Friday, July 8, 2022

Reading of literary fiction in early life is associated with a more complex worldview (increased attributional complexity, increased psychological richness), & with a decreased belief that contemporary inequalities are legitimate

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Reading Literary Fiction Is Associated With a More Complex Worldview. Nicholas Buttrick, Erin C. Westgate, Shigehiro Oishi. Personality and ...

Vegetarians have to grapple not only with the meatlessness of their diet, but also with the fact that it signals White privilege

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Racialized Perceptions of Vegetarianism: Stereotypical Associations That Undermine Inclusion in Eating Behaviors. Daniel L. Rosenfeld, Tiffa...

Most have assumed that conservatism antecedes well-being without considering the alternative—that well-being may predict conservatism; this study says conservatism did not predict well-being over time

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A Longitudinal Test of the Conservative-Liberal Well-Being Gap. Salvador Vargas Salfate et al. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, J...

Realism vs alarmism: Since the 1980s, there has been an ozone 'hole' over the tropics much larger than the Antarctic one; obviously, no harm has been reported related to this thinning despite affecting almost 50pct of the world's population

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Observation of large and all-season ozone losses over the tropics featured. Qing-Bin Lua. AIP Advances 12, 075006 (Jul 5 2022); https://doi....
Thursday, July 7, 2022

Big meta-analysis: Religious people self-report higher well-being, specially in more religious societies

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A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being. Suzanne Hoogeveen et al. Religion, Brain & Behavior, Jul 6 ...

Many-Analysts Religion Project: Reflection and conclusion

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Many-analysts religion project: reflection and conclusion. Suzanne Hoogeveen et al. Religion, Brain & Behavior, Jul 5 2022. https://doi....

Gossiping was more about celebrities and ingroup members (over strangers); more about negative events overall, and yet for ingroup members, more positive gossiping; for content, more about moral topics

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How ‘who someone is’ and ‘what they did’ influences gossiping about them. Jeungmin Lee, Jerald D. Kralik, Jaehyung Kwon, Jaeseung Jeong. PLo...