Saturday, August 6, 2022

Men, particularly those who declare being interested in politics, take longer than women to admit that they do not know the answer to political knowledge items

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How long does it take to admit that you do not know? Gender differences in response time to political knowledge questions. Mónica Ferrín, Ge...

In contrast to many other growth models we find that the taxation of human capital has a substantial negative effect on its accumulation; this in turn reduces innovation and, consequently, the income growth rate

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Human capital, innovation, and growth. Clas Eriksson, Johan Lindén, Christos Papahristodoulou. International Journal of Economic Theory, May...

Impression formation at zero-acquaintance: Penises which were wider, longer, and moderately hairy were perceived more positively in terms of personality and sexual appeal; shorter and narrower penises were perceived as more neurotic

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Personality and Sexual Perceptions of Penises: Digital Impression Formation. Thomas R. Brooks & Stephen Reysen. Sexuality & Culture,...

Free-ranging long-tailed macaques: Do monkeys use sex toys? Evidence of stone tool-assisted masturbation.

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Do monkeys use sex toys? Evidence of stone tool-assisted masturbation in free-ranging long-tailed macaques. Camilla Cenni,Jessica B. A. Chri...

Naturism & Casual Stripping Predict Social Body Appreciation & less social physique anxiety; sexting predicts social physique anxiety in men

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Good Nudes and Bad Nudes: How Naturism, Casual Stripping, and Sexting Predict Social Physique Anxiety and Body Appreciation. Keon West &...

Più povero è il linguaggio, meno esiste il pensiero

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′′La graduale scomparsa dei tempi (congiuntivo, passato semplice, imperfetto, forme composte del futuro, participio passato…) dà luogo ad un...
Friday, August 5, 2022

People with a high conspiracy mentality tend to have relatively negative self-views; we don't know the causal link and maximum effect magnitude

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Stasielowicz, Lukasz. 2022. “Core Self-evaluations and Conspiracy Mentality.” PsyArXiv. August 5. doi:10.31234/osf.io/sznc9 Abstract: There ...
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...