Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Language evolution: Words for negative concepts are replaced faster and diversify more than those for positive concepts

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Valence-dependent mutation in lexical evolution. Joshua Conrad Jackson, Kristen Lindquist, Ryan Drabble, Quentin Atkinson & Joseph Watts...

Null effects of news exposure: a test of the (un)desirable effects of a ‘news vacation’ and ‘news binging’

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Null effects of news exposure: a test of the (un)desirable effects of a ‘news vacation’ and ‘news binging.’ Magdalena Wojcieszak, Bernhard C...

Losing the sense of smell: Contrary to predictions, anosmics were better at remembering odor words, and rated odor and taste words more positively than control participants

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Losing the sense of smell does not disrupt processing of odor words. Laura J. Speed et al. Brain and Language, Volume 235, December 2022, 10...
Monday, November 28, 2022

Gender differences in cooperation across 20 societies: Overall, our findings revealed little-to-no evidence for an association between gender and cooperation

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Gender differences in cooperation across 20 societies: a meta-analysis. Giuliana Spadaro, Shuxian Jin and Daniel Balliet. Philosophical Tran...

Analysis of 48 countries in the 2000–2018 PISA tests: Mainly positive Flynn effects in economically less developed countries, negative Flynn effects in the economically most advanced countries

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Ongoing trends of human intelligence. Gerhard Meisenberg, Richard Lynn. Intelligence, Volume 96, January–February 2023, 101708. https://doi....
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...