Thursday, February 9, 2023

What Drives Sex Toy Popularity? A Morphological Examination of Vaginally-Insertable Products Sold by the World’s Largest Sexual Wellness Company

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What Drives Sex Toy Popularity? A Morphological Examination of Vaginally-Insertable Products Sold by the World’s Largest Sexual Wellness Com...
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,...