Wednesday, January 4, 2023

We provide a novel finding that self-perceived attractiveness has significant (negative) effects on mask-wearing intention

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Post COVID-19, still wear a face mask? Self-perceived facial attractiveness reduces mask-wearing intention. Seung Eun Cha, Xyle Ku and  Inch...

Evidence from Airports on the Effects of Infrastructure Privatization: We show that outright ownership rather than control rights alone is associated with the most improvement after privatization

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All Clear for Takeoff: Evidence from Airports on the Effects of Infrastructure Privatization. Sabrina T. Howell, Yeejin Jang, Hyeik Kim ...

Chimpanzee and Human Risk Preferences Show Key Similarities—In the world of chimpanzees, too, young males take the greatest risks, to get a better position in the hierarchy

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Chimpanzee and Human Risk Preferences Show Key Similarities. Lou M. Haux et al. Psychological Science, January 3, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1...
Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Firms price at 99-ending prices because of left-digit bias—the tendency of consumers to perceive a $4.99 as much lower than a $5.00; retailers forgo profits due to this coarse response to the bias

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More than a Penny’s Worth: Left-Digit Bias and Firm Pricing. Avner Strulov-Shlain. The Review of Economic Studies, rdac082, December 19 2022...
Monday, January 2, 2023

"Ouch!" or "Aah!": People are very bad at perceiving the valence of vocalizations of high-intensity affective states

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Binter, Jakub, Silvia Boschetti, Tomáš Hladký, and Hermann Prossinger. 2023. “"ouch!" or "aah!": Are Vocalizations of ...

Greater self-knowledge was not associated with better psychological adjustment, but at least with nicer personality traits

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Self as both target and judge: Who has an easier time knowing their own personality? Elizabeth U. Long, Erika N. Carlson, Lauren J. Human. J...
Sunday, January 1, 2023

Introduction to a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Well-Being: Combining Life Satisfaction and Interdependent Happiness Across 49 Different Cultures

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Introduction to a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Well-Being: Combining Life Satisfaction and Interdependent Happiness Across 49 Different C...

Most people uncritically swallowed the fake diagnosis of their true selves by a supposedly transformative, but bogus new brain-reading machine

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Emulating future neurotechnology using magic. Jay A. Olson et al. Consciousness and Cognition, Volume 107, January 2023, 103450. https://doi...
Saturday, December 31, 2022

Psychology students reported particularly high rates of mental health problems, business students reported the highest rate of drug abuse, while law students reported the highest alcohol misuse

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Variations in psychological disorders, suicidality, and help-seeking behaviour among college students from different academic disciplines. M...