Friday, February 2, 2018

Young infants expect an unfamiliar adult to comfort a crying baby: Evidence from a standard violation-of-expectation task and a novel infant-triggered-video task

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Young infants expect an unfamiliar adult to comfort a crying baby: Evidence from a standard violation-of-expectation task and a novel infant...

Exposure to predators does not lead to the evolution of larger brains in experimental populations of threespine stickleback

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Samuk, K., Xue, J. and Rennision, D. J. (), Exposure to predators does not lead to the evolution of larger brains in experimental population...

Causal effect of beliefs about skill on risky choices: Low (high) skill subjects are more (less) willing to take risks on gambles where the probabilities depend on relative skill

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How do beliefs about skill affect risky decisions? Adrian Bruhin, Luís Santos-Pinto, David Staubli. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organ...

Less married or commited people view watching pornography as infedility, compared to the uncommited. Likely reason is the contact with reality once we are in a commited relationship

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Is Viewing Sexually Explicit Material Cheating on Your Partner? A Comparison Between the United States and Spain. Charles Negy et al. Archiv...

Election turnout rates for women have even slightly exceeded turnout rates for men in recent elections due to the higher sense of civic duty of female citizens, which is due to higher level of conscientiousness than men

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Why no gender gap in electoral participation? A civic duty explanation. Miguel Carreras. Electoral Studies, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elects...
Thursday, February 1, 2018

Physical beauty, social mobility, and optimistic dispositions

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Things are looking up: Physical beauty, social mobility, and optimistic dispositions. R. Urbatsch. Social Science Research, https://doi.org/...

Due to the innate need for preservation of a positive self-image, it is likely that teaching people about biases they hold, may cause a boomerang effect in cases where being associated with a specific bias implies negative social connotations

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The boomerang effect of psychological interventions. Aharon Levy & Yossi Maaravi. Social Influence, Volume 13, 2018 - Issue 1, Pages 39-...

Consensual Nonmonogamy: Psychological Well-Being and Relationship Quality Correlates

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Consensual Nonmonogamy: Psychological Well-Being and Relationship Quality Correlates. Alicia N. Rubel & Anthony F. Bogaert. The Journal ...

Internet pornography use is motivated by hedonic and self-focused sexual motivations, and is likely to lead to increases in hedonic sexual motivation both in solitary and in social sexual encounters

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Grubbs, Joshua, Abby Braden, Shane W Kraus, Joshua Wilt, and Paul Wright 2017. “Pornography and Pleasure-seeking: Toward a Hedonic Reinforce...

Dictator game: Aversion to taking is strong, and dictators are willing to sacrifice 31% of endowment to avoid taking

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Taking Aversion. Oleg Korenoka, Edward L. Millnera, Laura Razzolinib. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, https://doi.org/10.10...

Women were especially sensitive to laughter’s affiliative value, reporting greater disinterest in affiliating with targets laughing deliberately

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Spontaneous Laughter as an Auditory Analog to Affiliative Intent. Mitch Brown, Donald F. Sacco, Steven G. Young. Evolutionary Psychological ...

The origins of infants’ fairness concerns and links to prosocial behavior

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The origins of infants’ fairness concerns and links to prosocial behavior. Jessica A. Sommerville, Elizabeth A. Enright. Current Opinion in ...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

How Fleeting Is Fame? Collective Memory for Popular Music

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Spivack, Stephen, Nathaniel H Spilka, and Pascal Wallisch 2018. “How Fleeting Is Fame? Collective Memory for Popular Music”. PsyArXiv. Febru...

Languages with many speakers tend to be structurally simple while small communities sometimes develop languages with great structural complexity. The opposite pattern is observed for non-structural properties of language such as vocabulary size

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Simpler grammar, larger vocabulary: How population size affects language. Florencia Reali, Nick Chater, Morten H. Christiansen. Proceedings ...

Warm and touching tears: tearful individuals are perceived as warmer because we assume they feel moved and touched

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Warm and touching tears: tearful individuals are perceived as warmer because we assume they feel moved and touched. Janis H. Zickfeld & ...

Do the Right Thing: Experimental evidence that preferences for moral behavior, rather than equity or efficiency per se, drive human prosociality

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Do the Right Thing: Experimental evidence that preferences for moral behavior, rather than equity or efficiency per se, drive human prosocia...

Higher status people derogate ideological opponents less (i.e., evaluate them more charitably); greater rhetoric handling prowess (RHP: feeling more confident and less intimidated while arguing) mediates the effect

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Aiden P. Gregg, Nikhila Mahadevan, and Constantine Sedikides (2018). Taking the High Ground: The Impact of Social Status on the Derogation o...

For the poor, thoughts about cost and money are triggered by mundane circumstances, they are difficult to suppress, they change mental associations, and they interfere with other experiences

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Anuj K. Shah, Jiaying Zhao, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Eldar Shafir (2018). Money in the Mental Lives of the Poor. Social Cognition: Vol. 36,...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Androstadienone, a Chemosignal Found in Human Sweat, Increases Individualistic Behavior and Decreases Cooperative Responses in Men

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Androstadienone, a Chemosignal Found in Human Sweat, Increases Individualistic Behavior and Decreases Cooperative Responses in Men. A Banner...

The echo chamber is overstated: the moderating effect of political interest and diverse media

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The echo chamber is overstated: the moderating effect of political interest and diverse media. Elizabeth Dubois & Grant Blank. Informati...

There is a small positive relation between service quality and percentage of a bill tipped; service quality was a stronger predictor of percentage of the bill tipped than food quality, frequency of patronage, and dining party size

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Banks, G. C., Woznyj, H. M., Kepes, S., Batchelor, J. H. and McDaniel, M. A. (), A meta-analytic review of tipping compensation practices: A...

Only Bad for Believers? Religion, Pornography Use, and Sexual Satisfaction Among American Men

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Only Bad for Believers? Religion, Pornography Use, and Sexual Satisfaction Among American Men. Perry, Samuel L., Whitehead, Andrew L. The Jo...

Offspring sex ratio: Coital rates and other potential causal mechanisms

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Offspring sex ratio: Coital rates and other potential causal mechanisms. William H.James, VictorGrech. Early Human Development, Volume 116, ...

Our primary result is that collective bargaining rights lead to about a 27% increase in complaints of officer misconduct for the typical sheriff’s office

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Dharmapala, Dhammika and McAdams, Richard H. and Rappaport, John, The Effect of Collective Bargaining Rights on Law Enforcement: Evidence fr...

The effects of social priming, the voodoo theory of social psychology, manifested themselves only when the experiments weren't double blinded, exposing a self-fulfilling prophecy

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The Role of Experimenter Belief in Social Priming. Thandiwe S. E. Gilder, Erin A. Heerey. Psychological Science, https://doi.org/10.1177/095...
Monday, January 29, 2018

Participants reported feeling younger than they actually were and wanting to be younger than their chronological age

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Subjective Age and Its Correlates Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults. Shiri Shinan-Altman, Perla Werner. The International Journal of Aging ...

Men’s and Women’s Youngest and Oldest Considered and Actual Sex Partners

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Antfolk, Jan, 2018. “Men’s and Women’s Youngest and Oldest Considered and Actual Sex Partners”. PsyArXiv. January 29. doi:10.1177/1474704917...

Participants liked targets less, were less romantically interested in targets, and rated targets as less attractive after discovering political dissimilarity with them

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Mallinas, Stephanie, Jarret Crawford, and Shana Cole 2018. “Political Opposites Do Not Attract: The Effects of Ideological Dissimilarity on ...

In women, pleasure prioritization & sexual agency are associated with lower odds of performing undesired sexual acts to please a partner—and sexual agency is associated with lower odds of succumbing to verbal pressure for intercourse

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“Bad Girls” Say No and “Good Girls” Say Yes: Sexual Subjectivity and Participation in Undesired Sex During Heterosexual College Hookups. Hea...

Consciousness of the Future as a Matrix of Maybe: Pragmatic Prospection and the Simulation of Alternative Possibilities

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Baumeister, Roy, Heather M Maranges, and Hallgeir Sjåstad 2018. “Consciousness of the Future as a Matrix of Maybe: Pragmatic Prospection and...
Sunday, January 28, 2018

Unconscious bias in Australian Public Service shortlisting processes: APS officers discriminated in favour of female and minority candidates

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Going blind to see more clearly: unconscious bias in Australian Public Service shortlisting processes. Results of a randomised controlled tr...

We tend to considerably overestimate the extent to which party supporters belong to party-stereotypical groups, like 32% of Democrats are LGBT (6% in reality) and 38% of Republicans earn over $250,000 per year (2%)

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The Parties in our Heads: Misperceptions About Party Composition and Their Consequences. Douglas J. Ahler, Gaurav Sood. Aug 2017, http://gso...
Saturday, January 27, 2018

Cross-cultural studies indicate that women's sexual attractiveness generally peaks before motherhood & declines with age. Cues of female youth are thought to be attractive because humans maintain long-term pair bonds, making reproductive value (future reproductive potential) particularly important to males

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Male Chimpanzees Prefer Mating with Old Females. Martin N. Muller, Melissa Emery Thompson, Richard W. Wrangham. Current Biology, Volume 16, ...

Romantic attraction, likelihood of selecting, & subsequent interpersonal outcomes with a dating partner almost exclusively depend on perception of the dating partner’s mate value: the higher, the better. No evidence for the idea that people feel attracted to & select dating partners whom they perceive to have a mate value similar to their own

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Wurst, Stefanie N., Sarah Humberg, and Mitja Back 2018. “Preprint of "the Impact of Mate Value in First and Subsequent Real-life Romant...
Friday, January 26, 2018

Investigating the influence of symptoms of depression on the passive use of Facebook, as well as on selective self-presentation, and on negative perceptions of life

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Passive Facebook-Nutzung, selektive Selbstdarstellung und negative Wahrnehmungen des eigenen Lebens: Mehrgruppen Cross-Lagged Panelanalysen ...

We explored crowdsourced ratings as a strategy to curb unrealistic optimism in advisors. Instead of calibrating expectations, these ratings propagated and exaggerated the unrealistic optimism

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Leong, Y. C., & Zaki, J. (2018). Unrealistic optimism in advice taking: A computational account. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Gen...

Moral Self-judgment Is Stronger for Future Than Past Actions

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Sjastad, Hallgeir, and Roy Baumeister. 2018. “Moral Self-judgment Is Stronger for Future Than Past Actions”. PsyArXiv. January 26. psyarxiv....

Sexual Orientation and Leadership Suitability: How Being a Gay Man Affects Perceptions of Fit in Gender-Stereotyped Positions

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Sexual Orientation and Leadership Suitability: How Being a Gay Man Affects Perceptions of Fit in Gender-Stereotyped Positions. Renzo J. Barr...

Drivers of Rising Housing Construction Costs: city permitting processes, design and building code requirements, workforce regulations and ordinances, procurement requirements, and environmental regulations

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Perspectives: Practitioners Weigh in on Drivers of Rising Housing Construction Costs in San Francisco. Carolina Reid and Hayley Raetz | Tern...
Thursday, January 25, 2018

Despite participants’ unfamiliarity with the societies represented, the random sampling of each music excerpt, the very short duration, & the enormous diversity of this music, the ratings demonstrated accurate and cross-culturally reliable inferences about song functions on the basis of song forms alone

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Form and Function in Human Song. Samuel A. Mehr et al. Current Biology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.12.042 Highlights •People in 60...

The Rising Importance of Muscularity in the Thin Ideal Female Body

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Thin Is In? Think Again: The Rising Importance of Muscularity in the Thin Ideal Female Body. Frances Bozsik et al. Sex Roles, https://link.s...

Will a household return a letter that has been incorrectly addressed? On average, we find that half of all letters were returned

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The Misaddressed Letter Experiment. Gweneth Leigh & Andrew Leigh. Applied Economics Letters, https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2018.14303...

Back burners are desired prospective romantic/sexual partners that people communicate with to establish a future romantic or sexual relationship. Singles did not differ from those in committed romances in the number of back burners reported

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Maintaining Relationship Alternatives Electronically: Positive Relationship Maintenance in Back Burner Relationships. Jayson L. Dibble, Nari...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Letter to Mr Erdogan: "Worried by your health, Mr President"

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To: President Erdogan, [xxx]@tccb.gov.tr Subject: Worried by your health, Mr President Dear Mr President, I am deeply worried about your ...

Mediatization and the Disproportionate Attention to Negative News. The case of airplane crashes

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Mediatization and the Disproportionate Attention to Negative News. The case of airplane crashes. Toni G. L. A. van der Meer, Anne C. Kroon, ...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Chimpanzees appear to perceive similarity in primate faces in a similar way to humans. Information about perceptual similarity is likely prioritized over the potential influence of previous experience

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Visual discrimination of primate species based on faces in chimpanzees. Duncan A. Wilson, Masaki Tomonaga. Primates, https://link.springer.c...

A Nuclear Twin Family Study of Self-Esteem

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Bleidorn, W., Hufer, A., Kandler, C., Hopwood, C. J., and Riemann, R. (2018) A Nuclear Twin Family Study of Self-Esteem. Eur. J. Pers., doi:...

Effects of physical attractiveness on political beliefs: more attractive individuals are more likely to report higher levels of political efficacy, identify as conservative, and identify as Republican

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Effects of physical attractiveness on political beliefs. Rolfe Daus Peterson and Carl L. Palmer. Politics and the Life Sciences, Volume 36, ...

Intelligence and Offending: A Longitudinal Examination of the Differential Detection Hypothesis

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Schwartz, Joseph A, and Kevin M Beaver. 2018. “Intelligence and Offending: A Longitudinal Examination of the Differential Detection Hypothes...

Audio and video increase awareness of incivility cues as well as participants’ evaluations of negative, emotional, and entertaining tone

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Platforms for Incivility: Examining Perceptions Across Different Media Formats. Emily Sydnor. Political Communication, Volume 35, 2018 - Iss...

I found consistently higher memory for unattractive over both attractive and medium-attractive faces

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The influence of facial attractiveness on recognition memory: Behavioural findings and electrophysiological evidence. Carolin S. Altmann, Di...

Giving advice enhances the adviser’s sense of power because it gives the adviser perceived influence over others’ actions; people with a high tendency to seek power are more likely to give advice than those with a low tendency

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Advice Giving: A Subtle Pathway to Power. Michael Schaerer et al. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1177/014616...

The Effect of Germ Movement on the Construal of Mental States in Germs: The Moderating Role of Contamination Fear

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The Effect of Germ Movement on the Construal of Mental States in Germs: The Moderating Role of Contamination Fear. John H. Riskind, Dylan K....

Decreases in extraversion are attenuated for individuals categorized as light-to-moderate drinkers, while decreases in conscientiousness were accentuated by having experienced alcohol dependence symptoms

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Luchetti, M., Terracciano, A., Stephan, Y. and Sutin, A. R. (), Alcohol use and personality change in middle and older adulthood: Findings f...

Introduction of Uber ride-sharing service is associated with lower DUI and fatal accident rates. For some specifications, there are also less arrests for assault and disorderly conduct. There is an increase in vehicle thefts

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Dills, A. K. and Mulholland, S. E. (2018), Ride-Sharing, Fatal Crashes, and Crime. Southern Economic Journal. doi:10.1002/soej.12255 Abstrac...

We argue that anger likely plays a major role in motivating individuals to engage in the biased assimilation of political information—an evaluative bias in favor of information that bolsters one's views and against information that undercuts them

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Suhay, E. and Erisen, C. (2018), The Role of Anger in the Biased Assimilation of Political Information. Political Psychology. doi:10.1111/po...

The younger a person feels, the more likely he or she will use the Internet

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Young at heart and online? Subjective age and internet use in two Swiss survey studies Alexander Seifert ORCID Icon & Hans-Werner Wahl. ...
Monday, January 22, 2018

The strongest insights into the biological bases of social connection come from animal research, which shows that social bonds rely on the same neurochemicals that support general motivation, among them opioids

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Opioids and Social Connection. Tristen K. Inagaki. Current Directions in Psychological Science, https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721417735531 Abs...

A compilation of heat flux recordings from Greenland show the existence of geothermal heat sources beneath GIS and could explain high glacial ice speed areas such as the Northeast Greenland ice stream

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High geothermal heat flux in close proximity to the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream. Søren Rysgaard, Jørgen Bendtsen, John Mortensen & Mi...

Monastic Tibetan Buddhists showed significantly greater fear of death than any other group. The monastics were also less generous than other groups about the prospect of giving up a slightly longer life in order to extend the life of another

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Nichols, S., Strohminger, N., Rai, A. and Garfield, J. (2018), Death and the Self. Cogn Sci. doi:10.1111/cogs.12590 Abstract: It is an old p...