Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Genetic correlates of social deprivation and household income

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From Hill et al. :   Highlights •Common SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) explain 21% of social deprivation and 11% of household i...
Tuesday, November 29, 2016

More exercise, less depression.

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Reynolds points to a number of interesting meta-analyses that pool outcomes from past research involving more than a million men and women t...
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Monday, November 28, 2016

Networks of conforming or nonconforming individuals always reach a satisfactory state

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Here is an intriguing study from Ramazi et al. , who use linear-threshold-based dynamic models to show that whether individuals go with or a...
Friday, November 25, 2016

Online social interaction associated with reduced mortality risk.

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Hobbs et al. apply longitudinal statistical models to two massive databases to show that online social interactions, just like old-fashione...
Thursday, November 24, 2016

Stock trading - gut feelings help with risky decisions.

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I've done a number of posts describing studies trying to determine what characteristics might distinguish successful stock traders (ente...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

The teenage brain and the pleasure of “likes”

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Rabin points to work by Sherman et al. showing that positive feedback given to a teenager's post on social media ('likes') sti...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Social media's globe-shaking power.

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Like many of you, I am more than completely overwhelmed by recent political events and the avalanche of thoughtful commentary on them. I am ...
Monday, November 21, 2016

Sex differences in brain regulation of aggression

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Interesting work from Terranova et al. , done with hamsters, and almost certainly applicable to us humans. Here is their summary of the sig...
Friday, November 18, 2016

Are your emotions 'Black and White' or 'Shades of Gray'? - Brain correlates.

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Satpute et al. show that how we think about emotion shapes our perception and neural representation of emotion. They asked subjects to judg...
Thursday, November 17, 2016

Thoughts about Dying in America.

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Pizzo offers a summary of a recent Institute of Medicine report, with the title "Thoughts about Dying in America: Enhancing the impact...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Our working memory modulates our conscious access to suppressed threatening information.

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Our processing of emotional information is susceptible to working memory (WM) modulations - emotional faces trigger much stronger responses ...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016

View a flickering stimulus before you try to read fine print…

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A nice piece of work from Arnold et al. : Significance Distinct anatomical visual pathways can be traced through the human central nerv...
Monday, November 14, 2016

Why do people in big cities move faster?

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A number of studies have shown that people in big cities move faster. Why is this? Pontzer describes work by Ahmed et al. suggesting that...
Friday, November 11, 2016

Social class and attentiveness to others.

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More on “The rich are different from you and me.” (F. Scott Fitzgerald) “Yes, They have more money.” (Hemingway). Dietze and Knowles use ...
Thursday, November 10, 2016

Explaining gender differences in anxiety.

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Li et al. find that a set of oxytocin-responsive neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) look similar in both sexes, but in males th...
Wednesday, November 09, 2016

The presidential election has spawned an effusion of interesting essays - a sampling

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A rich trove of Op-Ed pieces and essays has emerged during the recent presidential campaign. I’ve accumulated a list of links, thinking eac...
Tuesday, November 08, 2016

Political ideology and pathogen avoidance across 30 nations

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Tyber et al. (a huge number of collaborators) show from a survey across 30 nations that the relatively higher conservatism of people and na...
Monday, November 07, 2016

How to get beyond our tribal politics.

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Haidt and Iyer offer an essay in The Wall Street Journal that tries to see a way past the tribal animosities that have been dominating our ...
Friday, November 04, 2016

Facebook use associated with a longer life?

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From Hobbs et al. , with the usual caution that correlations are not causes: Significance People who have stronger social networks liv...
Thursday, November 03, 2016

Social motion, social bonds, and exercise.

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Davis et al. note how bodies moving in synchrony perform beyond the sum of their individual parts. In two experimental studies, we inv...