Science and Studies.

Links to PDF files of science papers or studies that I may or may not have talked about on the show.

  1. Millennials – The Politically Unclaimed Generation – 2014 Reason-Rupe Public Opinion Survey
  2. A green paradox: Validating green choices has ironic effects on behavior, cognition, and perception – Chiara Longoni, Peter M. Gollwitzer, Gabriele Oettingen
  3. Does A Helping Hand Put Others At Risk? Affirmative Action, Police Departments, and Crime – John R. Lott Jr.
  4. A Field Study of Run-Time Location Access Disclosures on Android Smartphones – Huiqing Fu, Yulong Yang, Nileema Shingte, Janne Lindqvist, Marco Gruteser – Rutgers University
  5. An opportunistic pathogen isolated from the gut of an obese human causes obesity in germfree mice – Na Fei and Liping Zhao
  6. Who Believes that Astrology is Scientific? – James T. Lindgren – Northwestern University School of Law (hint, liberals and Democrats believe)
  7. Face to face: Blocking facial mimicry can selectively impair recognition of emotional expressions – Lindsay M. Oberman, Piotr Winkielman, and Vilayanur S. Ramachandran – University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
  8. Statement of Patrick Moore, Ph.D. Before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight – February 25, 2014 – “Natural Resource Adaptation: Protecting ecosystems and economies”
  9. Consuming Green, Living Green? The Moderating Effect of Identity Relevance on the Licensing Effect – Marijn H. C. Meijers, ASCoR,University of Amsterdam – Peeter W. J. Verlegh, ASCoR,University of Amsterdam – Marret K. Noordewier, Leiden University – Edith G. Smit, ASCoR,University of Amsterdam
  10. Do Green Products Make Us Better People? – Nina Mazar, Chen-Bo Zhong – University of Toronto
  11. Embodiment of Emotion Concepts – Paula M. Niedenthal, CNRS and University of Clermont-Ferrand, France – Piotr Winkielman, University of California, San Diego – Laurie Mondillon, University of Clermont-Ferrand, France – Nicolas Vermeulen, Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve
  12. Ethnic Diversity and Social Trust: Evidence from the Micro-Context – Dinesen, Peter Thisted; Sønderskov, Kim Mannemar
  13. ‘A Diamond is Forever’ and Other Fairy Tales: The Relationship between Wedding Expenses and Marriage Duration – Andrew M. Francis and Hugo M. Mialon
  14. The Creativity Crisis: The Decrease in Creative Thinking Scores on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking – Kyung Hee Kim – School of Education, The College of William and Mary
  15. Disruption of the right temporoparietal junction with transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces the role of beliefs in moral judgments – Liane Younga, Joan Albert Camprodonb, Marc Hauserc, Alvaro Pascual-Leoneb, and Rebecca Saxea
  16. MILLENNIAL POLL TOPLINE RESULTS – RELEASED: SUMMER 2014
  17. Reason-Rupe 2014 Millennial Survey Methodology and Questionnaire (for the above 2014 Millennial Poll)
  18. REASON-RUPE MILLENNIAL 2014 SURVEY – data in spreadsheet format
  19. When Corrections Fail: The persistence of political misperceptions – Brendan Nyhan, RWJ Scholar in Health Policy Research and Jason Reifler, Assistant Professor Department of Political Science
  20. Self-Censorship on Facebook – Sauvik Das and Adam Kramer
  21. Political Diversity Will Improve Social Psychological Science – José L. Duarte, Arizona State University, Jarret T. Crawford, The College of New Jersey, Charlotta Stern, Stockholm University, Jonathan Haidt, New York University—Stern School of Business, Lee Jussim, Rutgers University, Philip E. Tetlock, University of Pennsylvania
  22. SENTENCING DISPARITY AND DISCRIMINATION: A Focus on Gender
  23. Studies of Independence and Conformity: A Minority of One Against a Unanimous Majority – Solomon E. Asch – Swarthmore College
  24. The Economic Value of College Majors – Anthony P. Carnevale, Jeff Strohl and Michelle Melton
  25. The Status of Male Teachers in Public Education Today – Shaun P. Johnson
  26. The Suffocation of Marriage: Climbing Mount Maslow Without Enough Oxygen – Eli J. Finkel, Department of Psychology and Department of Management and Organizations Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois – Chin Ming Hui, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois and Kathleen L. Carswell and Grace M. Larson, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
  27. Trust at Zero Acquaintance: More a Matter of Respect Than Expectation of Reward – David Dunning and Joanna E. Anderson, Cornell University and Thomas Schlösser, Daniel Ehlebracht, and Detlef Fetchenhauer, University of Cologne
  28. Obedience to Authority With An Authentic Victim – Charles L. Sheridan and Richard G. King Jr. – This the is the “women torture puppies” study I often cite for why women are not capable of morality.
  29. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? Thinking that one is attractive increases the tendency to support inequality – Peter Belmi and Margaret Neale
  30. Who Abuses Children? – National Child Protection Clearinghouse
  31. Child Sexual Assault: Facts and Statistics – Updated December 2012
  32. THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF EARLY SEXUAL ACTIVITY AND MULTIPLE SEXUAL PARTNERS AMONG WOMEN: A BOOK OF CHARTS – ROBERT E. RECTOR, KIRK A. JOHNSON, PH.D., LAUREN R. NOYES, and SHANNAN MARTIN
  33. Male Microchimerism in the Human Female Brain – William F. N. Chan, Cecile Gurnot, Thomas J. Montine, Joshua A. Sonnen, Katherine A. Guthrie, J. Lee Nelson
  34. Microaggression and Moral Cultures – Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning
  35. Before “I Do”: What Do Premarital Experiences Have to Do with Marital Quality Among Today’s Young Adults? – Galena K. Rhoades and Scott M. Stanley
  36. An exploratory analysis of the relationship between women’s rape fantasies, rape myth acceptance, rape victim empathy and rape blame attribution. – Amy Grubb & Terri-Anne Tarn
  37. Making the Connection: Social Bonding in Courtship Situations – Daniel A. McFarland and Dan Jurafsky and Craig Rawlings
  38. The Nature of Women’s Rape Fantasies: An Analysis of Prevalence, Frequency, and Contents – Jenny Bivona and Joseph Critelli
  39. The Relationship Between Multiple Sex Partners and Anxiety, Depression, and Substance Dependence Disorders: A Cohort Study – Sandhya Ramrakha, Charlotte Paul, Melanie L. Bell, Nigel Dickson, Terrie E. Moffitt, and Avshalom Caspi
  40. Tool: Recognizing Microaggressions and the Messages They Send
  41. Women Don’t Mean Business? Gender Penalty in Board Appointments – Isabelle Solal and Kaisa Snellman
  42. WOMEN’S EROTIC RAPE FANTASIES – Jenny M. Bivona, B.A., M.S.

Not science – in fact this is religion. Read it here, the famous “Blueprint For Change – Hussein Obama’s Plan for America “. Are you better off than you were eight years ago? Has The Messiah delivered on the promises? Did you get the change you had hope for? Have you moved forward? Do you have more freedom? Do the corporations pay more taxes?