Tuesday, February 21, 2023

The Nature of Long-Term Unemployment: Predictability, Heterogeneity and Selection

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The Nature of Long-Term Unemployment: Predictability, Heterogeneity and Selection. Andreas I. Mueller & Johannes Spinnewijn. NBER Workin...

Surprise for the authors: People are willing to enact and excuse inconsistency in their moral lives; we discuss how to reconcile this observation with the foundational social psychological principle that people hate inconsistency

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Moral inconsistency. Daniel A. Effron, Beth Anne Helgason. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, February 21 2023. https://doi.org/10....

Psychopathic Traits Are Associated with Mimicking Prosocial Personality Traits in Dating Contexts

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The Chameleons of Dating: Psychopathic Traits Are Associated with Mimicking Prosocial Personality Traits in Dating Contexts. Kristopher J. B...
Monday, February 20, 2023

Rationing and Climate Change Mitigation: We argue that the rejection of markets, and a commitment to fair shares, is a key part of the value of rationing

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Rationing and Climate Change Mitigation. Nathan Wood,Rob Lawlor & Josie Freear. Ethics, Policy & Environment, Feb 19 2023. https://d...

Low mood leads to the consumption of more negative information online which in turn leads to worse mood, and so on

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Kelly, Christopher A., and Tali Sharot. 2023. “Knowledge-seeking Reflects and Shapes Well-being.” PsyArXiv. February 18. doi:10.31234/osf.io...
Sunday, February 19, 2023

Are women more empathetic than men? According to EEG estimations of sex/gender differences in empathic ability, it seems they are not

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Are women more empathetic than men? Questionnaire and EEG estimations of sex/gender differences in empathic ability. Chenyu Pang, Wenxin Li,...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

Contemporary sex differences in partner preferences are maintained by several psycho-biological mechanisms that evolved in conjunction, including not only sexual but also romantic attraction

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The Role of Sexual and Romantic Attraction in Human Mate Preferences. Meike Scheller et al. The Journal of Sex Research, Feb 16 2023. https:...

We appraise the empirical claims claiming that implicit bias deeply affects legal proceedings and practices, and that training can be used to reduce that bias; we find that these claims carry many indicia of unreliability

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Jason Chin, Alexander Holcombe, Kathryn Zeiler, Patrick Forscher & Ann Guo, Metaresearch, Psychology, and Law: A Case Study on Implicit ...

The fears about the menace of misinformation are primarily fed by the misconception that others are more gullible than oneself

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People believe misinformation is a threat because they assume others are gullible. Sacha Altay, Alberto Acerbi. New Media & Society, Feb...

Men and women are less alike, especially in personality traits and basic human values, in countries that have invested the most in gender equality

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Linking gender differences with gender equality: A systematic-narrative literature review of basic skills and personality. Marco Balducci. F...