Tuesday, December 27, 2022

It was also interesting to note that respondents thought it essentially as easy to change sexual preferences as it was the body mass index

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Beliefs about personal change. Adrian Furnham, Ryne A. Sherman. Acta Psychologica, Volume 232, February 2023, 103821. https://doi.org/10.101...

New well-being measure considers egative affect (pain, sadness, anger and worry) & positive affect (life satisfaction, enjoyment, smiling and being well-rested)

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Wellbeing Rankings. David G. Blanchflower & Alex Bryson. NBER Working Paper 30759, December 2022. DOI 10.3386/w30759. Abstract: Combinin...
Monday, December 26, 2022

Zero-sum thinking is associated with preferences for progressive economic policies in general (redistribution, affirmative action inter alia)

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Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of U.S. Political Divides. Shahil Chinoy, Nathan Nunn, Sandra Sequeira, and Stefanie Stantcheva. Dec 2022. ...
Saturday, December 24, 2022

Was GPT-3 a Psychopath? Evaluating Large Language Models from a Psychological Perspective

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Is GPT-3 a Psychopath? Evaluating Large Language Models from a Psychological Perspective. Xingxuan Li, Yutong Li, Linlin Liu, Lidong Bing, S...

Do you remember the hype around the gut microbiome, when it was widely believed that depletion of gut bacteria in rodents fuels anxiety and affects social behavior? Ideas left in the dust.

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A Systematic Review of the Effects of Gut Microbiota Depletion on Social and Anxiety-related Behaviours in Adult Rodents: Implications for T...

Why do Black households live in neighborhoods with much lower socioeconomic status than the neighborhoods of white households with similar incomes?

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What explains neighborhood sorting by income and race? Dionissi Aliprantis, Daniel R.Carroll, Eric R.Young. Journal of Urban Economics, Dece...
Friday, December 23, 2022

Assortative mating on blood type: Evidence from one million Chinese pregnancies

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Assortative mating on blood type: Evidence from one million Chinese pregnancies. Yao Hou et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Scie...

The desire to be remembered: A review and analysis of legacy motivations and behaviors

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The desire to be remembered: A review and analysis of legacy motivations and behaviors. Brett Waggoner, Jesse M. Bering. Jamin Halberstadt. ...

At age 50, people who had met diagnostic criteria for depression when surveyed at ages 27-35 earn 10% lower hourly wages, work 120-180 fewer hours annually, together generating 24% lower annual wage incomes

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Lasting Scars: The Impact of Depression in Early Adulthood on Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes. Buyi Wang, Richard G. Frank & Sherry A. ...
Thursday, December 22, 2022

We demonstrate that both trait emotional intelligence and cognitive ability uniquely predict less concern for political correctness and more support for freedom of speech

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The Effects of Trait Emotional Intelligence and Cognitive Ability. Louise Drieghe, Arne Roets, Jonas De keersmaecker, Alain Van Hiel, and Dr...

The Case for Space Sexology

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The Case for Space Sexology. S. Dubé, M. Santaguida, D. Anctil, L. Giaccari & J. Lapierre. The Journal of Sex Research, Dec 8 2021. http...
Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Those who under-estimated their own mate value earned more matches in a speed dating contest than those who over-estimated their mate value

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The Role of Accurate Self-Assessments in Optimizing Mate Choice. Kaitlyn T. Harper et al. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Decemb...
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Women’s legs in comic books are supernormal stimuli, being longer than those of actual women, and further extended by being drawn in heels or on tiptoe

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Burch, R. L., & Widman, D. (2022). She's got legs: Longer legs in female comic book characters correspond to global preferences. Evo...

MicroRNAs are deeply linked to the emergence of the complex octopus brain

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MicroRNAs are deeply linked to the emergence of the complex octopus brain. Grigoriy Zolotarov et al. Science Advances, Nov 25 2022, Vol 8, I...

People are bad at evaluating their own olfactory abilities, overestimating and underestimating them

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Why We Both Trust and Mistrust Our Sense of Smell. Ophelia Deroy. Chp 3 in Theoretical Perspectives on Smell, Andreas Keller and Benjamin D....

Countries with higher estimated IQs are *generally* more prosperous, better educated, more innovative, healthier, and more democratic

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National Mean IQ Estimates: Validity, Data Quality, and Recommendations. Russell T. Warne. Evolutionary Psychological Science, Dec 19 2022. ...