Thursday, November 16, 2017

Assessments of twins’ general homophobia targeting gay men

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Genetic Variance in Homophobia: Evidence from Self-and Peer Reports. Alexandra Zapko-Willmes and Christian Kandler. Behavior Genetics, accep...

Listeners can reliably determine a speaker's sincerity through prosodic cues, since sincere compliments are spoken faster and with a higher pitch

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The sound of (in)sincerity. Karyn Fish, Kathrin Rothermich, Marc D.Pella. Journal of Pragmatics, Volume 121, November 2017, Pages 147-161. h...
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Adjusting communication to take into account information available to one’s audience is routine in humans -- Now in chimpanzees

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Vocalizing in chimpanzees is influenced by social-cognitive processes. Catherine Crockford, Roman M. Wittig and Klaus Zuberbühler. Science A...

Blocking nocturnal blue light for insomnia: A randomized controlled trial.

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Blocking nocturnal blue light for insomnia: A randomized controlled trial. Ari Shechter et al. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 2017 Oct 21;...

Focusing on the present predicts improvements in life satisfaction but not happiness

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Being present: Focusing on the present predicts improvements in life satisfaction but not happiness. Peter Felsman et al. Emotion. 2017 Oct;...

Women’s relationship satisfaction was related to similarity in left-right and liberal-conservative political attitudes

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Leikas, Sointu, Ville J Ilmarinen, Markku Verkasalo, Hanna-Leena Vartiainen, and Jan-Erik Lönnqvist. 2017. “Relationship Satisfaction and Si...

Examining Overlap in Behavioral and Neural Representations of Morals, Facts, and Preferences

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Theriault, Jordan E, Adam Waytz, Larisa Heiphetz, and Liane Young. 2017. “Examining Overlap in Behavioral and Neural Representations of Mora...

College-educated escorts have better outside options to prostitution, attracting fewer unpleasant clients and combining sexual services with non-sexual services such as companionship

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Prostitution, hours, job amenities and education. Scott Cunningham, Todd D. Kendall. Review of Economics of the Household, December 2017, Vo...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

The ability to block a moving ball affected the ball’s perceived speed

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Is There a Chastity Belt on Perception? Jessica Witt, Nathan Tenhundfeld and Michael Tymoski. Psychological Science,  https://doi.org/10.117...

Consumers who experience the sensation of going against the flow pick alternatives that are normatively not preferred

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Going against the Flow: The Effects of Dynamic Sensorimotor Experiences on Consumer Choice. Mina Kwon and Rashmi Adaval. Journal of Consumer...

Indoor Prostitution Lowers Sex Crime: Evidence from New York City

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The Effect of Indoor Prostitution on Sex Crime: Evidence from New York City. Riccardo Ciacci & María Micaela Sviatschi. Columbia Univers...
Monday, November 13, 2017

Psychopathy and Heroism in First Responders: Traits Cut From the Same Cloth?

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Patton, C. L., Smith, S. F., & Lilienfeld, S. O. (2017). Psychopathy and Heroism in First Responders: Traits Cut From the Same Cloth? Pe...

Have passive rentiers replaced the working rich at the top of the U.S. income distribution? They haven't.

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Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century. Matthew Smith, Danny Yagan, Owen Zidar, and Eric Zwick. http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/owen.zidar/...

The view that political attitudes are detached from any physical properties is unsustainable -- social justice attitude linked to genetics

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A Genetic Basis of Economic Egalitarianism. Nemanja Batrićević, and Levente Littvay. Social Justice Research, https://link.springer.com/arti...

Male prairie voles enjoy forcing sex on the females, the females do not enjoy not being able to escape

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Mating and social exposure induces an opioid-dependent conditioned place preference in male but not in female prairie voles (Microtus ochrog...

Vanity of vanities: Consumers tell others about a positive experience if it signals expertise

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Signaling Success: Word of Mouth as Self-Enhancement. Andrea C. Wojnicki, and David Godes. Customer Needs and Solutions, https://link.spring...

The Effect Of Retouched Media Images On Body Dissatisfaction

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The Effect Of Retouched Media Images On Body Dissatisfaction. Danielle M Lorch. A dissertation submitted to the graduate faculty of The Univ...

Why people dox others --- Doxing = malicious release of personal sensitive information

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Fifteen Minutes of Unwanted Fame: Detecting and Characterizing Doxing. Peter Snyder, Periwinkle Doerfler, Chris Kanich, and Damon McCoy. In ...

Physiological Arousal and Self-Reported Valence for Erotica Images Correlate with Sexual Policy Preferences

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Amanda Friesen, Kevin B. Smith, John R. Hibbing; Physiological Arousal and Self-Reported Valence for Erotica Images Correlate with Sexual Po...

Higher than usual Google searches for life-threatening illnesses predicted increases in searches for religious content (e.g., God, Jesus, prayer)

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Searching for God: Illness-Related Mortality Threats and Religious Search Volume in Google in 16 Nations. Brett W. Pelham, Mitsuru Shimizu, ...

The best estimate of the effects of campaign contact & advertising on Americans' candidates choices in general elections is zero

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Kalla, Joshua and Broockman, David E., The Minimal Persuasive Effects of Campaign Contact in General Elections: Evidence from 49 Field Exper...

Blind woman cannot discriminate gender of target faces, but perceives happy, fearful or angry expressions

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Affective blindsight in the absence of input from face processing regions in occipital-temporal cortex. Christopher L. Striemer, Robert L. W...

Choices of decreasing value should provoke decreasing anxiety, but it doesn't work that way -- aversive vs. unrewarding

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Shenhav, Amitai, Carolyn K D Wolf, and Uma R Karmarkar. 2017. “The Evil of Banality: When Choosing Between the Mundane Feels Like Choosing B...
Sunday, November 12, 2017

Global Times shows appretiation of Donald Trump, known to his fans as Uncle Trump, Donald the Strong, etc.

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Known for approx. six months, NYTimes readers get to know now that there is appreciation in China for his brashness and perceived authentici...

A longitudinal investigation of the impact of psychotherapist training: Does training improve client outcomes? Seems not.

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Erekson, D. M., Janis, R., Bailey, R. J., Cattani, K., & Pedersen, T. R. (2017). A longitudinal investigation of the impact of psychothe...

Forget in a Flash: A Further Investigation of the Photo-Taking-Impairment Effect

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Forget in a Flash: A Further Investigation of the Photo-Taking-Impairment Effect. Julia S. Soares, Benjamin C. Storm. Journal of Applied Res...

Surprise, star scientists study the taxes they will pay & act accordingly choosing work location to help reducing them

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The Effect of State Taxes on the Geographical Location of Top Earners: Evidence from Star Scientists. Enrico Moretti and Daniel J. Wilson. A...
Saturday, November 11, 2017

Decline in US states' capital tax rates is due to synchronous responses to common shocks rather than competitive responses to other state's tax policy

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Tax competition among U.S. states: Racing to the bottom or riding on a seesaw? Robert Chirinko and Daniel Wilson. Journal of Public Economic...

Desirability of Narcissism: The Young Find It More Appealing, Less Undesirable

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Age Differences in the Desirability of Narcissism. Kathy R. Berenson, William D. Ellison, and Rachel Clasing. Journal of Individual Differen...

Smartphone-tracking data & precinct-level voting data show that politically-divided families shortened Thanksgiving dinners by 20-30 minutes following the 2016 election

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M. Keith Chen and Ryne Rohla. “Politics Gets Personal: Effects of Political Partisanship and Advertising on Family Ties.” 2017 (Under Review...

The left part of the brain is crucial in the construction of novel representations by integrating memory content in new ways and supporting executively demanding mental simulations

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To create or to recall original ideas: Brain processes associated with the imagination of novel object uses. Mathias Benedek et al. Cortex, ...

The origins of social conservatism: an extended twin family study using self- and peer-reports

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The origins of social conservatism: an extended twin family study using self- and peer-reports. Edward Bell et al. Behavior Genetics Associa...

Sexual insults are linked to narcissistic, non-compliant and misanthropic character, & to socially repugnant behavior like bullying & intimate partner violence

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Hyatt, Courtland, Jessica L Maples-Keller, Chelsea Sleep, Donald Lynam, and Josh Miller. 2017. “The Anatomy of an Insult: Popular Derogatory...

We don't share political opinions with co-workers to avoid potential conflict, giving the impression of greater homogeneity and, paradoxically, more polarization

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“It could turn ugly”: Selective disclosure of attitudes in political discussion networks. Sarah K.Cowan and Delia Baldassarri. Social Networ...

Criminal energetics: A theory of antisocial enhancement and criminal attenuation

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Criminal energetics: A theory of antisocial enhancement and criminal attenuation. Michael G. Vaughn, Matt DeLisi. Aggression and Violent Beh...
Friday, November 10, 2017

Callousness and manipulativeness are central traits to a dark personality

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A Network of Dark Personality Traits: What Lies at the Heart of Darkness? David K. Marcus, Jonathan Preszler, Virgil Zeigler-Hill. Journal o...

The “bad guy” profile is closer to the normal profile of real humans than that of the “good guys,” which are stereotyped

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What are the cephalometric features of “good” and “bad” guys in cartoons? Alexandre Weiss, Cyril Villat, Alban Poitel and Sarah Gebeile-Chau...

Violence Against Women Journal: The Meaning and Practice of Ejaculation on a Woman’s Face

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Naked Aggression: The Meaning and Practice of Ejaculation on a Woman’s Face. Chyng Sun, Matthew B. Ezzell, Olivia Kendall. Violence Against ...

Richard Feynman on Why Questions

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[Transcript] Richard Feynman on Why Questions 61 Post author: Grognor 08 January 2012 07:01PM   I thought this video wa...

Liking what others “Like”: using Facebook to identify determinants of conformity

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Liking what others “Like”: using Facebook to identify determinants of conformity. Johan Egebark and Mathias Ekström. Experimental Economics,...

Sexual Appeal Is In The Nose -- Patterns of Eye Movements When Observers Judge Female Facial Attractiveness

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Patterns of Eye Movements When Observers Judge Female Facial Attractiveness. Yan Zhang et al. Front. Psychol., https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg...

Same Genes, Different Brains: Neuroanatomical Differences Between Monozygotic Twins Discordant for Musical Training

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Same Genes, Different Brains: Neuroanatomical Differences Between Monozygotic Twins Discordant for Musical Training. Örjan de Manzano Fredri...
Thursday, November 9, 2017

Zero Likes – Symbolic interactions and need satisfaction online

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Zero Likes – Symbolic interactions and need satisfaction online. Sabine Reich, Frank M.Schneider, and Leonie Heling. Computers in Human Beha...

Paying Down Credit Card Debt for Hotels Not Sofas

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Quispe-Torreblanca, Edika and Stewart, Neil and Gathergood, John and Loewenstein, George, The Red, the Black, and the Plastic: Paying Down C...