Thursday, July 28, 2022

Over the past 14 years, Americans have become less explicitly and implicitly biased against people of different races, skin tones, or sexual preferences

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Patterns of Implicit and Explicit Attitudes: IV. Change and Stability From 2007 to 2020. Tessa E. S. Charlesworth, Mahzarin R. Banaji. Psych...

Small effect, yet significant: The intergenerational transmission of sexual frequency

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The intergenerational transmission of sexual frequency. Scott T. Yabiku & Lauren Newmyer. Biodemography and Social Biology, Jul 27 2022....
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

The impact of time spent playing video games on well-being is probably too small to be subjectively noticeable and not credibly different from zero

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Time spent playing video games is unlikely to impact well-being. Matti Vuorre et al. Royal Society Open Science. July 27 2022. https://doi.o...

Is the role of sleep in memory consolidation overrated? It seems so.

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Is the role of sleep in memory consolidation overrated? Mohammad Dastghei et al. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, July 26 2022, 104...
Tuesday, July 26, 2022

People discriminate against each other more for their political leanings than for other facets of their identity

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Separated by Politics? Disentangling the Dimensions of Discrimination. Alexander G. Theodoridis, Stephen N. Goggin & Maggie Deichert. Po...

Have beliefs in conspiracy theories increased over time? It seems not.

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Have beliefs in conspiracy theories increased over time? Joseph Uscinski et al. PLoS July 20, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.027...

The ideomotor principle holds that anticipating the sensory consequences of a movement triggers an associated motor response; paper thinks it is time to generalize this principle

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Ideomotor learning: Time to generalize a longstanding principle. Birte Moeller, Roland Pfister. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Ju...

Big discounting... On their fertile days, women are more likely to opt for smaller now than for larger larger later rewards, be it money, food, or sex

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Discounting for Money, Food, and Sex, over the Menstrual Cycle. Benjamin T. Vincent, Mariola Sztwiertnia, Rebecca Koomen & Jasmine G. Wa...
Monday, July 25, 2022

World War II Blues: The Long–lasting Mental Health Effect of Childhood Trauma

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World War II Blues: The Long–lasting Mental Health Effect of Childhood Trauma. Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Erdal Tekin & Belgi Turan. NBER W...

Belgian lottery players & the number 19: Another victim of the COVID-19 pandemic?

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Number 19: Another Victim of the COVID-19 Pandemic? Patrick Roger, Catherine D’Hondt, Daria Plotkina & Arvid Hoffmann. Journal of Gambli...
Sunday, July 24, 2022

Rolf Degen summarizing... Borderline personality disorder has become a kind of fetish diagnosis in the world of psychotherapy, but it is as intangible as a soap bubble

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Gutiérrez, F., Aluja, A., Ruiz Rodríguez, J., Peri, J. M., Gárriz, M., Garcia, L. F., Sorrel, M. A., Sureda, B., Vall, G., Ferrer, M., &...

Moderate beer consumption and metabolic health: A comprehensive review from the lipoprotein perspective

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Moderate beer consumption and metabolic health: A comprehensive review from the lipoprotein perspective. Elena M.Grao-Cruces et al. Journal ...

The political right and left are, on balance, equally susceptible to conspiracy theories

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Are Republicans and Conservatives More Likely to Believe Conspiracy Theories? Adam Enders, Christina Farhart, Joanne Miller, Joseph Uscinski...