Sunday, February 14, 2021

People generally prefer not to be the topic of gossip, especially when negative, but a non-trivial minority (about 1/3) actually prefer to be talked about than ignored; this preference is stronger in men & in self-reported narcissists

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The Oscar Wilde Dilemma: Understanding When People Want to be the Topic of Gossip. Andrew Hales, Meltem Yucel, Selma Rudert. Society for Per...

Going for Woke: White Americans Downshift Conservatism in Interracial Settings

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Going for Woke: White Americans Downshift Conservatism in Interracial Settings. Olivia Foster-Gimbel. Society for Personality and Social Psy...

Utilitarianism: Collectives were more utilitarian than the statistical aggregate of their members; it seems deliberation and consensus within a group transiently reduced the emotional burden of norm violation

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Many heads are more utilitarian than one. Anita Keshmirian. Society for Personality and Social Psychology, conference 2021, Feb 10, 2021. ht...

Excavation at three Late Prehistoric Eskimo sites in arctic Alaska has revealed the presence of Venetian glass trade beads in radiocarbon-dated contexts that predate Columbus's discovery of the Western Hemisphere

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A Precolumbian Presence of Venetian Glass Trade Beads in Arctic Alaska. Michael L. Kunz, Robin O. Mills. American Antiquity, January 2021. h...
Saturday, February 13, 2021

Engaging in pro-environmental behaviours can increase one’s desirability in the mating market; & people display a motivation to engage in pro-environmental behaviours in the presence of attractive, opposite sex targets

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Farrelly, Daniel, and Manpal S. Bhogal. 2021. “Mate Choice Enhances Pro-environmentalism.” PsyArXiv. February 13. doi:10.31234/osf.io/sepj9 ...

Liberals and Conservatives Show Equal Group Bias in Sharing Behavior: there are no ideological differences in actual behavior despite previous literature indicating differences in attitude/intention measures

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Liberals and Conservatives Show Equal Group Bias in Sharing Behavior. Onurcan Yilmaz.  Society for Personality and Social Psychology, confer...

Participants experienced greater momentary happiness when not experiencing a desire compared to experiencing acute desire; & the greater the desire conflicted with important goals the lower the momentary happiness

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Testing Buddha: Is Acute Desire Associated with Lower Momentary Happiness? Stephen L. Murphy, Yuka Ozaki, Malte Friese & Wilhelm Hofmann...

A majority of people all over the world reported that people today are less moral than they used to be; they reported that people in general have declined but that their friends and family have actually improved morally

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The Illusion of Moral Decline. Adam Mastroianni. Society for Personality and Social Psychology, conference 2021, Feb 9, 2021. https://whova....

Women who ate chocolate more frequently reported less interest in sex; popular portrayals in which chocolate is represented as substituting for sex & “satisfying” the need for sex in women represent one possible explanation

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Golomb B A, Berg B K (February 12, 2021) Chocolate Consumption and Sex-Interest. Cureus 13(2): e13310. February 12, 2021; doi:10.7759/cureus...

Adolescents from Central European & North American countries had generally quite low levels of school stress; in Southern Europe had the highest stress levels; high level also in in Latin America, the Middle East & Asian countries

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School-related stressors in adolescents from 21 countries: What is universal? Inge Seiffge-Krenke. International Medicine Review, Vol. 7 Iss...

Ezra Klein: If progressivism can’t work in California, why should the country believe it can work anywhere else?

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California Is Making Liberals Squirm: If progressivism can’t work there, why should the country believe it can work anywhere else? Ezra Klei...

This research suggests that frequent Duchenne smiling may ultimately signal eudaimonic (nice, inclined to virtuous behavior) personality, as well as chronic positive mood

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Duchenne Smiles as Honest Signals of Chronic Positive Mood. Kennon M. Sheldon, Mike Corcoran, Melanie Sheldon. Perspectives on Psychological...

Rolf Degen summarizing... Buddhists have the greatest laissez-faire attitude toward alcohol drinking

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Chapter 16 - Alcohol consumption and cultural systems: Global similarities and differences. Miyuki Fukushima Tedor. The Handbook of Alcohol ...

We empirically demonstrate that teachers tend to overestimate student achievement

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A review on the accuracy of teacher judgments. Detlef Urhahne, Lisette Wijnia. Educational Research Review, Volume 32, February 2021, 100374...

The amount of alcohol typically consumed to reach what respondents considered an ideal level of intoxication was almost double the upper limit recommended in most countries.

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Chapter 2 - The world’s favorite drug: What we have learned about alcohol from over 500,000 respondents to the Global Drug Survey. Emma L. D...

Evidence regarding the terror management hypothesis that high self-esteem is associated with a stronger sense of symbolic immortality (believing being remembered and having an impact after dying)

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Self-esteem and immortality: Evidence regarding the terror management hypothesis that high self-esteem is associated with a stronger sense o...

A female superiority in accuracy, which was more pronounced for negative than positive expressions, was found for adult face stimuli; the sex difference was shown to extend robustly to infant and toddler faces

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From 2020... Sex Differences in the Recognition of Children’s Emotional Expressions: A Test of the Fitness Threat Hypothesis. Elizabeth Hamp...
Friday, February 12, 2021

Laboratory earthquake forecasting: A machine learning competition

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Laboratory earthquake forecasting: A machine learning competition. Paul A. Johnson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, F...

Cats show no avoidance of people who behave negatively to their owner, unlike dogs

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Chijiiwa, H., Takagi, S., Arahori, M., Anderson, J. R., Fujita, K., & Kuroshima, H. (2021). Cats (Felis catus) show no avoidance of peop...

The stability of psychological adjustment among donor-conceived offspring in the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study from childhood to adulthood: Good adjustment in the long term

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The stability of psychological adjustment among donor-conceived offspring in the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study from childh...

From 2019... Simple hair‐like feathers served as insulating pelage, but the first feathers with complex branching structures and a plainer form evolved for the purpose of sexual display

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From 2019... Feather evolution exemplifies sexually selected bridges across the adaptive landscape. W. Scott Persons  Philip J. Currie. Evol...

Individuals with depression express more distorted thinking on social media

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Individuals with depression express more distorted thinking on social media. Krishna C. Bathina, Marijn ten Thij, Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, La...