Monday, June 20, 2022

Grade non-disclosure in MBA programs at highly ranked business schools reduces students' academic effort within courses; students participate in more extracurricular activities and enroll in more difficult courses

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Floyd, Eric and Tomar, Sorabh and Lee, Daniel, Making the Grade (But Not Disclosing It): How Withholding Grades Affects Student Behavior and...

In their work, they found many participants high in well-being and low in wisdom and no participants high in wisdom and low in well-being

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Looking Beyond Linear: A Closer Examination of the Relationship Between Wisdom and Wellbeing. Judith Glück, Nic M. Weststrate & Andreas ...

While overall sexual activity among young adults has been found to be declining, experimentation with non-committed relationships has increased, particularly among females

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Gender, Sex, & Emerging Adulthood. Katarina Andrea Reyes. Polytechnic State University, Calif. BS in Psychology, Jun 2022. https://digit...

Millet, Rice, and Isolation: Origins and Persistence of the World's Most Enduring Mega-State

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Kung, James Kai-sing and Özak, Ömer and Putterman, Louis and Shi, Shuang, Millet, Rice, and Isolation: Origins and Persistence of the World...

The majority preferred quashing harmful misinformation over protecting free speech; Republicans were consistently less willing than Democrats or Independents to delete posts or penalize the accounts that posted them

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Kozyreva, Anastasia, Stefan M. Herzog, Stephan Lewandowsky, Ralph Hertwig, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Mark Leiser, and Jason Reifler. 2022. “Fre...
Sunday, June 19, 2022

Believing in conspiracy theories is related to non-normative tendencies, such as lower social and political engament, or lower adherence to norms guiding everyday interactions such as holding the door for someone who has a lot to carry

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Belief in Conspiracy Theories and Non-normative Behavior. Lotte Pummerer. Current Opinion in Psychology, June 18 2022, 101394. https://doi.o...

Contrary to the number of books at home, the number of ebooks did not contribute to students’ academic language comprehension

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Number of books at home as an indicator of socioeconomic status: Examining its extensions and their incremental validity for academic achiev...

Author: The main obstacle to understanding the mechanisms of memory is the generally accepted hypothesis that memory is formed and stored in the form of modifications of synaptic connections

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Memory: Synaptic or Cellular, That Is the Question. Yuri I. Arshavsky. The Neuroscientist, June 17, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073858422...

Perceptions and correspondence of climate change beliefs and behavior among romantic couples: Beliefs and behaviors often differ between romantic partners

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Perceptions and correspondence of climate change beliefs and behavior among romantic couples. Matthew H.Goldberg et al. Journal of Environme...
Saturday, June 18, 2022

A common cultural belief is that that others generally exaggerate their pain, contrary with the normative behavior of being as accurate as possible

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Over-rating pain is overrated: A fundamental self-other bias in pain reporting behavior. Brandon L.Boring et al. The Journal of Pain, June 1...

Identifying Objects and Remembering Images: Insights From Deep Neural Networks

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Identifying Objects and Remembering Images: Insights From Deep Neural Networks. Nicole C. Rust, Barnes G. L. Jannuzi. Current Directions in ...

What is play in predictive minds: A mechanism of prediction error minimization, whereby the brain attempts to reduce the mismatch between how it predicts the world to be and how the world actually is

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Play in Predictive Minds: A Cognitive Theory of Play. Marc Malmdorf Andersen email the author, Julian Kiverstein, Mark Miller, Andreas Roeps...