Thursday, June 9, 2022

The belief in free will can be manipulated, showing an increase of deterministic beliefs, but there are no downstream consequences for world views, attitudes or behavior

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Manipulating Belief in Free Will and Its Downstream Consequences: A Meta-Analysis. Oliver Genschow et al. Personality and Social Psychology ...

Progressives selected a more unflattering portrait of a typical conservative face than traditional liberals

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The Progressive Values Scale: Assessing the Ideological Schism on the Left. Travis Proulx et al. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,...

The effects of computer-mediated communication on well-being get smaller the closer one looks at them

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Computer-Mediated Communication and Well-Being in the Age of Social Media: A Systematic Review. Andrew C High et al. Journal of Social and P...
Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Individuals steadily have grown less conscientiousness and more neurotic since the beginning of the pandemic

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Berg, Cameron. 2022. “Personality Trends over the COVID-19 Pandemic.” PsyArXiv. June 8. doi:10.31234/osf.io/9mu46 Abstract: The COVID-19 p...

Stronger sex drive in men compared to women, with a medium-to-large effect size: Men more often think and fantasize about sex, more often experience sexual affect like desire, and more often engage in masturbation than women

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Frankenbach, Julius, Marcel Weber, David D. Loschelder, Helena Kilger, and Malte Friese. 2022. “Sex Drive: Theoretical Conceptualization and...

Jazz musicians were less conscientious and more open to experience than classical musicians

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The musician’s personality: Do personality traits vary according to ensemble membership? Zahava L Heydel, Randyl D Smith, Nels Grevstad. Psy...

The evolutionary novelty of childcare by and with strangers: Net of education, earnings, sex, current marital status, and number of children, more intelligent British parents were more likely to resort to paid childcare at ages 33 & 42

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The evolutionary novelty of childcare by and with strangers. Satoshi Kanazawa. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Volume 221, Septemb...
Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Unambiguous chickens were not present until ∼1650 to 1250 BCE in central Thailand; production and storage of rice & millet may have acted as a magnet, thus initiating the chicken domestication process

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The biocultural origins and dispersal of domestic chickens. Joris Peters et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (24) e...

Replicated in the Chinese context: Ethical reflection (college professors) generally has no positive effect on moral behavior

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The moral behavior of ethics professors: A replication-extension in Chinese mainland. Tiantian Hou, Xiaojun Ding & Feng Yu. Philosophica...

Habitual well-digging in a rainforest-living group of East African chimpanzees, which may have been imported into the community’s behavioural repertoire by an immigrant female

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Well-digging in a community of forest-living wild East African chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii ). Hella Péter, Klaus Zuberbühle...