Friday, March 24, 2023

People may not be able to tell if they are envied by another person at a particular moment, but they know who the notoriously envious ones are among the people they have known for a longer time

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Lange, Jens, Birk Hagemeyer, Thomas Lösch, and Katrin Rentzsch. 2019. “Accuracy and Bias in the Social Perception of Envy.” OSF Preprints. J...

Whether intelligence can be achieved without any agency or intrinsic motivation is an important philosophical question; equipping LLMs with agency & intrinsic motivation is a fascinating & important direction for future work

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Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4. Sebastien Bubeck et al. Mar 22 2023. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.127...
Thursday, March 23, 2023

Experimental evidence that core intertemporal choice anomalies—like extreme short-run impatience, structural estimates of present bias, hyperbolicity & transitivity violations—are driven by complexity rather than time or risk preferences

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Complexity and Time. Benjamin Enke, Thomas Graeber & Ryan Oprea. NBER Working Paper 31047. Mar 2023. DOI 10.3386/w31047 Abstract: We pro...

Female participants who interacted with a female chatbot gave the lowest ratings for goodwill and likeability among all groups

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Gender identity and influence in human-machine Communication:A mixed-methods exploration. Weizi Liu, Mike Yao. Computers in Human Behavior, ...

Expressions of Pain, Pleasure, and Fear Are Consistently Rated Due to Chance

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“Eye can’t see the difference”: Facial Expressions of Pain, Pleasure, and Fear Are Consistently Rated Due to Chance. Silvia Boschetti, Herma...

Rolf Degen summarizing... There is a fine line between neuroticism and high sensitivity, and the self-diagnosis of high sensitivity brings considerable redemption

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On the feeling of being different–an interview study with people who define themselves as highly sensitive. Marcus Roth ,Danièle A. Gubler,T...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Adult men view criminal records as less of a hindrance to partner selection than adult women

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She’s Not That into You: Speed Dating with a Criminal Record. Douglas N. Evans & Noreen Ali. Corrections, Mar 13 2023. https://doi.org/1...

Worth the Risk? Greater Acceptance of Instrumental Harm Befalling Men than Women

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Worth the Risk? Greater Acceptance of Instrumental Harm Befalling Men than Women. Maja Graso, Tania Reynolds & Karl Aquino. Archives of ...

We found a significant increase in pseudo-event coverage, expressing a more positive tone than genuine event coverage; moreover, political pseudo-event coverage shows quadrennial cycles with peaks in each presidential election year

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Pseudo-events: Tracking mediatization with machine learning over 40 years. Mengyao Xu, Lingshu Hu, Amanda Hinnant. Computers in Human Behavi...
Monday, March 20, 2023

Acquiring knowledge by Googling gives people a greater illusion of understanding than passively reading the same information, especially when the search results feature snippets

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Understanding Why Searching the Internet Inflates Confidence in Explanatory Ability. Emmaline Drew Eliseev, Elizabeth J. Marsh. Applied Cogn...

Despite the wide educational use of Milgram’s studies to increase people’s awareness of the risks inherent to blind obedience, it may be that this knowledge only serves to evaluate other’s behaviors, and not oneself

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The blind obedience of others: a better than average effect in a Milgram-like experiment. Laurent Bègue & Kevin Vezirian. Ethics & B...
Sunday, March 19, 2023

The worn-out idea of "stereotype threat" suffers another defeat in a failed replication, playing no role in women's lower level of political knowledge

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Does Stereotype Threat Contribute to the Political Knowledge Gender Gap? A Preregistered Replication Study of Ihme and Tausendpfund (2018). ...

Both left and right agree that it's the bad, divisive stuff that goes viral on social media that least deserves it, while the good stuff is not amplified as it should be

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Rathje, Steve, Claire Robertson, William J. Brady, and Jay J. Van Bavel. 2022. “People Think That Social Media Platforms Do (but Should Not)...

Married women with children experience greater intrasexual competition than their male counterparts

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Married women with children experience greater intrasexual competition than their male counterparts. Joyce F. Benenson & Henry Markovits...