Friday, April 5, 2019

People with the greatest proclivity for a behavior choose to interact the most, leading to further feedback/amplification, overstimating peer consumption of legal & illegal drugs, yielding high consumption

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The Friendship Paradox and Systematic Biases in Perceptions and Social Norms. Matthew O. Jackson. Journal of Political Economy, Mar 18, 2019...

Moral Grandstanding in Public Discourse: Status-seeking Motives as a Potential Explanatory Mechanism in Predicting Conflict in Daily Life

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Grubbs, Joshua, Brandon Warmke, Justin Tosi, and Alicia S. James. 2019. “Moral Grandstanding in Public Discourse: Status-seeking Motives as ...

Scary sexual situations were reported by 23.9% of adult women, 10.3% of adult men, 12.5% of adolescent women, and 3.8% of adolescent men

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Feeling Scared During Sex: Findings From a U.S. Probability Sample of Women and Men Ages 14 to 60. Debby Herbenick et al. Journal of Sex ...

Death among primates: a critical review of non‐human primate interactions towards their dead and dying

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Death among primates: a critical review of non‐human primate interactions towards their dead and dying. André Gonçalves, Susana Carvalho. Bi...

To defend their views, Rousseauians resort to a variety of tactics to diminish the apparent frequency & intensity of hunter-gatherer warfare (redefine war, censor ethnographic accounts of warfare, misconstrue archaeological evidence)

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Pacifying Hunter-Gatherers. Raymond Hames. Human Nature, April 5 2019.https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12110-019-09340-w Abstrac...

Echo chambers? Data on Poland & Hungary do not support the hypothesis of clusters emerging along partisan lines; there are sharp group divisions on Twitter, but the nodes however are diverse & overlapping in terms of political leaning

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Are Echo Chambers Based on Partisanship? Twitter and Political Polarity in Poland and Hungary. Paweł Matuszewski, Gabriella Szabó. Social Me...

Female Sexual Dysfunction seems less prevalent among female adult entertainers than rates commonly quoted for the general population and was more often seen in the women with less satisfying personal sex lives

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Dubin JM, Greer AB, Valentine C, et al. Evaluation of Indicators of Female Sexual Dysfunction in Adult Entertainers. J Sex Med 2019;XX:XXX–X...
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...