Friday, June 24, 2022

From 2020... All over the world, people overestimate how negatively their political opponents view their side

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Ruggeri, Kai, Bojana Većkalov, Lana Bojanić, Thomas L. Andersen, Sarah Ashcroft-Jones, Nélida Ayacaxli, Paula Barea Arroyo, et al. 2020. “Th...

Men tended to report more problematic pornography use than women; sexual minority men and women tend to report more PPU than heterosexual men and women

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Understanding Differences in Problematic Pornography Use: Considerations for Gender and Sexual Orientation. Nicholas C.Borgogna et al. The J...

Overall, rates of mental disorders within clinical, counseling, and school-psychology faculty and trainees were similar to or greater than those observed in the general population

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Only Human: Mental-Health Difficulties Among Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychology Faculty and Trainees. Sarah E. Victor et al. Perspe...
Thursday, June 23, 2022

Memories with a blind mind: Remembering the past and imagining the future with aphantasia

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Memories with a blind mind: Remembering the past and imagining the future with aphantasia. Alexei J. Dawes et al. Cognition, Volume 227, Oct...

Rolf Degen summarizing... Around the age of 5 or 6, it dawns on children that others sometimes consider themselves better than they are, and it displeases them

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The better to fool you with: Deception and self-deception. Jade Butterworth, Robert Trivers, William von Hippel. Current Opinion in Psycholo...
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Identity fusion is traditionally conceptualized as innately parochial, with fused actors motivated to commit acts of violence on out-groups, largely conditional on threat perception

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The Fusion-Secure Base Hypothesis. Jack W. Klein, Brock Bastian. Personality and Social Psychology Review, June 16, 2022. https://doi.org/10...

In male–female pairs more men walk to the right of a female, possibly because men prefer to occupy the optimal “fight ready” side

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Who goes where in couples and pairs? Effects of sex and handedness on side preferences in human dyads. Paul Rodway & Astrid Schepman. La...

More intelligent people know better how the economy works, regardless of education level

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Smart people know how the economy works: Cognitive ability, economic knowledge and financial literacy. Chien-An Lin, Timothy C.Bates. Intell...

Prevalence (about 10pct) and Correlates of Sexual Aversion: A Canadian Community-Based Study

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Prevalence and Correlates of Sexual Aversion: A Canadian Community-Based Study. David Lafortune et al. The Journal of Sexual Medicine, June ...
Tuesday, June 21, 2022

No definite conclusions may currently be drawn about the effects of music listening on the short-term stress recovery process of healthy individuals

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Music listening and stress recovery in healthy individuals: A systematic review with meta-analysis of experimental studies. Krisna Adiasto e...

Enjoyment of Horror Media Is Not Related to Reduced Empathy or Compassion

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Scrivner, Coltan. 2022. “Bleeding-heart Horror Fans: Enjoyment of Horror Media Is Not Related to Reduced Empathy or Compassion.” PsyArXiv. J...