Sunday, April 16, 2023

Harbingers of failure do exist: Their positive (negative) pre-release movie reviews provide a strong predictive signal that the movie will turn out to be a flop (success)

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What reviews foretell about opening weekend box office revenue: the harbinger of failure effect in the movie industry. Pantelis Loupos, Yve...

The origin of pleasant sensations: insight from direct electrical brain stimulation

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The origin of pleasant sensations: insight from direct electrical brain stimulation. Cécile Villard et al. Cortex, April 13 2023. https://do...
Saturday, April 15, 2023

The presumption of innocence, the prohibition against pretrial punishment, and the right to an impartial jury—constitutional bedrocks of the American criminal justice process—are potentially threatened by the practice of “perp walks”

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Punishment before trial: public opinion, perp walks, and compensatory justice in the United States.Shanna R. Van Slyke, Leslie A. Corbo ...

Body odour disgust sensitivity is associated with xenophobia: evidence from nine countries across five continents

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Body odour disgust sensitivity is associated with xenophobia: evidence from nine countries across five continents.Marta Z. Zakrzewska et al....

The positive correlation between contradictory conspiracy beliefs mostly reflects that disbelieving one conspiracy theory predicts an increased likelihood of disbelieving a contradictory one

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Just Dead, Not Alive: Reconsidering Belief in Contradictory Conspiracy Theories. Jan-Willem van Prooijen et al. Psychological Science, April...
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...