Thursday, August 4, 2022

Rise and Fall of Empires in the Industrial Era: A Story of Shifting Comparative Advantages

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Rise and Fall of Empires in the Industrial Era: A Story of Shifting Comparative Advantages. Roberto Bonfatti & Kerem Coşar. NBER Working...

Surveys: Continued coral recovery leads to 36-year highs across two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef, but nothing is said of the average in the whole GBR

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Annual Summary Report of Coral Reef Condition 2021/22: Continued coral recovery leads to 36-year highs across two-thirds of the Great Barri...

Across the first two decades of the 2000s, there is an increasing disinterest in becoming fathers among childless men

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An increasing disinterest in fatherhood among childless men in the United States: A brief report. Robert Bozick. Journal of Marriage and Fam...

Collective mental time travel: People have a more negative perception of the collective future than the personal future, maybe due to the press magnifying negative views

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Collective mental time travel: Current research and future directions. Meymune N. Topcu, William Hirst. Progress in Brain Research, August 4...

Why is exposure to opposing views aversive? Reconciling three theoretical perspectives.

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Why is exposure to opposing views aversive? Reconciling three theoretical perspectives. Julia A. Minson, Charles A. Dorison. Current Opinion...
Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Environmental factors play a greater role in the etiology of psychotic experiences than genetic factors: some groups of individuals with seemingly low genetic risk for psychotic experience may develop them if exposed to high levels of environmental risk

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Taylor MJ, Freeman D, Lundström S, Larsson H, Ronald A. Heritability of Psychotic Experiences in Adolescents and Interaction With Environmen...

Widely cited psychology study, suggesting that winners of competitions are more likely to cheat subsequently, fails to replicate

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Does competitive winning increase subsequent cheating? Andrew M. Colman, Briony D. Pulford, Caren A. Frosch, Marta Mangiarulo and Jeremy N. ...

Contra Saez, Piketty et al., in a world in which ideas drive GDP, maximizing the welfare of the middle class and below requires a lower, not higher top tax rate

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Taxing Top Incomes in a World of Ideas. Charles I. Jones. Journal of Political Economy, Aug 2022. https://doi.org/10.1086/720394 Abstract:...

Research indicates that people will behave in ways that are consistent with the genes they believe they possess; it is applicable too to the context of risk-taking

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Genetic Risk Information Influences Risk-Taking Behavior. Ryan Wheat, Matthew Vess and Patricia Holte. Social Cognition, Vol. 40, No. 4. Aug...
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...