Monday, July 11, 2022

It’s Time to Streamline the Hiring Process. By Atta Tarki, Tyler Cowen, and Alexandra Ham

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It’s Time to Streamline the Hiring Process. Atta Tarki, Tyler Cowen, and Alexandra Ham. Harvard Business Review, July 11, 2022. https://hbr....

When the data-generating processes for scarce and ambiguous observations are complex and opaque, a naive observer can improve a bias-variance tradeoff by starting with a simple, underspecified explanation that can be seen as "supernatural"

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Lightner, Aaron, and Edward H. Hagen. 2022. “All Models Are Wrong, and Some Are Religious: Supernatural Explanations as Abstract and Useful...

Unionization increases firms’ costs and operating leverage and, consequently, crowds out investments that potentially impact quality; unions may compromise quality by hurting employee morale and by resisting technological upgrades in the firm

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Labor Unions and Product Quality Failures. Omesh Kini, Mo Shen, Jaideep Shenoy, Venkat Subramaniam. Management Science, Aug 27 2021. https:...

The erotic appeal of the human-typical face-to-face posture during sex may related to the fact that human faces have evolved to become more behind-like

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From 2016... Kret ME, Tomonaga M (2016) Getting to the Bottom of Face Processing. Species-Specific Inversion Effects for Faces and Behinds i...
Sunday, July 10, 2022

Sound induces analgesia through corticothalamic circuits

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Sound induces analgesia through corticothalamic circuits. Wenjie Zhou et al. Science, Jul 7 2022, Vol 377, Issue 6602, pp. 198-204, DOI: 10....

In their sexual fantasies, women have sex with about one person a day, men with about two

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Sexual Fantasies, from Part II - Copulatory Adaptations. Rui Miguel Costa. In The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual ...

Relative infrequency of males providing oral sex to the girls in preindustrial and non-Western samples

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Men’s Provisioning of Oral Sex, from Part II - Copulatory Adaptations. Gavin Vance. In The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives o...

The apparent similarity between authenticity and honesty has obscured the tension between the two constructs; but honesty can decrease authenticity and dishonesty can increase authenticity

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Yours Truly: On the Complex Relationship Between Authenticity and Honesty. Erica R. Bailey, Sheena S. Iyengar. Current Opinion in Psychology...

Visual imagery vividness declines across the lifespan; more pronounced in males

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Visual imagery vividness declines across the lifespan. Erzsébet Gulyás et al. Cortex, July 9 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2022.06....
Saturday, July 9, 2022

Evaluating the Replicability of Social Priming Studies: The strongest predictor of replication success was whether or not the replication team included at least one of the authors of the original paper

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Mac Giolla, Erik, Simon Karlsson, David A. Neequaye, and Magnus Bergquist. 2022. “Evaluating the Replicability of Social Priming Studies.” P...

UK: Ethnic Minority Victories Mobilize White Voters

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Zonszein, Stephanie, and Guy Grossman. 2022. “Turnout Turnaround: Ethnic Minority Victories Mobilize White Voters.” OSF Preprints. July 5. ...

Women are somewhat better at divergent thinking, while men show greater variability, meaning there are more likely to fall in the extremes (& previous research say that this is hardly related to creative performance)

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Abdulla Alabbasi, A. M., Thompson, T. L., Runco, M. A., Alansari, L. A., & Ayoub, A. E. A. (2022). Gender differences in creative potent...