Saturday, November 26, 2022

The invention of phonetic writing seems to have started in many places with the notation of proper names, while the notation of whole sentences lagged behind

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Morin, Olivier. 2022. “The Piecemeal Evolution of Writing.” SocArXiv. November 25. doi:10.31235/osf.io/a6ket Abstract: This paper argues tha...

Shy People Also Get Enhanced Mood After a Getting-Acquainted Interaction with a Stranger

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Enhanced Mood After a Getting-Acquainted Interaction with a Stranger: Do Shy People Benefit Too? Susan Sprecher et al. Journal of Social and...

The strength of party identification has remained remarkably constant over the decades

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Partisan Stability During Turbulent Times: Evidence from Three American Panel Surveys. Donald P. Green & Paul Platzman. Political Behavi...
Friday, November 25, 2022

Threat Vocalisations Are Acoustically Similar Between Humans (homo Sapiens) and Chimpanzees (pan Troglodytes)

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Kamiloglu, Roza G., Cantay Çalışkan, Katie Slocombe, and Disa Sauter. 2022. “Threat Vocalisations Are Acoustically Similar Between Humans (h...

Inequity aversion: Bonobos respond to receiving less preferred rewards by refusing tokens and rewards, and by leaving the experimental area

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Behavioral and physiological response to inequity in bonobos (Pan paniscus). Jonas Verspeek, Jeroen M. G. Stevens. American Journal of Prima...

Women estimated their IQ significantly lower than men and estimated their EQ higher

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Sex Difference in Estimated Intelligence and Estimated Emotional Intelligence and IQ Scores. Adrian Furnham & Charlotte Robinson. The Jo...
Thursday, November 24, 2022

A blind spot for attractiveness discrimination compared to more prototypical types of discrimination (i.e., gender and race discrimination)

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Jaeger, Bastian, Gabriele Paolacci, and Johannes Boegershausen. 2022. “A Blind Spot for Attractiveness Discrimination.” PsyArXiv. November 2...

Observation of Masturbation After Visual Sexual Stimuli From Conspecifics in a Captive Male Monkey

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Observation of Masturbation After Visual Sexual Stimuli From Conspecifics in a Captive Male Bearded Capuchin (Sapajus libidinosus). Paula Co...

The intergenerational transmission of political engagement is solely driven by genetic factors, except in highly politicized families

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Parental Transmission and the Importance of the (Noncausal) Effects of Education on Political Engagement: Missing the Forest for the Trees. ...

Do people believe that you can have too much money? The relationship between hypothetical lottery wins and expected happiness

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Do people believe that you can have too much money? The relationship between hypothetical lottery wins and expected happiness. Tessa Haesevo...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

The Napoleon complex, revisited: Those high on the Dark Triad traits are dissatisfied with their height and are short

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The Napoleon complex, revisited: Those high on the Dark Triad traits are dissatisfied with their height and are short. Monika A. Kozłowska, ...

Generalized tendency to make extreme trait judgements from faces

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Generalized tendency to make extreme trait judgements from faces. Atsunobu Suzuki, Saori Tsukamoto and Yusuke Takahashi. Royal Society Open ...

We know little about where users draw the line when it comes to offensive language, and what measures they wish to see implemented when content crosses the boundary of what is deemed acceptable

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Pradel, Franziska, Jan Zilinsky, Spyros Kosmidis, and Yannis Theocharis. 2022. “Do Users Ever Draw a Line? Offensiveness and Content Moderat...

Aggressive and violent behavior: Analysis of topic popularity within a child sexual exploitation Tor hidden service

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Analysis of topic popularity within a child sexual exploitation Tor hidden service. Jessica N. Owens et al. Aggression and Violent Behavior,...
Tuesday, November 22, 2022

High intelligence is not linked to more mental health disorders, but is linked to less frequent general anxiety and PTSD

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High Intelligence is Not Associated with a Greater Propensity for Mental Health Disorders. Camille Michèle Williams et al. European Psychiat...

In addition to homophily, people’s social tie decisions are driven by political acrophily, the tendency to associate with others who have more extreme political views (rather than more moderate)

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Homophily and acrophily as drivers of political segregation. Amit Goldenberg, Joseph M. Abruzzo, Zi Huang, Jonas Schöne, David Bailey, Robb ...
Monday, November 21, 2022

Contrary to the deterioration hypothesis, we find that market-oriented societies have a greater aversion to unethical behavior, higher levels of trust, & are not significantly associated with lower levels of morality under any model specification

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The moral costs of markets: Testing the deterioration hypothesis. Justin Callais, Colin Harris, Ben Borchard. Journal of Economic Behavior ...