Friday, October 6, 2017

Value information about a drug, such as the price tag, can strongly affect its therapeutic (and antitherapeutic) effect

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Interactions between brain and spinal cord mediate value effects in nocebo hyperalgesia. A. Tinnermann et al. Science  Oct 06 2017, Vol. 358...

Polity or Policy? Explaining Ordinary Muslims’ Support for Suicide Bombing

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Polity or Policy? Explaining Ordinary Muslims’ Support for Suicide Bombing. Christine Fair & Junjie Chen. Georgetown University Working ...

Types of intelligence predict likelihood to get married and stay married

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Types of intelligence predict likelihood to get married and stay married: Large-scale empirical evidence for evolutionary theory. Jaakko Asp...

Male brain type women and female brain type men are more similar to the opposite sex than to their own in a range of social, cognitive and personality variables

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Male brain type women and female brain type men: Gender atypical cognitive profiles and their correlates. Annika M., Svedholm-Häkkinen, Sini...

Participants who read about an underdog had higher creativity scores and produced a wider range of ideas

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The Underdog Advantage in Creativity. Abby Boytos, Kerry Smith, and JongHan Kim. Thinking Skills and Creativity, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.t...

Educational differences in the chances and timing of grandparenthood

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Who becomes a grandparent – and when? Educational differences in the chances and timing of grandparenthood. Jan Skopek and Thomas Leopold. D...
Thursday, October 5, 2017

The most common word during sleep is "No," 10pct of speech are profanities and 26pct are interrogations

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What does the sleeping brain say? Syntax and semantics of sleep talking in healthy subjects and in parasomnia patients. Isabelle Arnulf et a...

The End of Free College in England: Implications for Quality, Enrolments, and Equity

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The End of Free College in England: Implications for Quality, Enrolments, and Equity. Richard Murphy, Judith Scott-Clayton, Gillian Wyness. ...

Individual Difference Correlates of Self-Perceptions of Creativity

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Individual Difference Correlates of Self-Perceptions of Creativity. Mark Batey and David J. Hughes. In book: The Creative Self, pp.185-218. ...

We feel with more intensity when observed

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Janina Steinmetz and Stefan Pfattheicher (2017). Beyond Social Facilitation: A Review of the Far-Reaching Effects of Social Attention. Socia...

Macaques conceal food from alpha males by inhibiting interest in it, refraining from approaching it or looking at it

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Factors influencing deceptive behaviours in Tonkean macaques (Macaca tonkeana). Charlotte Canteloup et al. https://doi.org/10.1163/1568539X-...
Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Most cancer drugs entered the market without evidence of benefit on survival or quality of life

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Availability of evidence of benefits on overall survival and quality of life of cancer drugs approved by European Medicines Agency: retrospe...

Democrat veterans suffer more PTSD than Republicans -- Political Affiliation, Probable PTSD, and Symptoms of Depression in Veterans

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Political Affiliation, Probable PTSD, and Symptoms of Depression in Iraq and Afghanistan Combat Veterans: A Pilot Study. Lating, Jeffrey M. ...

Searching for Moral Dumbfounding: Identifying Measurable Indicators

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McHugh, C., McGann, M., Igou, E. R., & Kinsella, E. L. (2017). Searching for Moral Dumbfounding: Identifying Measurable Indicators of Mo...

Are the Neural Correlates of Consciousness in the Front or in the Back of the Cerebral Cortex? Clinical and Neuroimaging Evidence

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Are the Neural Correlates of Consciousness in the Front or in the Back of the Cerebral Cortex? Clinical and Neuroimaging Evidence. Melanie B...

The Effect of an Interruption on Risk Decisions -- Interruptions decrease the novelty of the risk decision and increases its taking

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The Effect of an Interruption on Risk Decisions. Daniella Kupor, Wendy Liu and On Amir. Journal of Consumer Research,  ucx092, https://doi.o...

Delegating Decisions: Recruiting Others to Make Choices We Might Regret

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Delegating Decisions: Recruiting Others to Make Choices We Might Regret. Mary Steffel and Elanor Williams. Journal of Consumer Research, ucx...

Poor Metacognitive Awareness of Belief Change

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Poor Metacognitive Awareness of Belief Change. Michael Wolfe and Todd Williams. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, https://do...

Intergenerational Consequences of a Geographic Mobility Shock

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The Gift of Moving: Intergenerational Consequences of a Mobility Shock. Emi Nakamura, Jósef Sigurdsson, and Jón Steinsson. NBER Working Pape...

Gossip as an Intrasexual Competition Strategy: Sex Differences in Gossip Frequency, Content, and Attitudes

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Gossip as an Intrasexual Competition Strategy: Sex Differences in Gossip Frequency, Content, and Attitudes. Adam C. Davis. Evolutionary Psyc...

The Wisdom in Virtue: Pursuit of Virtue Predicts Wise Reasoning About Personal Conflicts

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The Wisdom in Virtue: Pursuit of Virtue Predicts Wise Reasoning About Personal Conflicts. Alex C. Huynh et al. Psychological Science, https:...

Brain Activity Unique to Orgasm in Women: An fMRI Analysis

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Brain Activity Unique to Orgasm in Women: An fMRI Analysis. Nan J. Wise, Eleni Frangos, and Barry R. Komisaruk. The Journal of Sexual Medici...
Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Olfactory cues are more effective than visual cues in experimentally triggering autobiographical memories

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Olfactory cues are more effective than visual cues in experimentally triggering autobiographical memories. Maaike J. de Bruijn & Michael...

Individuals who find food-related images more motivationally relevant than erotic ones may eat twice as much as their opposites

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The reality of “food porn”: Larger brain responses to food-related cues than to erotic images predict cue-induced eating. Francesco Versace ...

Perception of Causality: Categories and Constraints

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Categories and Constraints in Causal Perception. Jonathan Kominsky et al. Psychological Science, last updated Sep 27 2017 https://osf.io/k8t...

Acute exposure to blue wavelength light during memory consolidation improves verbal memory performance

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Acute exposure to blue wavelength light during memory consolidation improves verbal memory performance. Anna Alkozei et al. PLoS One, Septem...

Changing beliefs about past public events with believable and overtly unbelievable doctored photographs

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Changing beliefs about past public events with believable and unbelievable doctored photographs. Robert Nash. Memory, http://dx.doi.org/10.1...

Preliminary Evidence For Existence of Oral Sex in a Rural Igbo Community in Southeast Nigeria

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Preliminary Evidence For Existence of Oral Sex in a Rural Igbo Community in Southeast Nigeria. Pavol Prokop, Ike E. Onyishi, Chiedozie O. Ok...
Monday, October 2, 2017

Women's Attraction to Benevolent Sexism: Needing Relationship Security Predicts Greater Attraction to Men who Endorse Benevolent Sexism

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Women's Attraction to Benevolent Sexism: Needing Relationship Security Predicts Greater Attraction to Men who Endorse Benevolent Sexism....

Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied to Initial Romantic Attraction

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Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied to Initial Romantic Attraction. Samantha Joel, Paul Eastwick and Eli Finkel. Psycho...

Chief science adviser attacks academic ‘arrogance’ on policy

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Chief science adviser attacks academic ‘arrogance’ on policy. By David Matthews. Times Higher Education. September 29, 2017 Sir Peter Gluckm...

Physicists find we’re not living in a computer simulation

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Physicists find we’re not living in a computer simulation Summary: https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/physicists-find-we-re-not-living...

Individuals reared together are no more similar to one another in their personalities than if chosen at random in the population

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Theoretical Concepts in the Genetics of Personality Development. Elliot M. Tucker-Drob & Daniel A. Briley. To appear in Handbook of Pers...

Access to other options during drug access can divert the vast majority of rats from continued drug use

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Trying to make sense of rodents' drug choice behavior. Serge H. Ahmed. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, h...
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...