital satisfaction, and motivated attention to the spouse. Journal ...
Thursday, March 3, 2022

Dutch Marine recruits: Unexpectedly, cadets with higher levels of grit were not more likely to complete training; it seems grit is not as important as we thought

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Grit was not associated to dropout in Dutch Marine recruits. Iris Dijksma, Cees Lucas & Martijn Stuiver. Military Psychology, Mar 2 2022...

“Unmasking” uncertainty, embracing it, and openly communicating about it could help alleviate anxiety and feelings of emotional exhaustion, detachment, and personal inadequacy

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Understanding and Communicating Uncertainty in Achieving Diagnostic Excellence. Maria R. Dahm, Carmel Crock. JAMA, March 3, 2022. doi:10.100...

Choice Matters More with Others: Choosing to be with Other People is More Consequential to Well-Being than Choosing to be Alone

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Choice Matters More with Others: Choosing to be with Other People is More Consequential to Well-Being than Choosing to be Alone. Liad Uziel ...

Daughters are less likely than sons to take over their parents’ rightist positions, while parent-son transmission is equally large on the left and the right

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Political socialization, political gender gaps, and the intergenerational transmission of left-right ideology. Mathilde M. van Ditmars. Euro...

Placebo effects are ubiquitous yet highly variable between individuals; a meta-analysis of 10 different personality traits shows no evidence of associations between them and the magnitude of placebo effects

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Kang, Heemin, Miriam S. Miksche, and Dan-Mikael Ellingsen. 2022. “The Association Between Personality Traits and Placebo Effects: A Preregis...

Evidence of a talisman effect of insurance—consumers who have an insurance policy feel that the covered mishap is less likely to occur

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Anxiety, Cognitive Availability, and the Talisman Effect of Insurance. Robert M. Schindler et al. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin...
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...