Sunday, November 6, 2022

The idea that conservatives are more sensitive to disgust than liberals is a basic tenet of political psychology — and it may be a mere artifact of self-reports

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Investigating the conservatism-disgust paradox in reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic: A reexamination of the interrelations among political ...

Industrial Revolution. Why Britain? The Right Place (in the Technology Space) at the Right Time

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Why Britain? The Right Place (in the Technology Space) at the Right Time. Carl Hallmann, W. Walker Hanlon, and Lukas Rosenberger. NBER, Jul ...

We document that 85% of patent applications in the United States include no female inventors and ask: why are women underrepresented in innovation?

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Try, try, try again? Persistence and the gender innovation gap. Gauri Subramani, Abhay Aneja, and Oren Reshef. Berkeley, Nov 2022. https://h...
Saturday, November 5, 2022

Information avoidance: Our findings, together with additional survey evidence, suggest that behavioral biases inhibit the adoption of improved practices, and are consistent with inattention as a key driver of under-adoption

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Why Businesses Fail: Underadoption of Improved Practices by Brazilian Micro-Enterprises. Priscila de Oliveira, Nov 2022. https://www.prisci...

Despite the popularity of growth mindset interventions in schools, positive results are rare and possibly spurious due to inadequately designed interventions, reporting flaws, and bias

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Macnamara, B. N., & Burgoyne, A. P. (2022). Do growth mindset interventions impact students’ academic achievement? A systematic review a...

Those who self-report a strong moral character have a tendency to hypocrisy

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Being good to look good: Self-reported moral character predicts moral double standards among reputation-seeking individuals. Mengchen Dong,T...
Friday, November 4, 2022

Thus, overall, our results suggest that intelligence is relatively unrelated to whether someone is a kind and moral person

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Anglim, Jeromy, Patrick D. Dunlop, Serena Wee, Sharon Horwood, Joshua K. Wood, and Andrew Marty. 2022. “Personality and Intelligence: A Meta...

Redheaded women are more sexually active than other women, but it is probably due to their suitors

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Redheaded women are more sexually active than other women, but it is probably due to their suitors. Katerina Sykorova et al. Front. Psychol....

Makeup increases attractiveness in male faces

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Makeup increases attractiveness in male faces. Carlota Batres, Hannah Robinson. PLoS One, November 3, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal....

In contrast to dislike, hate is rooted in seeing the hated target as morally deficient or as violating moral norms

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The psychology of hate: Moral concerns differentiate hate from dislike. Clara Pretus, Jennifer L. Ray, Yael Granot, William A. Cunningham, J...