Wednesday, December 7, 2022

The morning chronotype has significant links with political conservatism, most robustly in Switzerland; the morning chronotype may have links to liberalism in Russia

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Linking sleep, political ideology, and religious observance: a multi-national comparison. Aleksander Ksiazkiewicz, Fatih Erol. International...

Social media does not affect political participation directly, but rather through metacognitive processes such as overestimating one’s knowledge; social media news use has a negative effect on objective knowledge

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Dreston, Jana H., and German Neubaum. 2022. “Exploring the Link Between Social Media News Use, Subjective Political Knowledge and Voting Int...

People usually like each other more when they feel they are accurately known by their counterparts, even in their negative traits

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Does accuracy matter? A review of the consequences of accurate personality impressions as a function of context and content. Lauren Gazzard ...

Consumers ordinarily avoid ugly products, but when from a luxury brand, they choose distinctively ugly products as often as attractive ones, not despite their ugliness but due to their ugliness & resulting ability to signal luxury

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Hideous but worth it: Distinctive ugliness as a signal of luxury. Ludovica Cesareo, Claudia Townsend & Eugene Pavlov. Journal of the Aca...
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...