Saturday, December 25, 2021

Participants overestimate the risks of nuclear accidents, except for disasters that should also trigger the behavioral immune system; & were more interested in reading/sharing a news article about a nuclear accident than about other types of accidents

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Disgust sensitivity and public opinion on nuclear energy. Anne-Sophie Hacquin, Sacha Altay, Lene Aarøe, Hugo Mercier. Journal of Environment...
Friday, December 24, 2021

A number of popular research areas suggest that cognitive performance can be manipulated via relatively brief interventions; however, recent evidence indicates that cognitive abilities might not be as malleable as preliminary findings implied

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Moreau, D. (2021). How malleable are cognitive abilities? A critical perspective on popular brief interventions. American Psychologist, Dec ...

The golden ratio as an ecological affordance leading to aesthetic attractiveness

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The golden ratio as an ecological affordance leading to aesthetic attractiveness. Daniela De Bartolo,Maria De Luca,Gabriella Antonucci,Stefa...

An Eye-Tracking Investigation on Mirror Gazing: Those of higher self-esteem spent less time checking themselves in a mirror

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Effects of Self-Esteem on Self-Viewing: An Eye-Tracking Investigation on Mirror Gazing. Jonas Potthoff, Anne Schienle. Behav. Sci. 2021, 11(...

We preferably copy the behavior of our own group’s members, even if group the group is arbitrary and novel, and even if one's peers are less competent than others

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Copy the In-group: Group Membership Trumps Perceived Reliability, Warmth, and Competence in a Social-Learning Task. Marcel Montrey, Thomas R...

Watching A Lecture Twice At Double Speed Can Benefit Learning Better Than Watching It Once At Normal Speed

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Learning in double time: The effect of lecture video speed on immediate and delayed comprehension. Dillon H. Murphy,Kara M. Hoover,Karina Ag...

1.5 million years of hunting: Larger species were hunted to extinction or until they became exceedingly rare

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Levantine overkill: 1.5 million years of hunting down the body size distribution. Jacob Dembitzer, Ran Barkai, Miki Ben-Dor, Shai Meiri. Qua...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

How a Tardigrade "Micro Animal" Became Quantum Entangled with Superconducting Qubits

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Entanglement between superconducting qubits and a tardigrade. K. S. Lee, Y. P. Tan, L. H. Nguyen, R. P. Budoyo, K. H. Park, C. Hufnagel, Y. ...

Within each colony of some ants, only some individuals are capable of performing a complex sequence of behavioral patterns to free trapped nestmates, sequence that is responsive to the particular circumstances of that entrapment & how the rescue operation unfolds

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Rescue specialists in Cataglyphis piliscapa ants: The nature and development of ant first responders. Elise Nowbahari, Karen L. Hollis, Mela...