Sunday, October 1, 2017

If we spend a longer time waiting in a line, we buy more -- a form of mental accounting to offset the cost of the wait

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Ulku, Sezer and Hydock, Christopher and Cui, Shiliang, Making the Wait Worthwhile: Experiments on the Effect of Queueing on Consumption (Jul...
Saturday, September 30, 2017

Officials who aspire to higher office signal decisiveness by accelerating decisions, since voters prefer leaders with low costs of delay and little uncertainty

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A Theory of Decisive Leadership. Douglas Bernheim and Aaron Bodoh-Creed. Stanford Working Paper, July 2017. http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu...

We have much fewer cross-cultural nonverbal emotional vocalizations than primates

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Human Non-linguistic Vocal Repertoire: Call Types and Their Meaning. Andrey Anikin, Rasmus Bååth, and Tomas Persson. Journal of Nonverbal Be...

Black elected officials had a punitive impact on imprisonment and policing

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The Racial Politics of Mass Incarceration. John Clegg and Adaner Usmani. NYU Working Paper, February 2017. https://ssrn.com/abstract=3025670...

Addicted to Hate: Identity Residual among Former White Supremacists

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Addicted to Hate: Identity Residual among Former White Supremacists. Pete Simi et al. American Sociological Review, https://doi.org/10.1177/...

Fear vs. disgust as affective predictors of absolutist opposition to genetically modified food and other new technologies

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What lies beneath? Fear vs. disgust as affective predictors of absolutist opposition to genetically modified food and other new technologies...

Need, Compassion, and Support for Social Welfare -- We are more impressed by sudden reversals of fortune

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Delton, A. W., Petersen, M. B., DeScioli, P. and Robertson, T. E. (2017), Need, Compassion, and Support for Social Welfare. Political Psycho...

Accusing Others of Ethical Violations Increase Trust in Accuser, Promotes Relationship Conflict in the Group

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Holding People Responsible of Ethical Violations: The Surprising Benefits of Accusing Others.  Jessica A. Kennedy and Maurice E. Schweitzer...

Encountering ideological conflict reduces well-being and humanity-esteem. Agreement doesn't add positive emotions

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Brandt, Mark J, Jarret Crawford, and Daryl Van Tongeren. 2017. “Worldview Conflict in Daily Life”. PsyArXiv. September 29. doi:10.1177/19485...
Friday, September 29, 2017

There Will Be Killing: Collectivization and Death of Draft Animals

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There Will Be Killing: Collectivization and Death of Draft Animals. Shuo Chen and Xiaohuan Lan. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics...

The Myth of Partisan Selective Exposure: A Portrait of the Online Political News Audience

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The Myth of Partisan Selective Exposure: A Portrait of the Online Political News Audience. Jacob L. Nelson, and James G. Webster. Social Med...

The role of personality in individual differences in yearly earnings

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The role of personality in individual differences in yearly earnings. Peter K. Jonason et al. Personality and Individual Differences, Volume...

Cotard and Capgras delusions in a patient with bipolar disorder: “I’ll prove, I’m dead!”

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Cotard and Capgras delusions in a patient with bipolar disorder: “I’ll prove, I’m dead!” Mehmet Hamdi Örüm ORCID Icon & Aysun Kalenderoğ...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

Method of homicide and severe mental illness: A systematic review

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Method of homicide and severe mental illness: A systematic review. Valeria Abreu Minero, Edward Barker, and Rachael Bedford. Aggression and ...

Is utilitarian sacrifice becoming more morally permissible?

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Is utilitarian sacrifice becoming more morally permissible? Ivar R. Hannikainen, Edouard Machery, and Fiery A. Cushman. Cognition., Volume 1...

Expecting the Unexpected: Using Team Charters to Handle Disruptions and Facilitate Team Performance

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Expecting the Unexpected: Using Team Charters to Handle Disruptions and Facilitate Team Performance. Therese E. Sverdrup, Vidar Schei, and Ø...

Origin of smile in animals could be trying to appear as of smaller, less threating body

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Smiles as Multipurpose Social Signals. Jared Martin et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2017.08.007 Abstra...

The Association of Alcohol Consumption Patterns with Self-Rated Physical Health and Psychiatric Distress among veterans

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The Association of Alcohol Consumption Patterns with Self-Rated Physical Health and Psychiatric Distress among Afghanistan- and Iraq-Era U.S...

Youngsters' drinking behavior can be used as a signal, as both behaviors clearly function as an attention-attracting cue

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Does Alcohol Catch the Eye? Investigating Young Adults’ Attention to Alcohol Consumption. Eveline Vincke, and Patrick Vyncke. Evolutionary P...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Again, no replication of the media priming effect, which posits that by drawing attention to certain issues while ignoring others, television news programs help define the politicians' evaluation standards

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Media Priming Effect: A Preregistered Replication Experiment. Tetsuro Kobayashi, Asako Miura and Kazunori Inamasu. Journal of Experimental P...

Learning But Not Relaxing Ameliorates Deviance Under Job Stressors

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More Is Less: Learning But Not Relaxing Buffers Deviance Under Job Stressors. Chen Zhang, David Mayer and Eunbit Hwang. Journal of Applied P...

Echo Chamber? What Echo Chamber? Reviewing the Evidence

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Echo Chamber? What Echo Chamber? Reviewing the Evidence. Axel Bruns. Future of Journalism 2017 Conference. http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/conferen...

Restrictive policies engender more support from stakeholders if to be implemented in the distant vs near future

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It’s about time: Divergent evaluations of restrictive policies in the near and distant future. Nathaniel Nakashima, David Daniels and Kristi...

A beluga whale socialized with bottlenose dolphins imitates their whistles

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A beluga whale socialized with bottlenose dolphins imitates their whistles. Elena M. Panova, and Alexandr V. Agafonov. Animal Cognition, htt...

It’s not as bad as you think: menopausal representations are more positive in postmenopausal women

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It’s not as bad as you think: menopausal representations are more positive in postmenopausal women. Lydia Brown, Valerie Brown, Fiona Judd &...

Taking Facebook at face value: why the use of social media may cause mental disorder

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Østergaard, S. D. (2017), Taking Facebook at face value: why the use of social media may cause mental disorder. Acta Psychiatr Scand. doi:10...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Seeing live theater yields higher levels of tolerance, social perspective taking, & stronger command of the plot & vocabulary of those plays

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Greene, Jay P. and Holmes Erickson, Heidi and Watson, Angela and Beck, Molly, The Play's the Thing: Experimentally Examining the Social ...

More modesty, less trust -- The law of Jante

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The Law of Jante and generalized trust. Cornelius Cappelen & Stefan Dahlberg. Acta Sociologica, https://doi.org/10.1177/0001699317717319...

Low relational mobility leads to greater motivation to understand enemies but not friends and acquaintances

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Low relational mobility leads to greater motivation to understand enemies but not friends and acquaintances. Liman Man Wai Li, Takahiko Masu...

The Split-Brain Phenomenon Revisited: A Single Conscious Agent with Split Perception

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The Split-Brain Phenomenon Revisited: A Single Conscious Agent with Split Perception. Yair Pinto, Edward H.F de Haan, and Victor A.F. Lamme....

Fewer adolescents engaged in adult activities such as having sex, dating, drinking alcohol, working for pay, going out without their parents, & driving

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Twenge, J. M. and Park, H. (2017), The Decline in Adult Activities Among U.S. Adolescents, 1976–2016. Child Dev. doi:10.1111/cdev.12930 Abst...
Monday, September 25, 2017

Contradicting effects of self-insight: Self-insight can conditionally contribute to increased depressive symptoms

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Contradicting effects of self-insight: Self-insight can conditionally contribute to increased depressive symptoms. Miho Nakajima, Keisuke Ta...

Sleep pressure after sleep deprivation in flies can be counteracted by raising their sexual arousal

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Regulation of sleep homeostasis by sexual arousal. Esteban J Beckwith et al. eLife 2017;6:e27445 doi: 10.7554/eLife.27445 Abstract: In all...

Do casual gaming environments evoke stereotype threat? Examining the effects of explicit priming and avatar gender

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Do casual gaming environments evoke stereotype threat? Examining the effects of explicit priming and avatar gender. Linda K. Kaye. Charlotte...

Hypocognition impoverishes one’s mental world, leaving cognitive deficits in recognition, explanation & memory while fueling social chauvinism & conflict in political & cultural spheres

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Wu, K., & Dunning, D. (2017). Hypocognition: Making Sense of the Landscape Beyond One’s Conceptual Reach. Review of General Psychology, ...

We remember lies better than truths, but we expect the opposite

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Besken, M. (2017). Generating Lies Produces Lower Memory Predictions and Higher Memory Performance Than Telling the Truth: Evidence for a Me...

Cheap Renewable Contracts Could Be Options In Disguise

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Cheap Renewable Contracts Could Be Options In Disguise Financial Times, September 25 2017 https://www.ft.com/content/f19f4944-a11a-11e7-b7...

Subsidy-Free Wind Farms Risk Ruining the Industry’s Reputation

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Subsidy-Free Wind Farms Risk Ruining the Industry’s Reputation. By Jess Shankleman Bloomberg, September 19, 2017 + September...

The robotic system has reduced rejects from 20 pct to 5 pct, mostly due to improvements in hygiene & handling

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Spanish farm produce supplier reduces human workers from 500 to 100 using robots. David Edwards. Robotics & Automation News, September 1...
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)....