Monday, February 25, 2019

Alternating Gender: Individuals Who Frequently Switch Between Feeling Male and Female

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Case, Laura, Tracy Alderman, Radhika Gosavi, and Vilayanur S. Ramachandran. 2019. “Alternating Gender: Individuals Who Frequently Switch Bet...

Love is analogous to money in human brain: coordinate-based and functional connectivity meta-analyses of social and monetary reward anticipation (VTA, ventral striatum, anterior insula, and SMA)

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Love is analogous to money in human brain: coordinate-based and functional connectivity meta-analyses of social and monetary reward anticipa...
Sunday, February 24, 2019

Identified 116 independent variants influencing neuroticism; substantial genetic correlations found between neuroticism & depressive symptoms, major depressive disorder & subjective well-being

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Association analysis in over 329,000 individuals identifies 116 independent variants influencing neuroticism. Michelle Luciano, Saskia P. Ha...

Why do people differ in their achievement motivation? Non-shared environmental influences are the biggest contributos, followed by genes

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Why do people differ in their achievement motivation? A nuclear twin family study. Lea Klassen, Eike Eifler, Anke Hufer, Rainer Riemann. Pri...

Sexual Arousal in Men Exposed to Visual Stimuli With and Without Facial Blurring: Arousal in response to blurred stimuli was significantly higher than nonanonymized stimuli

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A Comparison of Sexual Arousal in Men Exposed to Visual Stimuli With and Without Facial Blurring. Leah Rosetti et al. Sexual Abuse, Feb 22 2...
Saturday, February 23, 2019

Being ugly helps you being victim (unless very ugly) and crime perpetrator (worse employment, more arrests, more illegal jobs); very unattractive persons are less victimized

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"Ugly" Criminals and "Ugly" Victims. Brent Teasdale and Bonnie Berry. In Appearance Bias and Crime. Bonnie Berry (Ed.). ...