Friday, October 21, 2022

Personality and hardiness differences between Norwegian police and psychology students: Police students are nicer

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Personality and hardiness differences between Norwegian police and psychology students. Tom Hilding Skoglund, Patrick Risan, Rebecca Milne. ...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

The young, those with low information literacy, and those with high trust in government tend to hold mistaken beliefs, even without exposure to misinformation; already misinformed, eventual exposure to fake news does little to influence them

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Not who you think? Exposure and vulnerability to misinformation. Nicolas M Anspach, Taylor N Carlson. New Media & Society, October 19, 2...

Student loans & the Income-Driven Repayment plan: Unfortunately, all the negative effects of the IDR proposal arise because of its generosity—the fact that nearly all borrowers will be asked to repay only a fraction of borrowed amounts

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Biden's Income-Driven Repayment plan would turn student loans into untargeted grants. Adam Looney. Brookings Institution, September 15, ...

Originality in online dating profile texts made the owner appear more intelligent, attractive, and worth a try

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Originality in online dating profile texts: How does perceived originality affect impression formation and what makes a text original? Tess ...

Bringing Attention to the Eyes Increases First Impressions of Warmth and Competence

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More Than Meets the Eyes: Bringing Attention to the Eyes Increases First Impressions of Warmth and Competence. Morgan D. Stosic, Shelby Helw...
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

We instinctively tend toward solutions that consist of adding something rather than subtracting something, even if the subtraction would be superior

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Fillon, Adrien A., Fabien Girandola, Nathalie Bonnardel, and Lionel Souchet. 2022. “People Systematically Overlook Subtractive Changes (2021...

Men do not find the bodies of apparent greater health and fertility the most attractive bodies; the attractiveness is linked to youth and low parity

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The picky men: Men's preference for women's body differed among attractiveness, health, and fertility conditions. Chengyang Han et a...
Monday, October 17, 2022

Long Social Distancing: More than 10pct of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 pct will do so in limited ways

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Long Social Distancing. Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom & Steven J. Davis. NBER Working Paper 30568. October 2022. DOI 10.3386/w30568...

Adaptation to taxation: Corporate income tax changes generate persistent effects on R&D expenditure, productivity and output whereas personal income tax changes trigger large but short-lived responses on the same

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Short-Term Tax Cuts, Long-Term Stimulus. James Cloyne, Joseba Martinez, Haroon Mumtaz & Paolo Surico. NBER Working Paper 30246. July 202...
Sunday, October 16, 2022

Female birds disguised as males get extra meals: Around 20% of female hummingbirds have plumage that is characteristic of the males of the species, & this increases access to food resources through mimicry of more aggressive males

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Intersexual social dominance mimicry drives female hummingbird polymorphism. Jay J. Falk, Dustin R. Rubenstein, Alejandro Rico-Guevara and M...
Saturday, October 15, 2022

Results revealed significant negative correlations between mindfulness and neuroticism, & trait anxiety, & positive correlation with conscientiousness, but no significant relationship with intelligence

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A Meta-Analysis of Trait Mindfulness: Relationships with the Big Five Personality Traits, Intelligence, and Anxiety. Justin T. Banfi, Jason ...
Friday, October 14, 2022

Non-news Websites Expose People to More Political Content Than News Websites: Evidence from Browsing Data in Three Countries

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Wojcieszak, Magdalena, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg, Sjifra E. de Leeuw, João Gonçalves, Samuel Davidson, and Alexan...

Ordinary people too harbor the vision of an utopia or "ideal" society; incorporating science into one's utopia is clearly a minus, except in China, where pro-environmental attitudes are not opposite to science

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Profiles of an Ideal Society: The Utopian Visions of Ordinary People. Julian W. Fernando et al. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Oct 13...

We believe that it would benefit ourselves more than others if we succeeded in becoming a better person

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Sun, Jessie, Joshua A. Wilt, Peter Meindl, Hanne M. Watkins, and Geoffrey Goodwin. 2022. “How and Why People Want to Be More Moral.” PsyAr...
Thursday, October 13, 2022

Irrespective of their therapeutic orientation, psychotherapists overestimated the proportion of patients recovering or improving, & and underestimated the proportion of patients not changing or deteriorating

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Attitudes of psychotherapists towards their own performance and the role of the social comparison group: The self-assessment bias in psychod...

When asked at what income level one is "rich," even the wealthiest state a higher figure than they themselves earn; they tink they belong to the middle class

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The psychology of income wealth threshold estimations: A registered report. Robin Rinn, Anand Krishna, Roland Deutsch. British Journal of So...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Does Economic Growth Meaningfully Improve Well-being? An Optimistic Re-Analysis of Easterlin’s Research

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Does Economic Growth Meaningfully Improve Well-being? An Optimistic Re-Analysis of Easterlin’s Research: Founders Pledge. Vadim Albinsky. Ef...

Normies do not experience "duping delight," the triumph of successful lying, but individuals with dark personality traits seem to enjoy it

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In Search of Duping Delight. Christopher A. Gunderson et al. Affective Science (2022) 3:519–527. July 19 2022. https://link.springer.com/epd...

The association between "cheaper" non-marital sex partners and marriage rates is temporary: recent sex partners predict lower odds of marriage, but not lifetime non-marital sex partners; it is not "the" reason for declining marriage rates

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Does a longer sexual resume affect marriage rates? Nicholas H. Wolfinger, Samuel L. Perry. Social Science Research, October 11 2022, 102800....
Tuesday, October 11, 2022

They found no systematic effect of stress on prosocial behaviours

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Effect of mood and worker incentives on workplace productivity. Decio Coviello, Erika Deserranno, Nicola Persico, Paola Sapienza. The Journa...

Sleeping poorly is robustly associated with a tendency to engage in spontaneous waking thought

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Sleeping poorly is robustly associated with a tendency to engage in spontaneous waking thought. Ana Lucía Cárdenas-Egúsquiza, Dorthe Berntse...