Friday, July 29, 2022

Toxoplasma-infected women scored higher in tribalism and lower in cultural liberalism, compared with the Toxoplasma-free control group; infected men scored higher in economic equity

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Le Petit Machiavellian Prince: Effects of Latent Toxoplasmosis on Political Beliefs and Values. Robin Kopecky et al. Evolutionary Psychology...

We present a 72-year-old man with a unique profile of disorientation in time, such that he split each day into two, 12-h intervals: He had two sets of breakfast, lunch, and dinner, hence the designated “split-day syndrome.”

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"Split-day syndrome," a patient with frontotemporal dementia who lives two days in the span of one: a case report and review of ar...

Our results provide little support for common models of solidarity and suggest that hazing may not be the social glue it has long been assumed to be

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Does hazing actually increase group solidarity? Re-examining a classic theory with a modern fraternity. Aldo Cimino, Benjamin J.Thomas. Evol...

Sharing Online Content — Even Without Reading It — Inflates Subjective Knowledge

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Ward, Adrian F. and Zheng, Frank and Broniarczyk, Susan M., I Share, Therefore I Know? Sharing Online Content — Even Without Reading It — In...

Introduction of Sharia law in northern Nigeria: Decreases in infant mortality thru increased vaccination rates, duration of breastfeeding and prenatal health care; there were also increases in primary school enrollment

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Islamic Law and Investments in Children: Evidence from the Sharia Introduction in Nigeria. Marco Alfano. Journal of Health Economics, July 2...

Instead of religious skepticism and a related increase in progressivism...: UFO sightings promote a more conservative worldview

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Kitamura, Shuhei. 2022. “UFOs: The Political Economy of Unidentified Threats.” OSF Preprints. July 29. doi:10.31219/osf.io/tme8f Abstract: I...

Political candidates: More differentiation between positive than negative options; after exceeding a certain, relatively small level of negativity, people do not see any further increase in negativity

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Is good more alike than bad? Positive-negative asymmetry in the differentiation between options. A study on the evaluation of fictitious po...
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...