Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Large array of triangulating evidence from 12 studies & over 8,000 participants from the U.S. and over 66,000 participants world-wide strongly suggests that left-wing authoritarianism is much closer to a reality than a myth

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Is the myth of left-wing authoritarianism itself a myth? Lucian Gideon Conway III, Alivia Zubrod, Linus Chan, James D. McFarland and Evert V...

Adolescents today are just as politically polarized as adults; & they are much more likely to share their parents' political orientation than they were 4 decades ago

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Learning to Dislike Your Opponents: Political Socialization in the Era of Polarization. Matthew Tyler, Shanto Iyengar. American Political Sc...
Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Females had higher dating intention with men who shared COVID-19 vaccine similarity while men didn't care about female vaccination status

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Lovesick: The Effects of Political Partisanship and COVID-19 Vaccine Perceptions on Online Romantic Partner Selection. Caleb R. Seymour. M.A...

Many things we think we know about the placebo effect are actually unsubstantiated

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Replication crisis and placebo studies: rebooting the bioethical debate. Charlotte Blease, Ben Colagiuri, Cosima Locher. Journal of Medical ...
Sunday, February 5, 2023

Rolf Degen summarizing... The average effect sizes in a “null field” such as homeopathy are a good indicator of the extent to which the tunnel vision of the researchers involved alone can conjure up positive results

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Homeopathy can offer empirical insights on treatment effects in a null field. Matthew K. Sigurdson, Kristin L. Sainani & John P.A. Ioann...

While overall income inequality rose over the past 5 decades, the rise in overall consumption inequality was small; the declining quality of income data likely contributes to these differences for the bottom of the distribution

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Consumption and Income Inequality in the United States Since the 1960s. Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan. Journal of Political Economy, ...

Messages generated by AI are persuasive across a number of policy issues, including weapon bans, a carbon tax, and a paid parental-leave program; participants rated the author of AI messages as being more factual and logical, but less angry & unique

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Bai, Hui, Jan G. Voelkel, Johannes C. Eichstaedt, and Robb Willer. 2023. “Artificial Intelligence Can Persuade Humans on Political Issues.” ...

Continuing education workshops do not produce sustained skill development—quite the opposite; any modest improvement in performance erodes over time without further coaching

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The implications of the Dodo bird verdict for training in psychotherapy: prioritizing process observation. Henny A. Westra. Psychotherapy Re...

Psychotherapeutic experience seems to be unrelated to patients’ change in pathology

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Germer, S., Weyrich, V., Bräscher, A.-K., Mütze, K., & Witthöft, M. (2022). Does practice really make perfect? A longitudinal analysis o...

Using the opinionated language model affected the opinions expressed in participants' writing and shifted their opinions in the subsequent attitude survey

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Co-Writing with Opinionated Language Models Affects Users' Views. Maurice Jakesch, Advait Bhat, Daniel Buschek, Lior Zalmanson, Mor Naam...
Saturday, February 4, 2023

Above a threshold level of wage, an increase in intelligence is no longer associated with higher earnings

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The plateauing of cognitive ability among top earners. Marc Keuschnigg, Arnout van de Rijt, Thijs Bol. European Sociological Review, jcac076...

Listening to one’s most disliked music evokes a stress response that makes the whole body revolt

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Merrill, Julia, Taren-Ida Ackermann, and Anna Czepiel. 2023. “The Negative Power of Music: Effects of Disliked Music on Psychophysiology.” P...

Rolf Degen summarizing... Unlike a machine, in which dedicated components are entrusted with fixed functions, the brain operates more like a complex dynamic system in which changing coalitions of neurons can perform varying tasks depending on the context

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Improving the study of brain-behavior relationships by revisiting basic assumptions. Christiana Westlin et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences,...
Friday, February 3, 2023

Within internet there exists the 90-9-1 principle (also called the 1% rule), which dictates that a vast majority of user-generated content in any specific community comes from the top 1% active users, with most people only listening in

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Vuorio, Valtteri, and Zachary Horne. 2023. “A Lurking Bias: Representativeness of Users Across Social Media and Its Implications for Samplin...

Contrary to this ideal, we found a negative association between media coverage of a paper and the paper’s likelihood of replication success = deciding a paper’s merit based on its media coverage is unwise

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A discipline-wide investigation of the replicability of Psychology papers over the past two decades. Wu Youyou, Yang Yang, and Brian Uzzi. ...
Thursday, February 2, 2023

Do unbiased people act more rationally?—The more unbiased people assessed their own risk of COVID-19 compared to that of others, the less willing they were to be vaccinated

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Do unbiased people act more rationally?—The case of comparative realism and vaccine intention. Kamil Izydorczak, Dariusz Dolinski, Oliver Ge...