Morendil comments on A Suite of Pragmatic Considerations in Favor of Niceness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Morendil 06 January 2010 11:55:25AM 2 points [-]

Here is a news story: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2051-rejection-massively-reduces-iq.html - I haven't tracked down the actual papers.

"Recently published" turns out to be false memory, but I'm sure I saw the story pop up somewhere recently.

Comment author: magfrump 06 January 2010 08:58:53PM 2 points [-]

From http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/baumeister.dp.html

Baumeister, R.F., Twenge, J.M., & Nuss, C. (in press/2002). Effects of social exclusion on cognitive processes: Anticipated aloneness reduces intelligent thought. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/pdfmail.php Is his site which allows you to get pdfs of his papers e-mailed to you.

I'm hoping that's the right study that you're talking about?

Comment author: ciphergoth 06 January 2010 10:49:28PM 0 points [-]

pdfs of his papers e-mailed to you.

Aside: What? Why? That is very odd.

Comment author: bentarm 06 January 2010 11:58:36PM 3 points [-]

Kinda makes sense in a way. Usually authors are forbidden from putting the 'final' version of a journal paper on their website* but are more than willing to email you a copy if you ask nicely. I don't see why automating the emailing process should cause any legal problems. Of course, I'm only speculating, there might be other reasons.

*one woman in our department always refuses to correct 'color'/'colour' in publications for american journals so that she has an draft she can put on her website which is almost identical to the final version

Comment author: Morendil 06 January 2010 09:33:26PM 0 points [-]

Yep. Thanks.