Sunday, August 21, 2022

New Deal, New Patriots: How 1930s Government Spending Boosted Patriotism During WWII

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New Deal, New Patriots: How 1930s Government Spending Boosted Patriotism During WWII. Bruno Caprettini, Hans-Joachim Voth. The Quarterly Jou...

Theolinguistic Study of Directive Speech Acts Performed by an Islamic Preacher in Friday Sermon in Bandung, Indonesia

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Theolinguistic Study of Directive Speech Acts Performed by Islamic Preacher in Friday Sermon in Bandung Indonesia. Cipto Wardoyo, Lina Marli...

People fail to give prosocial input (complimenting someone), because of overestimation of the costs of doing so (e.g., making recipients uncomfortable); this reluctance to give prosocial input results in a short supply of kindness

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Kindness in Short Supply: Evidence for Inadequate Prosocial Input. Jennifer E. Abel et al. Current Opinion in Psychology, August 20 2022, 10...

Due to the male backlash channel, women in employment in India face significantly higher levels of intimate partner violence compared to women involved in domestic work only

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Male Backlash and Female Guilt: Women’s Employment and Intimate Partner Violence in Urban India. Sowmya Dhanaraj & Vidya Mahambare. Femi...
Saturday, August 20, 2022

Novel hypotheses that answer key questions about the evolution of sexual reproduction

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The origination events of gametic sexual reproduction and anisogamy. Yukio Yasui & Eisuke Hasegawa. Journal of Ethology, Aug 19 2022. ht...

The most well-known animal phobias today do not appear in ancient sources (only fear of snakes and mice); arachnophobia does not show up in the extant texts

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Fear, disgust, hate: negative emotions evoked by animals in ancient literature. Lucyna Kostuch. History of Psychiatry, May 19, 2022. https:/...
Friday, August 19, 2022

Individuals who relate consequences to their own behavior are more likely to donate money & in-kind gifts to charitable causes, to share money with others, to cast a vote in parliamentary elections, to donate blood, & to contribute to climate mitigation

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Locus of Control and Prosocial Behavior. Mark A. Andor, James Cox, Andreas Gerster, Michael Price, Stephan Sommer & Lukas Tomberg. NBER ...

Anointing others is a social antiparasitic behaviour; in capuchin monkeys it is also a beneficial custom thru social bonding

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The role of anointing in robust capuchin monkey, Sapajus apella, social dynamics. Emily J.E. Messer et al. Animal Behaviour, Volume 190, Aug...

57pct of people snoozed; the majority of them snoozed for almost half an hour before getting out of bed

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Snoozing: An Examination of A Common Method of Waking. Stephen M Mattingly, Gonzalo Martinez, Jessica Young, Meghan K Cain, Aaron Striegel. ...
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Attitudes toward public female toplessness appear to be driven more by individual opinions than by context (e.g., beach, park) or structural factors (e.g., region or state-legality)

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Objectification and Reactions toward Public Female Toplessness in the United States: Looking Beyond Legal Approval. Colin R. Harbke & Da...

Bored and better: Finding a boring person results in people feeling not only superior to the boring individual, but also to others

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Bored and better: Interpersonal boredom results in people feeling not only superior to the boring individual, but also to others. Jonathan G...

Less than 50pct of Psychology research were successfully replicated by preregistered studies

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Röseler, Lukas, Taisia Gendlina, Josefine Krapp, Noemi Labusch, and Astrid Schütz. 2022. “Successes and Failures of Replications: A Meta-ana...
Tuesday, August 16, 2022

From 2018... Against commonly held views, cynical individuals generally do worse on cognitive ability and academic competency tasks

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 From 2018... The Cynical Genius Illusion: Exploring and Debunking Lay Beliefs About Cynicism and Competence. Olga Stavrova, Daniel Ehlebrac...
Monday, August 15, 2022

Instead of the human larynx having increased complexity, it has actually simplified relative to other primates, allowing for clearer sound production with less aural chaos

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Evolutionary loss of complexity in human vocal anatomy as an adaptation for speech. Takeshi Nishimura et al. Science, Aug 11 2022, Vol 377, ...

Why are males not doing these environmental behaviors?: exploring males’ psychological barriers to environmental action

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Why are males not doing these environmental behaviors?: exploring males’ psychological barriers to environmental action. Jessica E. Desroch...