Sunday, April 3, 2022

Male participants sacrificed more, in terms of physical pain, for their romantic partners and opposite-sex friends than female participants

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Beyond reciprocity: Relational sacrifices in romantic partners. Ke Yan et al. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, April 1, 2022. h...

The largest parks, greater than 100 acres, had the highest mean happiness benefit, possibly because that larger parks provide greater opportunities for mental restoration and separation from the taxing environment of the city

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Schwartz AJ, Dodds PS, O’Neil-Dunne JPM, Ricketts TH, Danforth CM (2022) Gauging the happiness benefit of US urban parks through Twitter. PL...

Those in the prosocial condition rated the role of genetics in causing the behavior as significantly greater than did those in the antisocial condition, due to the tendency to view prosocial behavior as more natural and more aligned with one’s true self

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Asymmetric genetic attributions for one’s own prosocial versus antisocial behavior. Matthew S. Lebowitz, Kathryn Tabb & Paul S. Appelbau...
Saturday, April 2, 2022

Their studies revealed a robust belief that “life gets better” over time (i.e., recollected past < current < anticipated future life satisfaction) in nations around the world, in relation to both objective & subjective indicators of societal-level functioning

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Busseri, M. A. (2022). The global belief that “life gets better and better”: National differences in recollected past, present, and anticipa...

Factors proposed to explain impersonal cooperation across societies (institutions (rule of law), religion (belief in God as a third-party punisher), cultural beliefs (trust) & values (collectivism), and ecology (relational mobility)) are not so important

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Spadaro, G., Graf, C., Jin, S., Arai, S., Inoue, Y., Lieberman, E., Rinderu, M. I., Yuan, M., Van Lissa, C. J., & Balliet, D. (2022). Cr...

We ask: "What is cultural evolution anyway?" Our answer: a phenomenon, not a theory/ approach. Understanding this helps clarify other issues, e.g. the role of human behavioural ecology

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What is cultural evolution anyway? Alberto J C Micheletti, Eva Brandl, Ruth Mace. Behavioral Ecology, arac011. Apr 1 2022.  https://doi.org/...

Consumers particular vulnerable to financial bullshit are more likely to be young, male, have a higher income, and be overconfident with regards to their own financial knowledge

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Individual differences in susceptibility to financial bullshit. Mario Kienzler, Daniel Västfjäll, Gustav Tinghög. Journal of Behavioral and ...
Friday, April 1, 2022

People at least somewhat agree on what a gullible person looks like; & people whose facial features resemble an expression of anger are perceived as particularly low on gullibility

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Who Can Be Fooled? Modeling Facial Impressions of Gullibility. Bastian Jaeger and Erdem O. Meral. Social CognitionVol. 40, No. 2, March 2022...
Thursday, March 31, 2022

Rolf Degen summarizing... Christians value receiving a prayer in a hardship from a Christian stranger at an average of $2.34, while non-believers are willing to pay $1.56 not to be prayed for

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Thunström L, Noy S (2022) What we think prayers do: Americans’ expectations and valuation of intercessory prayer. PLoS ONE 17(3): e0265836. ...

The stability of beliefs in conspiracy theories is comparable to or higher than some of the most stable psychological attributes

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Williams, Matt N., Mathew Ling, John R. Kerr, Stephen R. Hill, Mathew Marques, Hollie Mawson, and Edward J. R. Clarke. 2022. “To What Extent...
Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Parasites: Male psychopaths are not set against fatherhood, as long as someone else takes on the effort of raising the kids

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Cads in Dads’ Clothing? Psychopathic Traits and Men’s Preferences for Mating, Parental, and Somatic Investment. Kristopher J. Brazil & A...

Meta-analysis: Cognitive abilities are not related to the willingness to take financial risks

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Cognitive abilities affect decision errors but not risk preferences: A meta-analysis. Tehilla Mechera-Ostrovsky, Steven Heinke, Sandra Andra...