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Psychological science

Year: 2020
Articles in SafetyLit: 22

A call for greater sensitivity in the wake of a publication controversy

Aggressive realism: more efficient processing of anger in physically aggressive individuals

Can bad be good? The attraction of a darker self

Conflict changes how people view God

Corrigendum: Using a psychopharmacogenetic approach to identify the pathways through which-and the people for whom-testosterone promotes aggression

Declines in religiosity predict increases in violent crime-but not among countries with relatively high average IQ

Does honesty require time? Two preregistered direct replications of experiment 2 of Shalvi, Eldar, and Bereby-Meyer (2012)

Dominance-driven autocratic political orientations predict political violence in Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) and non-WEIRD samples

Expectancy violation drives memory boost for stressful events

General enhancement of spatial hearing in congenitally blind people

Making it harder to "see" meaning: the more you see something, the more its conceptual representation is susceptible to visual interference

Moral choice when harming is unavoidable

Neighborhood deprivation shapes motivational-neurocircuit recruitment in children

People reject algorithms in uncertain decision domains because they have diminishing sensitivity to forecasting error

Perceiving locations of moving objects across eyeblinks

Polluted psyche: is the effect of air pollution on unethical behavior more physiological or psychological?

Retraction of "Declines in religiosity predict increases in violent crime-but not among countries with relatively high average IQ"

Sex differences in misperceptions of sexual interest can be explained by sociosexual orientation and men projecting their own interest onto women

Strong effort manipulations reduce response caution: a preregistered reinvention of the ego-depletion paradigm

Susceptibility to being lured away by a stranger: a real-world field test of selective trust in early childhood

The distinct effects of empathic accuracy for a romantic partner's appeasement and dominance emotions

The latent genetic structure of impulsivity and its relation to internalizing psychopathology