Monday, January 22, 2018

The cryptic reaction shot has grown dramatically in movies. The shots are designed to enhance viewers’ emotional involvement with characters. They depict a facial gesture that reflects a slightly negative and slightly aroused emotional state

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Cutting, J. E. and Armstrong, K. L. (2018), Cryptic Emotions and the Emergence of a Metatheory of Mind in Popular Filmmaking. Cogn Sci. doi:...

Is Accurate, Positive, or Inflated Self-perception Most Advantageous for Psychological Adjustment? A Competitive Test of Key Hypotheses

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Humberg, Sarah, Michael Dufner, Felix D Schönbrodt, Katharina Geukes, Roos Hutteman, Albrecht Kuefner, Maarten van Zalk, Jaap J A Denissen, ...

Exploring the Great Schism in the Social Sciences: Confirmation Bias and the Interpretation of Results Relating to Biological Influences on Human Behavior and Psychology

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Exploring the Great Schism in the Social Sciences: Confirmation Bias and the Interpretation of Results Relating to Biological Influences on ...
Sunday, January 21, 2018

Studying Gay and Straight Males' Implicit Gender Attitudes to Understand Previously Found Gender Differences in Implicit In-Group Bias

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Studying Gay and Straight Males' Implicit Gender Attitudes to Understand Previously Found Gender Differences in Implicit In-Group Bias. ...
Saturday, January 20, 2018

Initial failure made people underestimate how good it would feel to succeed in the future (systematic tendency to downplay the value of inaccessible rewards &outcomes). The predictions of low happiness appear to be a defensive maneuver to prevent disappointment. People high in achievement motivation constituted the main exception.

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Sjastad, Hallgeir, Roy Baumeister, and Michael Ent. 2018. “Greener Grass or Sour Grapes? How People Value Future Goals After Initial Failure...

Lack of Increase in Sexual Drive and Function After Dopaminergic Stimulation in Women – contrary to what happens with men

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Lack of Increase in Sexual Drive and Function After Dopaminergic Stimulation in Women. Tillmann H. C. Krüger et al. Journal of Sex & Mar...

Author claims that twelve-month-olds understand that foreign languages can communicate

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Voulez-vous jouer avec moi? Twelve-month-olds understand that foreign languages can communicate. Athena Vouloumanos. Cognition, Volume 173, ...

Intellectual humility and openness to the opposing view

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Intellectual humility and openness to the opposing view. Tenelle Porter & Karina Schumann. Self and Identity, Volume 17, 2018 - Issue 2,...

Rare delusional ideation of zoanthropy

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Seltener Wahninhalt Zooanthropie / Rare delusional ideation of zoanthropy. Kräenbring, J., Zellner, N. & Warninghoff, J. Der Nervenarzt ...

Exploring the Relationship Between Narcissism and Extreme Altruism

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Exploring the Relationship Between Narcissism and Extreme Altruism. Daniel White, Marianna Szabo and Niko Tiliopoulos. The American Journal ...
Friday, January 19, 2018

Preferences for moral vs. immoral traits (mercifulness vs. mercilessness, honesty vs. dishonesty, sexual fidelity vs. infidelity, and altruism vs. selfishness) in others are conditional

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Preferences for moral vs. immoral traits in others are conditional. David E. Melnikoff and April H. Bailey. Proceedings of the National Acad...

Resting autonomic nervous system activity is unrelated to antisocial behaviour dimensions in adolescents: Cross-sectional findings from a European multi-centre study

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Resting autonomic nervous system activity is unrelated to antisocial behaviour dimensions in adolescents: Cross-sectional findings from a Eu...

An exploratory study of what people with intellectual disabilities find attractive about romantic partners and how they perceive themselves as romantic partners

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Donnachie, Madeline (2017). An exploratory study of what people with intellectual disabilities find attractive about romantic partners and h...

The Preference for Pointing With the Hand Is Not Universal

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Cooperrider, Kensy, Slotta, James and Nunez, Rafael (2018), The Preference for Pointing With the Hand Is Not Universal. Cognitive Science. d...
Thursday, January 18, 2018

Genetics, the Rearing Environment, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce: A Swedish National Adoption Study

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Genetics, the Rearing Environment, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce: A Swedish National Adoption Study. Jessica E. Salvator...

Government-Sponsored Mass Killing and Civil War Reoccurrence

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Gary Uzonyi, Richard Hanania; Government-Sponsored Mass Killing and Civil War Reoccurrence, International Studies Quarterly, Volume 61, Issu...

Compassionate Love for a Romantic Partner Across the Adult Life Span: Believers experienced greater compassionate love than nonbelievers, and individuals in love presented greater compassionate love than those who were not in love

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Compassionate Love for a Romantic Partner Across the Adult Life Span. Félix Neto, Daniela C. Wilks. European Journal of Psychology, Vol 13, ...

Scientific Uncertainty in the Press: How Newspapers Describe Initial Biomedical Findings — the public is increasingly poorly informed about the uncertainty inherent in initial biomedical findings

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Scientific Uncertainty in the Press: How Newspapers Describe Initial Biomedical Findings. Estelle Dumas-Mallet et al. Science Communication,...

Divisive discussion topics are associated with both a greater level of self-reported threat and a greater tendency to perceive neutral faces as threatening

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Divisive Topics as Social Threats. Joseph J. P. Simons, Melanie C. Green. Communication Research, http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117...

Expected Sanctions for Expressing Minority Opinions in Offline and Online Communication

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What Do We Fear? Expected Sanctions for Expressing Minority Opinions in Offline and Online Communication. German Neubaum, Nicole C. Krämer. ...

Humans show a significant rightward bias during embracing. Additionally, we showed that this general motor preference is strongly modulated by emotional contexts

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Embracing your emotions: affective state impacts lateralisation of human embraces. Julian Packheiser et al. Psychological Research, https://...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

People who went on to develop Parkinson disease tended to have jobs with higher socioeconomic status, those with lower socioeconomic status had a lower PD incidence

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Himmelberg, M. M., West, R. J.H., Wade, A. R. and Elliott, C. J.H. (2018), A perceptive plus in Parkinson's disease. Mov Disord.. doi:10...

The personality disorder profile of professional actors

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Davison, M., & Furnham, A. (2018). The personality disorder profile of professional actors. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 7(1), 3...

Preferences for discussion partners &groups that are similar to (same party &same opinion) or different from us (different party &different opinion) or that represent a combination: Complete similarity is not always preferred &partisan similarity is preferred over opinion similarity

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Political Talk Preferences: Selection of Similar and Different Discussion Partners and Groups. Alyssa C. Morey, Steven B. Kleinman, Mark Bou...

Feast for the Eyes: Effects of Food Perceptions and Computer Vision Features on Food Photo Popularity

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Feast for the Eyes: Effects of Food Perceptions and Computer Vision Features on Food Photo Popularity. Yilang Peng, John B. Jemmott III. Int...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Investigating the Relationship Between Self-Perceived Moral Superiority and Moral Behavior Using Economic Games

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Investigating the Relationship Between Self-Perceived Moral Superiority and Moral Behavior Using Economic Games. Ben M. Tappin, Ryan T. McKa...

Men are presented with higher facial prominence than women in the media (this is called face-ism) -- In lab, as expected, men cropped their photos with higher facial prominence than women did

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Self-presentation in Online Professional Networks: Men's Higher and Women's Lower Facial Prominence in Self-created Profile Images. ...

The Elusive Backfire Effect: Mass Attitudes’ Steadfast Factual Adherence

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The Elusive Backfire Effect: Mass Attitudes’ Steadfast Factual Adherence. Thomas Wood,  Ethan Porter. Political Behavior, https://link.sprin...

Artificial Intelligence And the Challenges of Detecting Rude Conversational Behaviour

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On the Challenges of Detecting Rude Conversational Behaviour. Karan Grewal, Khai N. Truong. arXiv.org Computer Science > Human-Computer I...

Do the media unintentionally make mass killers into celebrities? An assessment of free advertising and earned media value

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Do the media unintentionally make mass killers into celebrities? An assessment of free advertising and earned media value. Adam Lankford. Ce...

Dreaming of a Brighter Future: Anticipating Happiness Instills Meaning in Life

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Dreaming of a Brighter Future: Anticipating Happiness Instills Meaning in Life. Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg and Eric R. Igou. Journal of Happi...
Monday, January 15, 2018

Male Qualities and Likelihood of Orgasm

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Male Qualities and Likelihood of Orgasm. James M. Sherlock, Morgan J Sidari. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322036...

Mean global ocean temperatures during the last glacial transition

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Mean global ocean temperatures during the last glacial transition. Bernhard Bereiter et al. Nature 553, 39–44, doi:10.1038/nature25152 Abstr...

Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organisations? The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on US Crime

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I abhor marijuana and the other drugs, but I am not blind to information that seems to confirm what libertarians keep saying for decades: Ga...
Sunday, January 14, 2018

Brooks on Deneen's Why Liberalism Failed -- Unreliable classical virtue vs steady selfishness and instant gratification

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How Democracies Perish. David Brooks. The New York Times, January 12, 2018, on Page A23 of the New York edition https://www.nytimes.com/2018...

Pre-industrial societies which base their subsistence on agro-pastoralism have higher rates of internal and external violent conflict, & stronger male-male competition, than hunting+gathering societies

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Implications of the Neolithic Revolution for Male-Male Competition and Violent Conflict. Menelaos Apostolou. Mankind Quarterly, Volume 58, N...

Both sexes demonstrated significant increases in sexual arousal with explicit videos, regardless of film orientation

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Assessing differences in physiologic subjective response toward male and female orientated sexually explicit videos in heterosexual individu...

High Heritability of Adolescent Sleep-Wake Behavior on Free, but not School Days: A Long-Term Twin Study

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High Heritability of Adolescent Sleep-Wake Behavior on Free, but not School Days: A Long-Term Twin Study. A P Inderkum and L Tarokh. Sleep, ...
Saturday, January 13, 2018

To someone who said that with Islam there cannot be economic development

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I replied to Agha H Amin (Pakistani Army officer, retired) Jan 13 2018: Dear sir, I do not believe you need to abandon any religion (Islam...

Late marriage as a contributor to the industrial revolution in England

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Late marriage as a contributor to the industrial revolution in England. James Foreman-Peck and Peng Zhou. The Economic History Review. DOI: ...
Friday, January 12, 2018

Does Work Make Mothers Happy? Contrary to our expectations, homemaking was positively associated with happiness particularly among mothers who left higher quality employment for childcare

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Does Work Make Mothers Happy? Dana Hamplova. Journal of Happiness Studies, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-018-9958-2 Abstr...

Do psychopathic individuals possess a misaligned moral compass? A meta-analytic examination of psychopathy’s relations with moral judgment

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Marshall, J., Watts, A. L., & Lilienfeld, S. O. (2018). Do psychopathic individuals possess a misaligned moral compass? A meta-analytic ...
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The Churches' Bans on Consanguineous Marriages, Kin-Networks and Democracy

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Schulz, Jonathan F., The Churches' Bans on Consanguineous Marriages, Kin-Networks and Democracy (January 19, 2017).  http://dx.doi.org/1...

Our results challenge current theories that focus on deficits in emotional responsiveness as leading to the development of psychopathy

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Facial responsiveness of psychopaths to the emotional expressions of others. Janina Künecke, Andreas Mokros, Sally Olderbak, Oliver Wilhelm....
Thursday, January 11, 2018

The economics of corporate lobbying: Lobbying does not appear to bring significant tangible benefits in terms of award of government contracts or the success in getting bills passed by the US Congress

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The economics of corporate lobbying. lZhiyan Cao et al. Journal of Corporate Finance, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2017.12.012 Highlig...

The robot is designed to induce lengthening of tubular organs (esophagus, intestines) by traction forces. Testing in swine shows cell proliferation and lengthening of the organ without a reduction in diameter, while the animal is awake, mobile, and able to eat normally

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In vivo tissue regeneration with robotic implants. Dana D. Damian et al. Science Robotics, Vol. 3, Issue 14, eaaq0018. DOI: 10.1126/scirobot...

No Evidence That Women’s Facial Attractiveness, Femininity, or Averageness Are Valid Health Cues

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Cai, Ziyi, Amanda Hahn, Weiqing Zhang, Iris J Holzleitner, Anthony J Lee, Lisa M DeBruine, and Benedict C Jones. 2018. “No Evidence That Wom...

Respondents who are given an antinuclear climate of opinion are more likely to support the reduction of nuclear power plants when their answer is known to interviewers and respondents are prone to project “socially desirable” answers

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The Spiral of Silence and the Crescendo of Voices -- Opinion Expression after Fukushima Nuclear Crisis. Ryosuke Imai, Airo Hino and Masahisa...

The Amount and Source of Millionaires’ Wealth (Moderately) Predict Their Happiness

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The Amount and Source of Millionaires’ Wealth (Moderately) Predict Their Happiness. Grant E. Donnell et al. Personality and Social Psycholog...
Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Are Free Will Believers Nicer People? (four Studies Suggest Not)

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Crone, Damien, and Neil L Levy. 2018. “Are Free Will Believers Nicer People? (four Studies Suggest Not)”. PsyArXiv. January 10. psyarxiv.com...

Face perception sources of constraint: the evolved structure of the brain; the need to optimise responses to different everyday tasks; and the statistical structure of faces in the perceiver’s environment

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Faces, people and the brain: The 45th Sir Frederic Bartlett Lecture. Andrew W Young. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, https://d...

Bayesian analysis of multimethod ego-depletion studies favours the null hypothesis

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Etherton, J. L., Osborne, R., Stephenson, K., Grace, M., Jones, C. and De Nadai, A. (2018), Bayesian analysis of multimethod ego-depletion s...

Messages about brilliance undermine women's interest in educational and professional opportunities

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Messages about brilliance undermine women's interest in educational and professional opportunities. Lin Bian. Journal of Experimental So...
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

A comparison of self-reported sexual effects of alcohol, marijuana, and ecstasy in a sample of young adult nightlife attendees

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A comparison of self-reported sexual effects of alcohol, marijuana, and ecstasy in a sample of young adult nightlife attendees. Joseph J. Pa...

How Burying Beetles Spread their Seed: The Coolidge Effect in Real Life

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How Burying Beetles Spread their Seed: The Coolidge Effect in Real Life. Petra Schedwill, Anne-Katrin Eggert, Josef K. Müller. Zoologischer ...
Monday, January 8, 2018

Increasing online opportunities to work, learn, bank, shop, and perform administrative tasks from home freed up time that likely contributed to increased sleep duration

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Sleep Duration in the United States 2003-2016:First Signs of Success in the Fight Against Sleep Deficiency? Mathias Basner, David F Dinges. ...

Negative correlation between salivary testosterone concentration and preference for sophisticated music in males

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Negative correlation between salivary testosterone concentration and preference for sophisticated music in males. Hirokazu Doi et al. Person...

Women Interact More Comfortably and Intimately With Gay Men—But Not Straight Men—After Learning Their Sexual Orientation

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Women Interact More Comfortably and Intimately With Gay Men—But Not Straight Men—After Learning Their Sexual Orientation. Eric M. Russell, W...