Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Previous research has produced inconsistent findings regarding the role of altruism in mating success; this study sought to test whether altruism (charity/volunteer work) relates to number of offspring

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Allen, M. S., Robson, D. A., Mishra, M., & Laborde, S. (2023). A prospective and retrospective 10-year study of altruism and reproductiv...

Revisiting the Connection Between State Medicaid Expansions and Adult Mortality: These findings imply that evidence that pre-ACA Medicaid expansions to adults saved lives is not as clear as previously suggested

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Revisiting the Connection Between State Medicaid Expansions and Adult Mortality. Charles J. Courtemanche, Jordan W. Jones, Antonios M. Koump...

This paper found that only social animals have demonstrated self-awareness while no solitary species has ever shown this capability

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Sociality and self-awareness in animals. Yanyu Lei. Front. Psychol., January 9 2023. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1065638 Abstract: Re...
Monday, January 9, 2023

Where Are the Workers? From Great Resignation to Quiet Quitting

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Where Are the Workers? From Great Resignation to Quiet Quitting. Dain Lee, Jinhyeok Park & Yongseok Shin. NBER Working Paper 30833. Janu...

Why do humans make so many laws? On the origin of laws by natural selection.

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On the origin of laws by natural selection. Peter De Scioli. Evolution and Human Behavior, January 9 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhum...
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...