Friday, October 27, 2017

Assessment of sexual behavior in rats: the potentials and pitfalls

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Assessment of sexual behavior in rats: the potentials and pitfalls. Roy Heijkoop, Patty T. Huijgens , Eelke M.S Snoeren. Behavioural Brain R...

What is consciousness, and could machines have it?

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What is consciousness, and could machines have it? Stanislas Dehaene, Hakwan Lau, and Sid Kouider. Science  Oct 27 2017: Vol. 358, Issue 636...

Who Can Deviate from the Party Line? Political Ideology Moderates Evaluation of Incongruent Policy Position

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Who Can Deviate from the Party Line? Political Ideology Moderates Evaluation of Incongruent Policy Positions in Insula and Anterior Cingulat...

TV Canned Emotions. Effects of Genre and Audience Reaction on Emotions

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Canned Emotions. Effects of Genre and Audience Reaction on Emotions. Andreas M. Baranowski, Rebecca Teichmann and Heiko Hecht. Art & Per...

Offender Decision-Making in Criminology: Contributions from Behavioral Economics

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Offender Decision-Making in Criminology: Contributions from Behavioral Economics.  Greg Pogarsky, Sean Patrick Roche, and Justin T. Pickett....
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Linguistic Distance Diminishes Economic Growth

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Consequences of Linguistic Distance for Economic Growth. Erkan Gören. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, doi:10.1111/obes.12205 ...

Musical improvisation skill makes men more attractive as mates. Implications for the origin of music

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Musical improvisation skill in a prospective partner is associated with mate value and preferences, consistent with sexual selection and par...

Robust Sex Differences in Jigsaw Puzzle Solving—Are Boys Really Better in Most Visuospatial Tasks?

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Robust Sex Differences in Jigsaw Puzzle Solving—Are Boys Really Better in Most Visuospatial Tasks? Vid Kocijan, Marina Horvat and Gregor Maj...

‘Big push’ policies can fail, it is important the reliability and gradual increases in technological complexity

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Contagious disruptions and complexity traps in economic development. Charles Brummitt et al. Nature Human Behaviour 1, 665–672 (2017), Septe...

Solitude has a deactivation effect on people’s affective experiences, decreasing positive & negative high-arousal affects

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Solitude as an Approach to Affective Self-Regulation. Thuy-vy T. Nguyen, Richard M. Ryan, Edward L. Deci. Personality and Social Psychology ...

Significant hump-shaped relation between genetic variation and financial market size

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Financial Markets and Genetic Variation. Eric Cardella, Ivalina Kalcheva & Danjue Shang. Journal of International Financial Markets, Ins...

Biased decision-making in international financial institutions -- mechanical rules overridden to assign a different official rating

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Room for discretion? Biased decision-making in international financial institutions. Valentin Lang & Andrea Presbitero. Journal of Devel...

Teaching personal initiative beats traditional training in boosting small business

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Teaching personal initiative beats traditional training in boosting small business in West Africa. Francisco Campos et al. Science, Sep 22 2...

Beyond questionable research methods: The role of omitted relevant research in the credibility of research

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Schmidt, Frank L. (2017). Beyond questionable research methods: The role of omitted relevant research in the credibility of research. Archiv...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Twin-killing in some traditional societies: An economic perspective

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Twin-killing in some traditional societies: An economic perspective. Andrés Marroquín & Colleen Haight. Journal of Bioeconomics, October...

No evidence that preferences for facial masculinity track changes in women's hormonal status

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No evidence that preferences for facial masculinity track changes in women's hormonal status. Benedict C. Jones, Amanda C. Hahn, Claire ...

More lumbar curvature increased perception of attractiveness of girls, men looked longer & fixated more on the hip region

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Pazhoohi, F., Doyle, J.F., Macedo, A.F. et al. Evolutionary Psychological Science (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-017-0123-7 Abstra...

New evidence that ageing societies become more risk-averse

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Global Evidence on Economic Preferences. Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, Benjamin Enke, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde. NBER Working Pa...

More than 50% or Less than 70% Chance: Pragmatic Implications of Single-Bound Probability Estimates

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Hohle, S. M., and Teigen, K. H. (2017) More than 50% or Less than 70% Chance: Pragmatic Implications of Single-Bound Probability Estimates. ...

In economics, 42% of papers that were published as replication studies successfully replicated another experiment

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Maniadis, Z., Tufano, F. and List, J. A. (2017), To Replicate or Not To Replicate? Exploring Reproducibility in Economics through the Lens o...

Small decline in overall narcissism, leadership, vanity & entitlement levels in college students from the 1990s to the 2010s

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The Narcissism Epidemic Is Dead; Long Live the Narcissism Epidemic. Eunike Wetzel et al. Psychological Science, https://doi.org/10.1177/0956...

A glass of wine is spoilt by a single D. melanogaster fly falling into it

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The scent of the fly. Paul G. Becher, Sebastien Lebreton, Erika A. Wallin, Erik Hedenstrom, Felipe Borrero-Echeverry, Marie Bengtsson, Volke...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Can we change our biased minds?

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Can we change our biased minds? Michael Gross. Current Biology, Volume 27, Issue 20, 23 October 2017, Pages R1089–R1091. https://doi.org/10....

Nearly 80% of the reported effects in empirical economics literatures are exaggerated, typically by a factor of two

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Ioannidis, J. P. A., Stanley, T. D. and Doucouliagos, H. (2017), The Power of Bias in Economics Research. Econ J, 127: F236–F265. doi:10.111...

Pairs in which the partners do not share a social bond with each other behave less ethically than individuals do

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Stranger Danger: When and Why Consumer Dyads Behave Less Ethically Than Individuals. Hristina Nikolova Cait Lamberton Nicole Verrochi Colema...

Smaller & less centralized schools, & schools with fewer poor students, foster social capital that builds labor market networks, as does a larger Republican vote share

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Social Capital and Labor Market Networks. Brian J. Asquith, Judith K. Hellerstein, Mark J. Kutzbach, David Neumark. NBER Working Paper No. 2...

How Ethically Would Americans and Chinese Negotiate? The Effect of Intra-Cultural Versus Inter-Cultural Negotiations

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Yang, Yu and De Cremer, David and Wang, Chao, How Ethically Would Americans and Chinese Negotiate? The Effect of Intra-Cultural Versus Inter...

Are People More Disturbed by Dog or Human Suffering?

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Are People More Disturbed by Dog or Human Suffering? Levin, Jack and Arluke, Arnold and Irvine, Leslie. Society & Animals, Vol 25, issue...

The High Cost of Being Cool: How Adolescent Pseudomature Behavior Maps onto Adult Adjustment

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The Cost of Being Cool: How Adolescent Pseudomature Behavior Maps onto Adult Adjustment. Leslie Gordon Simons et al. Journal of Youth and Ad...

The Relationship between Status and Happiness: Evidence from the Caste System in Rural India

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The Relationship between Status and Happiness: Evidence from the Caste System in Rural India. By Bert van Landeghem, Anneleen Vandeplas. Ins...

Resting heart rate and psychopathy seem not related: Findings from the Add Health Survey

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Resting heart rate and psychopathy: Findings from the Add Health Survey. Nicholas Kavish et al. Available at bioRxiv, http://dx.doi.org/10.1...

Despite being in vegetative state, some patients retain some aspects of emotional experience, react to jokes

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Using facial electromyography to detect preserved emotional processing in disorders of consciousness: A proof-of-principle study. Chris M.Fi...
Monday, October 23, 2017

Deep down my enemy is good: Thinking about the true self reduces intergroup bias

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Deep down my enemy is good: Thinking about the true self reduces intergroup bias. Julian De Freitas, & Mina Cikara. Journal of Experimen...

Performance Trends in AI. By S R Constantin

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Performance Trends in AI. S R Constantin. Updated Oct 2017. https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2017/01/28/performance-trends-in-ai/ Deep l...

Projection of attraction to alternative partners predicts anger and negative behavior in romantic relationships

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The wandering eye perceives more threats: Projection of attraction to alternative partners predicts anger and negative behavior in romantic ...

Presentation letter to date girls

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Presentation letter to date girls hi, this is Jordi! 1 I'm 55 yo, married, working as IT Consultant in xxx. I'd love to meet a g...

Death and failure: A cautionary tale of death anxiety and alternate causality

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Death and failure: A cautionary tale of death anxiety and alternate causality. Christopher Michael Jackson. A thesis submitted for the degre...

Perceived Shared Condemnation Intensifies Punitive Moral Emotions

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Perceived Shared Condemnation Intensifies Punitive Moral Emotions. Naoki Konishi et al. Sci Rep. 2017; 7: 7289. Published online 2017 Aug 4....

Limiting Consumer Choice, Expanding Costly Litigation: An Analysis of the CFPB Arbitration Rule

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US Treasury Dept Limiting Consumer Choice, Expanding Costly Litigation: An Analysis of the CFPB Arbitration Rule Oct 23 2017 https://ww...