Monday, November 30, 2020

I Don’t Want You to ‘Believe’ Me. I Want You to Listen. Agnes Callard

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I Don’t Want You to ‘Believe’ Me. I Want You to Listen. Agnes Callard. The New York Times, Nov. 30, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/30...

The topological changes in rich-club organization provide novel insight into sex-specific effects on white matter connections that underlie a potential network mechanism of sex-based differences in cognitive function

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Sex Differences in Anatomical Rich-Club and Structural–Functional Coupling in the Human Brain Network. Shuo Zhao, Gongshu Wang, Ting Yan, Ji...

The strong underrepresentation of women in math-related fields is more pronounced in more egalitarian & more developed countries; could be due to stronger stereotypes relating math primarily to men in those societies

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Gender stereotypes can explain the gender-equality paradox. Thomas Breda et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 23...

Psychiatric disorders: While many factors contribute to risk, epidemiological evidence suggests that the genetic contribution carries the highest risk burden; the increased rates are nonspecific

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Risk in Relatives, Heritability, SNP-Based Heritability, and Genetic Correlations in Psychiatric Disorders: A Review. Bart M.L. Baselmans et...

Who Mismanages Student Loans and Why? Loan management is worse for men & minorities

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Cornaggia, Kimberly Rodgers and Xia, Han, Who Mismanages Student Loans and Why? (August 21, 2020). SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3686...

An Investigation Across 105 Countries of Gender Differences in the Five Factor Model of Personality: Men score higher in Emotional Stability (the more individualist the country, the more stable) & lower in Agreeableness

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International Comparison of Gender Differences in the Five Factor Model of Personality: An Investigation Across 105 Countries. Sara A. Murph...
Sunday, November 29, 2020

Suspecting infidelity: Greater reported suspicion-related distress, depression, physical health symptoms, & risky health behavior, particularly those with higher beliefs in the importance of fidelity, or a history of infidelity

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Suspicious minds: The psychological, physical and behavioral consequences of suspecting a partner’s infidelity. Daniel J. Weigel, M. Rosie S...

More attractive individuals are more likely to be invited to join, and join, both organizations and informal gatherings, particularly early in adult life

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Physical Attractiveness, Halo Effects, and Social Joining. Carl L. Palmer  Rolfe Daus Peterson. Social Science Quarterly, November 27 2020. ...

Despite negative vision on atheists, there is a positive view too—preferring atheist partners as party hosts, open-minded conversation partners, and science tutor

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Moon, Jordan W., Jaimie Krems, and Adam B. Cohen. 2020. “Is There Anything Good About Atheists? Exploring Positive and Negative Stereotypes ...
Saturday, November 28, 2020

From 2019... A meta-analytical and experimental examination of blood glucose effects on decision making under risk

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A meta-analytical and experimental examination of blood glucose effects on decision making under risk. Jacob Lund Orquin, Jacob Dalgaard Chr...

The Who and Why of Consensual Nonmonogamy Among African Americans

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The Who and Why of Consensual Nonmonogamy Among African Americans. Noelle M. St. Vil, Natalie M. Leblanc & Kelly N. Giles. Archives of S...

People making flattering descriptions of their relatives and loved ones were seen as biased but likeable, whereas people who did not enhance (nor denigrate) their loves ones were seen as realistic but not likeable

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The Effects of Bias Perception on Trait Impressions of People Describing Themselves vs. Others. Joao Amaral. Universidade de Lisboa, PhD The...

People perceive more severe environmental problems in the country at large than in their own neck of the world

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A Within-Country Study of Biased Comparative Judgements About the Severity of Environmental Problems.  Taciano L. Milfont, Robert Thomson. S...

Women were less prone than men to accept a moral violation, such as killing someone to save their own lives and the lives of others; & were more emotionally involved and experienced dysphoric emotions more often than men

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Gender Differences in Solving Moral Dilemmas: Emotional Engagement, Care and Utilitarian Orientation. P. Cordellieri, M. Boccia, L. Piccardi...

Strong partisanship relates to exposure to both left- and right-leaning hyperpartisan news; & exposure to left- (right-)leaning hyperpartisan content relates to negative (positive) affective involvement

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Hyperpartisan News Use: Relationships with Partisanship and Cognitive and Affective Involvement. Cynthia Peacock et al. Mass Communication a...

Not in need of reputation: Capuchin monkeys did not share more food when in the presence of an observer

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Testing the two sides of indirect reciprocity in tufted capuchin monkeys. Gabriele Schino et al. Behavioural Processes, November 28 2020, 10...

In previous research, sighing in daily life was related to subclinical depression; lay people believe sighing is related to trait negative emotionality; contradicting assumptions, sighing was unrelated to negative emotionality

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Is Frequent Sighing an Indicator of Dispositional Negative Emotionality? A Multi-Sample, Multi-Measure Naturalistic-Observation Study. Alexa...
Friday, November 27, 2020

Do we choose the high-accuracy adviser (`the Expert'), or the low-accuracy one (`the Charlatan'), whose answers are designed to be similar to the modal participant's priors? We overwhelmingly choose the Charlatan

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Alysandratos, Theodore and Boukouras, Aristotelis and Georganas, Sotiris and Maniadis, Zacharias, The Expert and The Charlatan: an Experimen...

Although people tend to take the path of least resistance, there are situations where investing money & effort makes the associated activities more worthwhile

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Englert, Chris, Benjamin Pageaux, and Wanja Wolff. 2020. “Self-control in Sports.” PsyArXiv. November 27. doi:10.31234/osf.io/695c2 Rof Dege...

In the Ivory Tower: Liberals focus on student emotional well-being and social justice with a concomitant de-emphasis on academic rigor and knowledge advancement

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Geher, G., Jewell, O., Holler, R., Planke, J., Betancourt, K., Baroni, A., Di Santo, J., Gleason, M., & Eisenberg, J. (2020). Politics a...

Survey of more than 75k individuals, 138 countries with data on global epidemics since 1970: Exposure to epidemics has no impact on views of science as an endeavor but that it significantly reduces trust in scientists and their work

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Revenge of the Experts: Will Covid-19 Renew or Diminish Public Trust in Science? Barry Eichengreen, Cevat Giray Aksoy & Orkun Saka. NBER...

On inflicting a painful electric shock on another subject to receive a monetary reward: Increasing self-awareness (e.g. seeing themselves in a mirror ) significantly reduces the fraction of subjects inflicting pain

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Facing yourself – A note on self-image. Armin Falk. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, November 26 2020. https://doi.org/10.10...
Thursday, November 26, 2020

We Are What We Watch: Movie Plots Predict the Personalities of Those Who “like” Them

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Nave, Gideon, Jason Rentfrow, and Sudeep Bhatia. 2020. “We Are What We Watch: Movie Plots Predict the Personalities of Those Who “like” Them...

Significant gender differences in mental-rotation tests appeared only when male-stereotyped objects (cube figures) were used as rotational material, but not for female-stereotyped material

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Influence of the stimulus material on gender differences in a mental-rotation test. Martina Rahe, Vera Ruthsatz & Claudia Quaiser-Pohl. ...

The Heritability of Insomnia Is Approx 40pct: A Meta‐Analysis of Twin Studies

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The Heritability of Insomnia: A Meta‐Analysis of Twin Studies. Nicola L. Barclay  Desi Kocevska  Wichor M. Bramer  Eus J. W. Van Someren  Ph...

Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation

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Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation. Sacha Altay, Anne-Sophie Hacquin, Hugo Mercier. New Media & Society, No...

Questions are raised regarding the plausibility of certain reports with effect sizes comparable to, or in excess of, the effect sizes found in maximal positive controls

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Maximal positive controls: A method for estimating the largest plausible effect size. Joseph Hilgard. Journal of Experimental Social Psychol...