Wednesday, April 12, 2023

The ideal qualities that people wanted in a partner remained fairly stable over the long term, but the importance of status and resources increased over time

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Stability and Change of Individual Differences in Ideal Partner Preferences Over 13 Years. Julie C. Driebe et al. Personality and Social Psy...

Social Class, Sex, and the Ability to Recognize Emotions: The Main Effect is in the Interaction

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Social Class, Sex, and the Ability to Recognize Emotions: The Main Effect is in the Interaction. Susan A. Brener et al. Personality and Soci...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

The AI Effect: People rate distinctively human attributes as more essential to being human after learning about artificial intelligence advances

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The AI Effect: People rate distinctively human attributes as more essential to being human after learning about artificial intelligence adva...
Sunday, April 9, 2023

Each year governments worldwide spend an enormous amount of money subsidising businesses; researching the relationship between the allocation of government subsidies and total productivity for Chinese listed firms

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China does not pick – or create – winners when giving subsidies to firms. Lee Branstetter, Guangwei Li,Mengjia Ren. CEPR, Mar 9 2023. https:...

Although conservatives had poorer quality work motivation and values than liberals, they were happier nonetheless

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Conservatives Report Less Autonomous Work Motivation and Less Intrinsic Values than Liberals, but are Happier Nonetheless: The Explanatory R...

Extradyadic relationships: Participants were highly satisfied with their affairs and expressed little moral regret; plus low relationship quality (i.e., satisfaction, love, commitment) is not a major driver of affairs

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No Remorse: Sexual Infidelity Is Not Clearly Linked with Relationship Satisfaction or Well-Being in Ashley Madison Users. Dylan Selterman, S...
Saturday, April 8, 2023

Higher Intelligence was positively related to the ability to lie, but only in spoken, not written, statements

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Are Intelligent People Better Liars? Relationships between Cognitive Abilities and Credible Lying. Justyna Sarzyńska-Wawer, Krzysztof Hanusz...

A new mode of reproduction in animals: In the yellow crazy ant, Anoplolepis gracilipes, the males are all chimeras, a collection of haploid cells with only maternal or paternal genetic material

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Obligate chimerism in male yellow crazy ants. H. Darras et al. Science, Apr 6 2023, Vol 380, Issue 6640, pp. 55-58. DOI: 10.1126/science.adf...

Incels (and non-incel single men) significantly overestimated the importance of physical-attractiveness & financial prospects to women, &underestimated the importance of intelligence, kindness & understanding, loyalty/dependability, & humor

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Costello, William, Vania Rolon, Andrew G. Thomas, and David P. Schmitt. 2023. “The Mating Psychology of Incels (involuntary Celibates): Misf...
Friday, April 7, 2023

People felt most authentic when they exaggerated their strengths and overlooked their shortcomings

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The Authentic Self Is the Self-Enhancing Self: A Self-Enhancement Framework of Authenticity. Corey L. Guenther, Yiyue Zhang, and Constantine...

People, especially those with high cognitive ability, falsely perceive others as more vulnerable to deepfakes’ impact than themselves

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Examining public perception and cognitive biases in the presumed influence of deepfakes threat: empirical evidence of third person perceptio...

Many, if not most, personalistic dictatorships end up with a disastrous decision; a theory of degenerate autocracy

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Why Did Putin Invade Ukraine? A Theory of Degenerate Autocracy. Georgy Egorov, Konstantin Sonin. University of Chicago, April 5, 2023.  http...

Most aspiring vegans and vegetarians return to eating meat: Dissatisfaction with veg*n food is the most common struggle

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Faunalytics. 2023. “Bringing Back Former Vegans and Vegetarians: An Obstacle Analysis.” PsyArXiv. March 31. doi:10.31234/ osf.io/8a2k9 Abstr...
Thursday, April 6, 2023

Comments that criticize or correct a published study are 20-40% less likely than regular papers that have a female author; in life sciences pre-prints women are missing by 20-40% in failed replications compared to regular papers

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Voicing Disagreement in Science: Missing Women. David Klinowski. The Review of Economics and Statistics, March 15 2023. https://doi.org/10.1...

Catholic and Protestant cities had shared comparable numbers of scientists per capita prior to the Counter-Reformation, but Catholic cities experienced a cataclysmic relative decline at C-R implementation

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Cabello, Matias, The Counter-Reformation, Science, and Long-Term Growth: A Black Legend? (March 15, 2023). SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/s...
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

American Infrastructure Costs: We find that spending per mile increased more than threefold from the 1960s to the 1980s

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Leah Brooks & Zachary Liscow, 2023. "Infrastructure Costs," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic As...
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...