Saturday, March 18, 2023

Openness is unrelated to any type of resistance against opposing political views; conscientious individuals are hesitant to actively resist incongruent opinions; agreeable individuals avoid political information that challenge their beliefs

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Dispositioned to resist? The Big Five and resistance to dissonant political views. Chiara Valli, Alessandro Nai. Personality and Individual ...

Connection between control perceptions and the tendency to moralize and hold people responsible for their actions: Conservatives around the world perceived they had more control over their lives relative to liberals

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Age Differences in Free Will and Control Perceptions Across the Lifespan and Around the World. William J. Chopik, Joshua A. Confer, Matt Mot...
Friday, March 17, 2023

Although measures of numeric ability, such as objective numeracy, are often used to index ability-related polarization, we have robustly found ideological differences to be more pronounced among those higher in verbal ability

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Ability-related polarization in political attitudes: Mechanisms of motivated reasoning. Brittany Shoots-Reinhard. 2023 SC Upstate Research S...

The greater the presence of customers wearing masks in a store, the lower the propensity of new visitors to wear masks

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The influence of social conformity on mask-wearing behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dušan Mladenović, Michal Jirásek, Tomáš Ondráček, ...
Thursday, March 16, 2023

Great apes reach momentary altered mental states by spinning

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Great apes reach momentary altered mental states by spinning. Adriano R. Lameira & Marcus Perlman. Primates, Mar 14 2023. https://link.s...

Educational attainment: Genetic variance accounted for 51% of the total variance, but within women and men, 40% and 58% of the total variance respectively

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Nature, Nurture, and the Meaning of Educational Attainment: Differences by Sex and Socioeconomic Status. Thalida Em Arpawong et al. Twin Res...