Wednesday, June 1, 2022

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which forbids US firms from paying bribes to foreign public officials, increases the size of illegal markets

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Bribe-Switching. Bologna Pavlik, Jamie and Desierto, Desiree, Bribe-Switching. May 2022. SSRN:  http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4074383 Abstr...

The empirical evidence contradicted the idea that attraction occurs when people’s personalities match

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Humberg, Sarah, Tanja M. Gerlach, Theresa Franke-Prasse, Katharina Geukes, and Mitja Back. 2022. “Is (actual or Perceptual) Personality Simi...

Find little evidence that American Twitter is as politicized as it is made out to be, with politics & hard news outlets constituting a small subset of these opinion leaders; ordinary Americans are significantly more likely to follow nonpolitical opinion leaders

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The Political Landscape of the U.S. Twitterverse. Subhayan Mukerjee, Kokil Jaidka & Yphtach Lelkes. Political Communication, May 31 2022...

Effects of adversity on wisdom: Little evidence of positive change in wise-reasoning over the course of a year

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From 2021... None the wiser: Year-long longitudinal study on effects of adversity on wisdom. Anna Dorfman et al. European Journal of Persona...

COVID-19: Those who have had an infection and recovered appear slightly happier than others

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The comeback effect: How happy are people who have recovered from a COVID-19 infection? Micael Dahlen et al. International Journal of Wellbe...

The physical attractiveness of interaction partners is rated higher after a getting-acquainted interaction

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Ratings of the physical attractiveness of an interaction partner after a getting-acquainted interaction. Susan Sprecher, Elaine Hatfield. Pe...
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

This provocation argues that up to 50% of the articles that are now being published in many interdisciplinary sustainability and transitions journals may be categorized as "scholarly bullshit"

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Bullshit in the Sustainability and Transitions Literature: a Provocation. Julian Kirchherr. Circular Economy and Sustainability, May 20 2022...

People judge facial attractiveness more accurately for female faces while giving more accurate wealth judgments for male faces

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Gender Biases in the Accuracy of Facial Judgments: Facial Attractiveness and Perceived Socioeconomic Status. Yue Qi and Jia Ying. Front. Psy...

Republicans abhor 'critical race theory' more than 'cancel culture'

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The new culture wars: Why critical race theory matters more than cancel culture. Eric Kaufmann. Social Science Quarterly, May 27 2022. https...
Monday, May 30, 2022

"Gold rush" counties have higher entrepreneurship rates from 1910, when records began, until the present as well as a higher prevalence of entrepreneurial traits in the populace

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Stuetzer, Michael and Brodeur, Abel and Brodeur, Abel and Obschonka, Martin and Audretsch, David B. and Rentfrow, Jason and Potter, Jeff and...
Sunday, May 29, 2022

Participants were no more or less likely to report romantic interest in potential partners who matched vs mismatched their ideals; ideal partner preference-matching effects were extremely small and typically no different from zero

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Predicting romantic interest during early relationship development: A preregistered investigation using machine learning. Paul W Eastwick et...

A third of respondents reported remembering a fabricated or factually altered political event, especially if it was unflattering to the political opponent

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Filling in the Gaps: False Memories and Partisan Bias. Miles T. Armaly, Adam M. Enders. Political Psychology, May 27 2022. https://doi.org/1...

Depression: Human brain systems have significantly different pattern of adolescent development in females vs males; developmental differences that are located in cortical areas/subcortical nuclei are psychologically, genomically, clinically relevant

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Sexually divergent development of depression-related brain networks during healthy human adolescence. Lena Dorfschmidt et al. Science Advanc...