Thursday, May 12, 2022

Low-intensity pleasure (familiar calm activities such as playing peek-a-boo) was the most influential variable in distinguishing boys from girls; girls came out higher on fear, falling reactivity, and low intensity pleasure, & boys higher on approach

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Citation: Gartstein MA, Seamon DE, Mattera JA, Bosquet Enlow M, Wright RJ, Perez-Edgar K, et al. (2022) Using machine learning to understand...

Brain size and IQ are positively correlated; however, multiple meta-analyses have led to considerable differences in summary effect estimations, thus failing to provide a plausible effect estimate

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Of differing methods, disputed estimates and discordant interpretations: the meta-analytical multiverse of brain volume and IQ associations....
Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Older adults made more maladaptive episodic memory-guided social decisions, but not only because of poorer memory: Older adults were biased toward remembering people as being fair, while young adults were biased toward the opposite

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Lempert, Karolina M., Michael S. Cohen, Kameron A. MacNear, Frances M. Reckers, Laura A. Zaneski, David Wolk, and Joe Kable. 2022. “Aging Is...

Meta-analysis: The COVID-19 pandemic was accompanied by only a small increase in loneliness

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Ernst, M.eyt al. (2022). Loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review with meta-analysis. American Psychologist,...

Unhappy people are more likely to choose unhappy lives & unhealthy people more likely to choose unhealthy ones: “better the devil you know, than the devil you don't”

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“Better the devil you know”: Are stated preferences over health and happiness determined by how healthy and happy people are? Matthew D. Adl...
Tuesday, May 10, 2022

GDPR induced the exit of about a third of available apps in the Google Play Store from 2016 to 2019; and in the quarters following implementation, entry of new apps fell by half

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GDPR and the Lost Generation of Innovative Apps. Rebecca Janßen, Reinhold Kesler, Michael E. Kummer & Joel Waldfogel. NBER Working Paper...