Wednesday, October 26, 2022

We found that curiosity about the outcome of a lottery was enhanced for lotteries that were freely chosen, relative to lotteries that were equally preferred but not freely chosen

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Choice Boosts Curiosity. Patricia Romero Verdugo et al. Psychological Science, October 26, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976221082637 A...

Less than one in five people have actually ever acted on their favorite or most-recurring sexual fantasy

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Sexual Fantasy Research: A Contemporary Review. Justin J. Lehmiller, Aki M.Gormezano. Current Opinion in Psychology, October 25 2022, 101496...

While making inferences about the future, most of us intuitively discount outlying values in a sample, treating the data as a Gaussian distribution

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How people deal with …............................ outliers. Jennifer E. Dannals,Daniel M. Oppenheimer. Journal of Behavioral Decision Makin...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

The proportion of lone shoppers was higher in a used versus a regular bookstore, lone individuals were more likely to select a used over a new product, people without a date on Valentine’s Day expressed stronger preference for used products

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Feeling Lonely Increases Interest in Previously Owned Products. Feifei Huang and Ayelet Fishbach. Journal of Marketing Research, Volume 58, ...

Overall, mental effort felt aversive in different tasks, in different populations, and on different continents; paradoxically, some also love chess or brain teasers

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David, Louise, Eliana Vassena, and Erik Bijleveld. 2022. “The Aversiveness of Mental Effort: A Meta-analysis.” PsyArXiv. October 25. psyarxi...
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...