Monday, September 18, 2017

The Evolutionary Psychology of Envy and Jealousy

›
The Evolutionary Psychology of Envy and Jealousy. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Baland Jalal. Front. Psychol., 19 September 2017 | https://d...

Higher USA State Resident Neuroticism Is Associated With Lower State Volunteering Rates

›
Higher USA State Resident Neuroticism Is Associated With Lower State Volunteering Rates. Stewart McCann. Personality and Social Psychology B...

Outrage-inducing content appears to be more prevalent and potent online than offline

›
Moral outrage in the digital age. M. J. Crockett. Nature Human Behaviour (2017). doi:10.1038/s41562-017-0213-3 Moral outrage is a powerful  ...

Cognitive Resources in the Service of Identity Expression

›
An Expressive Utility Account of Partisan Cue Receptivity: Cognitive Resources in the Service of Identity Expression. Yphtach Lelkes, Ariel ...
Sunday, September 17, 2017

How the Presence of Others Affects Desirability Judgments in Heterosexual and Homosexual Participants

›
Scofield, John E, Bogdan Kostic, and Erin M Buchanan. 2017. “How the Presence of Others Affects Desirability Judgments in Heterosexual and H...

Liberals and Conservatives Are Similarly Motivated to Deny Attitude-Inconsistent Science

›
Science Denial Across the Political Divide -- Liberals and Conservatives Are Similarly Motivated to Deny Attitude-Inconsistent Science. Anth...

Liberals Possess More National Consensus on Political Attitudes in the US

›
Liberals Possess More National Consensus on Political Attitudes in the United States -- An Examination Across 40 Years. Peter Ondish, Chadly...

“All my life I have been told that capitalism, particularly the American type, was bad,” Mr. Gujanicic, 63, said

›
As China Moves In, Serbia Reaps Benefits, With Strings Attached. By BARBARA SURK. The New York Times, Sep 09, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/...

Research: The readability of scientific texts is decreasing over time

›
Research: The readability of scientific texts is decreasing over time. Pontus Plavén-Sigray et al. eLife 2017;6:e27725. https://elifescience...
Saturday, September 16, 2017

Local mating markets in humans and non-human animals

›
Local mating markets in humans and non-human animals. Ronald Noë. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, October 2017, 71:148. https://doi.org...

Understanding what makes terrorist groups’ propaganda effective: an integrative complexity analysis of ISIL and al Qaeda

›
Understanding what makes terrorist groups’ propaganda effective: an integrative complexity analysis of ISIL and Al Qaeda. Shannon C. Houck, ...

Myths and truths about the cellular composition of the human brain: A review of influential concepts

›
Myths and truths about the cellular composition of the human brain: A review of influential concepts. Christopher S.Bvon Bartheld. Journal o...

Individuals who follow and are followed by the people who correct them are significantly more likely to accept the correction than individuals confronted by strangers

›
Political Fact-Checking on Twitter: When Do Corrections Have an Effect? Drew Margolin, Aniko Hannak and Ingmar Weber. Political Communicatio...

Land plants have regulated their stomatal conductance to allow their intrinsic water use efficiency to increase in nearly constant proportion to the rise in atmospheric [CO2]

›
Atmospheric evidence for a global secular increase in carbon isotopic discrimination of land photosynthesis. Ralph F. Keeling et al. Proceed...

A semantic space analysis of how presidential candidates and their supporters represent abstract political concepts differently

›
Speaking two "Languages" in America: A semantic space analysis of how presidential candidates and their supporters represent abstr...

Attitudes toward science seem to become ever more polarized

›
Attitudes Towards Science. Bastiaan T. Rutjens et al. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aesp.2017.08.00...

Tax compliance is greater for women than men, but men are more willing to contribute to public goods

›
The Role of Gender in the Provision of Public Goods through Tax Compliance. David M. Bruner, John D'Attoma, Sven Steinmo. Journal of Beh...
Friday, September 15, 2017

People believe that future others' preferences and beliefs will change to align with their own

›
The Belief in a Favorable Future. Todd Rogers, Don Moore and Michael Norton. Psychological Science, Volume 28, issue 9, page(s): 1290-1301, ...

Authoritarianism and Affective Polarization: A New View on the Origins of Partisan Extremism

›
Authoritarianism and Affective Polarization: A New View on the Origins of Partisan Extremism. Matthew Luttig. Public Opinion Quarterly, nfx0...

Staggering SNAP benefits throughout the month leads to a 32 pct decrease in grocery store theft

›
SNAP Benefits and Crime: Evidence from Changing Disbursement Schedules. Jillian B. Carr and Analisa Packham. University of Miami, Oxford, OH...

Students who believed that their peers were more socially connected reported lower well-being and belonging

›
From Misperception to Social Connection: Correlates and Consequences of Overestimating Others’ Social Connectedness. Ashley V. Whillans et a...
Thursday, September 14, 2017

Backward planning led to greater motivation, higher goal expectancy, less time pressure and better goal-relevant performance

›
Relative Effects of Forward and Backward Planning on Goal Pursuit. Jooyoung Park, Fang-Chi Lu, and William M. Hedgcock. Psychological Scienc...

Wind farms suppressed soil moisture and enhanced water stress

›
The Observed Impacts of Wind Farms on Local Vegetation Growth in Northern China. Bijian Tang et al. Abstract: Wind farms (WFs) can affect th...

Wheat Agriculture Induce Bigger GDP, Which Yields Smaller Family Ties

›
Wheat Agriculture and Family Ties. James Ang & Per Fredriksson. European Economic Review, Volume 100, November 2017, Pages 236-256, http...

Extraversion and life satisfaction: A cross-cultural examination of student and nationally representative samples

›
Kim, H., Schimmack, U., Oishi, S. and Tsutsui, Y. (), Extraversion and life satisfaction: A cross-cultural examination of student and nation...

Can Superstition Create a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? School Outcomes of Dragon Children of China

›
Can Superstition Create a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? School Outcomes of Dragon Children of China. Naci Mocan and Han Yu. NBER Working Paper, ...

Speaking about the future in the present tense may result in the belief that adverse credit events are more imminent

›
Languages and Corporate Savings Behavior. Shimin Chen et al. Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 46, October 2017, Pages 320-341, https://doi...

Marriage Gap in Christians and Muslims

›
Marriage Gap in Christians and Muslims. Martin Fieder et al. Journal of Biosocial Science, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932017000086 Summary...

Highly educated women tend to partner more often “downwards” with less educated men, rather than remaining single

›
The Reversed Gender Gap in Education and Assortative Mating in Europe. De Hauw, Yolien, Grow, Andre, and Van Bavel, Jan. European Journal of...

In men, education is positively associated with eventual fertility

›
Education, Other Socioeconomic Characteristics Across the Life Course, and Fertility Among Finnish Men. Jessica Nisén et al. European Journa...

Enhancing a men's perception of their own mate value shifts attitude toward casual sex to very interested

›
Marzoli, D., Havlícek, J. and Roberts, S. C. (2017), Human mating strategies: from past causes to present consequences. WIREs Cognitive Scie...

The long-term decline in Greenland Ice Sheet reflectivity between 2000 and 2012 might be more significant than previously thought

›
How robust are in situ observations for validating satellite-derived albedo over the dark zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet? J. C. Ryan et al....

Ability to rapidly and accurately compare quantities genetically linked to mathematical & general cognitive skills

›
Approximate number sense shares etiological overlap with mathematics and general cognitive ability. Sarah L. Lukowski et al. Intelligence, h...
Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Political Institutions, Economic Liberty, and the Great Divergence

›
Political Institutions, Economic Liberty, and the Great Divergence. Gary Cox. Journal of Economic History, September 2017, Pages 724-755, ht...

Why Did Drug Cartels Go to War in Mexico? Subnational Party Alternation, the Breakdown of Criminal Protection, and the Onset of Large-Scale Violence

›
Why Did Drug Cartels Go to War in Mexico? Subnational Party Alternation, the Breakdown of Criminal Protection, and the Onset of Large-Scale ...

High sex ratios in rural China: declining well-being with age in never-married men

›
High sex ratios in rural China: declining well-being with age in never-married men. Zhou X, and Hesketh T. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sc...

Modern Clinical Research on LSD

›
Modern Clinical Research on LSD. Matthias E Liechti. Neuropsychopharmacology (2017) 42, 2114–2127; doi:10.1038/npp.2017.86 Abstract: All mod...

Self-Consciousness or Misattribution Effect in the Induced Hypocrisy Paradigm?

›
Self-Consciousness or Misattribution Effect in the Induced Hypocrisy Paradigm? Mirror, Mirror on the Wall… Audrey Pelt, and Valérie Fointiat...

Misattribution of musical arousal increases sexual attraction towards opposite-sex faces in females

›
Misattribution of musical arousal increases sexual attraction towards opposite-sex faces in females. Manuela M. Marin et al. PLOS One, https...

Overhearing the suggestion that the sheriff had caught the guy significantly increased false identifications

›
Eisen, M. L., Skerrit-Perta, A., Jones, J. M., Owen, J., and Cedré, G. C. (2017) Pre-admonition Suggestion in Live Showups: When Witnesses L...

A female Viking warrior confirmed by genomics

›
Hedenstierna-Jonson C, Kjellström A, Zachrisson T, et al. A female Viking warrior confirmed by genomics. American Journal of Physical Anthro...

Enjoying the Quiet Life: Corporate Decision-Making by Entrenched Managers

›
Enjoying the Quiet Life: Corporate Decision-Making by Entrenched Managers. Naoshi Ikeda, Kotaro Inoue, and Sho Watanabe. NBER Working Paper ...

Using Tax Data to Measure Long-Term Trends in U.S. Income Inequality

›
Using Tax Data to Measure Long-Term Trends in U.S. Income Inequality. Gerald Auten and David Splinter. Draft Paper, Annual Conference, ASSA ...

Land-Use Restrictions -- deregulating to 1980 levels would raise labor productivity by about 10 pct, & consumption by about 9 pct

›
Tarnishing the Golden and Empire States: Land-Use Restrictions and the U.S. Economic Slowdown. Kyle F. Herkenhoff, Lee E. Ohanian, Edward C....
Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Love Death—A Retrospective and Prospective Follow-Up Mortality Study Over 45 Years

›
Lange L, Zedler B, Verhoff MA, Parzeller M. Love Death—A Retrospective and Prospective Follow-Up Mortality Study Over 45 Years. The Journal ...

Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?

›
Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find? Nicholas Bloom, Charles I. Jones, John Van Reenen, and Michael Webb. NBER Working Paper No. 23782. www.nbe...

When Will Negotiation Agents Be Able to Represent Us? The Challenges and Opportunities for Autonomous Negotiators

›
When Will Negotiation Agents Be Able to Represent Us? The Challenges and Opportunities for Autonomous Negotiators. Tim Baarslag, Michael Kai...

The Role of a "Common Is Moral" Heuristic in the Stability and Change of Moral Norms

›
The Role of a "Common Is Moral" Heuristic in the Stability and Change of Moral Norms. Lindström B, Jangard S, Selbing I, and Olsso...

Our moral balance sheet: Compensating our bad and good deeds

›
An experimental analysis of moral self-regulation. Erdem Seçilmiş.  Applied Economics Letters, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2017.13745...

Homosexual acts may help impair reproduction by rivals --- for example, a male imitating a female

›
Male reproductive suppression: not a social affair- Z. Valentina Zizzari, Andrea Jessen, and Joris M. Koene. Current Zoology, Volume 63, Iss...

The Facilitating Effect of Schadenfreude on Creativity

›
A Route to Insight via Another’s Pain: The Facilitating Effect of Schadenfreude on Creativity. Sara L. Wheeler-Smith, Amir Erez, and Elisabe...

Are We Jumping to Unfounded Conclusions About the Causes of Sexual Offending?

›
“I Know Correlation Doesn’t Prove Causation, but . . .”: Are We Jumping to Unfounded Conclusions About the Causes of Sexual Offending? Kevin...

Robot Rejection Lowers Self-Esteem

›
The Bionic Blues: Robot Rejection Lowers Self-Esteem. Kyle Nash et al. Computers in Human Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.09.01...