Friday, April 14, 2023

Feeling younger than one really is only makes one happier up to a certain threshold: Among 40-year old adults the greatest life satisfaction was reported when they felt about 18 years old

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Blöchl, Maria, Steffen Nestler, and David Weiss. 2020. “A Limit of the Subjective Age Bias: Feeling Younger to a Certain Degree, but No More...

News consumption from both traditional and social media increases exposure to fake news stories, which further decreases people’s trust in the mainstream media

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Antecedents and consequences of fake news exposure: a two-panel study on how news use and different indicators of fake news exposure affect ...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

The gender gap in aspirations for tech jobs is considerably larger in high schools serving the Jewish majority than in those serving the Arab/Palestinian minority

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The gendering of tech selves: Aspirations for computing jobs among Jewish and Arab/Palestinian adolescents in Israel. Jason Budge et al. Tec...

The Unpredictability of Individual-level Longevity: Fitting 8 machine learning algorithms using 35 sociodemographic predictors to generate individual-level predictions of age of death

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Breen, Casey, and Nathan Seltzer. 2023. “The Unpredictability of Individual-level Longevity.” SocArXiv. April 8. doi:10.31235/osf.io/znsqg A...
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...