Monday, December 7, 2020

Teachers with some factual knowledge of the brain were more easily believers of neuromyths; those who endorsed neuromyths were generally more confident in their answers than those who identified the myths

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Why do teachers believe educational neuromyths? Brenda Hughes, Karen A. Sullivan, Linda Gilmore. Trends in Neuroscience and Education, Volum...

Higher income is more consistently linked to how frequently individuals experience happiness than how intensely happy each episode is; in part because lower-income individuals spend more time engaged in passive leisure activities, reducing the frequency of positive affect

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Income More Reliably Predicts Frequent Than Intense Happiness. Jon M. Jachimowicz et al. Social Psychological and Personality Science, Decem...

Recent research involving birds, ‘enculturated’ chimpanzees, and humans suggests that the cognitive mechanisms that make imitation possible are constructed during development through social interaction

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Heyes, Cecilia. 2020. “Imitation Primer.” PsyArXiv. December 7. doi:10.31234/osf.io/tn34f Abstract: In this Primer, Cecilia Heyes explains w...

Many conservatives reject both gender equality & evolution of sex differences, embracing instead “naturally occurring” gender differences; many liberals reject evolved gender differences & naturally occurring gender differences, while nonetheless strongly endorsing evolution

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Lewandowsky, S., Woike, J. K., & Oberauer, K. (2020). Genesis or Evolution of Gender Differences? Worldview-Based Dilemmas in The Proces...
Sunday, December 6, 2020

No negative Flynn effect in France: Why variations of intelligence should not be assessed using tests based on cultural knowledge

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No negative Flynn effect in France: Why variations of intelligence should not be assessed using tests based on cultural knowledge. Corentin ...

Only 54pct of newspapers than published erroneous research findings published the retraction; the retraction stories were balanced, but shorter than those on the article’s publication and often lacking in context & detail

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Dissemination of Erroneous Research Findings and Subsequent Retraction in High-Circulation Newspapers: A Case Study of Alleged MDMA-Induced ...

Lottery winners that keep working vs. retiring: Across samples and nations, participants morally praise needless work

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A creative destruction approach to replication: Implicit work and sex morality across cultures. Warren Tierney et al. Journal of Experimenta...