Sunday, January 8, 2023

Partisanship on Social Media: In-Party Love Among American Politicians, Greater Engagement with Out-Party Hate Among Ordinary Users

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Partisanship on Social Media: In-Party Love Among American Politicians, Greater Engagement with Out-Party Hate Among Ordinary Users. Xudong ...

The idea of pay transparency is to give workers the ability to renegotiate away pay discrepancies, but it actually shifts the bargaining power from the workers to the employer, naking wages more equal but lower

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Pay-transparency laws do not work as advertised. The Economist, Jan 5 2023. https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/01/05/pay-transpare...

Rolf Degen summarizing... Widely touted psychology study, suggesting, in essence, that the rich are jerks, bites the dust in another, sophisticated replication failure

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Jung, M. H., Smeets, P., Stoop, J., & Vosgerau, J. (2023). Social status and unethical behavior: Two replications of the field studies i...
Saturday, January 7, 2023

People are more strongly persuaded by self-generated arguments than by arguments of others, particularly if they find argument generation easy

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Persuasive Benefits of Self-Generated Arguments: Moderation and Mechanism. Mengran Xu, Duane T. Wegener. Social Psychological and Personalit...

When Psychotherapy Fails (which happens regularly)

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When Psychotherapy Fails. Brechje Dandachi-FitzGerald, Henry Otgaar & Harald Merckelbach. Chapter in Toward a Science of Clinical Psycho...

People who positively judge positive emotions experience better psychological health; those who negatively judge negative emotions experience worse psychological health

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Willroth, Emily C., Gerald Young, Maya Tamir, and Iris Mauss. 2023. “Judging Emotions as Good or Bad: Individual Differences and Association...

Individuals’ beliefs that they can infer trust and trustworthiness from appearance are unfounded

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Attributions of Trust and Trustworthiness. Rick K. Wilson & Catherine C. Eckel. Political Behavior, Jan 5 2023. https://link.springer.co...
Friday, January 6, 2023

Motivations to reciprocate cooperation and punish defection are calibrated by estimates of how easily others can switch partners

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Motivations to reciprocate cooperation and punish defection are calibrated by estimates of how easily others can switch partners. Sakura Ara...

Drawing on a unique survey we examine how German citizens view the practice of discussing politics in everyday life, and what determines these attitudes; we find that only a minority appreciates talking about politics

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Do people like to discuss politics? A study of citizens’ political talk culture. Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Manuel Neumann. European Political Sc...

More confirmation of the Trivers-Willard hypothesis: Sons from high-status families achieve higher educational outcomes than daughters, while daughters from low-status families surpass sons

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Parental background and daughters’ and sons’ educational outcomes – application of the Trivers-Willard hypothesis. Janne Salminen, Hannu Leh...