Wednesday, August 10, 2022

It is relatively rare for women to commit suicide while nude, and female nudity at the time of death is strongly related to the death being a homicide

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Homicide or Suicide: How Nudity Factors into This Determination. Sarah W. Craun et al. Homicide Studies, May 3, 2021. https://doi.org/10.117...
Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Swearing is stereotypically associated with socially undesirable traits and behaviors, including limited verbal ability, but the authors observed positive associations between swear word fluency and verbal fluency & vocabulary

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Swear Word Fluency, Verbal Fluency, Vocabulary, Personality, and Drug Involvement. Anna-Kaisa Reiman and Mitchell Earleywine. Journal of Ind...

Belief change can be understood as an economic transaction in which the multidimensional utility of the old & new beliefs are compared; change will occur when potential outcomes alter across attributes

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Why and When Beliefs Change. Tali Sharot et al. Perspectives on Psychological Science, August 8, 2022. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/...

When instruction moved online during the COVID-19 epidemic, the grades of attractive female students deteriorated in non-quantitative subjects; however, the beauty premium persisted for males

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Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching. Adrian Mehic. Economics Letters, August 6 2022, 110782. https://doi.org/10.1...

Cognitive training is completely ineffective in advancing cognitive function and academic achievement, but the field has maintained an unrealistic optimism about them

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Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon. Fernand Gobet, Giovanni Sala. Perspectives on Psychological Science, August 8, 2022. ...
Monday, August 8, 2022

Yewtree, Savile, age of consent: The acute problems of proof which stale allegations entail also generates a demand that criminal courts should afford accusers therapy, by giving them ‘a voice’; this function is far removed from the courts’ traditional role, in which the state must prove defendants guilty beyond reasonable doubt

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Yewtree is destroying the rule of law. By Barbara Hewson. spiked, May 8 2013. With its emphasis on outcomes over process, the post-Savile wi...