Tuesday, April 4, 2023

He hypothesizes & empirically establishes that statehood experience, accumulated over a period of up to six millennia, lies at the deep roots of the spatial distribution of political instability across non-European countries

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State history and political instability: The disadvantage of early state development. Trung V. Vu. Kyklos, March 15 2023. https://doi.org/10...

Rolf Degen summarizing... Liberals view police more negatively than conservatives, in part because they imagine them doing worse things to slightly better people

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Collett, Jessica L., and Kayla D. R. Pierce. 2023. “Interpreting Events Involving Police: Liberals, Conservatives, and Moderates in the Face...

Unfortunate outcomes may provide a justification for acting dishonestly

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Can misfortune lead to dishonesty? Claire Mouminoux. Rationality and Society, March 30, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/10434631231167738 Abst...

5000 Norwegian twin pairs study: Sociological theories explaining class outcomes in terms of social origins have little explanatory power, and should be reformulated to consider genetics

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Van Hootegem, Arno, Adrian F. Rogne, and Torkild H. Lyngstad. 2023. “Heritability of Class: Implications for Theory and Research on Social M...
Monday, April 3, 2023

Peltzman Revisited: Quantifying 21st-Century Opportunity Costs of Food and Drug Administration Regulation

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Peltzman Revisited: Quantifying 21st-Century Opportunity Costs of Food and Drug Administration Regulation. Casey B. Mulligan. The Journal of...

News snacking on digital media platforms does not enrich political knowledge (we learn substantially less) and at best feeds the impression of being informed

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News snacking and political learning: changing opportunity structures of digital platform news use and political knowledge. Jakob Ohme &...
Sunday, April 2, 2023

For male winners, wealth increases marriage formation and reduces divorce risk, suggesting wealth increases men’s attractiveness as prospective and current partners

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Fortunate Families? The Effects of Wealth on Marriage and Fertility. David Cesarini, Erik Lindqvist, Robert Östling & Anastasia Terskaya...

Exposure to insecticide baits that contain glucose has messed up the cockroaches' love game, forcing males to de-sweet their nuptial gifts and to hasten copulation

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Gustatory polymorphism mediates a new adaptive courtship strategy. Ayako Wada-Katsumata, Eduardo Hatano and Coby Schal. Proceedings of the ...

Moral licensing, taking the liberty of acting reprehensibly when one has done something good, only occurs when the good deed had been observed

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Rotella, Amanda, Jisoo Jung, Christopher Chinn, and Pat Barclay. 2023. “Observation Moderates the Moral Licensing Effect: A Meta-analytic Te...

Both Democrats and Republicans discriminate against applicants with a political orientation that does not match their own, with Democrats doing even more discriminating

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Judging Job Applicants by Their Politics: Effects of Target–Rater Political Dissimilarity on Discrimination, Cooperation, and Stereotyping. ...

I observed line performance actually dropping when lines were actively supervised, a result I began calling a reverse Hawthorne effect

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Bernstein, E. 2012 The Transparency Paradox: A Role for Privacy in Organizational Learning and Operational Control. Administrative Science...
Saturday, April 1, 2023

Demography Leads to More Conservative European Societies

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Fieder, Martin and Huber, Susanne, Demography Leads to More Conservative European Societies. Mar 20233. SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Examining the Sexual Double Standards and Hypocrisy in Partner Suitability Appraisals Within a Norwegian Sample

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Examining the Sexual Double Standards and Hypocrisy in Partner Suitability Appraisals Within a Norwegian Sample. Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair...

Although daughters and their parents rated ambition and intelligence as the most important qualities of a husband for daughters, in the concrete case, both parties chose the more attractive man

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Fugère, M. A., Ciccarelli, N. C., & Cousins, A. J. (2023). The importance of physical attractiveness and ambition/intelligence to the ma...

Across the world, adoption of the internet was associated with greater life satisfaction and social well-being

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Vuorre, Matti, and Andrew K. Przybylski. 2023. “A Multiverse Analysis of the Associations Between Internet Use and Well-being.” PsyArXiv. Ma...
Friday, March 31, 2023

Understand what people desire most in a work of art... "In nearly every country all people really wanted was a landscape with a few figures around, animals in the foreground, mainly blue"

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The age of average. Alex Murrell. Mar 20 2023. https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average In the early 1990s, two Russian art...
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Women consistently reported less inequality for themselves than they reported for their group, and for both sexes, political leanings predicted support for gender equality more strongly than perceived personal and societal inequality

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Political Ideology Outdoes Personal Experience in Predicting Support for Gender Equality. A. Timur Sevincer, Cindy Galinsky, Lena Martensen,...

Is the Dark Triad Desirable? Evaluating the Attractiveness of Fictitious Characters for Short- and Long-term Relationships

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Dragostinov, Yavor, and Tom Booth. 2023. “Is the Dark Triad Desirable? Evaluating the Attractiveness of Fictitious Characters for Short- and...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Moderate Beer Consumption Is Associated with Good Physical and Mental Health Status and Increased Social Support

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Moderate Beer Consumption Is Associated with Good Physical and Mental Health Status and Increased Social Support. Antonio Moreno-Llamas, Ern...