Tuesday, November 8, 2022

People in historically rice-farming areas are less happy and socially compare more than people in wheat-farming areas

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Lee, C.-S., Talhelm, T., & Dong, X. (2022). People in historically rice-farming areas are less happy and socially compare more than peop...

Partisan bias in false memories for misinformation about the 2021 Capitol riot: For both true and false events, participants remembered more events that favoured their political party

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Partisan bias in false memories for misinformation about the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot. Dustin P. Calvillo, Justin D. Harris & Whitney C. H...

Most people feel others’ social lives are richer and livelier than theirs

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Keeping Up With the Joneses: How Cognitive Availability Biases Everyday Social Comparisons. Sebastian Marc Deri. PhD dissertation, Cornell U...

FDA Deregulation Increases Safety and Innovation and Reduces Prices

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Regulating the Innovators: Approval Costs and Innovation in Medical Technologies. Parker Rogers, October 27, 2022. https://parkerrogers.git...
Monday, November 7, 2022

People who are more prone to cry also place a higher focus on morality in their judgements and actions

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Only the Good Cry: Investigating the Relationship Between Crying Proneness and Moral Judgments and Behavior. Janis H. Zickfeld et al. Social...

Those with the lowest ability to evaluate scientific evidence overestimate their skill the most

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Calibration of scientific reasoning ability. Caitlin Drummond Otten, Baruch Fischhoff. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, November 4 202...
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...