Thursday, April 4, 2019

Post-menopausal women provide more care to their kin: Evidence of grandparental caregiving from two large-scale national surveys

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Do post-menopausal women provide more care to their kin?: evidence of grandparental caregiving from two large-scale national surveys. Marlis...

Young Norway students in college: No indication of women playing hard-to-get, or of strategically downplaying signals of sexual attraction; little evidence of male sexual overperception

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Bendixen, M., Kennair, L. E. O., Biegler, R., & Haselton, M. G. (2019). Adjusting signals of sexual interest in the most recent naturall...

The reasons that prevent people from cheating on their partners: An evolutionary account of the propensity not to cheat

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The reasons that prevent people from cheating on their partners: An evolutionary account of the propensity not to cheat. Menelaos Apostolou,...

Human Ingenuity and the Search of Prosperity Ended Drought and Famine in India, despite the doomsayers saying we are all going to die due to El Nino–Southern Oscillation and other events

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Drought and Famine in India, 1870–2016. Vimal Mishra et al. Geophysical Research Letters, Jan 22 2019. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL081477 ...

There is a significant gap in happiness levels between religious and nonreligious individuals when they are diagnosed with a disability; it reduces happiness for nonreligious people more than that for religious people

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The Effect of Becoming Disabled on the Subjective Well-Being of Religious and Nonreligious People. DaeHwan Kim. Journal of Religion and Heal...

National identification (strength of association with the nation state in which an individual resides) predicts lower anxiety and improved health

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Opium of the people? National identification predicts well‐being over time. Sammyh S. Khan et al. British Journal of Psychology, April 3 201...

As economic profits grow larger, so do economic losses at the other end of the distribution; the vast majority of the world’s largest companies (the middle 60 pct of the power curve), record near-zero economic profit, on average

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What every CEO needs to know about ‘superstar’ companies. Sree Ramaswamy, Michael Birshan, James Manyika, Jacques Bughin, and Jonathan Woetz...
Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Unraveling the asymmetry of Mona Lisa smile?

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Unraveling the asymmetry of Mona Lisa smile. Luca Marsili, Lucia Ricciardi, Matteo Bologna. Cortex, April 3 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j....

Majority of hormesis research has not been privately funded: The public sector (federal & state governmental agencies) exclusively contributed to 78% of the reported research funding

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Funding trends in hormetic research. MA Cottrell, WA Mills2 and EJ Calabrese. Human and Experimental Toxicology, Apr 1 2019. https://doi.org...

A person's abortion views in 1982 led many to switch parties over time; individuals realigned their party affiliation in accordance with their initial abortion views, & their other political, economic and social views followed suit

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Party hacks and true believers: The effect of party affiliation on political preferences. Eric D. Gould, Esteban F. Klor. Journal of Compara...

The threat of punishment lowered the average quality & quantity of information processed, compared with the prospect of reward or no performance incentive; also induced less cautious decision making by lowering decision thresholds

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Information Processing Under Reward Versus Under Punishment. Timothy Ballard et al. Psychological Science, April 2, 2019. https://doi.org/10...

Sugar Rush or Sugar Crash? A Meta-Analysis of Carbohydrate Effects on Mood: Do not have a beneficial effect on any aspect of mood, lowers alertness within 60 minutes after consumption, increase fatigue within 30 min post-consumption

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Sugar Rush or Sugar Crash? A Meta-Analysis of Carbohydrate Effects on Mood. Konstantinos Mantantzis, Friederike Schlaghecken, Sandra I.Sünra...

Is Locker Room Talk Really Just Talk? An Analysis of Normative Sexual Talk and Behavior: Women were more likely than men to rate nonconsensual language as more normal

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Is Locker Room Talk Really Just Talk? An Analysis of Normative Sexual Talk and Behavior. Stephanie Simeone & Elizabeth L. Jeglic.Deviant...

Nationally Representative Sample of Canadians: One-fifth of participants reported prior engagement in an open relationship, and 12% reported open as their ideal relationship type; men voted this three times more than women

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Open Relationship Prevalence, Characteristics, and Correlates in a Nationally Representative Sample of Canadian Adults. Nichole Fairbrother,...
Tuesday, April 2, 2019

It is said that children’s sense of fairness emerges at age 8 & is rooted in the aversion to unequal distributions; they add 2 twists: It emerges already at age 3 & only in the context of collaborative activities

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Children’s Sense of Fairness as Equal Respect. Jan M. Engelmann, Michael Tomasello. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Apr 2 2019. https://doi.or...

Red China's Foreign Aid in the 1970: 5 per cent of its national budget into foreign aid, maximum of 6.92pct

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According to Julia Lovell's Maoism: A Global History It is undeniable that China since the late 1950s has deployed hard and soft power i...

Comparing strategies for decreasing anxiety and increasing subjective well-being: downward social comparison, loving-kindness contemplations, and interconnectedness contemplation

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Caring for Others Cares for the Self: An Experimental Test of Brief Downward Social Comparison, Loving-Kindness, and Interconnectedness Cont...

Oral sex is associated with reduced incidence of recurrent miscarriage; maybe it induces maternal tolerance towards paternal antigens of the fetus

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Oral sex is associated with reduced incidence of recurrent miscarriage. T. Meuleman et al. Journal of Reproductive Immunology, Mar 27 2019. ...

Nonsense Words Elicit Meaningful Drawings

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Davis, Charles P., Hannah M. Morrow, and Gary Lupyan. 2019. “What Does a Horgous Look Like? Nonsense Words Elicit Meaningful Drawings.” PsyA...
Monday, April 1, 2019

From 2015... The Unifying Moral Dyad: Liberals and Conservatives Share the Same Harm-Based Moral Template

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From 2015... The Unifying Moral Dyad: Liberals and Conservatives Share the Same Harm-Based Moral Template. Chelsea Schein, Kurt Gray. Person...