Sunday, December 11, 2022

Aversion toward broken patterns of simple geometric shapes predicted greater adherence to social norms

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Deviancy Aversion and Social Norms. Anton Gollwitzer et al. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, December 10, 2022. https://doi.org/1...

Good-looking people report higher meaning in life

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Pretty, meaningful lives: physical attractiveness and experienced and perceived meaning in life. Christopher A. Sanders, Alexis T. Jenkins ...
Saturday, December 10, 2022

People found false feedback about their personality more accurate and appealing than the real one, even if it consisted of vague and unspecific diagnoses that could fit just about anyone

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How well do we know ourselves? Disentangling self-judgment biases in perceived accuracy and preference of personality feedback. Sabina Trif,...

Can Inflammation Predict Social Media Use? Linking a Biological Marker of Systemic Inflammation with Social Media Use Among College Students and Middle-Aged Adults

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Lee, David S. and Jiang, Tao and Crocker, Jennifer and Way, Baldwin M., Can Inflammation Predict Social Media Use? Linking a Biological Mark...

Political, but not cognitive sophistication was associated with an heightened propensity for motivated reasoning, the bending of the evidence to defend the preconceived world view; so, in the end, the problem is being infected with the political virus!

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 On the Independent Roles of Cognitive & Political Sophistication: Variation Across Attitudinal Objects. Joseph A. Vitriol,Joseph Sandor...
Friday, December 9, 2022

People appreciated pseudo-profound bullshit statements as equally "deep" even when their meaning was reversed

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A framework for understanding reasoning errors: From fake news to climate change and beyond. Gordon Pennycook. Advances in Experimental Soci...

There is no distinct capacity for moral judgment, and , as a result, it is impossible for someone's "moral judgment faculty" to become selectively disabled

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The disunity of moral judgment: Implications for the study of psychopathy. David Sackris. Philosophical Psychology, Dec 7 2022. https://doi....
Thursday, December 8, 2022

Intelligence was positively and significantly correlated with face detection, face perception, and face memory

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The association between intelligence and face processing abilities: A conceptual and meta-analytic review. Dana L. Walker et al. Intelligenc...

Both higher and lower than average exposure to male sex hormones increases same sex attraction in male mice and in men

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Carving the Biodevelopment of Same-Sex Sexual Orientation at Its Joints. Doug P. VanderLaan, Malvina N. Skorska, Diana E. Peragine & Lin...

Industrial policy in China: Little evidence that the Chinese government consistently “picks winners.” Firms’ ex-ante productivity is negatively correlated with subsidies, & subsidies appear to have a negative impact on productivity growth afterwards

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Picking Winners? Government Subsidies and Firm Productivity in China. Lee G. Branstetter, Guangwei Li & Mengjia Ren. NBER Working Paper ...

Estimating data corruption by publication selection bias: The presence of an effect in economics decreased from 99.9% to 29.7% after adjusting for the bias: in psychology, 98.9% → 55.7%; in medicine, 38.0% → 27.5%

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Footprint of publication selection bias on meta-analyses in medicine, economics, and psychology. František Bartoš, Maximilian Maier, Eric-Ja...
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...