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Twenty-2-Five focuses on findings in Decision Making Theory, Perception and Social Psychology from an Economists perspective. Research is often presented with an outlook towards how a better understanding of human behavior might improve economic theory, and how economic theory might provide a general language for the social science.
Daniel Hawes
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- October 28, 2010
- 02:40 AM
- 307 views
What's the Significance of P(SI)?
by Daniel Hawes in Ingenious Monkey | 20-two-5
Another attempt at making sense of Bems upcoming PSI phenomena paper. Please leave comments. Especially the statistically minded...... Read more »
Bem, Daryl. (2010) Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. info:/10.1037/a0021524
- July 7, 2010
- 11:21 AM
- 297 views
Do Words Have a Shape?
by Daniel Hawes in Ingenious Monkey | 20-two-5
Are the names we use to describe objects really the result of random convention, or is there a more fundamental relation between how a word sounds and the properties of the object it describes?
To say it in Shakespear's words: "What is in a name?"... Read more »
Kovic, V., Plunkett, K., & Westermann, G. (2010) The shape of words in the brain. Cognition, 114(1), 19-28. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.08.016
- June 8, 2010
- 12:03 PM
- 450 views
Mate-Choice Copying in Humans
by Daniel Hawes in Ingenious Monkey | 20-two-5
Guppies do it. Why shouldn't we?... Read more »
Yorzinski JL, & Platt ML. (2010) Same-sex gaze attraction influences mate-choice copying in humans. PloS one, 5(2). PMID: 20161739
- June 6, 2010
- 12:20 AM
- 316 views
A Coffee Drinker's Nightmare: Caffeine Loses It's Kick
by Daniel Hawes in Ingenious Monkey | 20-two-5
A study shows that frequent consumption habituates the body to caffeine, and it's all downhill from there...... Read more »
Rogers PJ, Hohoff C, Heatherley SV, Mullings EL, Maxfield PJ, Evershed RP, Deckert J, & Nutt DJ. (2010) Association of the Anxiogenic and Alerting Effects of Caffeine with ADORA2A and ADORA1 Polymorphisms and Habitual Level of Caffeine Consumption. Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. PMID: 20520601
- May 31, 2010
- 12:59 AM
- 366 views
Can Mice Show Placebo Effects? And Does it Even Matter?
by Daniel Hawes in Ingenious Monkey | 20-two-5
Acupuncture has yet to withstand Placebo control trials. Therefore Bloggers and Twitterers are upset about an upcoming Nature Neuroscience paper that reports having found a biological basis for how acupuncture "works". I think the criticism is undeserved...... Read more »
Nanna Goldman et al. (2010) Adenosine A1 receptors mediate local anti-nociceptive effects of acupuncture. Nature Neuroscience. info:/10.1038/nn.2562
- May 28, 2010
- 09:34 AM
- 413 views
Eye Color Predicts and Doesn't Predict Perceived Dominance
by Daniel Hawes in Ingenious Monkey | 20-two-5
An upcoming study Personality and Individual Differences links eye color to perceived dominance ratings. But there's more to the study than immediately reaches the eye...... Read more »
Kleisner, K., Kočnar, T., Rubešová, A., & Flegr, J. (2010) Eye color predicts but does not directly influence perceived dominance in men. Personality and Individual Differences, 49(1), 59-64. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.03.011
- May 26, 2010
- 04:59 PM
- 323 views
The Price of Faking It
by Daniel Hawes in Ingenious Monkey | 20-two-5
Buying counterfeits might be cheaper than buying original brand names, but wearing counterfeit products might have a different cost: Your honesty and your perception of other people's honesty...... Read more »
Gino F, Norton MI, & Ariely D. (2010) The counterfeit self: the deceptive costs of faking it. Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS, 21(5), 712-20. PMID: 20483851
- May 25, 2010
- 04:26 PM
- 390 views
Scientific Impotence: How to Reject Belief-Challenging Research
by Daniel Hawes in Ingenious Monkey | 20-two-5
There are several ways of responding to belief-threatening information. Discounting the ability of science to inform a particular domain of knowledge seems to be one that is used in the light of belief-threatening scientific evidence. Sadly, using the scientific impotence excuse in one domain seems to also increase the likelihood of applying it to science in general...... Read more »
Munro, G. (2010) The Scientific Impotence Excuse:�Discounting Belief-Threatening Scientific Abstracts. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 40(3), 579-600. DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2010.00588.x
- May 12, 2010
- 07:58 PM
- 373 views
Confidently Wrong: Correcting False Memories
by Daniel Hawes in Ingenious Monkey | 20-two-5
False memories, like false knowledge, are often maintained even in the light of correcting information. A study shows when false memories are more likely to be discarded.
... Read more »
Lisa K. Fazio, & Elizabeth J. Marsh. (2010) Correcting False Memories. Psychological Science. info:/10.1177/0956797610371341
- May 10, 2010
- 09:39 AM
- 285 views
Fast Food Logos Make People Hasty
by Daniel Hawes in Ingenious Monkey | 20-two-5
Fast food may make you fat, but mere thoughts of fast food can have wider reaching effects: Haste and impatience... Read more »
Chen-Bo Zhong, & Sanford E. DeVoe. (2010) You Are How You Eat: Fast Food and Impatience. Psycholgoical Science. info:/10.1177/0956797610366090
- May 5, 2010
- 09:26 PM
- 433 views
Ultimate Secret To Men's Marital Happiness: Dating Up!
by Daniel Hawes in Ingenious Monkey | 20-two-5
Besides DYING to write something in ALL CAPS and using ultimate twice in the same sentence, I've also really been waiting to write something like this: Science reveals the ultimate secret to happiness, better sex, longer life and ultimate riches...... Read more »
McNulty JK, Neff LA, & Karney BR. (2008) Beyond initial attraction: physical attractiveness in newlywed marriage. Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43), 22(1), 135-43. PMID: 18266540
- May 4, 2010
- 05:55 PM
- 319 views
Forgive Yourself Today, Procrastinate Less...Tomorrow
by Daniel Hawes in Ingenious Monkey | 20-two-5
Research shows that students who forgive themselves for procrastinating, manage to reduce subsequent procrastination on the same task.... Read more »
Michael J.A. Wohl, Timothy A. Pychyl, & Shannon H. Bennett. (2010) I forgive myself, now I can study: How self-forgiveness for procrastinating can reduce future procrastination. Personality and Individual Differences. info:/doi:10.1016/j.paid.2010.01.029
- May 3, 2010
- 09:18 AM
- 346 views
Financial Risk and (a Woman's) Touch
by Daniel Hawes in Ingenious Monkey | 20-two-5
Most of you have likely read the recent NYtimes article about the effect of touching on the performance of NBA teams. Here's a study that looks at the effect of physical contact on MBA teams: How physical contact influences financial risk taking...... Read more »
Jonathan Levav, & Jennifer Argo. (2010) Physical Contact and Financial Risk Taking. Psychological Science. info:/10.1177/095679761039493
- April 20, 2010
- 11:35 AM
- 730 views
The Role of Status For Going Green
by Daniel Hawes in Ingenious Monkey | 20-two-5
Among all the reasons for being more environmentally friendly, here's one that might marketing execs will love: Status!... Read more »
Griskevicius, V., Tybur, J., & Van den Bergh, B. (2010) Going green to be seen: Status, reputation, and conspicuous conservation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98(3), 392-404. DOI: 10.1037/a0017346
- April 19, 2010
- 09:01 AM
- 350 views
Telling Lies: Email versus Pen and Paper
by Daniel Hawes in Ingenious Monkey | 20-two-5
Nice use of the dictator game in a series of studies, showing that emailing lies feels different from writing lies on pen and paper. ... Read more »
Naquin, C., Kurtzberg, T., & Belkin, L. (2010) The finer points of lying online: E-mail versus pen and paper. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95(2), 387-394. DOI: 10.1037/a0018627
- April 5, 2010
- 03:09 PM
- 449 views
Improved Mind Reading Through Matching Construal Levels
by Daniel Hawes in Ingenious Monkey | 20-two-5
Thinking about what's going on in other people's heads, is something we do practically all the time. But the truth is, we're not that good at it. Here's some research that tells you why, and what you can do about it...... Read more »
Tal Eyal, Nicholas Epley. (2010) How to Seem Telepathic : Enabling Mind Reading by Matching Construal. Psychological Science. info:/10.1177/0956797610367754
- March 30, 2010
- 12:42 PM
- 460 views
Sex Differences in Cooperative Behavior - Depends on Who's Watching
by Daniel Hawes in Ingenious Monkey | 20-two-5
The willingness to cooperate in a prisoner's dilemma has long been thought the same for men and women. Adding an audience to the classic prisoner's dilemma experiment, however, paints a far more nuanced picture...... Read more »
Gary Charland and Aldo Rustichini. (2009) Gender differences in cooperation with group membership. N/A. info:/
- March 9, 2010
- 05:30 PM
- 448 views
Trust in the Face(width)
by Daniel Hawes in Ingenious Monkey | 20-two-5
It seems odd, but stable facial cues, such as the width-height ratio of a man's face, may be decent predictors of trustworthiness. Less strange is that we apparently use face-width when intuitively judging a strangers' trustworthiness...... Read more »
Stirrat, M., & Perrett, D. (2010) Valid Facial Cues to Cooperation and Trust: Male Facial Width and Trustworthiness. Psychological Science, 21(3), 349-354. DOI: 10.1177/0956797610362647
- March 4, 2010
- 03:45 PM
- 362 views
Don't Know Where The Time Went? Guess You Were Having Fun...
by Daniel Hawes in Ingenious Monkey | 20-two-5
We all know the feeling that time flies, when we're having fun. Turns out, this also works in the other direction...Another nice incidence of bidirectional information processing.... Read more »
Danckert JA, & Allman AA. (2005) Time flies when you're having fun: temporal estimation and the experience of boredom. Brain and cognition, 59(3), 236-45. PMID: 16168546
- February 22, 2010
- 05:34 PM
- 479 views
When We Want Something More Although We Like it Less
by Daniel Hawes in Ingenious Monkey | 20-two-5
Wanting something and liking something are two separate things, and it is not uncommon that people develop strong "wants", or "must haves" for things they don't particularly like.
Indeed, it is possible that certain events increase our want for an object, while simultaneously decreasing how much we actually like the object. According to a recent research report this can happen in particular, when things become seemingly hard to obtain: When something we've been t........ Read more »
Litt, A., Khan, U., & Shiv, B. (2009) Lusting While Loathing: Parallel Counterdriving of Wanting and Liking. Psychological Science, 21(1), 118-125. DOI: 10.1177/0956797609355633
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