Friday, September 9, 2022

Overall life satisfaction: Satisfaction with family life and health are the strongest predictors while satisfaction with income and leisure time are the weakest predictors

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Happiness, domains of life satisfaction, perceptions, and valuation differences across genders. Stefani Milovanska-Farrington, Stephen Farri...

We consistently found that positive fortune telling enhanced financial risk taking particularly among men, even non-believers

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Positive fortune telling enhances men’s financial risk taking. Xiaoyue Tan, Jan-Willem van Prooijen, Paul A. M. van Lange. PLoS One, Septemb...

Keju, the Chinese civil service exam system, was an anti-mobility mobility channel, depriving the civil society of access to the best human capital

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The Rise and the Fall of the EAST: Examination, Autocracy, Stability and Technology in Chinese History and Today. Hasheng Huang. Yale Univ P...

When their primary-school teachers were disproportionately female ca. 1940, female students were more likely to complete high school & attend college, & had increased longevity

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The Impact of Female Teachers on Female Students' Lifetime Well-Being. David Card, Ciprian Domnisoru, Seth G. Sanders, Lowell Taylor ...
Thursday, September 8, 2022

People consistently rated the presence of a health problem as less strongly genetically determined than its absence

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Asymmetrical genetic attributions for the presence and absence of health problems. Matthew S. Lebowitz, Kathryn Tabb, Paul S. Appelbaum. Psy...

Around the globe, parenthood is accompanied by more conservative worldviews, and experimentally inducing a parental mindset boosts conservative thinking

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Experimental and cross-cultural evidence that parenthood and parental care motives increase social conservatism. Nicholas Kerry et al. Proce...
Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Those needing help consistently underestimated others’ willingness to help, underestimated how positively helpers would feel, and overestimated how inconvenienced helpers would feel

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Surprisingly Happy to Have Helped: Underestimating Prosociality Creates a Misplaced Barrier to Asking for Help. Xuan Zhao, Nicholas Epley. P...

Having unduly positive self-views is not conducive to physical health

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Self-enhancement and physical health: A meta-analysis. Constantine Sedikides. British Journal of Social Psychology, September 6 2022. http...
Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Data from 99 countries: More time was spent enhancing beauty by women (almost 4 h a day, on average) than by men (3.6 h a day), & by the youngest participants (and contrary to predictions, also the oldest)

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Predictors of enhancing human physical attractiveness: Data from 93 countries. Marta Kowal et al. Evolution and Human Behavior, September 6 ...