Friday, October 20, 2017

Statistically inaccurate and morally unfair judgements via base rate intrusion

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Statistically inaccurate and morally unfair judgements via base rate intrusion. Jack Cao, Max Kleiman-Weiner & Mahzarin R. Banaji. Natur...

Foreign-Looking Native-Accented People: More Competent When First Seen Rather Than Heard

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Foreign-Looking Native-Accented People: More Competent When First Seen Rather Than Heard. Karolina Hansen, Tamara Rakić and Melanie Steffens...

Sexual objectification decreases women’s experiential consumption (but not material consumption)

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Sexual objectification decreases women’s experiential consumption (but not material consumption). Fei Teng, Xue Wang & Ye Yang. Social I...

Origin of the RNA world: The fate of nucleobases in warm little ponds

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Origin of the RNA world: The fate of nucleobases in warm little ponds. Ben Pearce et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Pu...

Motor cortex and volitional control: Ability to suppress undesired movement

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Motor cortex — to act or not to act? Christian Laut Ebbesen & Michael Brecht. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 18, 694–705 (2017), doi:10.103...

The highest-earning women's wages are penalized by obesity as much as five times that of the lowest earners

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On the Distributional and Evolutionary Nature of the Obesity Wage Penalty. Christian Brown, P. Wesley Routon. Economics & Human Biology,...
Thursday, October 19, 2017

“Naked Bonobo” demolishes myth of sexy, egalitarian bonobos

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Faux-nobo: “Naked Bonobo” demolishes myth of sexy, egalitarian bonobos. Edward Clint • Oct 9, 2017. https://www.skepticink.com/incredulous/2...

Hedge Fund Managers With Psychopathic Tendencies Make for Worse Investor

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Hedge Fund Managers With Psychopathic Tendencies Make for Worse Investors. Leanne ten Brinke, Aimee Kish, Dacher Keltner. Personality and So...

Vindeby, The World’s First Offshore Wind Farm Retires: A Post-Mortem

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World’s First Offshore Wind Farm Retires: A Post-Mortem. M J Kelly, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Date...

Changes in the Public Acceptance of Immigrants and Refugees in Germany in the Course of Europe’s ‘Immigration Crisis’

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Christian S Czymara, Alexander W Schmidt-Catran; Refugees Unwelcome? Changes in the Public Acceptance of Immigrants and Refugees in Germany ...

Birth order: no meaningful effects on life satisfaction, locus of control, interpersonal trust, reciprocity, risk taking, patience, impulsivity, or political orientation

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Probing Birth-Order Effects on Narrow Traits Using Specification-Curve Analysis. Julia M. Rohrer, Boris Egloff, and Stefan C. Schmukle. Psyc...

Not aware of the improvement, but drinking alcohol significantly betters observer-ratings for Dutch language, specifically pronunciation

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Dutch courage? Effects of acute alcohol consumption on self-ratings and observer ratings of foreign language skills. Fritz Renner, Inge Kers...

Infants React with Increased Arousal to Spiders and Snakes

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Itsy Bitsy Spider…: Infants React with Increased Arousal to Spiders and Snakes. Stefanie Hoehl, Kahl Hellmer, Maria Johansson and Gustaf Gre...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Supplementing multivitamins and iodine to deficient children and learning to play a musical instrument raises the IQ

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Raising IQ among school-aged children: Five meta-analyses and a review of randomized controlled trials. John Protzko. Developmental Review, ...

Deciding for oneself, we are averse to loss; deciding for one other, aversion is significantly reduced

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Decision making for others: The case of loss aversion. Sascha C. Füllbrunn and Wolfgang J. Luhan. Economics Letters, https://doi.org/10.1016...

Acquiescence: People can explicitly recognize that their intuitive judgment is wrong but, nevertheless, stick with it

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Risen JL. Acquiescing to intuition: Believing what we know isn't so. Soc Personal Psychol Compass. 2017;e12358. https://doi.org/10.1111/...

Why museum visitors touch the exhibits when they do not have permission to do so

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Rehabilitating unauthorised touch or why museum visitors touch the exhibits. Fiona Candlin.  The Senses and Society, Volume 12, 2017 - Issue...

A Replication of Thomas Piketty's Data on the Concentration of Wealth in the US. By Richard Sutch

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The One Percent across Two Centuries: A Replication of Thomas Piketty's Data on the Concentration of Wealth in the United States. Richar...

Hunting Strategies with Cultivated Plants as Bait and the Prey Pathway to Animal Domestication

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Hunting Strategies with Cultivated Plants as Bait and the Prey Pathway to Animal Domestication. Serge Svizzero. International Journal of Res...

Home sharing driving up rents. Evidence from Airbnb in Boston

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Is home sharing driving up rents? Evidence from Airbnb in Boston. Keren Horn & Mark Merante. Journal of Housing Economics, Volume 38, De...

For political candidates, an increased audience diversity is associated with a reduced ‘Liking’

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Trumped by context collapse: Examination of ‘Liking’ political candidates in the presence of audience diversity. Ben Marder. Computers in Hu...

Psychedelic use associated with reduced odds of larceny/theft, assault, arrest for a property crime & for a violent crime

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The relationships of classic psychedelic use with criminal behavior in the United States adult population. Peter S Hendricks et al. Journal ...
Tuesday, October 17, 2017

How Will China's Industrial Modernization Plan affect Workers? By Boy Luethje

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How Will China's Industrial Modernization Plan affect Workers? By Boy Luethje. East-West Center, Oct 17 2017.  How Will China’s Industri...

After seeing an agent attain two goals equally often at varying costs, infants expected the agent to prefer the goal it attained through costlier actions

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Liu, Shari, Tomer D Ullman, josh tenenbaum, and Elizabeth Spelke. 2017. “Ten-month-old Infants Infer the Value of Goals from the Costs of Ac...

Dramatic pretend play games uniquely improve emotional control in young children

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Goldstein TR, Lerner MD. Dramatic pretend play games uniquely improve emotional control in young children. Dev Sci. 2017;e12603. https://doi...

Generic language encourages to categorize individuals using a lower evidentiary standard regardless of negative consequences

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When Your Kind Cannot Live Here: How Generic Language and Criminal Sanctions Shape Social Categorization. Deborah Goldfarb et al. Psychologi...

Typical courses and critical thinking skills acquired during a semester are not sufficient to prompt skepticism about myth statements

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Class Dis-Mythed: Exploring the Prevalence and Perseverance of Myths in Upper-Level Psychology Courses. Michael Root and Caroline Stanley. h...

Peak olfactory acuity is 9pm... Maybe to help finding sexual mates.

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The Influence of Circadian Timing on Olfactory Sensitivity. Rachel S Herz, Eliza Van Reen, David Barker, Cassie J Hilditch, Ashten Bartz, Ma...

Citizens believe others, especially their political rivals, gravitate toward like-minded news

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Public Perceptions of Partisan Selective Exposure. Perryman, Mallory R. The University of Wisconsin - Madison, ProQuest Dissertations Publis...
Monday, October 16, 2017

Psychopaths are willing and able to disclose how they are under conditions of confidentiality, and do not mind being so

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Kelley, S. E., Edens, J. F., Donnellan, M. B., Mowle, E. N. and Sörman, K. (), Self- and Informant Perceptions of Psychopathic Traits in Rel...

Higher paternal age at offspring conception increases de novo genetic mutations & the children would be less likely to survive and reproduce

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Older fathers' children have lower evolutionary fitness across four centuries and in four populations. Ruben Arslan et al. Proceedings o...

Menarcheal timing is accelerated by favorable nutrition but unrelated to developmental cues of mortality or familial instability

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Menarcheal timing is accelerated by favorable nutrition but unrelated to developmental cues of mortality or familial instability in Cebu, Ph...

Automated Driving: Use With Caution

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Automated driving: Safety blind spots. Ian Y. Noy, David Shinar, William J. Horrey. Safety Science, Volume 102, February 2018, Pages 68–78. ...

Criminal behavior transmission is strongest from mothers to daughters, then by mothers to sons, fathers to daughters, and fathers to sons

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A systematic review and meta-analysis of the intergenerational transmission of criminal behavior. Sytske Besemer et al. Aggression and Viole...

Education has positive impact on tax morale for net beneficiaries of the welfare state, &a negative one for net contributors

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Education and tax morale. David Rodríguez-Justicia, Bernd Theilen. Journal of Economic Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2017.10.00...
Sunday, October 15, 2017

Rhesus macaques expect others to dynamically update their representations of unseen objects

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What do monkeys know about others’ knowledge? Lindsey A. Drayton, Laurie R. Santos. Cognition, Volume 170, January 2018, Pages 201–208. http...

Leaving late: Understanding the extent and predictors of college late departure

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Leaving late: Understanding the extent and predictors of college late departure. Zachary Mabel, Tolani A. Britton. Social Science Research, ...

How Disgust Becomes Law

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Patrick, Carlton and Lieberman, Debra, How Disgust Becomes Law (August 24, 2017). Forthcoming in The Moral Psychology of Disgust, Nina Stroh...

Disgust originates largely to reduce contact with foreigners, and the deviant or marginalized

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Rottman, J., DeJesus, J. M., & Gerdin, E. (forthcoming). The social origins of disgust. In N. Strohminger & V. Kumar (Eds.), The mor...

Manipulating courtship opportunities made Drosophila pseudo. sing longer, faster, and fly and move faster

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Mate choice intensifies motor signalling in Drosophila. Allan Debelle et al. Animal Behaviour, Volume 133, November 2017, Pages 169–187. h...
Saturday, October 14, 2017

Sebastian Heilmann's Leninism Upgraded: Restoration and Innovation Under Xi Jinping

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Event Recap -- Leninism Upgraded: Restoration and Innovation Under Xi Jinping. Sebastian Heilmann. Harvard's University Asia Center. Apr...