Friday, August 26, 2022

Across 45 countries in 11 world regions, male and female faces rated as more attractive were rated as more confident, emotionally stable, intelligent, responsible, sociable, and trustworthy

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Examining the “attractiveness halo effect” across cultures. Carlota Batres & Victor Shiramizu. Current Psychology, Aug 25 2022. https://...
Thursday, August 25, 2022

Rolf Degen summarizing... Deepfakes are much less impactful than the scaremongering in the media might lead you to believe

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You Won't Believe What They Just Said! The Effects of Political Deepfakes Embedded as Vox Populi on Social Media. Michael Hameleers, Ton...

We review the evidence linking gender to dishonesty and conclude that men are often more dishonest than women, especially in competitive settings where lies advance self-interest

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Gender Similarities and Differences in Dishonesty. Jessica A. Kennedy, Laura J. Kray. Current Opinion in Psychology, August 24 2022, 101461....

We experimentally manipulated the reported age of unfamiliar technology and found that people evaluate it more favorably when it is described as originating before (vs. after) their birth

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The Golden Age Is Behind Us: How the Status Quo Impacts the Evaluation of Technology. Adam H. Smiley, Matthew Fisher. Psychological Science,...

Contrary to findings from previous correlational studies, we do not find any significant impact of social media usage as it was defined in our study on well-being and academic success

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Effects of restricting social media usage on wellbeing and performance: A randomized control trial among students. Avinash Collis, Felix Egg...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

No Evidence That Siblings’ Gender Affects Personality Across Nine Countries

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No Evidence That Siblings’ Gender Affects Personality Across Nine Countries. Thomas Dudek et al. Psychological Science, August 23, 2022. htt...

Sniffing of Body Odors and Individual Significance of Olfaction Are Associated with Sexual Desire: A Cross-Cultural Study in China, India, and the USA

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Sniffing of Body Odors and Individual Significance of Olfaction Are Associated with Sexual Desire: A Cross-Cultural Study in China, India, a...

A Meta-analysis of the Effects of Trigger Warnings, Content Warnings, and Content Notes: No effect on affective responses to negative material nor on educational outcomes

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Bridgland, Victoria, Payton J. Jones, and Benjamin W. Bellet. 2022. “A Meta-analysis of the Effects of Trigger Warnings, Content Warnings, a...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Abstinence from alcohol appears to be associated with an increased risk for all-cause dementia

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The relationship between alcohol use and dementia in adults aged over 60 years: A combined analysis of prospective, individual-participant d...

On average, refugees assimilate both culturally and economically; however, while refugees assigned to more hostile regions converge to local culture more quickly, they do not exhibit faster economic assimilation

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Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany. Philipp Jaschke, Sulin Sardoschau & Marco Tabellini. NBER Working Paper...

Failed replication: The “brain drain” effect of Ward et al. (2017), the purported effect on cognitive performance due to the mere presence of one's smartphone

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Reexamining the “brain drain” effect: A replication of Ward et al. (2017). Ana C.Ruiz Pardo, John Paul Minda. Acta Psychologica, Volume 230,...

In a large Dutch twin sample, we found that genetic variance accounted for 74% and 77% of whether people were pescatarian or vegetarian, respectively; the remaining variance was accounted for by non-shared environmental influences

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The heritability of pescetarianism and vegetarianism. Laura W. Wesseldijk et al. Food Quality and Preference, August 23 2022, 104705. https:...
Monday, August 22, 2022

Once amongst the tallest people in the world, the generations of bison-reliant people born after the slaughter lost their entire height advantage

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The Slaughter of the Bison and Reversal of Fortunes on the Great Plains. Donn. L. Feir, Rob Gillezeau & Maggie E.C. Jones. NBER Working ...

Women were seven times more likely to lose work during the nationwide lockdown, and conditional on losing work, eleven times more likely to not return to work subsequently, compared to men; and on and on

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Down and out? The gendered impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on India’s labour market. Rosa Abraham, Amit Basole & Surbhi Kesar. Economia ...

Men's almost universally greater tendency to overestimate their abilities is likely the heritage of a long evolutionary urge to achieve the upper hand in the mating game

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The Cocksure Conundrum: How Evolution Created a Gendered Currency of Corporate Overconfidence. Richard Ronay, William W. Maddux & Willia...