Recent research

Still catching up with a year of Kevin Lewis posts:

• Researchers spend time in an Athens subway station and observe who punishes "norm violators." (Loukas Balafoutas and friend)
• The good and bad news: consuming media increases perceived risk of terrorism. (Ashley Nellis and friend)
• In social sciences to show "statistical significance" the norm is to get a p-value of 0.05 or less. Unsurprisingly a disproportionate number of published studies just nick the 0.05 mark. (EJ Masicampo and friend)...
• ... which may be one reason most studies are refuted after publication. (Francois Gonon and friends)...
• ... or maybe it's because researchers design studies to get the results they want. (Brent Strickland and friend)
• When politicians we like behave badly, instead of admonishing or forgiving them we may just "decouple" their performance from their morality. (Amit Bhattacharjee and friends)
• We're natural cheaters, unless we have time to reflect and no available justifications for cheating. (Shaul Shalvi and friend)
• We're also natural cooperators, unless we have time to reflect. (David Rand and friends)
• Do we do good for goodness sake or for recognition? This study kinda sorta tries to answer that question. (Liane Young and friends)
• Americans may not be getting more polarized in their beliefs - but that doesn't stop them from increasingly disliking the opposing party. (Iyengar and friends)
• Examining the personality-ideology connection... and not finding much. (Chris Sibley and friends)
• Without realizing it, we so easily can be duped into arguing against our own opinions. (Lars Hall and friends)
• Getting more poor people to the polls doesn't mean their elected officials will pay more attention to them. (Patrick Flavin)
• I think this guy is saying we're more likely to go to the polls when we feel informed - but stay home when we see others are really informed, which is one way to explain why we may never see near 100% voter participation. (Joseph C. McMurray)
• One strategy to getting re-elected: make sure your home team has a good season. (Michael K. Miller)
• Self-censoring to avoid offending ad-buyers is not just an American media phenomenon. (Fabrizio Germano)
• Busting the self-control - glucose theory. (Daniel C. Molden and friends, and Martin Hagger and friends)
• Woah. Researchers experimentally model the evolution of cooperation - in yeast. (Adam James Waite and friend)
• More evidence that we just want our lives to be meaningful. (Peggy Thoits)
• The next economic shift isn't from goods to services, but from goods to service-goods. (James Tien)
• Our feelings about risk in the economic realm... don't apply to the social. (Tim Johnson and friends)
• Emotional intelligence can be primed. (Nicola Schutte)
• When thinking socially we shut down our mechanical-engineering brain and vice versa. (Anthony I. Jack and friends)
• When judging incumbents, we tend to forget the distant past. (Greg Huber and friends)
• When we lose a sense of personal control we gladly give control to others. (Bob Fennis and friend)...
• ... but we're always susceptible to influence from others when deciding moral dilemmas. (Payel Kundu and friend)
• Mere exposure effect at work again - this time in the Eurovision Song Contest. (Diarmuid Verrier and friend)
• Macaque monkeys are also susceptible to the representative bias. (Jerald Kralik and friends)
• Evidence that taking on another's perspective makes us less attached to our earlier beliefs. (Erin Beatty and friend)...
• ... as does suspending those beliefs. (Ilan Yaniv and friend)
• The internet may not be dividing us after all. (Kelly Garrett and friends)
• More attempts to classify ideologues: using a variation on Haidt's moral foundations (Christopher Weber and friend); and using social and economic dimensions (Edward Carmines and friends).
• Etzioni asks if American democracy is delivering the policies its people wants, why is everyone so unhappy?
• How married couples increase partisanship. (Casey Klofstad and friends)
• Listening to the opposition can be stressful. (Hart Blanton and friends)
• Seeing the economy through partisan lenses. (Peter Enns and friend)
• The pointlessness of trying to be a bipartisan president. (George C. Edwards)
• Ugh. Another personality and ideology study - but this time from Yale bigwigs. (Alan Gerber and friends)
• Comparing the US political blogosphere to the UK's and Germany's. (Ki Deuk Hyun)
• Trust and partisanship. (Ryan Carlin)
• Partisanship only affects policy attitudes for unfamiliar policies. (Daniel E. Bergen)
• Yup. The media prefers conflict to moderation. (Michael McCluskey)