Monday, December 19, 2022

Our findings suggest though that liberals view emotion as a feature of rationality while conservatives view it as a bug

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Do liberals value emotion more than conservatives? Political partisanship and Lay beliefs about the functionality of emotion. Minyoung Choi,...

Human capacity for emotional experiences of pleasure and pain spans an incredibly wide range of intensity, a minimum of two orders of magnitude between the most mild and the most intense experiences

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Gómez-Emilsson, Andrés, and Chris Percy. 2022. “The Heavy-tailed Valence Hypothesis: The Human Capacity for Vast Variation in Pleasure/pain ...
Sunday, December 18, 2022

We found that androgynous group reported themselves to be more creative than the gender conforming group, but they did not score higher than the latter on behavioral creativity

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Liu, T., & Damian, R. I. (2022). Are androgynous people more creative than gender conforming people? Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativit...

The great decline in adolescent risk behaviours, 1999—2019: Unitary trend, separate trends, or cascade?

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The great decline in adolescent risk behaviours: Unitary trend, separate trends, or cascade? Jude Ball et al. Social Science & Medicine,...
Saturday, December 17, 2022

Short-term effective radiative forcing trends are difficult to verify, so caution is required in predictions/policy judgments that depend on them, such as the time remaining to, or the outstanding carbon budget consistent with, 1.5C warming

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Is Anthropogenic Global Warming Accelerating? Stuart Jenkins et al. Journal of Climate, Vol 35, Issue 24, Pages 4273–4290, Nov 22 2022. http...

Think-tank employees favor military intervention much more than professors; those who favor interventionist policies are more likely to pursue positions to increase their policy influence

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What Do Think Tanks Think? Proximity to Power and Foreign Policy Preferences. Richard Hanania, Max Abrahms. Foreign Policy Analysis, Volume ...

Among older adults with subjective cognitive concerns, mindfulness training, exercise, or both did not result in significant differences in improvement in episodic memory or executive function at 6 months

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Effects of Mindfulness Training and Exercise on Cognitive Function in Older Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Eric J. Lenze et al. JAMA. ...

Parental Income and the Sexual Behavior of Their Adult Children: A Trivers–Willard Perspective

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Parental Income and the Sexual Behavior of Their Adult Children: A Trivers–Willard Perspective. John T. Manning, Bernhard Fink, and Robert T...

Increasing Tweeter access yields less corporate misconduct; effect is stronger for facilities of more visible firms; effect is concentrated in non-financial violations (unsafe workplace conditions or inappropriate treatment of employees/customers)

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Heese, Jonas and Pacelli, Joseph, The Monitoring Role of Social Media (November 16, 2022). SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4278696 Abst...
Friday, December 16, 2022

Humans stand alone in nature in their ability to form lasting, peaceful and productive relationships with conspecifics from foreign groups

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The Evolution of Peace. Luke Glowacki. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, December 16 2022. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22002862 Abstract: ...

How musicality changes moral consideration: People judge musical entities as more wrong to harm

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How musicality changes moral consideration: People judge musical entities as more wrong to harm. Tanushree Agrawal, Joshua Rottman, and Aden...

Japan: Lack of sexual interest is a risk factor for all-cause mortality in men

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Sakurada K, Konta T, Murakami N, Kosugi N, Saito T, Watanabe M, et al. (2022) Association between lack of sexual interest and all-cause mort...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Every individual assessed as highly psychopathic produced approximately $111,000 in annual crime costs

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An Economic Analysis of Crime Costs Associated with Psychopathic Personality Disorder and Violence Risk. Dylan T. Gatner et al. Criminal Jus...