Sunday, March 12, 2023

Although having a good reputation was associated with receiving more benefits, almost all women scoring higher than almost all men on a dimension involving better parenting, good reputations, & receipt of more benefits

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The impact of gossip, reputation, and context on resource transfers among Aka hunter-gatherers, Ngandu horticulturalists, and MTurkers. Nico...
Saturday, March 11, 2023

Gender differences in competitiveness and fear of failure help explain why girls have lower life satisfaction than boys in gender equal countries

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Gender differences in competitiveness and fear of failure help explain why girls have lower life satisfaction than boys in gender equal coun...

Self-selection biases in psychological studies: Personality and affective disorders are prevalent among participants

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Kaźmierczak I, Zajenkowska A, Rogoza R, Jonason PK, Ścigała D (2023) Self-selection biases in psychological studies: Personality and affect...
Friday, March 10, 2023

The COVID-19 epidemic is accompanied by substantially and significantly lower intelligence test scores

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Breit M, Scherrer V, Blickle J, Preckel F (2023) Students’ intelligence test results after six and sixteen months of irregular schooling due...

Contrary to the cliché widespread among intellectuals of ordinary people as easily deceived simpletons, humans have an evolutionary rooted distrust of what others say., of all things, this "epistemic vigilance" may be the foundation for delusions

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Delusions as Epistemic Hypervigilance. Ryan McKay, Hugo Mercier. Current Directions in Psychological Science, March 8, 2023. https://doi.org...
Thursday, March 9, 2023

There is a positive relationship between intelligence and survival; intelligence is a protective factor for reaching upper-middle age, thereafter survival depends less on intelligence and more on other factors

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Intelligence and life expectancy in late adulthood: A meta-analysis- Macarena Sánchez-Izquierdo et al. Intelligence, Volume 98, May–June 202...