Saturday, September 9, 2017

Analyzing a tool of IS propaganda: Ibn ʿAbdul-Wahhāb’s "Mufīd al-Mustafīd fī Kufr Tārik al-Tawḥīd"

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Analyzing a tool of IS propaganda: Ibn ʿAbdul-Wahhāb’s "Mufīd al-Mustafīd fī Kufr Tārik al-Tawḥīd". Joe Bradford.  Draft Paper pre...

Al-Qadā’ wa-l-Qadr: motivational representations of divine decree and predestination in salafi-jihadi literature

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Al - Qadā’ wa - l - Qadr : motivational representations of divine decree and predestination in salafi-jihadi literature. Shiraz Maher &...

Deliberation increases the wisdom of crowds

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Deliberation increases the wisdom of crowds. Joaquin Navajas, Tamara Niella, Gerry Garbulsky, Bahador Bahrami, Mariano Sigman. ArXiv Mar 201...

The devoted actor’s will to fight and the spiritual dimension of human conflict

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The devoted actor’s will to fight and the spiritual dimension of human conflict. Angel Gomez et al. Nature Human Behaviour 1, 673–679 (2017)...

Not Threat, But Threatening: Potential Causes and Consequences of Gay Innumeracy

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Not Threat, But Threatening: Potential Causes and Consequences of Gay Innumeracy. Donald P Haider-Markel & Mark R Joslyn. Journal of Hom...

Hedonic Recall Bias. Why You Should Not Ask People How Much They Earn

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Hedonic Recall Bias. Why You Should Not Ask People How Much They Earn. Alberto Prati. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, https...

Psychological influences of animal-themed food decorations

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Psychological influences of animal-themed food decorations. Kohske Takahashi, Haruaki Fukuda, Katsumi Watanabe, Kazuhiro Uedab. Food Quality...
Friday, September 8, 2017

Estimates of Non-Heterosexual Prevalence: The Roles of Anonymity and Privacy in Survey Methodology

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Estimates of Non-Heterosexual Prevalence: The Roles of Anonymity and Privacy in Survey Methodology. Ronald E. Robertson et al. Archives of S...

Emotions Know Best: The Advantage of Emotional versus Cognitive Responses to Failure

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Nelson, N., Malkoc, S. A., and Shiv, B. (2017) Emotions Know Best: The Advantage of Emotional versus Cognitive Responses to Failure. J. Beha...

Chilldren unable to solve school arithmetic problems were able to solve similar ones when framed as market transactions

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The untapped math skills of working children in India: Evidence, possible explanations, and implications. Abhijit V. Banerjee et al. MIT Eco...

Observing Others’ Anger and Guilt Can Make You Feel Unfairly Treated: The Interpersonal Effects of Emotions on Justice-Related Reactions

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Observing Others’ Anger and Guilt Can Make You Feel Unfairly Treated: The Interpersonal Effects of Emotions on Justice-Related Reactions. An...
Thursday, September 7, 2017

Associations of fats and carbohydrate intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 18 countries from five continents (PURE): A prospective cohort study.

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Associations of fats and carbohydrate intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 18 countries from five continents (PURE): A prospe...

Examining the “Veggie” personality: Results from a representative German sample

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Examining the “Veggie” personality: Results from a representative German sample. Tamara M. Pfeiler and Boris Egloff. Appetite, https://doi.o...

Stylized and photographic eye images do not increase charitable donations in a field experiment

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Stylized and photographic eye images do not increase charitable donations in a field experiment. Paul Lennon, Rachel Grant, and V. Tamara Mo...

If mice could read, they would read the scandals in the tabloid press

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Social inequality aversion in mice: Analysis with stress-induced hyperthermia and behavioral preference. Shigeru Watanabe. Learning and Moti...

Higher long-term lithium levels in drinking water may be associated with less dementia

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Association of Lithium in Drinking Water With the Incidence of Dementia. Lars Vedel Kessing et al. JAMA Psychiatry, http://jamanetwork.com/j...

A 10% increase in minimum wage is associated with a 1%–4% reduction to employment rates for teens

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Employment Effects of the Minimum Wage: Panel Data Evidence from Canadian Provinces. Kate Rybczynski and Anindya Sen. Contemporary Economic ...

Deep Neural Networks Are More Accurate Than Humans at Detecting Sexual Orientation from Facial Images

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Kosinski, Michal, and Yilun Wang. 2017. “Deep Neural Networks Are More Accurate Than Humans at Detecting Sexual Orientation from Facial Imag...
Wednesday, September 6, 2017

A randomized controlled evaluation of a secondary school mindfulness program for early adolescents

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A randomized controlled evaluation of a secondary school mindfulness program for early adolescents: Do we have the recipe right yet? Catheri...

Monopoly without a monopolist : An economic analysis of the bitcoin payment system

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Monopoly without a monopolist : An economic analysis of the bitcoin payment system. Jacob D. Leshno, Gur Huberman, and Ciamac Moallemi. BIS ...

Sabotaging Another: Priming Competition Increases Cheating Behavior in Tournaments

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Rigdon, M. L. and D'Esterre, A. (2017), Sabotaging Another: Priming Competition Increases Cheating Behavior in Tournaments. Southern Eco...

Decreased Brain pH as a Shared Endophenotype of Psychiatric Disorders

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Decreased Brain pH as a Shared Endophenotype of Psychiatric Disorders. Hideo Hagihara et al. Neuropsychopharmacology, Sept 06 2017; doi: 10....

The Impact of Price Controls: Evidence from US Debit Card Interchange Fee Regulation

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The Impact of Price Controls in Two-Sided Markets: Evidence from US Debit Card Interchange Fee Regulation. Mark Manuszak and Krzysztof Wozni...

Beliefs about obedience levels in studies conducted within the Milgram paradigm

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Beliefs about obedience levels in studies conducted within the Milgram paradigm; Better than average effect and comparisons of typical behav...

Self-reflection Orients Visual Attention Downward

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Self-reflection Orients Visual Attention Downward. Yi Liu, Yu Tong and Hong Li. Front. Psychol., Sept 05 2017, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg...

Great Ape Social Attention

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Great Ape Social Attention. Fumihiro Kano and Josep Call. Evolution of the Brain, Cognition, and Emotion in Vertebrates pp 187-206, https://...

Evolutionary Origin of Empathy and Inequality Aversion

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Evolutionary Origin of Empathy and Inequality Aversion. Shigeru Watanabe and Yutaka Kosaki. Evolution of the Brain, Cognition, and Emotion i...
Tuesday, September 5, 2017

The effect of taste and label on the liking of cola drinks by school children: Taste did not have any significant effect

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Bartneck, Christoph, and Hanna Bartneck. 2017. “Interaction of Brand and Taste in the Liking of Cola Drinks by School Children”. PsyArXiv. A...

Individuals with greater science literacy and education have more polarized beliefs on controversial science topics

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Individuals with greater science literacy and education have more polarized beliefs on controversial science topics. Caitlin Drummond and Ba...

Seeing faces: The role of brand visual processing and social connection in brand liking

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Seeing faces: The role of brand visual processing and social connection in brand liking. Ulrich Orth et al. European Journal of Social Psych...

Consumers perceive that a product made by mistake is more improbable, and thus, more unique than an intentional one

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Made by Mistake: When Mistakes Increase Product Preference. Taly Reich, Daniella Kupor and Rosanna Smith. Journal of Consumer Research, http...

Hidden Cost of Insurance on Cooperation: the presumed safeguard against the risk of betrayal may increase the probability of betrayal

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van de Calseyde, P. P. F. M., Keren, G., and Zeelenberg, M. (2017) The Hidden Cost of Insurance on Cooperation. Journal of Behavioral Decisi...

Still an Agenda Setter: Traditional News Media and Public Opinion During the Transition From Low to High Choice Media Environments

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Djerf-Pierre, M. and Shehata, A. (2017), Still an Agenda Setter: Traditional News Media and Public Opinion During the Transition From Low to...

Women are more compassionate than men, but that does not explain the gender gap in partisanship

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Blinder, S. and Rolfe, M. (2017), Rethinking Compassion: Toward a Political Account of the Partisan Gender Gap in the United States. Politic...

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How Dodd-Frank Doubles Down on 'Too Big to Fail' Two major flaws mean that the act doesn't address problems that led to the fi...

Meritocracy Not Racial Discrimination Explains the Racial Income Gap: An Analysis of NLSY 1979

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Kirkegaard, Emil O W. 2017. “Meritocracy Not Racial Discrimination Explains the Racial Income Gap: An Analysis of NLSY 1979”. PsyArXiv. Sept...

Minimum wage increases increase the likelihood that low-skilled workers in automatable jobs become unemployed

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People Versus Machines: The Impact of Minimum Wages on Automatable Jobs. Grace Lordan and David Neumark. NBER Working Paper, August 2017, ht...

A corporate income tax cut can reduce the non-employment rate by up to 7pct

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Corporate Income Tax, Legal Form of Organization, and Employment. Daphne Chen, Shi Shao Qi and Don Schlagenhauf. Federal Reserve Working Pap...

Studying the Effect of Hard and Soft News Exposure on Mental Well-Being Over Time

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Studying the Effect of Hard and Soft News Exposure on Mental Well-Being Over Time. Mark Boukes and Rens Vliegenthart. Journal of Media Psych...

Trash-talking: Competitive incivility motivates rivalry, performance, and unethical behavior

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Trash-talking: Competitive incivility motivates rivalry, performance, and unethical behavior. Jeremy Yip, Maurice Schweitzer & Samir Nur...

Changes in the Subjectively Experienced Severity of Detention: Exploring Individual Differences

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Changes in the Subjectively Experienced Severity of Detention: Exploring Individual Differences. Ellen A. C. Raaijmakers et al. The Prison J...
Monday, September 4, 2017

Revisiting the risk of automation

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Revisiting the risk of automation. Melanie Arntz, Terry Gregory and Ulrich Zierahn. Economics Letters, Volume 159, October 2017, Pages 157-1...

Adult sex ratios and partner scarcity among hunter–gatherers: Implications for dispersal patterns and the evolution of human sociality

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Adult sex ratios and partner scarcity among hunter–gatherers: Implications for dispersal patterns and the evolution of human sociality. Kare...

Languages in Drier Climates Use Fewer Vowels

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Languages in Drier Climates Use Fewer Vowels. Caleb Everett. Frontiers in Psychology, July 2017, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01285 Ab...

Tennis grunts communicate acoustic cues to sex and contest outcome

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Tennis grunts communicate acoustic cues to sex and contest outcome. Jordan Raine, Katarzyna Pisanski & David Reby. Animal Behaviour, Vol...

The Perverse Effects of Subsidized Weather Insurance

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Omri Ben-Shahar & Kyle D. Logue, "The Perverse Effects of Subsidized Weather Insurance," 68 Stanford Law Review 571 (2016). Ab...

Correcting for Bias in Psychology: A Comparison of Meta-analytic Methods

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Carter, Evan C, Felix D Schönbrodt, Will M Gervais, and Joseph Hilgard. 2017. “Correcting for Bias in Psychology: A Comparison of Meta-analy...

Ovulatory Changes in Sexuality

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Arslan, Ruben C, Katharina M Schilling, Tanja M Gerlach, and Lars Penke. 2017. “Ovulatory Changes in Sexuality”. PsyArXiv. September 4. http...

The effect of the presence of an audience on risk-taking while gambling: the social shield

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The effect of the presence of an audience on risk-taking while gambling: the social shield. Jérémy E. Lemoine & Christine Roland-Lévy. S...

Aggression and sleep: a daylight saving time natural experiment on the effect of mild sleep loss and gain on assaults

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Aggression and sleep: a daylight saving time natural experiment on the effect of mild sleep loss and gain on assaults. Rebecca Umbach, Adria...
Sunday, September 3, 2017

Emodiversity: Robust Predictor of Outcomes or Statistical Artifact?

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Brown, N. J. L., & Coyne, J. C. (2017). Emodiversity: Robust Predictor of Outcomes or Statistical Artifact? Journal of Experimental Psyc...

Big Data Surveillance: The Case of Policing

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Big Data Surveillance: The Case of Policing. Sarah Brayne. American Sociological Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122417725865 Abstract: ...

How quickly can we adapt to change? An assessment of hurricane damage mitigation efforts using forecast uncertainty.

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How quickly can we adapt to change? An assessment of hurricane damage mitigation efforts using forecast uncertainty. By Andrew Martinez ...

Sex differences in jealousy: the (Lack of) influence of researcher theoretical perspective

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Sex differences in jealousy: the (Lack of) influence of researcher theoretical perspective. John Edlund et al. The Journal of Social Psychol...