Tuesday, December 13, 2022

In 1967, 82.7% of 25-34 years old Americans lived with their spouse; today it is 37.5%

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Subjective orgasm experience: Heterosexual people (vs. gay & bisexual people) had a more intense experience

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Evaluating the Subjective Orgasm Experience Through Sexual Context, Gender, and Sexual Orientation. Laura Elvira Muñoz-García, Carmen Gómez-...

Holiday gift giving is in retreat in the US, it was demoted as an "inferior good"

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Holiday gift giving in retreat. Joel Waldfogel. Economics Letters, December 12 2022, 110952. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110952 A...
Monday, December 12, 2022

Echo chambers and filter bubble are largely just a figment of the minds of political pundits

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Echo chambers, filter bubbles, and polarisation: a literature review. Amy Ross Arguedas et al. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism...
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...