Monday, July 20, 2020

Rolf Degen summarizing... People differ systematically in the tendency to see the best or worst in others, with women and the less educated being more likely to take a rosy view

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Seeing the Best or Worst in Others: A Measure of Generalized Other-Perceptions. Richard Rau et al. Assessment, February 26, 2020. https://do...

Decline in adolescent drinking: Some possible explanations

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Decline in adolescent drinking: Some possible explanations. Ingeborg Rossow  Hilde Pape  Leila Torgersen. Drug and Alcohol Review, July 19 2...

The Opioid Epidemic Was Not Caused by Economic Distress But by Factors that Could be More Rapidly Addressed

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The Opioid Epidemic Was Not Caused by Economic Distress But by Factors that Could be More Rapidly Addressed. Janet Currie, Hannes Schwandt N...

Effects of credit restrictions in the Netherlands and lessons for macroprudential policy: 1960s-1990s

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Effects of credit restrictions in the Netherlands and lessons for macroprudential policy. Gabriele Galati, Jan Kakes and Richhild Moessner. ...

Canada was left with a self-selected group who didn't want much from life: an agrarian, very religious, austere population of peasants and labourers who tended to see a consumer economy as generally sinful excess

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Maximum Canada: Toward a Country of 100 Million Paperback. Doug Saunders. August 20, 2019. https://www.amazon.com/Maximum-Canada-Million-Can...

Increased pillow talk (i.e., communication after sexual activity) produces greater relationship satisfaction for men (but not women), but does not benefit either group’s physiological stress responses

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Exploring the effects of pillow talk on relationship satisfaction and physiological stress responses to couples’ difficult conversations. Am...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

Whites with darker skin will be motivated to protect the boundaries of Whiteness due to the loss of status they would face if not White; they are more likely to hold conservative political views on racialized issues

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Shades of Privilege: The Relationship Between Skin Color and Political Attitudes Among White Americans. Nicole Yadon & Mara C. Ostfeld ....

No direct association between contraceptives use and the risk of female sexual dysfunction was found; nevertheless, declining sexual desire was significantly associated with contraceptives use

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Huang M, Li G, Liu J, et al. Is There an Association Between Contraception and Sexual Dysfunction in Women? A Systematic Review and Meta-ana...
Saturday, July 18, 2020

Feynman on utter honesty & scientific integrity: "Cargo Cult Science," 1974

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Feynman on utter honesty & scientific integrity: "Cargo Cult Science," 1974. http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCu...

Effects of Leaving a Covenantal Religion: Those who experienced more push toward disaffiliation, reported decreased current wellness; significant differences in the experiences of disaffiliation between men & women

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Engelman, Joel, Glen Milstein, Irvin S. Schonfeld, and Joshua B. Grubbs. 2019. “Leaving a Covenantal Religion: Orthodox Jewish Disaffiliatio...

Initiation of Drug and Alcohol Use and Personality Development During Adolescence: initiation of substance use leads to changes in personality; cocaine and cigarettes were the substances that had the largest impact

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Wright, Amanda J., and Joshua J. Jackson. 2020. “What Happens After Your First Time? Initiation of Drug and Alcohol Use and Personality Deve...

Gray Matter Microstructure: While macrostructural features, like brain volume, are mainly genetically influenced, there are genetic & environmental influences on microstructure

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Quantifying Genetic and Environmental Influence on Gray Matter Microstructure Using Diffusion MRI. Madhura Baxi, Maria A Di Biase, Amanda E...
Friday, July 17, 2020

At least 16 species of deep-sea fishes have ultra-black skin; by reducing reflectance, ultra-black fish can reduce the sighting distance of visual predators more than 6-fold compared to fish with 2% reflectance

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Ultra-black Camouflage in Deep-Sea Fishes. Alexander L. Davis, Kate N. Thomas, Freya E. Goetz, Bruce H. Robison, Sonke Johnsen, Karen J. Osb...

Negative relationship quality, notably, criticism received from one’s spouse or partner, heightens older adults’ risk of mortality

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Bookwala, J., & Gaugler, T. (2020). Relationship quality and 5-year mortality risk. Health Psychology, 39(8), 633–641. https://doi.org/1...

Individuals who moved in with a partner/got married/separated from a partner primarily experienced changes in openness in the first year; & those who separated from a partner/got divorced became less emotionally stable

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Asselmann, E., & Specht, J. (2020). Taking the ups and downs at the rollercoaster of love: Associations between major life events in the...

Ordinary citizens increasingly moderate online forums, blogs, & social media feeds, selectively removing opposing political viewpoints from online contexts even when opposing comments were inoffensive & courteous

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Ashokkumar, Ashwini, Sanaz Talaifar, William T. Fraser, Rodrigo Landabur, Michael Burhmester, Ángel Gómez, Borja Paredes, et al. 2020. “Cens...

Physical Exercise Increases Perceived Musical Pleasure: Modulatory Roles of Arousal, Mood, or Dopamine?

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Hove, Michael J., Steven A. Martinez, and Samantha R. Shorrock. 2020. “Physical Exercise Increases Perceived Musical Pleasure: Modulatory Ro...

The development and use of highly reliable and valid facial grimace scales for pain measurement in animals: Grimace scales to measure pain now exist for 10 species

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The development and use of facial grimace scales for pain measurement in animals. Jeffrey S.Mogil et al. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Re...
Thursday, July 16, 2020

Average-Size Erect Penis: Fiction, Fact, and the Need for Counseling

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Average-Size Erect Penis: Fiction, Fact, and the Need for Counseling. Bruce M. King. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, Jul 15 2020. http...

Growth mindset was studied longitudinally from high school through 4 college years; the mindset was not associated with grades at any point, even in students for whom university was especially challenging

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Testing the association of growth mindset and grades across a challenging transition: Is growth mindset associated with grades? Yue Li, Timo...

Does Growth Mindset Do What It Promises? It doesn't

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Does Growth Mindset Work? Marc Effron, Talent Strategy Group, May 2020. https://talentstrategygroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Does-Grow...

The Effects of Personality Traits and Situational Factors on the Deliberativeness and Civility of User Comments on News Websites

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The Effects of Personality Traits and Situational Factors on the Deliberativeness and Civility of User Comments on News Websites. Johannes B...
Wednesday, July 15, 2020

The same information about scientific findings was generally found less credible when presented on Twitter than on other platforms

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Boothby, Clara, Dakota Murray, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Anna P. Waggy, and Andrew Tsou. 2020. “Credibility of Scientific Information on Social M...

For women, using pornography was associated with their own & their partner’s higher sexual desire & with higher odds of partnered sexual activity; for men coupled with women, with lower odds of partnered sexual activity

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Pornography use and romantic relationships: A dyadic daily diary study. Marie-Pier Vaillancourt-Morel et al. Journal of Social and Personal ...

Role of internal variability in the temperature we expect to observe: We show that even out to 30 years large parts of the globe (or most of the globe in MPI-GE & CMIP5) could still experience no-warming due to internal variability

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Quantifying the role of internal variability in the temperature we expect to observe in the coming decades. Nicola Maher, Flavio Lehner and ...

Although most of the literature on shared experiences and social bonds concern humans, we cannot exclude the presence of similar mechanisms in non-human vertebrates

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The dawn of social bonds: what is the role of shared experiences in non-human animals? Laura Busia and Matteo Griggio. Biology Letters, Vol ...

In a Representative Sample Grit Has a Negligible Effect on Educational and Economic Success Compared to Intelligence

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In a Representative Sample Grit Has a Negligible Effect on Educational and Economic Success Compared to Intelligence. Chen Zissman, Yoav Gan...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Quality of Research on Mental Health Effects of COVID-19: Low compliance with open science recommendations, which raise concerns about the validity, generalisability, and reproducibility of the findings

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Nieto, Ines, Juan F Navas, and Carmelo Vazquez. 2020. “The Quality of Research on Mental Health Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Note of ...

Long-term low-dose ethanol intake improves healthspan and resists high-fat diet-induced obesity in mice

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Long-term low-dose ethanol intake improves healthspan and resists high-fat diet-induced obesity in mice. Yan Diao et al. Aging, July 8, 2020...