Thursday, November 10, 2022

Selection in utero (spontaneuous abortion) against male twins in the United States early in the COVID-19 pandemic confirms reproductive suppression (natural selection aborts fetuses unlikely to thrive)

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Selection in utero against male twins in the United States early in the COVID-19 pandemic. Tim A. Bruckner, Brenda Bustos, Claire Margerison...

The Emotional Rewards of Prosocial Spending Are Robust and Replicable in Large Samples

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The Emotional Rewards of Prosocial Spending Are Robust and Replicable in Large Samples. Lara B. Aknin et al. Current Directions in Psycholog...
Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Estimates suggest high-speed wireless internet significantly increased teen girls' mental health diagnoses--by 90%--relative to teen boys over the period when visual social media became dominant among teenagers

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Social Media and Teenage Mental Health: Quasi-Experimental Evidence. Nov 2022. Elaine Guo. Working Paper. https://www.dropbox.com/s/5v9c6ajv...

Despite Google's filtering/ranking, users still appear to be able to tailor their information exposure to maintain their prior beliefs, hence defying that algorithmic impact

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Adapting the Selective Exposure Perspective to Algorithmically Governed Platforms: The Case of Google Search. Laura Slechten et al. Communic...

Portfolio outcomes: Higher IQ is not associated with enhanced investment performance

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The effects of personality and IQ on portfolio outcomes. Chris Firth et al. Finance Research Letters, November 4 2022, 103464. https://doi.o...

Government, trusts, and the making of better roads in early nineteenth century England and Wales

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Government, trusts, and the making of better roads in early nineteenth century England and Wales. Alan Rosevear, Dan Bogart & Leigh Shaw...

Adolescent females: Rape victimization was predicted by greater curvaceousness and weight but was unrelated to interviewer-rated attractiveness

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Association between Dimensions of Physical Attractiveness and Risk of Rape Victimization among Adolescent Females. Anthony W. Hoskin &Da...

Individualization and the decline of homicide: England 1250–1750

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Individualization and the decline of homicide: England 1250–1750. Mark Cooney, Jeffery Patterson. Journal of Criminal Justice, November 3 20...
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 ...