Thursday, November 17, 2022

People's impressions of others' traits became increasingly unfavorable over time, while their impressions of their own traits improved

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Perceived changes in trait attributions to others and the self. David M. Sanbonmatsu, Taylor Adams & Paul H. White. The Journal of Socia...

Rolf Degen summarizing... The amount of time people objectively spent using social media was unrelated to their subjective self-reports, casting considerable doubt on previous research findings that almost always rely on self-reports

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Assessing the validity of self-report social media use: Evidence of No relationship with objective smartphone use. Tamsin Mahalingham, Peter...

All over the world, the percentage of people in pain increased from 26.3 in 2009 to 32.1 in 2021

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Pain trends and pain growth disparities, 2009-2021. LucíaMacchia. Economics & Human Biology, November 16 2022, 101200. https://doi.org/1...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

People artificially inflated the moral value of personality traits they had been led to believe they possessed

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Vonasch, Andrew, and Bradley A. Tookey. 2022. “Self-serving Bias in Moral Character Evaluations.” PsyArXiv. November 16. doi:10.31234/osf.io...

The more one has ghosted, the more they have been ghosted themselves, with the reverse also being true that the more one has ghosted, the more they ghost others

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To Ghost or To Be Ghosted: An Examination of the Social and Psychological Correlates Associated with Ghosting. Jacqueline M. Di Santo et al....

Those higher in cognitive ability have a higher incidence of realism and pessimism in their expectations and a lower incidence of unrealistic optimism

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Dawson, Christopher. 2022. “Cognitive Ability and Looking on the B/right Side of Life.” PsyArXiv. November 15. doi:10.31234/osf.io/3q4xp Abs...
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Men with pedophilia who committed child sexual offenses on average had a 47 mm3 smaller hypothalamus per side

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Hypothalamic volume in pedophilia with or without child sexual offense. Melanie Storch, Maria Kanthack, Till Amelung, Klaus M. Beier, Tillma...

We like to imagine that those from the opposite political camp are more susceptible to misleading media content than those from our own side

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Perceived Influence of Partisan News and Online News Participation: Third-person Effect, Hostile Media Phenomenon, and Cognitive Elaboration...

Rolf Degen summarizing... A vast majority of all people experience persuasion fatigue, the frustrating realization that others are too dumb to bow to the wisdom of their arguments

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‘Persuasion Fatigue’ Is a Unique Form of Social Frustration: When people argue, a kind of frustration called persuasion fatigue can cloud th...

When we imagine how things could be, we imagine how things could be better, even though it's easier to come up with ways things could be worse

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Mastroianni, Adam, and Ethan Ludwin-Peery. 2022. “Things Could Be Better.” PsyArXiv. November 14. doi:10.31234/osf.io/2uxwk Abstract: Eight ...
Monday, November 14, 2022

The bewildering, complex picture presented by human evolution in the Middle to Late Pleistocene should be seen as a feature, not a bug, reflecting evolutionary processes in all their messy glory

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Evolution of Homo in the Middle and Late Pleistocene. Katerina Harvati, HugoReyes-Centeno. Journal of Human Evolution, Volume 173, December ...
Sunday, November 13, 2022

Present-day countries composed of citizens whose ancestors experienced a degree of “state-ness” in previous centuries should experience fewer homicides today; found less support for alternative channels (economic development or current state capacity)

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Homicide and State History. John Gerring and Carl Henrik Knutsen. American Sociological Review, Nov 9 2022. https://doi.org/10.1177/00031224...

Cephalopod retinal development shows vertebrate-like mechanisms of neurogenesis

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Cephalopod retinal development shows vertebrate-like mechanisms of neurogenesis. Francesca R. Napoli et al. Current Biology, November 09, 20...

Study finds differences in brain structure between boys and girls with binge eating disorders

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Sex differences in regional gray matter density in pre-adolescent binge eating disorder: a voxel-based morphometry study. Stuart B. Murray e...

Adherence to emotion norms is greater in individualist cultures than in collectivist cultures; in the more individualist countries, deviation from the mean emotional experience was linked to lower life satisfaction

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Adherence to emotion norms is greater in individualist cultures than in collectivist cultures. Vishkin, A., Kitayama, S., Berg, M. K., Diene...

Overall, research indicates that the risk of getting stuck in a filter bubble on intermediaries such as Google News, Apple News, Facebook, or Twitter is low and often exaggerated

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News recommender systems: a programmatic research review. Eliza Mitova et al. Annals of the International Communication Association, Nov 11 ...

Similarity in physical attractiveness did not play a role in spousal relationship satisfaction & maintenance

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Pávez, P., Polo, P., Valenzuela, N., Figueroa, O., Rodríguez-Sickert, C., & Muñoz-Reyes, J. A. (2022). Similarity in Indicators of Attra...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Citizens express higher trust in less politicized scientific fields (mathematics, astronomy, etc.) than politicized ones (economics & climate science), & these trust gaps stem from different ideological biases against the politicized fields

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Don't Tell Me What I Don't Want to Hear! Politicization and Ideological Conflict Explain Why Citizens Have Lower Trust in Climate Sc...

Moderate alcohol consumption over the adult life-course was associated with the most favorable social, psychological, lifestyle and health characteristics, while stable abstaining trajectory or decreasing consumption) didn't.

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Social, psychological and health characteristics associated with stability and change in adult alcohol consumption. Martin Ekholm Michelsen,...