Sunday, March 13, 2022

Pictorial representations (like company logos, emojis, photos) are very popular nowadays; we show that people are perceived as less powerful when using pictures vs. words

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Medium is a powerful message: Pictures signal less power than words. Elinor Amit, Shai Danziger, Pamela K. Smith. Organizational Behavior an...

Maoist China: During the embryonic stage of communist centralization, the productivity of manufacturing sectors more than doubled; this growth was largely obtained by the exploitation from agriculture and low compensation for workers

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Chi, Shawn, Rob Peter to Pay Paul: The Maoist Growth of a Socialist Economy (January 1, 2022). SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4006757 ...

Cats understand human pointing gestures. My view: When cats ignore us or do what they like even against our protests/commands, they know what they are doing.

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Assessing cats' (Felis catus) sensitivity to human pointing gestures. Margaret Maeses, Claudia A.F. Wascher. bioRxiv, Mar 13 2022. https...

Greater political knowledge is associated with greater intensity of emotions against opponents

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The more you know, the less you like: A comparative study of how news and political conversation shape political knowledge and affective pol...

Our findings suggest that raters cannot reliably detect women's ovulatory timing from their scent attractiveness

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Does scent attractiveness reveal women's ovulatory timing? Evidence from signal detection analyses and endocrine predictors of odour att...
Saturday, March 12, 2022

Ways to Greater Happiness: Policy strategies could be investing in happiness research, support of vulnerable people & promoting voluntary work and supporting non-profits; individual strategies could be investing in social networks, doing meaningful things & caring for one’s health

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Ways to Greater Happiness: A Delphi Study. Dan Buettner, Toben Nelson & Ruut Veenhoven. Journal of Happiness Studies volume 21, pages 27...

World-wide Evidence for Gender Difference in Sociality: approx 50% more female-female than male-male pairs are observed in public spaces globally

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World-wide Evidence for Gender Difference in Sociality. Tamas David-Barrett. arXiv, Mar 6 2022. https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02964 One of the ...

People are usually off the mark when it comes to assessing how much and in what direction public attitudes toward contentious issues have changed

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Widespread misperceptions of long-term attitude change. Adam M. Mastroianni and Jason Dana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,...

Women were more likely than men to believe in or fear all nonmaterial or spiritual supernatural phenomena, as well as Atlantis

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Supernatural Sociology: Americans’ Beliefs by Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Education. Tony Silva, Ashley Woody. Socius: Sociological Research...

Increasing social media use most likely displaces other media activities, doesn't reduce time on face-to-face interaction

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Social media use, social displacement, and well-being. Jeffrey A. Hall, Dong Liu. Current Opinion in Psychology, Mar 11 2022, 101339. https:...
Friday, March 11, 2022

Results largely suggest no association between therapists’ experience and therapy outcome

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Germer, S., Weyrich, V., Bräscher, A.-K., Mütze, K., & Witthöft, M. (2022). Does practice really make perfect? A longitudinal analysis o...

In 71 of 72 countries, girls more likely than boys to attribute their failure to a lack of talent; this stereotype was strongest in more gender-egalitarian countries

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 The stereotype that girls lack talent: A worldwide investigation. Clotilde Napp, Thomas Breda. Science Advances, Vol 8, Issue 10, Mar 9 202...