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Emotions
A new study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin finds that liberals are more emotion-driven than conservatives.
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Liberals Are More Emotion-Driven Than Conservatives
From EurekaAlert: Emotions are powerful motivators of human behavior and attitudes. Emotions also play an important role in guiding policy support in conflict and other political contexts. Researchers at Tel Aviv University and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya have studied … Continue reading
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Did “King Kong” (1933) Create Nessie?
Here’s an interesting sociological angle regarding the Loch Ness Monster mythos: New research from America’s Columbia University suggests the sightings in northern Scotland were triggered by the release of the 1933 classic, which, along with the giant rampaging gorilla, also … Continue reading
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Were We Happier in the Stone Age?
Yuval Noah Harari asks “Were we happier in the stone age?” Even if we take into account solely the citizens of today’s affluent societies, Romantics may point out that our comfort and security have their price. Homo sapiens evolved as … Continue reading
Thomas Malthus
Thomas Malthus was a thinker far ahead of his time. From a TLS review of two new books on him (Robert Mayhew’s Malthus: The life and legacies of an untimely prophet and Alan Macfarlane’s Thomas Malthus And The Making Of … Continue reading
Sleep: 1964 vs 2014
Further reasons for proclaiming the Boomer generation’s time as the high-water mark: People are sleeping between one and two hours less than in the 1960s due to the increased pressure of life and modern technology which makes it hard to … Continue reading
Racism Causes Fat Black Chicks
From an article in the American Journal of Epidemiology: Frequent experiences of racism were associated with a higher risk of obesity among African American women, findings from a recent study have demonstrated. These results suggest that the relationship between racism … Continue reading
German Burnout
In the Times Literary Supplement, Anna Schaffner has an excellent essay on the topic of ‘burnout’ as it is currently playing out in Germany: One of the abiding refrains in exhaustion theories, both past and present, is the idea that … Continue reading
Blacks Happier At Work Than Whites
Over the years, I’ve noticed studies supporting the thesis that blacks, overall, are happier than whites. How can that be? After all, with Whitey’s rampant ‘discrimination’ and ‘oppression’ of blacks everywhere we look, how could said blacks have smiles on … Continue reading
Development of Children’s ‘Prelife’ Reasoning
Here’s the abstract of a Boston University study led by postdoctoral fellow Natalie Emmons and published in the January 16, 2014 online edition of Child Development: By examining children’s ideas about “prelife,” the time before conception, researchers found results which … Continue reading
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