Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Across both studies, most participants did not try to stop the staged theft or even report it to the experimenter afterward; they predicted much greater intervention in advance

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See something, say something? exploring the gap between real and imagined moral courage. Nathan S. Kemper,Dylan S. Campbell &Anna-Kaisa ...

Despite the declining quality of income data: While overall income inequality rose over the past five decades, the rise in overall consumption inequality was small

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Consumption and Income Inequality in the U.S. Since the 1960s Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan. Journal of Political Economy, June 28, ...

People relied too much on their self-perceptions, which were more negative than the impressions they made; & understood that others saw them more positively than how they saw themselves, but they did not understand the extent of this positivity

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Elsaadawy, N., & Carlson, E. N. (2022). Do you make a better or worse impression than you think? Journal of Personality and Social Psych...

Rolf Degen summarizing... Sociologists conduct comparatively very few replications, but it looks like it would turn out badly if they did

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Reproducibility in the Social Sciences. James W. Moody et al. Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 48:65-85 (July 2022). https://doi.org/10.1146...

Deadly fungus can multiply by having sex, which could produce more drug-resistant, virulent strains

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Yue Wang, Jianping Xu. Population genomic analyses reveal evidence for limited recombination in the superbug Candida auris in nature. Comput...

Did pollination exist before plants? Yes, some seaweeds depend on crustaceans for fertilization

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Did pollination exist before plants? Research shows that seaweeds depend on crustaceans for fertilization. Jeff Ollerton, Xong-Xi Ren. Scien...
Monday, August 1, 2022

A review of the genetic basis of problematic Internet use

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A review of the genetic basis of problematic Internet use. Anna Maria Werling, Edna Grünblatt. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, Volum...
Sunday, July 31, 2022

Violence against all, pregnant women & children included: Organized violence from the rulers

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This is human nature... From Maribel Fierro's Violence against women in Andalusi historical sources third/ninth-seventh/thirteenth centu...

Individuals tend to conform to the group's moral judgments even without the presence of the group's members, but people with utilitarian inclinations conform to a greater extent and more frequently than people with deontological inclinations

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The Effects of Individual Moral Inclinations on Group Moral Conformity. I. Z Marton-Alper, A. Sobeh, S.G Shamay-Tsoory. Current Research in ...

Adolescent and young adult daily mobility patterns were moderately to highly heritable

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Individual differences in adolescent and young adult daily mobility patterns and their relationships to big five personality traits: a behav...
Saturday, July 30, 2022

From 2012... Party Evolutions in Moral Intuitions: A Text-Analysis of US Political Party Platforms from 1856-2008

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Motyl, Matt, Party Evolutions in Moral Intuitions: A Text-Analysis of US Political Party Platforms from 1856-2008 (October 8, 2012). SSRN: ...

Women tend to consume luxury goods as a way to signal their mating standards to men and thereby deter undesirable pursuers

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The Mate Screening Motive: How Women Use Luxury Consumption to Signal to Men. Qihui Chen, Yajin Wang, Nailya Ordabayeva. Journal of Consumer...

The Economic Limits of Bitcoin and Anonymous, Decentralized Trust on the Blockchain

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Budish, Eric B., The Economic Limits of Bitcoin and Anonymous, Decentralized Trust on the Blockchain (June 27, 2022). University of Chicago,...