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- The Case for Postmortem Survival https://psyarxiv.com/pr364/ 2 comments
- Corporate insecthood (2022) https://psyarxiv.com/rxkhe 90 comments
- A Self-Controlled Mind Is Reflected by Stable Mental Processing https://psyarxiv.com/fzg9y/ 2 comments
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- Dreaming Is the Inverse of Anxious Mind-Wandering https://psyarxiv.com/k6trz 2 comments cogsci , science
- [Preprint] Alarmism about the dangers of misinformation is associated with the third-person effect: the idea that other people are much more gullible than oneself. https://psyarxiv.com/n4qrj/ 3 comments cogsci
- [deleted by user] https://psyarxiv.com/zhvre/ 26 comments economics
- Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs. This new study shows what has long been suspected - that psychedelics can alter your beliefs about the nature of reality, creating a lasting shift in the user's belief, away from physicalism and materialism and towards dualism and panpsychism https://psyarxiv.com/f6sjk 1006 comments philosophy
- A new study shows that, far from increasing selfishness, individualistic societies feature higher levels of altruism https://psyarxiv.com/k3y7u/ 3 comments science
- Intellectual humility is negatively correlated with political myside bias, across paradigms, political topics, and samples (N~500 each). IH-bias relations were statistically equivalent in members of the political left and right. https://psyarxiv.com/vmsh9/ 5 comments science
- Meta-analysis of 26,305 participants finds that diminishing belief in free will doesn't affect people's behaviour. https://psyarxiv.com/quwgr/ 29 comments science
- Should neurons come first in the pursuit to understand the mind? Dr. Yael Niv argues no. https://psyarxiv.com/y8mxe/ 3 comments cogsci
- Geotracking of 15 million smartphones shows that counties with a higher percentage of women have more social distancing during the pandemic. https://psyarxiv.com/ch4jy/ 7 comments science
- Online moderators are more likely to remove a comment when it opposes their political views, even when the content is inoffensive and courteous. https://psyarxiv.com/r9c5z/ 19 comments science
- Exposure to arguments that oppose one's own political views reduces perceptions of political opponents as unintelligent & immoral https://psyarxiv.com/w9tp2/ 39 comments science
- Small study finds that exposure to ideas of political opponents reduces the tendency to see one's political opponents as stupid and immoral https://psyarxiv.com/w9tp2/ 28 comments science
- Individuals who had been given the authority to moderate online forums preferentially censored comments that opposed their own political views, even when expressed in an inoffensive and courteous manner https://psyarxiv.com/r9c5z/ 7 comments science
- Gendered White Lies: Women Are Given Inflated Performance Feedback Compared With Men - Participants upwardly distorted their original, gender-blind, quantitative evaluations of women’s work and gave more positive comments to women https://psyarxiv.com/yq24b/ 3 comments science
- Pandemic may be making people more socially conservative, study finds | "During the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, participants reported conforming more strongly to traditional gender roles and believing more strongly in traditional gender stereotypes than they did before the pandemic" https://psyarxiv.com/zg7s4/ 40 comments science
- A new theory in neuroscience - “predictive coding” - that says what we believe and what we desire depends entirely on what our brain expects the outside world to be like 🧠 🌍 https://psyarxiv.com/hv4bs/download 8 comments cogsci
- Contrary to some arguments from philosophy, peoples' reason for not wanting to be more moral was not that they were already “good enough”. https://psyarxiv.com/9gux6 10 comments philosophy
- Study purporting to find a difference between conservative and progressive brains fails replication test https://psyarxiv.com/49hfg 6 comments science
- Human beings often feel a "sense of agency" over things they don't actually control. Interestingly, unbiased artificial agents show similar "illusions of control" when they make the same decisions about what they influence and what they don't. https://psyarxiv.com/zk4vg 5 comments artificial
- Humans often have false beliefs about how much they can affect the world around them. A new paper suggests these false beliefs may actually be justified. https://psyarxiv.com/zk4vg 3 comments philosophy
- Humans often have false beliefs about how much they can affect the world around them. A new paper suggests these false beliefs may actually be justified. https://psyarxiv.com/zk4vg 10 comments science
- We often feel in control of events we don't actually influence. However, a new study suggests that these 'illusions of control' arise because we are very sensitive to the causal effects of our actions and not because we have delusions of grandeur. https://psyarxiv.com/zk4vg 6 comments philosophy
- An Investigation of the Relationship Between Psychopathy and Greater Gray Matter Density in Lateral Prefrontal Cortex https://psyarxiv.com/j2pwy/ 3 comments science
- Discerning Artificial Consciousness from Artificial Intelligence - A Thought Experiment https://psyarxiv.com/ts9kr/ 2 comments artificial
- Psychologists argue insights from reinforcement learning models can explain how human brains strike the balance between relying on old beliefs and learning new ones. https://psyarxiv.com/hdsmz 6 comments artificial
- "The perceptual prediction paradox": A new paper describing how our brain relies on established expectations when information is ambiguous, but remains sensitive to new and interesting changes in the world around us. https://psyarxiv.com/hdsmz 3 comments science
- “The perceptual prediction paradox”. A new paper on the seemingly paradoxical ways that prior knowledge changes our perceptions. https://psyarxiv.com/hdsmz 30 comments philosophy
- Logistic or Linear? Estimating Causal Effects of Binary Outcomes Using Regression Analysis https://psyarxiv.com/4gmbv 12 comments statistics
- The Dissatisfaction of Being Sexually Rejected By A Partner Lasts Longer Than Pleasure Of Having An Advance Accepted https://psyarxiv.com/p9nc8/ 12 comments science
- Liberals and conservatives are more able to detect logical flaws in the other side's arguments & less able to detect logical flaws in their own. https://psyarxiv.com/hspjz 4 comments science
- Self-Presentation in Interracial Settings: The Competence Downshift by White Liberals https://psyarxiv.com/pv2ab/ 3 comments science
- Self-Presentation in Interracial Settings: The Competence Downshift by White Liberals https://psyarxiv.com/pv2ab/ 8 comments science
- Self-Presentation in Interracial Settings: The Competence Downshift by White Liberals-- White liberals self-present less competence to minorities than to other Whites—that is, they patronize minorities stereotyped as lower status and less competent. https://psyarxiv.com/pv2ab/ 86 comments science
- Psychologists suggest that valuing our identity more than our accuracy is what leads us to accept incorrect information that aligns with our political party's beliefs. Understanding this value discrepancy can help us find better strategies to bridge the political divide. https://psyarxiv.com/ak642/ 5 comments science
- A major study of 50,000 people over the course of several decades, has found the traditional notion of personality – as fixed and unchanged after adolescence – is mostly untrue. https://psyarxiv.com/ryjpc/ 4 comments science
- Redefine Statistical Significance https://psyarxiv.com/mky9j/?_a=2.29887741.370827084.1500902659-399963933.1500902659 4 comments science
- A study of 447 self-identified Alt-Right members shows they're more distrustful of MSM and government; have higher Dark Triad traits, social dominance orientation, authoritarianism, high aggression; and extreme levels of overt intergroup bias, including blatant dehumanization of racial minorities. https://psyarxiv.com/c9uvw 36 comments science