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Is the Unattractiveness of Human Body an Inversion of Its Attractiveness?
(Sage Publications Ltd, London, 2019)
The role of input frequency in early language production: Children's usage of Serbian prepositions
(De Gruyter Mouton, 2011)
The present study adopts a quantitative approach to the research of language acquisition. We present a quantitative investigation in which input frequency was statistically measured and quantitatively expressed. We demonstrate ...
Cross-Cultural Consistency and Relativity in the Enjoyment of Thinking Versus Doing
(Amer Psychological Assoc, Washington, 2019)
Which is more enjoyable: trying to think enjoyable thoughts or doing everyday solitary activities? Wilson et al. (2014) found that American participants much preferred solitary everyday activities, such as reading or ...
Many Labs 5: Registered Replication of Shnabel and Nadler (2008), Study 4
(SAGE Publications Inc., 2020)
Shnabel and Nadler (2008) assessed a needs-based model of reconciliation suggesting that in conflicts, victims and perpetrators have different psychological needs that when satisfied increase the chances of reconciliation. ...
On the Relation of Boredom and Sadistic Aggression
(American Psychological Association, 2020)
What gives rise to sadism? While sadistic behavior (i.e., harming others for pleasure) is welldocumented, past empirical research is nearly silent regarding the psychological factors behind it. We help close this gap by ...
The general fault in our fault lines
(Nature Research, Berlin, 2021)
Ruggeri et al. tested perceptions of opposing political party members in 10,207 participants from 26 countries. Results show that beliefs about others are overly negative but could be more realistic with transparency about ...
Many Labs 5: Registered Replication of LoBue and DeLoache (2008)
(SAGE Publications Inc., 2020)
Across three studies, LoBue and DeLoache (2008) provided evidence suggesting that both young children and adults exhibit enhanced visual detection of evolutionarily relevant threat stimuli (as compared with nonthreatening ...
Tears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation of the interpersonal effects of emotional crying across 41 countries*
(Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, San Diego, 2021)
Tearful crying is a ubiquitous and likely uniquely human phenomenon. Scholars have argued that emotional tears serve an attachment function: Tears are thought to act as a social glue by evoking social support intentions. ...
Kama Muta: Conceptualizing and Measuring the Experience Often Labelled Being Moved Across 19 Nations and 15 Languages
(Amer Psychological Assoc, Washington, 2019)
English-speakers sometimes say that they feel "moved to tears," "emotionally touched," "stirred," or that something " warmed their heart;" other languages use similar passive contact metaphors to refer to an affective ...
Does distance from the equator predict self-control? Lessons from the Human Penguin Project
(Cambridge Univ Press, New York, 2017)
We comment on the proposition "that lower temperatures and especially greater seasonal variation in temperature call for individuals and societies to adopt ... a greater degree of self-control" (Van Lange et al., sect. 3, ...