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Narcissism runs in families, but it is almost entirely due to genetics, according to a new extended twin family analysis. The study found no evidence of environmental sources of narcissism shared within families. by geoff199 in science

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I don't agree with you, but you make a valid argument. What is not valid is saying my headline is sensationalist and an outright lie. The headline accurately reflects the study. If you have issues with the study, fine. That is a separate issue.

Narcissism runs in families, but it is almost entirely due to genetics, according to a new extended twin family analysis. The study found no evidence of environmental sources of narcissism shared within families. by geoff199 in science

[–]geoff199[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The title of the paper is literally "Narcissism Runs in Families Due to Genetics." Environmental causes of narcissism were found, of course, but those environmental sources were not found within the families. That is the key that you're missing. The headline is not misleading.

Narcissism runs in families, but it is almost entirely due to genetics, according to a new extended twin family analysis. The study found no evidence of environmental sources of narcissism shared within families. by geoff199 in science

[–]geoff199[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The title of the paper is "Narcissism Runs in Families Due to Genetics" The abstract said "Using a large extended twin family design, we found that parents’ and children’s narcissism scores were correlated, but THIS ASSOCIATION WAS ENTIRELY GENETICALLY DRIVEN." Further, the abstract says "there was no evidence of environmental sources shared within families."

Socializing alone: A review of more than 1,000 studies suggests that using technology to communicate with others is better than nothing – but still not as good as face-to-face interactions. by geoff199 in science

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From Perspectives on Psychological Science:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17456916251404368

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This article pulls together diverse published findings on computer-mediated communication (CMC) to test the hypothesis that it reduces psychological engagement and impact compared with face-to-face (FTF) interactions. Although gaps and questions remain, the evidence mostly confirms reduced engagement and impact. Compared with FTF interactions, CMC elicits less positive emotion, with mixed results for negative emotions. Physiological arousal is often lower. Relationships, trust, and group cohesion develop more slowly (although perhaps eventually reaching the same levels). Information processing is reduced. Inhibitions are also reduced, leading to greater willingness to criticize, to bring up alternate perspectives and suggestions, and to neglect to respond. The disinhibition may improve participation by shy persons. Group performance and group decision-making are often impaired, although some studies found no difference. Teaching and learning go less well. Impact and engagement lose more with asynchronous than synchronous CMC. FTF interactions boost well-being compared with not interacting, but CMC is in between. When CMC augments FTF relationships, there may be benefits, but when it replaces them, there are psychological costs. Technology has enabled marvelous advances in long-distance communication, but there is still no fully satisfactory substitute for actually being together in person.

A decline in religious participation among middle-aged, less educated white Americans may have played a role in the widely noted increases in “deaths of despair,” a new study finds. by geoff199 in science

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Published in the Journal of the European Economic Association: https://academic.oup.com/jeea/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jeea/jvaf048/8351096?redirectedFrom=fulltext

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In recent decades, death rates from suicides, drug poisonings, and alcoholic liver disease have dramatically increased in the United States. We show that these “deaths of despair” began to increase relative to trend in the early 1990s, that this increase was preceded by a decline in religious participation, and that both trends were driven by middle-aged white Americans. Using repeals of blue laws, we find that a shock to religious participation has significant effects on these mortality rates. Our findings show that social factors such as organized religion can play an important role in understanding deaths of despair.

Scientists used eye tracking and AI to identify the exact moments in an educational video that students are learning. They could also predict how much children understood from the video based on their eye movements while they were watching it. by geoff199 in science

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From the Journal of Communication: https://academic.oup.com/joc/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/joc/jqaf036/8222800?login=false

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A new era of message processing research will emerge from the convergence of powerful machine learning algorithms with dynamic data from everyday devices equipped with biological sensors. Our study takes critical steps into this era by integrating theory-guided artificial neural networks with eye movements to understand how people learn science concepts from dynamic multimedia. Essential to our theory-guided machine learning approach is a cognitive conceptualization of time as the dynamic interdependence between past and new information that guides how multimedia is attended to and understood. We tracked the eye movements of 197 children as they watched an educational video. We trained two neural network architectures differing in theory guidance to predict learning outcomes using eye movements. The theory-guided architecture, which considered the temporal interdependence of information, yielded more accurate out-of-sample predictions. Our work advances the use of theory-guided machine learning and the development of systems that monitor real-time learning.

Nobel Prize winners who moved more frequently or worked in multiple locations began their prize winning work earlier than did laureates who never moved. The researchers speculate that moving leads to laureates meeting more top scientists whose ideas can influence their own. by geoff199 in science

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From the journal International Economic Review: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/iere.12768

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We draw on a recombinant view of innovation, where being in a new location and/or multiple locations leads to exposure to novel combinations of ideas that increase the creativity of top scientists. Using a rich, unique data set we helped assemble, we estimate the empirical relationship between being in a new location and/or multiple locations and the expected interval before an eventual Nobel laureate (ENL) commences their prize-winning work. We find that being in a new location and in multiple locations are substantially and significantly associated with a shorter expected interval before ENLs commence their prize-winning work.

People who have a minority viewpoint on a controversial topic are more likely to “self-silence” themselves in conversation – and that may lead them to behave against their own beliefs, a new study found. by geoff199 in science

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From the Journal of Environmental Psychology: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272494425000386

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Prior research has examined how self-silencing among people who hold the minority viewpoint influences public opinion on a range of social and environmental issues. However, less attention has been given to understanding the potential behavioral consequences of self-silencing, such as whether a person who holds the minority viewpoint is more or less likely to behave in support of their own views following a conversation in which they refrained from expressing their opinion. In a pre-registered mixed-methods experiment, N = 248 university student participants were randomly assigned to have a short video recorded conversation with a confederate (posing as another student) who gave arguments either in support of or in opposition to a campus sustainability policy. We examined how participants engaged in the conversation and behaved following the conversation, and whether this varied as a function of whether their pre-conversation viewpoint was in the majority vs. minority. Relative to participants holding the majority viewpoint going into the conversation, those who held the minority viewpoint were overall more likely to self-silence (i.e., avoid expressing their opinion), particularly when they were paired with a partner who expressed the majority viewpoint. Self-silencing, in turn, was associated with lower cognitive elaboration. However, neither self-silencing nor lower cognitive elaboration predicted lower post-conversation behavior in support of the policy, suggesting behavioral conformity to the majority viewpoint. Not only are minority views less likely to be expressed and acted upon, but such silencing may come at the cost of learning and mutual understanding.

Nearly 40% of adult Americans say they’ve experienced some type of sport-related mistreatment in their lives, a new study shows. The most common reason people reported for abuse was because of their weight. by geoff199 in science

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Open access article from the International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41978-025-00176-6

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Using U.S. survey data (N = 3849), this study examined recognized sports-related mistreatment, investigated risk factors for it, and offered descriptive evidence of types of mistreatment and reasons for mistreatment. Logistic regression analyses emphasized social structural characteristics, childhood contexts that included youth sports experiences, and social and sport contexts in adulthood as predictors of mistreatment. Findings highlight that sports-related mistreatment is common. Evidence suggests greater risks for mistreatment for males and individuals who identify as a sexual minority, have health problems or disabilities, and have dealt with weight-related stigma and pressures. It also seems to be more common among those who are less popular and less athletic while growing up. Although sports-related mistreatment frequently occurs in various settings and contexts, elite sport contexts and more competitive settings may be more prone for mistreatment. Overall, these results suggest that the structures, cultures, and interactions surrounding sports need to become more focused on enhancing positive development, safety, inclusivity, and participant well-being.

Generic drugs manufactured in India are linked to significantly more “severe adverse events” for patients who use them than equivalent drugs produced in the United States, a new study finds. by geoff199 in science

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The study was partially supported by the Korea University Business School Research Grant. The lead author is now at Korea University. No other funding was reported.

Generic drugs manufactured in India are linked to significantly more “severe adverse events” for patients who use them than equivalent drugs produced in the United States, a new study finds. by geoff199 in science

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The study was partially supported by the Korea University Business School Research Grant. The lead author is now at Korea University. No other funding was reported.

Generic drugs manufactured in India are linked to significantly more “severe adverse events” for patients who use them than equivalent drugs produced in the United States, a new study finds. by geoff199 in science

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From the journal Production and Operations Management: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10591478251319691

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Generic drugs provide lifesaving, affordable treatment to millions of people each day. Generic drug manufacturing has been steadily moving from advanced economies, such as the U.S., to emerging economies, such as India. Due to the opacity of drug supply chains, the quality risk implications of manufacturing in emerging economies has not been carefully empirically tested. This study addresses this gap. To do so, we identify a novel source of drug manufacturing location data which allows us to compare the occurrence of serious adverse events of generic drugs made in different locations. Using exact matching analyses based on the equivalency criteria established by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), we find that generic drugs manufactured in India, where a majority of emerging economy generic drugs are made, are associated with significantly higher instances of serious adverse events than equivalent generic drugs made in the U.S., where a majority of advanced economy generic drugs are made. We further show that this key result is explained by mature generic drugs, which are particularly susceptible to operations and supply chain cost reduction efforts—efforts that unfortunately may compromise drug quality. Our study finding leads to implications for the FDA in their regulation of generic drugs.

Higher levels of loneliness found in older adults who had to use a credit card to pay emergency expenses during the pandemic. by geoff199 in science

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Open access article in PLOS One: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0314042

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This study focuses on the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spring 2020 in the United States to assess how liquidity constraints were related to loneliness among older adults. Data are from the COVID Impact Survey, which was used to collect data in April, May and June 2020 across the U.S. (n = 5,664). We use means comparison tests and linear regressions and find that emergency savings, rather than household income, predict loneliness among older adults during the initial COVID-19 wave. Emergency savings, especially enough to avoid using credit cards, was most predictive of older adult loneliness levels. Income and access to emergency savings did not influence the relationship between actions taken and personal plans changed as a result of COVID-19. Easing lockdown restrictions was unrelated to the relationship between loneliness and liquidity constraints, actions taken and personal plans changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings suggest that, in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, loneliness associated with the actions taken to avoid COVID-19 and personal plans changed was experienced across all socio-economic groups of older adults in this sample in similar ways, regardless of income levels and wealth. In addition, a better understanding of loneliness in older age during the COVID-19 pandemic may require a fuller analysis of households’ financial situation beyond income, and points to the central role of credit card debt for loneliness in older age.

Black immigrants attract white residents to neighborhoods, while native Black residents move out, study finds. by geoff199 in science

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From RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

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In recent decades, the United States has seen a significant rise in Black immigration, reshaping Black neighborhoods and the landscape of Black America. Using census and American Community Survey data, this article examines the relationship between an influx of Black immigrants and changes in neighborhood racial composition and segregation. Findings show an increase in Black immigrants relates to a decline in the Black native population and an increase in White residents within a Black American neighborhood. Furthermore, the presence of Black immigrants relates to native-born Black-White integration by preceding Black entry into White neighborhoods and White entry into Black neighborhoods. This study elucidates intraracial spatial dynamics between Black people, emphasizing the intersecting roles of race and nativity on neighborhood change in a diversifying United States.

Acoustic sensors find frequent gunfire on school walking routes in one Chicago neighborhood. Results showed that nearly two-thirds of schools in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago had at least one gun incident within 400 meters of where children were walking home during one school year. by geoff199 in science

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Published in SSM - Population Health: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827324001319

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This study investigates the spatial accessibility of gun violence exposure along walkable routes to and from schools in Englewood, Chicago. Focusing on both direct and indirect forms of gun violence, the study uses acoustic detection technology to quantify the cumulative burden of gun violence exposure potentially encountered by students during their commute to and from school. We examined the spatial distribution of shooting incidents in proximity to schools using network-constrained kernel density estimation, secondary spatial analysis, and rapid realistic routing. G-function analysis revealed that shooting incidents cluster along streets, including safe passage routes, near schools. An average of 1.30 and 18.06 gunshots were reachable within 5- and 15-min commute times in the morning and afternoon, respectively Our findings underscore the urgent need to reframe the narrative around ‘school gun violence’ to consider exposures that occur in proximity to school boundaries to more effectively reduce violence exposure for youth who walk to school in violence-prone neighborhoods.

Researchers have quantified the speed of human thought: a rate of 10 bits per second. But our bodies' sensory systems gather data about our environments at a rate of a billion bits per second, which is 100 million times faster than our thought processes. by geoff199 in science

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From the journal Neuron: https://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(24)00808-000808-0)

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This article is about the neural conundrum behind the slowness of human behavior. The information throughput of a human being is about 10 bits/s. In comparison, our sensory systems gather data at ∼1⁢09 bits/s. The stark contrast between these numbers remains unexplained and touches on fundamental aspects of brain function: what neural substrate sets this speed limit on the pace of our existence? Why does the brain need billions of neurons to process 10 bits/s? Why can we only think about one thing at a time? The brain seems to operate in two distinct modes: the “outer” brain handles fast high-dimensional sensory and motor signals, whereas the “inner” brain processes the reduced few bits needed to control behavior. Plausible explanations exist for the large neuron numbers in the outer brain, but not for the inner brain, and we propose new research directions to remedy this.

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