Wednesday, January 18, 2023

What if Diversity Trainings Are Doing More Harm Than Good?

›
What if Diversity Trainings Are Doing More Harm Than Good? Jesse Singal. The New York Times, Jan 17 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17...

Women respond more strongly to negative, but not positive emotional stimuli than men

›
Are women truly “more emotional” than men? Sex differences in an indirect model-based measure of emotional feelings. Ella Givon, Rotem Berko...
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

No form of pandemic preparedness helped to ameliorate or shorten the pandemic; compared to other countries, the US did not perform poorly because of cultural values such as individualism, collectivism, selfishness, or lack of trust

›
Is it possible to prepare for a pandemic? Robert Tucker Omberg, Alex Tabarrok. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 38, Issue 4, Winter ...

According to AAA, "about 70 percent of the entire increase in driver fatal crash involvement [between May and December of 2020] was specifically among males under the age of 40"

›
Traffic Safety Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Fatal Crashes Relative to Pre-Pandemic Trends, United States, May–December 2020. Brian C. Te...

People in more developed and modernized countries experience more love with their partners, but at a high level of modernization, mean love levels tend to drop

›
Modernization, collectivism, and gender equality predict love experiences in 45 countries. Piotr Sorokowski et al. Scientific Reports volume...

Opiates of the Masses? Deaths of Despair and the Decline of American Religiosity

›
Opiates of the Masses? Deaths of Despair and the Decline of American Religion. Tyler Giles, Daniel M. Hungerman & Tamar Oostrom. NBER Wo...
Monday, January 16, 2023

The moral imperative is not towards making people’s lives better, but performative demonstration that you are on the side of righteousness, that you have not only ticked all the right boxes but done so with a song in your heart

›
The morality of growth. Robert Colvile. CAPX, January 3 2023. https://capx.co/the-morality-of-growth Excerpts: One of the most striking phr...

In which environments is impulsive behavior adaptive? A cross-discipline review and integration of formal models

›
Fenneman, J., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Todd, P. M. (2022). In which environments is impulsive behavior adaptive? A cross-discipline review ...
Sunday, January 15, 2023

They found significantly higher levels of sexual intelligence in men as compared to women, which had significant positive correlations with age, education, emotional intelligence, social intelligence, sexual health, & satisfaction with life

›
Measuring Sexual Intelligence for Evaluating Sexual Health. Waqar Husain et al. Psychological Reports, January 14, 2023. https://doi.org/10....
Saturday, January 14, 2023

A considerable share of the German population already felt fatigued with the coronavirus issue in April; the results show that perceptions of low news credibility and perceived “victimization” of other topics caused high levels of issue fatigue

›
When citizens get fed up. Causes and consequences of issue fatigue – Results of a two-wave panel study during the coronavirus crisis. Christ...

We find that there are no statistically significant differences in generosity as a function of social class; however, there are subtle - yet statistically significant - patterns linking SES and dark triad personality traits

›
Fomina, Daria, Amy Goltermann, Claire E. Berner, Stephen Spivack, Theadora Bulajic, Jennifer Freda, Amelia Karim, et al. 2023. “The Influenc...

There was no reliable effect of temperature on the behavioural outcomes measured; & we find little support for either the warmth-primes-prosociality view or the heat- facilitates-aggression view

›
Lynott, Dermot, Katherine S. Corker, Louise Connell, and Kerry S. O'Brien. 2023. “The Effects of Temperature on Prosocial and Antisocial...
Friday, January 13, 2023

A new primitive language, inspired by Mesopotamic ones & by Dylan Black's I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language

›
A new primitive language, inspired by Mesopotamic ones & by Dylan Black's I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language https://maximumeffor...

Between 25% to 39% of the total variance in time spent playing video games can be attributed to shared genetic traits with the remainder explained by shared environmental factors (e.g., parenting and culture)

›
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Playing Video Games. Toqa Hassan. Media Psychology, Jan 12 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269....

We are relatively pessimistic about our skills in striking an appealing conversation with a stranger and attribute the worst talking moments to ourselves

›
Pessimistic assessments of ability in informal conversation. Christopher Welker, Jesse Walker, Erica Boothby, Thomas Gilovich. Journal of Ap...
Thursday, January 12, 2023

Contrary to the moral comparison, appearance-based standards comparison is most frequently made with those of better looks than our own, and we suffer for it

›
How we compare: A new approach to assess aspects of the comparison process for appearance-based standards and their associations with indivi...