Saturday, September 10, 2022

Behavioral scientists are consistently no better than, and often worse than, simple heuristics and models; why have markets & experience not eliminated their biases entirely?

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Simple models predict behavior at least as well as behavioral scientists. Dillon Bowen. arXiv, August 3, 2022. https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.01...

Both laypersons & police officers were worse at detecting deception when judging handcuffed suspects compared to non-handcuffed suspects, while not affecting their judgement bias; police officers were also overconfident in their judgements

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Looking guilty: Handcuffing suspects influences judgements of deception. Mircea Zloteanu,Nadine L. Salman,Eva G. Krumhuber,Daniel C. Richard...
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...