Thursday, May 19, 2022

When looking for a mate, male frogs don't go for the best—they settle for the next-best

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Larger is not better: no mate preference by European common frog (Rana temporaria) males. Carolin Dittrich, Melanie Tietje, Mark-Oliver Röde...
Wednesday, May 18, 2022

You Think Failure Is Hard? So Is Learning From It, despite society celebrating failure as a teachable moment

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You Think Failure Is Hard? So Is Learning From It. Lauren Eskreis-Winkler, Ayelet Fishbach. Perspectives on Psychological Science, May 17, 2...

We are far more likely to remember previously presented news that were reported to be certain as mere speculations than to remember explicit speculations as facts

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Brand, A.-K., Scholl, A., & Meyerhoff, H. S. (2022). In case of doubt for the speculation? When people falsely remember facts in the new...

What explains record U.S. house price growth since late 2019? We show that the shift to remote work explains over one half of the 23.8 percent national house price increase over this period.

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Housing Demand and Remote Work. John A. Mondragon & Johannes Wieland. NBER Working Paper 30041. May 2022. DOI 10.3386/w30041 Abstract: W...
Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Small effect: Financial incentives can boost critical thinking skills

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Revisiting the effect of incentivization on cognitive reflection: A meta-analysis. Eldad Yechiam, Dana Zeif. Journal of Behavioral Decision ...

From 2019... Teams outperformed individuals in making accurate geopolitical predictions

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From 2019... What Makes Foreign Policy Teams Tick: Explaining Variation in Group Performance at Geopolitical Forecasting. Michael Horowitz, ...

Rolf Degen summarizing... Everyday sadism, the dispositional tendency to take pleasure in others' suffering, finds its natural playing field in the online world

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A systematic review and meta-analysis examining the relationship between everyday sadism and aggression: Can subclinical sadistic traits pr...

Potential gene-editing treatment for anxiety and alcohol use disorder in adult rats who were exposed to binge drinking in their adolescence

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Targeted epigenomic editing ameliorates adult anxiety and excessive drinking after adolescent alcohol exposure. John Peyton Bohnsack, Huaibo...
Monday, May 16, 2022

Although men who expressed a desire to have children were generally considered more desirable than those who did not, if a man did not want children, he could still be considered desirable if his previous partner spoke highly of him

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Call Me Daddy: How Long-term Desirability Is Influenced by Intention for Fatherhood. Ryan C. Anderson & Michele K. Surbey. Evolutionary ...

Political incompatibility between romantic partners gnaws away at relationship satisfaction

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Love and Politics: The Influence of Politically (Dis)Similar Romantic Relationships on Political Participation and Relationship Satisfaction...

A person with anterograde amnesia (complete loss of the ability to memorize new information after 20-30 min of the event), is highly functional by using the smartphone as a cognitive prosthesis, checking his phone more than 100 times per day

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Annese, Jacopo, Ruth Klaming, Lori Hasse-Alasandro, and Justin S. Feinstein. 2022. “Severe Anterograde Amnesia in the Era of Smartphone Tech...