Saturday, January 28, 2023

Rolf Degen summarizing... Another established social psychological finding, the presumed tendency for individuals to judge deviant ingroup members more harshly than similar behaving outgroup members, steadfastly refuses to be replicated

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Group Membership and Deviance Punishment - Are Deviant Ingroup Members Actually Judged more Negatively than Outgroup Ones? Eric Bonetto et a...

We develop a deep learning model to detect emotions embedded in press conferences after the Federal Open Market Committee meetings and examine the influence of the detected emotions on financial markets

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The Voice of Monetary Policy. Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Tho Pham, and Oleksandr Talavera. American Economic Review, Feb 2023, Vol. 113, No. 2: Pa...

Young men rated their own IQ significantly higher than women of the same age, while at an older age women rated their intelligence higher than men

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Are sex differences in self-estimated intelligence an elusive phenomenon? Exploring the role of working memory, creativity, and other psycho...
Friday, January 27, 2023

Online shopping enhances the long-term subjective well-being of consumers by increasing their proportion of hedonic consumption; high consumer income can weaken this effect; effect is stronger for rural consumers

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Click it, and increase hedonic consumption ratio: How does online shopping improve the long-term subjective well-being of consumers? Jiangzh...
Thursday, January 26, 2023

In 2002 the most sexually active top 20 % of American heterosexual men had 12 lifetime sex partners while the top 5 % had 38; in 2012, the top 20 % reported 15 lifetime sex partners & the top 5 % of men reported 50

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Sexual loneliness – a neglected public health problem? Joona Räsänen. Bioethics, January 20 2023. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.13134 A study...

Men's sexual desire fluctuated as much as women's in the short term, while women's desire was more variable in the long term

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Does Sexual Desire Fluctuate More Among Women than Men? Emily A. Harris, Matthew J. Hornsey, Wilhelm Hofmann, Patrick Jern, Sean C. Murphy, ...

Liberal political views may be seen as a subtle signal of wealth in today's society; the shift of wealthier people to the political left may coincide with a working-class shift to the right

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Are Political Views the New Luxury Goods? Bence Nanay. Psychology Today, January 25, 2023. https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/psychol...

Male flies that had got the brush-off from a female behaved more aggressively towards their fellow males

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Sexual rejection modulates social interaction and reproductive physiology. Liora Omesi, Mali Levi, Elia Dayan, Yong-Kyu Kim, Lital Barak-Buc...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Reading for pleasure in adolescence did not yield any benefits for mental health in a large longitudinal study

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Murray, Aja L., Patrick Errington, Yi Yang, Daniel Mirman, Ingrid Obsuth, Tom Booth, Denis Ribeaud, et al. 2023. “Is Reading for Pleasure in...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

The domains in which people most strongly chose mates who were similar to themselves were politics, religion, intelligence and substance use

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A comprehensive meta-analysis of human assortative mating in 22 complex traits. Tanya B Horwitz, Matthew C Keller. bioRxiv, Mar 20 2022. htt...

Humans show higher levels of fearfulness than other great apes, which has been adaptive for care-giving

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The human fear paradox: Affective origins of cooperative care. Tobias Grossmann. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, April 18 2022. https://www.c...
Monday, January 23, 2023

Despite years of training in clinical psychology students, no significant differences were found in self-reported mentalization capacity between first and last year students

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Does clinical training improve mentalization skills in future therapists? A comparison of first and last year students of clinical psycholog...