Sunday, October 9, 2022

Atheism is as ancient and natural as belief in gods

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Atheism: A New Evolutionary Perspective on Non-Belief. Thomas J. Coleman, Kyle J. Messick, Valerie van Mulukom. Oct 2022. Chapter in The Rou...
Saturday, October 8, 2022

Market-integrated participants display universalism in moral decision-making, & non-market participants make more moral decisions towards co-villagers

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Market Participation and Moral Decision-Making: Experimental Evidence from Greenland. Gustav Agneman, Esther Chevrot-Bianco. The Economic Jo...

Do Children Cause the Cognitive Stimulation They Receive? Modelling the Direction of Causality

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Oginni, Olakunle, and Sophie von Stumm. 2022. “Do Children Cause the Cognitive Stimulation They Receive? Modelling the Direction of Causalit...

On average, people tend to overstate the improvement in their well-being over time and to understate their past happiness

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Feeling Good Is Feeling Better. Alberto Prati and Claudia Senik. Psychological Science, Oct 7 2022. https://doi.org/10.1177/095679762210961...

The Equality Paradox: Gender Equality Intensifies Male Advantages in Adolescent Subjective Well-Being

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The Equality Paradox: Gender Equality Intensifies Male Advantages in Adolescent Subjective Well-Being. Jiesi Guo et al. Personality and Soci...

Social salience of self-control (tight) vs-self-indulgence (loose) orientations, English books, XX century: The trend of self-control displays a steady increase throughout, self-indulgence increases from the late 70s-early 80s

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The self-control vs. self-indulgence dilemma: A culturomic analysis of 20th century trends. Alberto Acerbi, Pier Luigi Sacco. Journal of Beh...
Friday, October 7, 2022

Excessive or deficient levels of neuronal inhibition relative to neuronal excitation may account for disorders of sexual desire, arousal and orgasm

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Komisaruk BR, Rodriguez del Cerro MC. Orgasm and Related Disorders Depend on Neural Inhibition Combined With Neural Excitation. Sexual Medic...
Thursday, October 6, 2022

Signs of a Flynn effect in rodents in the last century? Secular differentiation of the manifold of general cognitive ability in laboratory mice (Mus musculus) and Norwegian rats (Rattus norvegicus)

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Signs of a Flynn effect in rodents? Secular differentiation of the manifold of general cognitive ability in laboratory mice (Mus musculus) a...
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

The Dark Triad (psychopathy, Machiavellianism and narcissism) in adults: Only psychopathy and Machiavellianism were related to adult offending

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How well do the Dark Triad characteristics explain individual differences in offending in a representative non-clinical adult sample? Wim Ha...

Lottery playing has an entertainment function, in that people can improve their mood by spending a small amount of money

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What we bet on is not only tangible money, but also good mood. Hui-Fang Guo et al. Cognition and Emotion, Oct 3 2022. https://doi.org/10.108...
Tuesday, October 4, 2022

In the 60s-80s, women were less likely to be selected as Academies members than men with similar records (in Psychology, Mathematics and Economics); by the 1990s, 50-50; since 2000, women are 3-15 times more likely to be selected as members

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Gender Gaps at the Academies. David Card, Stefano DellaVigna, Patricia Funk & Nagore Iriberri. NBER Working Paper 30510, September 2022....
Monday, October 3, 2022

"Minority-distinct" name in resumes: Discrimination in some "unexpected" countries aren't that surprising to those who travel, but that runs counter the usual narrative

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Do Some Countries Discriminate More than Others? Evidence from 97 Field Experiments of Racial Discrimination in Hiring. Lincoln Quillian, An...

Rolf Degen summarizing... Genetic propensity for educational attainment was associated with an increased likelihood of using alcohol as an adolescent

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Educational Attainment Polygenic Scores: Examining Evidence for Gene–Environment Interplay with Adolescent Alcohol, Tobacco and Cannabis Use...

No evidence of any political learning on social media in observational studies, and statistically significant but substantively small increases in knowledge in experiments, across social media platforms, types of knowledge, countries, & periods

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Do people learn about politics on social media? A meta-analysis of 76 studies. Eran Amsalem, Alon Zoizner. Journal of Communication, jqac034...
Sunday, October 2, 2022

What Makes Single Life Attractive: More time for oneself, focusing on own goals and having no one dictating actions; plus men found the freedom to flirt around more important than women

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What Makes Single Life Attractive: an Explorative Examination of the Advantages of Singlehood. Menelaos Apostolou & Chistoforos Christof...

Is regulatory quality declining?

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The Next Phase of Regulatory Reform. James Broughel. National Affairs, Summer 2022. https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-...

Smiling makes you look older, even when you wear a mask, due to eye wrinkling

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Smiling makes you look older, even when you wear a mask: the effect of face masks on age perception . Tzvi Ganel & Melvyn A. Goodale ....

The ubiquity of resilience is one of the most consistent findings in the trauma literature

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Myths of Trauma: Why Adversity Does Not Necessarily Make Us Sick. Joel Paris. Oxford Univ. Press, 2022. https://global.oup.com/academic/prod...

The claim that a small number of repeat offenders are responsible for the majority of sexual assaults on college campuses reflects belief in a just & good status quo, and a preference for simple stories

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What is the psychological appeal of the serial rapist model? Worldviews predicting endorsement. Ana P. Gantman, Elizabeth Levy Paluck. Behav...
Saturday, October 1, 2022

Ancient DNA suggests that artificial islands were party spots for the elite

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New integrated molecular approaches for investigating lake settlements in north-western Europe. Antony G. Brown et al. Antiquity, Sep 28 202...

Non-conformity in mate choice: Immigrant females who do not conform to the local trend have sons, grandsons, etc. of the non-preferred phenotype, which negatively and cumulatively affects fitness over generations

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Conformity in mate choice, the overlooked social component of animal and human culture. Sabine Nöbel et al. Biological Reviews, September 29...

Placebo Analgesia not only reduces empathy, also Reduces Costly Prosocial Helping to Lower Another Person’s Pain

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Placebo Analgesia Reduces Costly Prosocial Helping to Lower Another Person’s Pain. Helena Hartmann et al. Psychological Science, Sep 29 2022...
Friday, September 30, 2022

Both men and women perceived women with nipple erection as less intelligent, less moral, more likely to engage in sexual behaviors, & as having poorer sexual health & less sexually manipulative

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 Burch, R. L., & Widman, D. R. (2022). The point of nipple erection 3: Sexual and social expectations of women with nipple erection. Evo...

Schizophrenia has been an evolutionary paradox: it has high heritability, but it is associated with decreased reproductive success

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Schizophrenia: the new etiological synthesis. Markus J. Rantala et al. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, September 28 2022, 104894. ...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

Self-perceived attractiveness, either chronically experienced or temporarily heightened, predicted and increased self-interested behavioral intention and behavior

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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, I Deserve More Than All: Perceived Attractiveness and Self-Interested Behavior. Fei Teng et al. Evolution and Hu...

Middle-age mortality increases among non-Hispanic Whites from 1992 to 2018 are driven almost entirely by the bottom 10 percent of the education distribution

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Novosad, Paul, Charlie Rafkin and Sam Asher. 2022. "Mortality Change among Less Educated Americans." American Economic Journal: Ap...

Sweden: More time served in prison reduces mortality

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Hjalmarsson, Randi and Matthew J. Lindquist. 2022. "The Health Effects of Prison." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 1...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

People placing themselves at the political extremes offer much less accurate estimates of the economy

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The delusive economy: how information and affect colour perceptions of national economic performance. Lukas Linsi, Daniel Mügge & Ana Ca...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

White, Male, and Angry: A Reputation-based Rationale

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Wolton, Stephane, White, Male, and Angry: A Reputation-based Rationale (September 1, 2022). SSRN http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4206475 Abst...

Gay males are less likely to be characterized by overweight or obesity than are straight males

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Are Gay Men More Fit? Obesity and Overweight Differences Among Gay and Straight Men. Sharon Baker-Hughes & Dudley L. Poston Jr.  Chapter...

As morning turns to evening, engagement on Twitter shifts away from virtue and toward vice content (celebrity gossip, food, etc.)

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Tweets We Like Aren’t Alike: Time of Day Affects Engagement with Vice and Virtue TweetsOzum Zor, Kihyun Hannah Kim, Ashwani Monga. Journal o...