Sunday, November 3, 2019

How Empathic Concern Fuels Political Polarization

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How Empathic Concern Fuels Political Polarization. Elizabeth N Simas, Scott Clifford, and Justin H Kirkland. Anerican Political Science Revi...

We conclude that many species possess the psychological processes to show some form of reciprocity; it might be a widespread phenomenon that varies in terms of strategies and mechanisms

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Reciprocity: Different behavioural strategies, cognitive mechanisms and psychological processes. Manon K. Schweinfurth, Josep Call. Learning...

Optimistic people live longer & better predicts mortality than income, including health and other controls; predicted trends show declining optimism (1976–95) for those with low education

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Longer, more optimistic, lives: Historic optimism and life expectancy in the United States. Kelsey J. O'Connor, CarolGraham. Journal of ...

Beneficial effect of difficult learning tests: The effect was moderated by intelligence; no positive effect of testing for those of lower intelligence; average & especially higher intelligent learners got benefits

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Relatively unintelligent individuals do not benefit from intentionally hindered learning: The role of desirable difficulties. Kristin Wenzel...

O Youth and Beauty: Children's Looks and Children's Cognitive Development

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O Youth and Beauty: Children's Looks and Children's Cognitive Development. Daniel S. Hamermesh, Rachel A. Gordon, Robert Crosnoe. NB...

Brand preferences: Increasing polarization in preference partisanship since 2016

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Schoenmueller, Verena and Netzer, Oded and Stahl, Florian, Polarized America: From Political Partisanship to Preference Partisanship (Octobe...

We perceive facial expressions of emotions in ethnic outgroup members as less intense than those of ingroup members’ expressions, as if they had a more superficial emotional life

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Fischer, Agneta, Kai Jonas, and Pum Kommattam. 2019. “Perceived to Feel Less: Intensity Bias in Interethnic Emotion Perception.” Journal of...

Families with greater cannabis use showed poorer general cognitive ability, yet within families, twins with more use rarely had lower scores; overall, there is little evidence of causal cannabis effect on cognition

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Investigating the Causal Effect of Cannabis Use on Cognitive Function with a Quasi-Experimental Co-Twin Design. J. Megan Ross et al. Drug a...

From 2012... This study contributes to the scholarship of women’s sexuality by utilizing a hermeneutic phenomenological lens, with feminist, Tantric nondual underpinnings

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From 2012... Transcending the 'grotesque' illumination of female sexuality. L. Marie Damgaard. Masters Thesis, Education School, Let...

A preliminary but methodologically improved investigation of the relationships between major personality dimensions and human ejaculate quality

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A preliminary but methodologically improved investigation of the relationships between major personality dimensions and human ejaculate qual...
Saturday, November 2, 2019

Evolutionary Psychology and Suicidology

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Evolutionary Psychology and Suicidology. John F. Gunn III, Pablo Malo, and C. A. Soper. SAGE Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, Vol 3, Par...

Association between childhood adoption & bad mental health: Not fully to be attributed to stressful environments; it is partly explained by differences in genetic risk between adoptees & those not-adopted

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Childhood adoption and mental health in adulthood: The role of gene-environment correlations and interactions in the UK Biobank. Kelli Lehto...

Happiness is not best understood as an affective state, but better understood within its behavioral context, as an emergent property of activity

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Imaging Happiness: Meta Analysis and Review. Joshua Ray Tanzer, Lisa Weyandt. Journal of Happiness Studies, October 31 2019. https://link.sp...

Fear‐containing dreams serve an emotion regulation function; the stronger the recruitment of fear‐responsive regions during dreaming, the weaker their response to actual fear‐eliciting stimuli during wakefulness

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Fear in dreams and in wakefulness: Evidence for day/night affective homeostasis. Virginie Sterpenich et al. Human Brain Mapping, October 30...
Friday, November 1, 2019

Are atheists unprejudiced? Forms of nonbelief and prejudice toward antiliberal and mainstream religious groups

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Uzarevic, F., Saroglou, V., & Muñoz-García, A. (2019). Are atheists unprejudiced? Forms of nonbelief and prejudice toward antiliberal an...