Monday, August 15, 2022

Instead of the human larynx having increased complexity, it has actually simplified relative to other primates, allowing for clearer sound production with less aural chaos

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Evolutionary loss of complexity in human vocal anatomy as an adaptation for speech. Takeshi Nishimura et al. Science, Aug 11 2022, Vol 377, ...

Why are males not doing these environmental behaviors?: exploring males’ psychological barriers to environmental action

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Why are males not doing these environmental behaviors?: exploring males’ psychological barriers to environmental action. Jessica E. Desroch...
Sunday, August 14, 2022

Do Funding Agencies Select and Enable Risky Research? In the European Research Council, applicants with a history of risky research are less likely to be selected for funding than those without such a history

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Do Funding Agencies Select and Enable Risky Research: Evidence from ERC Using Novelty as a Proxy of Risk Taking. Reinhilde Veugelers, Jian W...

Naive Stoic Ideology, a misinterpretation of stoic philosophy: There is a negative association between stoic ideology and well-being

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Misunderstood Stoicism: The negative Association Between Stoic Ideology and well-Being. Johannes Alfons Karl, Paul Verhaeghen, Shelley N. Ai...
Saturday, August 13, 2022

Female teams lower their contribution to the public good in the event of low likeability among members, while male teams achieve high levels of co-operation irrespective of the level of mutual likeability

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I (Don’t) Like You! But Who Cares? Gender Differences in Same-Sex and Mixed-Sex Teams. Leonie Gerhards, Michael Kosfeld. The Economic Journa...

About half of the cobalt ends up being lost during production; indium sees losses hit 70 pct; and many metals have production losses of 95 pct or higher: arsenic, gallium, germanium, hafnium, scandium, selenium, & tellurium

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Losses and lifetimes of metals in the economy. Alexandre Charpentier Poncelet, Christoph Helbig, Philippe Loubet, Antoine Beylot, Stéphanie ...

Meta-analysis: Afternoon naps sharpen the mind; effects are small to medium

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Systematic review and meta-analyses on the effects of afternoon napping on cognition. Ruth L.F. Leong, June C. Lo, Michael W.L. Chee. Sleep ...
Friday, August 12, 2022

Sweet diversity: Colonial goods (tea, coffee, sugar, tobacco) and the welfare gains from global trade after 1492

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Sweet diversity: Colonial goods and the welfare gains from global trade after 1492. Jonathan Hersh, Hans-Joachim Voth. Explorations in Econo...

Lower socio-economic status individuals are more active in building up weak ties in the electronic world

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Sun, Rui, and Laura Vuillier. 2022. “Socioeconomic Status Predicts Who Initiates and Who Awaits Social Connections.” OSF Preprints. August 1...

Smartphones are considerably more personal and private than PCs, so using them increases private self-focus; making choices using a personal smartphone, compared with a PC, tends to increase the preference for unique & self-expressive options

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Phone and Self: How Smartphone Use Increases Preference for Uniqueness. Camilla Eunyoung Song, Aner Sela. Journal of Marketing Research, Au...
Thursday, August 11, 2022

Average TFP growth declined after 1970 due to constraints on idea processing capability, not idea supply, in particular by policies that affect financial market effectiveness

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James, Kevin Roger and Kotak, Akshay and Tsomocos, Dimitrios P., Ideas, Idea Processing, and TFP Growth in the US: 1899 to 2019 (July 13, 20...

All over the world, gay men are met with more aversion than gay women; gay men are perceived as mentally unhealthy and more threatening (e.g., more likely to be child molesters)

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Sexual Orientation as Gendered to the Everyday Perceiver. P. J. Henry & Russell L. Steiger. Sex Roles, Aug 10 2022. https://rd.springer....

Temporal variations in individuals' religiosity did not predict variations in happiness

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Temporal Associations between Religiosity and Subjective Well-Being in a Nationally Representative Australian Sample. Mohsen Joshanloo. The ...

Higher IQ in adolescence was related to higher openness, lower neuroticism, lower extraversion, lower agreeableness and lower conscientiousness 50 years later

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IQ in adolescence and cognition over 50 years later: The mediating role of adult personality. Yannick Stephan et al. Intelligence, Volume 94...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Bonobos were less ready to make coveted fruit juice available to their peers than chimpanzees

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Self-interest precludes prosocial juice provisioning in a free choice group experiment in bonobos. Jonas Verspeek, Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen, ...

Courts do not let offenders with multiple personality disorder, which has imperceptibly morphed into dissociative identity disorder, get off the hook

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Dissociative Identity Disorder and the Law: Guilty or Not Guilty? Stefane M. Kabene, Nazli Balkir Neftci and Efthymios Papatzikis. Front. Ps...

No structural brain differences as a function of the Big Five personality traits from a systematic review and meta-analysis

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"Nothing to see here": No structural brain differences as a function of the Big Five personality traits from a systematic review a...