Friday, September 1, 2017

The estimated 79% heritability of schizophrenia is congruent with previous reports and indicates a substantial genetic risk

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Heritability of schizophrenia and schizophrenia spectrum based on the nationwide Danish Twin Register. Rikke Hilker, MD, PhD. Biological Psy...

Superior Pattern Detectors Efficiently Learn, Activate, Apply, and Update Social Stereotypes

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Superior Pattern Detectors Efficiently Learn, Activate, Apply, and Update Social Stereotypes. David Lick, Adam Alter and Jonathan Freeman. J...

Group identity as a source of threat and means of compensation: Establishing personal control through group identification and ideology

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Goode, C., Keefer, L. A., Branscombe, N. R., and Molina, L. E. (2017) Group identity as a source of threat and means of compensation: Establ...

Hispanics choose vehicles that are about 5-8% more expensive

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Visible Consumption and Race: Evidence from Auto-Loans. Konstantinos Tzioumis. U.S. Department of the Treasury Working Paper, July 2017. A...

Similarities in smell and taste preferences in couples increase with relationship duration

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Similarities in smell and taste preferences in couples increase with relationship duration. Agata Groyecka et al. Appetite, https://doi.org/...

Bias and ignorance in demographic perception -- part of a very general pattern of human psychology

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Bias and ignorance in demographic perception. D. Landy, B. Guay and T. Marghetis. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, https://link.springer.c...
Thursday, August 31, 2017

Visually conspicuous vehicle modifications influence perceptions of male owner's reproductive strategy and attractiveness

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Visually conspicuous vehicle modifications influence perceptions of male owner's reproductive strategy and attractiveness. Daniel J. Kru...

Openness to Experience and Conscientiousness are consistent predictors of authoritarian tendencies

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The Prejudiced Personality? Using the Big Five to Predict Susceptibility to Stereotyping Behavior. Philip Chen and Carl Palmer. American Pol...

Keeping Minorities Happy: Hierarchy Maintenance and Whites’ Decreased Support for Highly Identified White Politicians

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Keeping Minorities Happy: Hierarchy Maintenance and Whites’ Decreased Support for Highly Identified White Politicians. Sora Jun, Brian Lower...

The Evil Eye: Eye Gaze and Competitiveness in Social Decision Making

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Giacomantonio, M., Jordan, J., Federico, F., van den Assem, M. J., and van Dolder, D. (2017) The Evil Eye: Eye Gaze and Competitiveness in S...

Adding Insult to Injury: Sex, Sexual Orientation, and Juror Decision Making in a Case of Intimate Partner Violence

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Adding Insult to Injury: Sex, Sexual Orientation, and Juror Decision Making in a Case of Intimate Partner Violence. Marissa Stanziani, Jenni...

Gender differences in SCRABBLE performance and associated engagement in purposeful practice activities

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Gender differences in SCRABBLE performance and associated engagement in purposeful practice activities. Jerad H. Moxley, K. Anders Ericsson ...

Is Doing Your Homework Associated with Becoming More Conscientiousness?

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Is Doing Your Homework Associated with Becoming More Conscientiousness? Richard Göllner et al. Journal of Research in Personality. https://d...

Conservatism predicts lapses from vegetarian/vegan diets to meat consumption (through lower social justice concerns and social support)

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Conservatism predicts lapses from vegetarian/vegan diets to meat consumption (through lower social justice concerns and social support). Gor...

No mutual mate choice for quality in zebra finches: Time to question a widely-held assumption

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Wang, D., Forstmeier, W. and Kempenaers, B. (), No mutual mate choice for quality in zebra finches: Time to question a widely-held assumptio...

The strategic moral self: Self-presentation shapes moral dilemma judgments

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The strategic moral self: Self-presentation shapes moral dilemma judgments. Sarah C. Rom and Paul Conway. Journal of Experimental Social Psy...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Truth or Punishment: Secrecy and Punishing the Self

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Truth or Punishment: Secrecy and Punishing the Self. Michael Slepian and Brock Bastian. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, https://...
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Psychological resilience in U.S. military veterans: A 2-year, nationally representative prospective cohort study

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Psychological resilience in U.S. military veterans: A 2-year, nationally representative prospective cohort study. Kelly Isaacs et al. Journa...

Openness to experience predicts intrinsic value shifts after deliberating one's own death

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Openness to experience predicts intrinsic value shifts after deliberating one's own death. Mike Prentice, Tim Kasser and Kennon Sheldon....

Protecting the Innocence of Youth: Moral Sanctity Values Underlie Censorship From Young Children

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Protecting the Innocence of Youth: Moral Sanctity Values Underlie Censorship From Young Children. Rajen Anderson and E.J. Masicampo. Persona...

Thinking More or Feeling Less? Explaining the Foreign-Language Effect on Moral Judgment

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Thinking More or Feeling Less? Explaining the Foreign-Language Effect on Moral Judgment. Sayuri Hayakawa et al. Psychological Science, https...

I Lie? We Lie! Why? Experimental Evidence on a Dishonesty Shift in Groups

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I Lie? We Lie! Why? Experimental Evidence on a Dishonesty Shift in Groups. Martin Kocher, Simeon Schudy & Lisa Spantig. Management Scien...

Ignoring alarming news brings indifference: Learning about the world and the self

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Ignoring alarming news brings indifference: Learning about the world and the self. Elizabeth Levy Paluck, Eldar Shafir and Sherry Jueyu Wu. ...

Strongest anti-Muslim attitudes are found among the nonreligious in secularized countries

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Secular Tolerance? Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Western Europe. Egbert Ribberink, Peter Achterberg and Dick Houtman. Journal for the Scientific ...

Fearless dominance associated with success (being employed, higher household income)

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Benning, Stephen & Molina, Stephany & A Dowgwillo, Emily & Patrick, Christopher & Miller, Karen & B Storrow, Alan. (2017...

The upper class guys have issues recognizing limits of their knowledge, consider world in flux and change, acknowledge and integrate different perspectives in interpersonal situations

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Brienza, Justin P, and Igor Grossmann. “Social Class and Wise Reasoning About Interpersonal Conflicts Across Regions, Persons and Situations...

Smart Conformists: Children and Adolescents Associate Conformity With Intelligence Across Cultures

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Wen, N. J., Clegg, J. M. and Legare, C. H. (2017), Smart Conformists: Children and Adolescents Associate Conformity With Intelligence Across...

Lawyer CEOs get better results with less litigation

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Henderson, M. Todd and Hutton, Irena and Jiang, Danling and Pierson, Matthew, Lawyer CEOs (February 21, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ss...
Monday, August 28, 2017

Too Lucky to be True - Fairness Views under the Shadow of Cheating

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Bortolotti, Stefania; Soraperra, Ivan; Sutter, Matthias; Zoller, Claudia (2017) : Too Lucky to be True - Fairness Views under the Shadow of ...

Diane Coffey and Dean Spears' Where India Goes --- by Alex Tabarrok

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Where India Goes, by Alex Tabarrok on August 28, 2017. Where India Goes [ https://www.amazon.com/Where-India-Goes-Abandoned-Development/dp/9...

Geographic Accessibility Of Food Outlets Not Associated With Body Mass Index Change, 1.7million veterans

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Geographic Accessibility Of Food Outlets Not Associated With Body Mass Index Change Among Veterans, 2009–14. Shannon Zenk et al. Health Affa...

Crowding increases calorie consumption

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The Impact of Crowding on Calorie Consumption. Stefan Hock and Rajesh Bagchi. Journal of Consumer Research, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucx0...
Sunday, August 27, 2017

Anti-Profit Beliefs: How People Neglect the Societal Benefits of Profit

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Anti-Profit Beliefs: How People Neglect the Societal Benefits of Profit. Amit Bhattacharjee, Jason Dana & Jonathan Baron. Journal of Per...

Sectarianism and Social Conformity: Evidence from Egypt

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Sectarianism and Social Conformity: Evidence from Egypt. Steven Brooke. Political Research Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129177176...

Biomarkers and Long-term Labour Market Outcomes: The Case of Creatine

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Biomarkers and Long-term Labour Market Outcomes: The Case of Creatine. Petri Böckerman et al. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organizatio...

The Effect of a Supreme Court Decision Regarding Gay Marriage on Social Norms and Personal Attitudes

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The Effect of a Supreme Court Decision Regarding Gay Marriage on Social Norms and Personal Attitudes. Margaret Tankard and Elizabeth Levy Pa...

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The Effect of Violent Crime on Economic Mobility. Patrick Sharkey and Gerard Torrats-Espinosa Journal of Urban Economics, Volume 102, Novemb...

Anger Promotes Economic Conservatism

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Anger Promotes Economic Conservatism. Keri Kettle and Anthony Salerno. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1177/0...

Assessing the accuracy of perceptions of intelligence based on heritable facial features

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Assessing the accuracy of perceptions of intelligence based on heritable facial features. Anthony J.Lee et al. Intelligence, vol. 64, Septem...

More education reduces religiosity, religious acts and superstitious beliefs

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Compulsory Schooling Laws and Formation of Beliefs: Education, Religion and Superstition. Naci Mocan, Luiza Pogorelov. Journal of Economic B...

People attributed more free will to morally good actions than morally neutral ones

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Are morally good actions ever free? Cory J Clark et al. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319182636_Are_morally_good_actions_ever_fre...
Saturday, August 26, 2017

Income Redistribution Predicts Greater Life Satisfaction Across Individual, National, and Cultural Characteristics

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Income Redistribution Predicts Greater Life Satisfaction Across Individual, National, and Cultural Characteristics. Felix Cheung. Journal of...

Did You Reject Me for Someone Else? Rejections That Are Comparative Feel Worse

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Did You Reject Me for Someone Else? Rejections That Are Comparative Feel Worse. Sebastian Deri, Emily M. Zitek. Personality and Social Psych...

Review of Thomas Laqueur's The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains

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Back from the Underworld. By Marina Warner. Review of Thomas Laqueur's The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains. http...