Sunday, September 24, 2017

Perverse Consequences of Well Intentioned Regulation: Evidence from India's Child Labor Ban

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Perverse Consequences of Well Intentioned Regulation: Evidence from India's Child Labor Ban. Prashant Bharadwaj, Leah K. Lakdawala, and ...

Dark Personalities on Facebook: Harmful Online Behaviors and Language

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Dark Personalities on Facebook: Harmful Online Behaviors and Language. Olga Bogolyubova et al. Computers in Human Behavior, https://doi.org/...

Individual differences in the effects of baby images on attitudes toward getting married

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Individual differences in the effects of baby images on attitudes toward getting married. Charles G. Lord, , Christopher J. Holland, and Sar...

European Paradox or Delusion—Are European Science and Economy Outdated?

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European Paradox or Delusion—Are European Science and Economy Outdated? Alonso Rodríguez-Navarro Francis Narin. Science and Public Policy, s...

The Mortality and Myocardial Effects of Antidepressants Are Moderated by Preexisting Cardiovascular Disease: A Meta-Analysis

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The Mortality and Myocardial Effects of Antidepressants Are Moderated by Preexisting Cardiovascular Disease: A Meta-Analysis. Maslej M.M. et...

‘Barbie Doll Syndrome’. A case report of body dysmorphic disorder

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„Das Barbie Syndrom“. Ein Fallbericht über die Körperdysmorphe Störung (=‘Barbie Doll Syndrome’. A case report of body dysmorphic disorder)....

Fake news and post-truth pronouncements are increasingly common, also in the sciences, including the medical ones

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Fake news and post-truth pronouncements in general and in early human development. Victor Grech. Early Human Development, https://doi.org/10...

Captive gorilla apparently trying to engage zoo visitors in a joint task of retrieving food with a stick

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Luef, E. M., & Heschl, A. (2017). Triadic interactions with tools in a gorilla. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 4(2), 136–145. https://do...
Saturday, September 23, 2017

The Stability of Implicit Racial Bias in Police Officers -- Policemen need to sleep better

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The Stability of Implicit Racial Bias in Police Officers. Lois James. Police Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1177/1098611117732974 Abstract: R...

Doctors should be more sensitive to the limitations of the evidence, training them to do critical appraisal, & enhancing their communication skills

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Ioannidis, J. P. A., Stuart, M. E., Brownlee, S. and Strite, S. A. (), How To Survive the Medical Misinformation Mess. Eur J Clin Invest. Ac...

Personality Change in the Preclinical Phase of Alzheimer Disease

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Personality Change in the Preclinical Phase of Alzheimer Disease. Antonio Terracciano et al. JAMA Psychiatry. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.201...

The Cognitive-Evolutionary Model of Surprise: A Review of the Evidence

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Reisenzein, R., Horstmann, G. and Schützwohl, A. (2017), The Cognitive-Evolutionary Model of Surprise: A Review of the Evidence. Topics in C...

Understanding the 2016 US Presidential Polls: The Importance of Hidden Trump Supporters

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Understanding the 2016 US Presidential Polls: The Importance of Hidden Trump Supporters. Peter Enns, Julius Lagodny and Jonathon Schuldt. St...

The Foreign Investor Bias and Its Linguistic Origins

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The Foreign Investor Bias and Its Linguistic Origins. Russell Lundholm, Nafis Rahman & Rafael Rogo. Management Science, https://doi.org/...

Altruists lie like the others unless lying hurts another party

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Do the Altruists Lie Less? Rudolf Kerschbamer, Daniel Neururer, and Alexander Gruber. August 28, 2017. https://ideas.repec.org/p/inn/wpaper/...
Friday, September 22, 2017

Mnemonic transmission, social contagion, and emergence of collective memory: Influence of emotional valence, group structure, and information distribution

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Choi, H.-Y., Kensinger, E. A., & Rajaram, S. (2017). Mnemonic transmission, social contagion, and emergence of collective memory: Influe...

Tattooed targets, especially women, were rated as stronger and more independent, but more negatively

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Tattoo or taboo? Tattoo stigma and negative attitudes toward tattooed individuals. Kristin A Broussard & Helen C Harton. The Journal of ...

How many laypeople holding a popular opinion are needed to counter an expert opinion?

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How many laypeople holding a popular opinion are needed to counter an expert opinion? Jos Hornikx, Adam J. L. Harris & Jordy Boekema. Th...

Invasive interventions are associated with substantially large placebo effects

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Route of Placebo Administration: Robust Placebo Effects in Laboratory and Clinical Settings. Tao Liu. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Revie...

Depression is not due to interaction of genetics and childhood trauma -- study of 5,765 subjects from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium

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Does childhood trauma moderate polygenic risk for depression? A meta-analysis of 5,765 subjects from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. Wo...

The Ugly Truth About Ourselves and Our Robot Creations: The Problem of Bias and Social Inequity

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As a preventive measure against possible complains in the future about bias, I share this: The Ugly Truth About Ourselves and Our Robot Cr...
Thursday, September 21, 2017

Revenue fell under receiverships: Can Europe Run Greece? Lessons from U.S. Fiscal Receiverships in Latin America, 1904-3

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Maurer, Noel and Arroyo Abad, Leticia, Can Europe Run Greece? Lessons from U.S. Fiscal Receiverships in Latin America, 1904-31 (June 13, 201...

Chimps do not “do what the others do” merely to fit in, nor suffer for attacks against non-group members

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Do Chimpanzees Conform to Social Norms? Laura Schlingloff, and Richard Moore. In The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds, Jul 2...

Genomic Imprinting Is Implicated in the Psychology of Music

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Genomic Imprinting Is Implicated in the Psychology of Music. Samuel Mehr et al. Psychological Science, https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797617711...

LGB respondents are more liberal than heterosexuals on 99 percent of 199 attitudinal items

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Schnabel, Landon. 2017. “Sexual Orientation and Social Attitudes”. SocArXiv. August 23. www.osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/73xsz Abstract: Gender...

Introverts emerge less as leaders because they engage in higher levels of forecasted negative affect

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The failure of introverts to emerge as leaders: The role of forecasted affect. Andrew Spark, Timothy Stansmore, and Peter O'Connor. Pers...

Disgust and Deontology: Trait Sensitivity to Contamination Promotes a Preference for Order, Hierarchy, and Rule-Based Moral Judgment

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Disgust and Deontology: Trait Sensitivity to Contamination Promotes a Preference for Order, Hierarchy, and Rule-Based Moral Judgment. Jeffre...

A Study of Political Candidacy Among Swedish Adoptees -- Strong transmission in candidacy status between rearing mothers and their daughter

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It Runs in the Family: A Study of Political Candidacy Among Swedish Adoptees. Oskarsson, S., Dawes, C.T. & Lindgren, KO. Polit Behav (20...

Immobile Australia: Surnames Show Strong Status Persistence, 1870–2017

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Immobile Australia: Surnames Show Strong Status Persistence, 1870–2017. Gregory Clark, Andrew Leigh, and Mike Pottenger. IZA DP No. 11021. h...

Women perceive men's limbal rings as a health cue when in mood for casual sex

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Put a (limbal) ring on it: Women perceive men's limbal rings as a health cue in short-term mating domains. Mitch Brown and Donald F Sacc...
Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Accurate Genomic Prediction Of Human Height -- "within a few cm of the prediction"

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Accurate Genomic Prediction Of Human Height. Louis Lello, Steven G Avery, Laurent Tellier, Ana Vazquez, Gustavo de los Campos, and Stephen D...

Psychological roadblocks to the adoption of self-driving vehicles

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Psychological roadblocks to the adoption of self-driving vehicles. Azim Shariff, Jean-François Bonnefon & Iyad Rahwan. Nature Human Beha...

Prolonged transport and cannibalism of mummified infant remains by a Tonkean macaque mother

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Prolonged transport and cannibalism of mummified infant remains by a Tonkean macaque mother. Arianna De Marco, Roberto Cozzolino, and Bernar...

Anticipated regret from erring after following advice is greater than anticipated regret from erring after ignoring advice

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Tzini, K., and Jain, K. (2017) The Role of Anticipated Regret in Advice Taking. J. Behav. Decision Making, doi: 10.1002/bdm.2048. Abstract: ...

Resource Allocation Decisions: When Do We Sacrifice Efficiency in the Name of Equity?

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Resource Allocation Decisions: When Do We Sacrifice Efficiency in the Name of Equity? Tom Gordon-Hecke et al. Interdisciplinary Perspectives...

The Facial Width-to-Height Ratio Predicts Sex Drive, Sociosexuality, and Intended Infidelity

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The Facial Width-to-Height Ratio Predicts Sex Drive, Sociosexuality, and Intended Infidelity. Steven Arnocky et al. Archives of Sexual Behav...

Contrary to prediction, kids these days are better able to delay gratification than they were in the past

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Kids These Days: 50 years of the Marshmallow task. Protzko. https://osf.io/j9tuz/ Abstract: Have children gotten worse at their ability to...

Belief in free will affects causal attributions when judging others’ behavior

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Belief in free will affects causal attributions when judging others’ behavior. Oliver Genschow, Davide Rigoni, and Marcel Brass. Proceedings...

Maximizers maximize for both themselves and others, whereas satisficers satisfice for themselves but maximize for others

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Do maximizers maximize for others? Self-other decision-making differences in maximizing and satisficing. Mo Luan , Lisha Fu , and Hong Li. P...

Consumers in durable goods markets are rational and forward looking

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Are consumers forward looking? Evidence from used iPhones. Kanis Saengchote & Voraprapa Nakavachara. Applied Economics Letters, Pages 1-...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Reasons Probably Won’t Change Your Mind: The Role of Reasons in Revising Moral Decisions

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Stanley, M. L., Dougherty, A. M., Yang, B. W., Henne, P., & De Brigard, F. (2017). Reasons Probably Won’t Change Your Mind: The Role of ...

Mothers want extraversion over conscientiousness or intelligence for their children

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Mothers want extraversion over conscientiousness or intelligence for their children. Rachel Latham & Sophie von Stumm. Personality and I...

Emission budgets and pathways consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 °C

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Emission budgets and pathways consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 °C. Richard J. Millar et al. Nature Geoscience (2017), doi:10.1038/nge...

“No one wants to be seen as someone who can’t afford to get online.”

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Facebook Faces a New World as Officials Rein In a Wild Web. By PAUL MOZUR, MARK SCOTT and MIKE ISAAC. TNYT, Sept 17, 2017. https://www.nytim...

Encouraging consumers to take photos of sentimental possessions before donating them increases donations

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Karen Page Winterich, Rebecca Walker Reczek, and Julie R. Irwin (2017) Keeping the Memory but Not the Possession: Memory Preservation Mitiga...

Propensity for self-employment and success increase with ability balance

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All About Balance? A Test of the Jack-of-all-Trades Theory Using Military Enlistment Data. Lina Aldén, Mats Hammarstedt, and Emma Neuman. La...
Monday, September 18, 2017

The Evolutionary Psychology of Envy and Jealousy

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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

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