Friday, May 20, 2022

Unlike doctors and surgeons, psychologists are more likely to present the left cheek on their professional photographs, perhaps signalling (intuitively) their empathy

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Putting your best face forward: Posing biases in psychologists’ online portraits. Ven Yi Hew & Annukka K. Lindell. Laterality. Asymmetri...

The strongest, and most reliable, predictor of perceived danger of misinformation is the perception that others are more vulnerable to misinformation than the self; believing that societal problems have simple solutions/clear causes is consistently, weakly, associated

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Altay, Sacha, and Alberto Acerbi. 2022. “Misinformation Is a Threat Because (other) People Are Gullible.” PsyArXiv. May 20. doi:10.31234/osf...

People spontaneously looked more and for longer at the sexually provocative images when their eyes were camouflaged by sunglasses (which we surreptitiously monitored)

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De-evolving human eyes: The effect of eye camouflage on human attention. Veronica Dudarev, Manlu Liu, Alan Kingstone. Cognition, Volume 225,...

Consistent with beauty-blind admissions, alumni's beauty is uncorrelated with the rank of the school they attended in China; in the US, White men who attended high-ranked schools are better looking, especially attendees of private schools

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The college admissions contribution to the labor market beauty premium. David Ong. Contemporary Economic Policy, April 18 2022. https://doi....
Thursday, May 19, 2022

For the majority of Americans, partisanship is either equally positive and negative or more positive than negative

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Negative partisanship is not more prevalent than positive partisanship. Amber Hye-Yon Lee, Yphtach Lelkes, Carlee B. Hawkins & Alexande...

We find no evidence that cigarette smoking is a burden on Medicare

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Smoking, selection, and medical care expenditures. Michael E. Darden & Robert Kaestner. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Apr 30 2022. h...

On social media, only Twitter use predicts higher level of political engagement; the "surprising" discovery is that people's affective polarization is not significantly linked to their political engagement

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Affective polarization and political engagement in the United States: what factors matter? Mohammad Ali, Abdulaziz Altawil. Atlantic Journal...

Substantial but Misunderstood Human Sexual Dimorphism Results Mainly From Sexual Selection on Males and Natural Selection on Females

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Substantial but Misunderstood Human Sexual Dimorphism Results Mainly From Sexual Selection on Males and Natural Selection on Females. Willia...