Thursday, February 16, 2023

Increased dominance of heat-tolerant symbionts creates resilient coral reefs in near-term ocean warming

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Increased dominance of heat-tolerant symbionts creates resilient coral reefs in near-term ocean warming. Ana M. Palacio-Castro et al.  Proce...

One's own recorded voice often sounds so embarrassingly creepy because of the lack of bone conduction that is inevitably present when hearing one’s own voice while speaking.

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Bone conduction facilitates self-other voice discrimination. Pavo Orepic, Oliver Alan Kannape, Nathan Faivre and Olaf Blanke. Royal Society ...

If we use multi-state commuting zones, which provide superior definitions of local economic areas, we find a robust negative relationship between minimum wages and employment.

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What's Across the Border? Re-Evaluating the Cross-Border Evidence on Minimum Wage Effects. Priyaranjan Jha, David Neumark, Antonio Rodri...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Paying Moms to Stay Home, Finland Edition: Home care benefits negatively affect the early childhood cognitive test results of children, decrease the likelihood of choosing academic high school, and increase youth crimes

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Paying Moms to Stay Home: Short and Long Run Effects on Parents and Children. Jonathan Gruber, Tuomas Kosonen & Kristiina Huttunen. NBER...

We are more interested in the immoral and amoral than in the normies

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Wylie, Jordan, and Ana P. Gantman. 2022. “People Are Curious About Immoral and Morally Ambiguous Others.” PsyArXiv. May 30. doi:10.31234/ os...

This is how we are: "People are more likely to engage in critical thinking when assessing others' reasoning"

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Anchoring in a Social Context: How the Possibility of Being Misinformed by Others Impacts One's Judgment. Joana Reis, Mário B. Ferreira,...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Scientists could accurately predict the sex of the subject on the basis of the greater brain activity elicited by porn in men

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Pattern recognition reveals sex-dependent neural substrates of sexual perception. Vesa Putkinen, Sanaz Nazari-Farsani, Tomi Karjalainen, Sev...

Do humans agree on which body odors are attractive, similar to the agreement observed when rating faces and voices?

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Do humans agree on which body odors are attractive, similar to the agreement observed when rating faces and voices? Megan Nicole Williams, C...