Sunday, October 23, 2022

Mistakenly, respondents from the online sample believed that people on parole would be much more likely to deceive than their counterparts

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The public’s overestimation of immorality of formerly incarcerated people. Sarah Kuehn & Joachim Vosgerau. Journal of Experimental Crimi...

The Temporal Doppler Effect (the subjective perception that the past is further away than the future) couldn't be replicated; in some cases, the correlations were significant in the opposite direction

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Is the past farther than the future? A registered replication and test of the time-expansion hypothesis based on the filling rate of duratio...

People would rather spend time with rich individuals who acquired their wealth through hard work than with a lottery winner, presumably because of their perceived differences in valence & competence

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Cues of wealth and the subjective perception of rich people. Robin Rinn, Jonas Ludwig, Pauline Fassler & Roland Deutsch. Current Psychol...

The negative consequences of apology gifts — Are evaluated more negatively than no or gift label, & are accepted and appreciated less, and regifted more than regular gifts

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Don't tell me you are sorry with a gift: The negative consequences of apology gifts. Ilona E. De Hooge, Laura M. Straeter. Journal of Re...
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...