Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Exploring gender and the Dark Tetrad as predictors of catfishing perpetration

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Catching the catfish: Exploring gender and the Dark Tetrad as predictors of catfishing perpetration. Cassandra Lauder, Evita March. Computer...

The sound of swearing: Are there universal patterns in profanity?

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The sound of swearing: Are there universal patterns in profanity? Shiri Lev-Ari & Ryan McKay. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Dec 6 2...

Mirrors in elevators have several functions, among them making for a more spacious, relaxed and speedier ride

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Why Are There Mirrors in Elevators? This design feature is no accident. Tara Well. Psychology Today, December 5, 2022. https://www.psycholog...

Overestimating how much others agree: Although conspiracy beliefs were in the majority in only 12% of 150 conspiracies across three studies, conspiracy believers thought themselves to be in the majority 93% of the time

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Pennycook, Gordon, Jabin Binnendyk, and David G. Rand. 2022. “Overconfidently Conspiratorial: Conspiracy Believers Are Dispositionally Overc...
Monday, December 5, 2022

Relation between pathogen-avoidance motivations and prejudice toward gay men and women is present in 31 nations

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Disgust sensitivity relates to attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women across 31 nations. Florian van Leeuwen et al. Group Processes ...

We are often able to maintain the belief that we are moral people despite knowledge of our failings; one mechanism is to represent one's past immoral behaviors in concrete or mechanistic terms, thus stripping the action of its moral implications

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Making molehills out of mountains: Removing moral meaning from prior immoral actions. Chelsea Helion, Adrian Ward, Ian O'Shea, David Piz...
Sunday, December 4, 2022

We presented men with animated female characters that varied in their lumbar curvature and back arching (i.e., lordosis behavior); men’s attraction increased as lumbar curvature approached the hypothesized optimum

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Lordosis in Humans. Ayten Yesim Semchenko et al. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Dec 2 2022. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672221...
Saturday, December 3, 2022

We apply deep learning to daytime satellite imagery to predict changes in income and population at high spatial resolution in US data

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Khachiyan, Arman, Anthony Thomas, Huye Zhou, Gordon Hanson, Alex Cloninger, Tajana Rosing and Amit K. Khandelwal. 2022. "Using Neural N...

Machiavellian men and psychopathy women report more sex partners; Machiavellians have more unprotected sex partners & rather accept infidelity

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Overcoming agreeableness: Sociosexuality and the Dark Triad expanded and revisited. Lennart Freyth, Peter K.Jonason. Personality and Individ...

Overestimating the Intensity of Negative Feelings in Autobiographical Memory: Evidence from the 9/11 Attack and Covid-19 Pandemic

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Castillo, Juan, Haoxue Fan, Olivia T. Karaman, Jocelyn Shu, Yoann Stussi, Maria A. Kredlow, Sophia Vranos, et al. 2022. “Overestimating the ...
Friday, December 2, 2022

Canadian Atheists are No Less Healthy than the Religious

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Throw BABE Out With the Bathwater? Canadian Atheists are No Less Healthy than the Religious. David Speed. Journal of Religion and Health vol...

Rolf Degen summarizing... The earliest memories of our childhood mostly consist of innocuous, disjointed scraps of experience, often devoid of emotion and without a coherent narrative

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Early Childhood Memories Are not Repressed: Either They Were Never Formed or Were Quickly Forgotten. Mark L. Howe. Topics in Cognitive Scien...