Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Sexual Identity, Same-Same Relationships, and Health Dynamics: New Evidence from Australia

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Sexual Identity, Same-Same Relationships, and Health Dynamics: New Evidence from Australia. Joseph J. Sabia, Mark Wooden, Thanh Tam Nguyen. ...

Subjective Well-Being and Academic Achievement: A Meta-Analysis

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Subjective Well-Being and Academic Achievement: A Meta-Analysis. Susanne Bücker et al. Journal of Research in Personality, https://doi.org/1...

All studies gave support for the extremity hypothesis, which states that people use can-statements to describe the topmost values in a distribution of outcomes, regardless of their actual probabilities

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It can become 5 °C warmer: The extremity effect in climate forecasts. Teigen, Karl Halvor, Filkuková, Petra, and Hohle, Sigrid Møyner. Journ...

How to spot hype in the field of psychotherapy: A 19-item checklist

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How to spot hype in the field of psychotherapy: A 19-item checklist. Meichenbaum, Donald, and Lilienfeld, Scott O. Professional Psychology: ...

Peer Pressure: Experimental Evidence from Restroom Behavior

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Cardinale Lagomarsino, B., Gutman, M., Freira, L., Lanzalot, M. L., Lauletta, M., Malchik, L. E., Montano Campos, F., Pacini, B., Rossi, M. ...

Deceptive Affectionate Messages as Mate Retention Behaviors

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Affection, Deception, and Evolution: Deceptive Affectionate Messages as Mate Retention Behaviors. Madeleine H. Redlick, Anita L. Vangelisti....

my research topic is " analysis of content of teenager's dream "

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Nihal D asked: Hey everyone ! Actually i'm new in this group and i need ur help ....i'm in college and doing research for the ...
Monday, February 12, 2018

Why do women regret casual sex more than men do?

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Why do women regret casual sex more than men do? Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair et al. Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 127, 1 Ju...

The Global Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity: Nature, History, and the Role of Trade

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The Global Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity: Nature, History, and the Role of Trade. J. Vernon Henderson, Adam Storeygard, Tim L. S...

Cues to paternity: Do partner fidelity and offspring resemblance predict daughter-directed sexual aversions?

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Cues to paternity: Do partner fidelity and offspring resemblance predict daughter-directed sexual aversions? Joseph Billingsley et al. Evolu...

Having a best friend in middle school who is more intelligent is prospectively associated with greater adolescent intelligence at the start of high school

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Meldrum, Ryan, Nicholas Kavish, and Brian Boutwell 2018. “On the Longitudinal Association Between Peer and Adolescent Intelligence: Can Our ...

Immoral targets are seen as less competent because their immoral actions led them to be viewed as low in social intelligence

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Unethical and Inept? The Influence of Moral Information on Perceptions of Competence. Jennifer E. Stellar, Robb Willer. Journal of Personali...

A meta-analysis of the relationship between intelligence and visual “taste” measures

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Myszkowski, N., Çelik, P., & Storme, M. (2018). A meta-analysis of the relationship between intelligence and visual “taste” measures. Ps...
Sunday, February 11, 2018

In mental rotation, homosexual men were somewhat in-between heterosexual men and women. There was no significant group difference on spatial location memory. Homosexual men were also sex atypical on male-favoring spatial-related tasks and female-favoring spatial-related tasks. Homosexual women tended to be sex-typical (similar to heterosexual women).

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Xu, Yin, Sam Norton, and Qazi Rahman 2017. “Sexual Orientation and Cognitive Ability: A Multivariate Meta-analytic Follow-up”. PsyArXiv. Sep...

Near ovulation, women were willing to accept lesser versions of a product (a $5,000 diamond ring in lieu of a $7,000 one) as long as they had better products than other women. And, ovulating women kept more money for themselves in the Dictator Game rather than give it to another woman

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Durante KM, Griskevicius V. Evolution and consumer psychology. Consum Psychol Rev. 2018;1:4–21. https://doi.org/10.1002/arcp.1001 Abstract: ...

Physically inactive lifestyle is associated with long-term detrimental personality trajectories: steeper declines in conscientiousness, openness, extraversion and agreeableness

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Physical Activity and Personality Development over Twenty Years: Evidence from Three Longitudinal Samples. Yannick Stephan et al. Journal of...

High parental investment in childhood was associated with increased mate value in adulthood

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Antfolk, Jan,and Agneta Sjölund 2018. “Parental Investment and Mate Value”. PsyArXiv. February 10. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2018.02.004 Abstract: ...
Saturday, February 10, 2018

Finding Meaning at Work: The Role of Inspiring and Funny YouTube Videos on Work-Related Well-Being

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Finding Meaning at Work: The Role of Inspiring and Funny YouTube Videos on Work-Related Well-Being. Sophie H. Janicke-Bowles, Diana Rieger, ...

A moderate financial incentive can increase effort, but not intelligence test performance in adult volunteers

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Gignac, G. E. (2018), A moderate financial incentive can increase effort, but not intelligence test performance in adult volunteers. Br J Ps...

By examining online visitation data across mobile and desktop platforms in the months leading up to and following the 2016 presidential election, we indeed find the fake news audience comprises a small, disloyal group of heavy internet users

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Nelson, Jacob and Taneja, Harsh, The Small, Disloyal Fake News Audience: The Role of Audience Availability in Fake News Consumption (January...

Free Will, Determinism, and Intuitive Judgments About the Heritability of Behavior: educated mothers with multiple children emerge as particularly accurate in their judgments of trait heritability

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Willoughby, Emily A., 2018. “Free Will, Determinism, and Intuitive Judgments About the Heritability of Behavior”. Open Science Framework. Fe...
Friday, February 9, 2018

No matter how far in the past a person behaved greedily or immorally, information about her negative behaviors is hardly discounted at all. In contrast, recent positive behaviors are much more influential than behaviors that occurred a long time ago

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Brandimarte, L., Vosgerau, J., & Acquisti, A. (2018). Differential discounting and present impact of past information. Journal of Experi...

Reciprocal altruism among non-human animals is much more widespread than currently assumed: rats in Norway trade food and services

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Reciprocal Trading of Different Commodities in Norway Rats. Manon K. Schweinfurth, Michael Taborsky. Current Biology, https://doi.org/10.101...

Rolf Degen summarizes: Contrary to earlier believes, humans have at least as many - if not more - Olfactory Receptor genes as monkeys and apes, with color vision being no limiting factor

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Evolution of Genes for Color Vision and the Chemical Senses in Primates. Shoji Kawamura, Amanda D. Melin. Chapter in Evolution of the Human ...