Tuesday, July 20, 2021

The Decline of Drudgery and the Paradox of Hard Work

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The Decline of Drudgery and the Paradox of Hard Work. Brendan Epstein & Miles S. Kimball. NBER Working Paper, 29041, July 2021. DOI 10.3...

Persuading Investors: We show persuasion delivery works mainly through leading investors to form inaccurate beliefs

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Persuading Investors: A Video-Based Study. Allen Hu & Song Ma. NBER Working Paper 29048, July 2021. DOI 10.3386/w29048 Abstract: Persuas...

Origins of Values Differences: A Two-Level Analysis of Economic, Climatic and Parasite Stress Explanations

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Origins of Values Differences: A Two-Level Analysis of Economic, Climatic and Parasite Stress Explanations in the Value Domain. Ronald Fisch...

Across cultures, there are positive emotions that are more permissible to show, like gratitude, interest, and amusement, and other we not as permissible to display (sensory pleasure, feeling moved, and to some degree triumph)

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Manokara, Kunalan, Agneta Fischer, and Disa Sauter. 2020. “Display Rules Differ Between Positive Emotions: Not All That Feels Good, Looks Go...

Does Transportation Mean Transplantation? Impact of New Airline Routes on Sharing of Cadaveric Kidneys

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Does Transportation Mean Transplantation? Impact of New Airline Routes on Sharing of Cadaveric Kidneys. Guihua Wang , Ronghuo Zheng , Tinglo...
Monday, July 19, 2021

Theoretically, wealthier people should buy less insurance & should self-insure through saving instead, as insurance entails monitoring costs; differential background risk by wealth levels & differential exposure to legal risk help explain the puzzle

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Wealth and Insurance Choices: Evidence from US Households. Michael Gropper, Camelia M. Kuhnen. Jul 2021. http://public.kenan-flagler.unc.edu...

While siblings can be close allies, they can also be significant competitors; greater levels of conflict were reported by sisters, those closer in age, those who have co-resided longer, & full-siblings compared to half-siblings

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Good Friends, Better Enemies? The Effects of Sibling Sex, Co-Residence, and Relatedness on Sibling Conflict and Cooperation. Catherine A. Sa...
Sunday, July 18, 2021

Understanding the onset of hot streaks across artistic, cultural, and scientific careers

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Understanding the onset of hot streaks across artistic, cultural, and scientific careers. Lu Liu, Nima Dehmamy, Jillian Chown, C. Lee Giles,...

From 2020... Less Sex, but More Sexual Diversity: Changes in Sexual Behavior during the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

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From 2020... Less Sex, but More Sexual Diversity: Changes in Sexual Behavior during the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic. Justin J. Lehmiller, ...

Mask-wearing improved wearers’ sense of the attractiveness of faces, which were rated as less attractive when a mask was not worn after the onset of COVID-19; also, were rated as more healthy after onset

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Effects of Masks Worn to Protect Against COVID-19 on the Perception of Facial Attractiveness. Miki Kamatani et al. i-Perception, June 27, 20...

Blatant sexual deception: No gender differences in overall rates of deception, though men were more deceptive regarding wealth and resources, occupation, and physical characteristics than women

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Blatant sexual deception: Content, individual differences, and implications. Flora Oswald, Devinder Khera, Kari A. Walton, Cory L. Pedersen....

We report the first observation of a chimpanzee with albinism in the wild, describe interactions between the infant & other group members, & describe the subsequent infanticide of the individual with albinism by his conspecifics

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First observation of a chimpanzee with albinism in the wild: Social interactions and subsequent infanticide. Maël Leroux, Gideon Monday, Bos...
Saturday, July 17, 2021

Beauty Thesis: How Skin Tone and Beauty Rankings Interact in Labor Market Outcomes

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Beauty Thesis: How Skin Tone and Beauty Rankings Interact in Labor Market Outcomes. Isabel Queen. Haverford College, Department of Economic....

Aggression-related sexual fantasies are a frequent phenomenon even in the general population and among women and show strong associations with sexual aggression

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Bondü R, Birke JB, Aggression-Related Sexual Fantasies: Prevalence Rates, Sex Differences, and Links With Personality, Attitudes, and Behavi...

Are people in bigger cities less ethical human beings? Evidence on urban living and moral values

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Are people in bigger cities less ethical human beings? Evidence on urban living and moral values. Eric A. Morris, Deirdre Pfeiffer, John Gab...

Conservatives report more positive attitudes toward viewpoint diversity in their communities; liberals report more positive attitudes toward demographic diversity

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On the Varieties of Diversity: Ideological Variations in Attitudes Toward, and Understandings of Diversity. Kathryn A. Howard, Daniel Cervon...

Across 195 countries, rates of depressive disorders in women & men are higher among islanders (relative to mainlanders) at more northern locations in the Northern Hemisphere & at more southern locations in the South'n Hemisph

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Who is more prone to depression at higher latitudes? Islanders or mainlanders? Van de Vliert, Evert; Rentfrow, Peter Jason. Current Research...

The human sleep pattern is paradoxical: Sleep is vital for optimal physical and cognitive performance, yet humans sleep the least of all primates; short, high-quality, and flexibly timed sleep likely originated as a response to predation risks

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The Human Sleep Paradox: The Unexpected Sleeping Habits of Homo sapiens. David R. Samson. Annual Review of Anthropology  Volume 50, 2021, on...
Friday, July 16, 2021

Complicated relationship between Machiavellianism and social-cognitive skill: Machiavellianism encompasses features that blend deficiency, proficiency, and average levels of social-cognitive skills

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Hart, W., Breeden, C. J., & Kinrade, C. (2021). Re-conceptualizing Machiavellianism and social-cognitive skills: Machiavellianism blends...

What Makes a Champion? Early Multidisciplinary Practice, Not Early Specialization, Predicts World-Class Performance

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What Makes a Champion? Early Multidisciplinary Practice, Not Early Specialization, Predicts World-Class Performance. Arne Güllich, Brooke N....

From 2020... Art, Music, and Literature: Do the Humanities Make Our Lives Richer, Happier, and More Meaningful?

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From 2020... Westgate, Erin C. 2020. “Art, Music, and Literature: Do the Humanities Make Our Lives Richer, Happier, and More Meaningful?” Ps...

A large literature characterizes urbanisation as resulting from productivity growth attracting rural workers to cities; these authors think it is in reverse: when rural workers move to cities, the resulting urbanisation yields productivity growth

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Urbanisation and the Onset of Modern Economic Growth. Liam Brunt, Cecilia García-Peñalosa. The Economic Journal, ueab050, June 30 2021. http...

Mate copying (the increased probability of preferring an individual as a mate, as a result of them having been chosen by same-sex peers previously), does not shows in having a lot of Facebook opposite-sex friends

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Non-Independent Mate Choice in Humans: An Investigation of Online Mate Choice Copying and Sex Differences. Cagla Tekin & Ryan C. Anderso...

Wellcome skepticism... Neither prediction markets (nor surveys) performed well in predicting outcomes for DARPA's Next Generation Social Science programme

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Using prediction markets to predict the outcomes in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's next-generation social science progr...