Saturday, October 22, 2022

Negativity bias in the media is increasing over time (2000-2019), mostly in right-leaning news outlets

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Longitudinal analysis of sentiment and emotion in news media headlines using automated labelling with Transformer language models. David Roz...

Children’s self-regulation abilities are key predictors of educational success and other life outcomes such as income and health

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Teaching self-regulation. Daniel Schunk, Eva M. Berger, Henning Hermes, Kirsten Winkel & Ernst Fehr. Nature Human Behaviour, October 13 ...

Across experiments, & contrary to our expectations, threat increased liberal—but not conservative—men’s preference for a wide range of aggressive political policies and behaviors (e.g., the death penalty, bombing an enemy country)

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DiMuccio, Sarah, and Eric Knowles. 2022. “Something to Prove? Manhood Threats Increase Political Aggression Among Liberal Men.” PsyArXiv. Oc...
Friday, October 21, 2022

Personality and hardiness differences between Norwegian police and psychology students: Police students are nicer

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Personality and hardiness differences between Norwegian police and psychology students. Tom Hilding Skoglund, Patrick Risan, Rebecca Milne. ...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

The young, those with low information literacy, and those with high trust in government tend to hold mistaken beliefs, even without exposure to misinformation; already misinformed, eventual exposure to fake news does little to influence them

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Not who you think? Exposure and vulnerability to misinformation. Nicolas M Anspach, Taylor N Carlson. New Media & Society, October 19, 2...

Student loans & the Income-Driven Repayment plan: Unfortunately, all the negative effects of the IDR proposal arise because of its generosity—the fact that nearly all borrowers will be asked to repay only a fraction of borrowed amounts

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Biden's Income-Driven Repayment plan would turn student loans into untargeted grants. Adam Looney. Brookings Institution, September 15, ...

Originality in online dating profile texts made the owner appear more intelligent, attractive, and worth a try

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Originality in online dating profile texts: How does perceived originality affect impression formation and what makes a text original? Tess ...

Bringing Attention to the Eyes Increases First Impressions of Warmth and Competence

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More Than Meets the Eyes: Bringing Attention to the Eyes Increases First Impressions of Warmth and Competence. Morgan D. Stosic, Shelby Helw...
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

We instinctively tend toward solutions that consist of adding something rather than subtracting something, even if the subtraction would be superior

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Fillon, Adrien A., Fabien Girandola, Nathalie Bonnardel, and Lionel Souchet. 2022. “People Systematically Overlook Subtractive Changes (2021...

Men do not find the bodies of apparent greater health and fertility the most attractive bodies; the attractiveness is linked to youth and low parity

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The picky men: Men's preference for women's body differed among attractiveness, health, and fertility conditions. Chengyang Han et a...