Monday, July 29, 2019

Disagreeable men produce higher-quality ejaculates

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Disagreeable men produce higher-quality ejaculates. Tara Lynn DeLecce, Guilherme S. Lopes, Virgil Zeigler-Hill, Todd K. Shackelford. Human B...

How to give feedback that actually works, without hurting anyone more than you have to

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How to give feedback that actually works, without hurting anyone more than you have to. Leah Fessler & Khe Hy. Quartz, April 9, 2018. ht...

An individual's level of general knowledge is associated with structural brain network connectivity; found fluid intelligence to be best predicted by cortex volume in males functional, network connectivity in females

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The Neural Architecture of General Knowledge. Erhan Genç et al. European Journal of Personality, July 28 2019. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2...

Subjectively, color does not feel like an optional dimension to be extracted only when necessary, but an automatically represented property of our entire visual field; that subjective impression is not true

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Cohen, Michael, and Jordan Rubenstein. 2019. “How Much Color Do We See in the Blink of an Eye?.” PsyArXiv. July 28. doi:10.31234/osf.io/enyw...
Sunday, July 28, 2019

Association of Urban Green Space With Mental Health: Not all greenery is best, tree canopy works better

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Association of Urban Green Space With Mental Health and General Health Among Adults in Australia. Thomas Astell-Burt, Xiaoqi Feng. JAMA Netw...

Men’s mate value is an important factor affecting their tendency to engage in short-term mating: High mate-value men were more likely to adhere to a short-term pluralistic mating strategy

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Do high mate-value males adopt a less restricted sociosexual orientation? A meta-analysis. Jessica E. Desrochers, Ashley Locke, Graham Alber...

Predicting Personality Traits From Physical Activity Intensity

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Predicting Personality Traits From Physical Activity Intensity. IEEE Computer, vol 52, issue 7. Nan Gao et al. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/d...

The orgasm gap and what sex-ed did not teach you

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The orgasm gap and what sex-ed did not teach you. MENAFN, Monday, July 29 2019 01:24 GMT. https://menafn.com/1098812921/The-orgasm-gap-and-w...

Friend or foe: How familiarity of the competition affects female intrasexual competition

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Friend or foe: How familiarity of the competition affects female intrasexual competition. Ella R. Doss, Emily Sophia Olson, Carin Perilloux....

Taiwan, 1 mn siblings: Parental divorce occurring at ages 13-18 led to a 10.6 percent decrease in the likelihood of university admission; parental job loss occurring at the same ages have very little effect

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Understanding the Mechanisms of Parental Divorce Effects on Child's Higher Education. Yen-Chien Chen, Elliott Fan, Jin-Tan Liu. NBER Wor...
Saturday, July 27, 2019

Intuitions on ownership: The Achuar speakers of Amazonian Ecuador and English speakers of the USA

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Cross cultural intuitions on ownership. Ulises J Espinoza, H. Clark Barrett. Human Behavior and Evolution Society 31st annual meeting. Bosto...

Female leadership in an egalitarian society (the Chuba of Ethiopia)

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Female leadership in an egalitarian society. Zachary H. Garfield, Edward H. Hagen. Human Behavior and Evolution Society 31st annual meeting....
Friday, July 26, 2019

Germany: Sales of green cars continue to decline; the high-consumption SUVs and off-road vehicles again lead the new registration statistics with a 21pct increase in registration

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New cars: Sales of green efficiency classes continue to decline. dena Press release, Berlin. Jul 25 2019. https://www.dena.de/newsroom/meldu...

Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy lost its superiority over Supportive Psychotherapy after two years

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Two-Year Follow-Up after Treatment with the Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy versus Supportive Psychotherapy for Early-...

Children of gay fathers received significantly lower scores on internalizing (anxiety, depression) & externalizing (aggression, rule-breaking); daughters had significantly lower internalizing scores

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Green, R.-J., Rubio, R. J., Rothblum, E. D., Bergman, K., & Katuzny, K. E. (2019). Gay fathers by surrogacy: Prejudice, parenting, and w...

Are people who create or consume art more prosocial (e.g., more likely to volunteer and make charitable donations)? It seems they are.

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Kou, X., Konrath, S., & Goldstein, T. R. (2019). The relationship among different types of arts engagement, empathy, and prosocial behav...

Found a preference for more trustworthy-looking faces when participants considered a long-term versus a short-term relationship; social anxiety correlated positively with trustworthiness preferences

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Carrito, M. L., Santos, I. M., Bem-Haja, P., Lopes, A. A., Silva, C. F., & Perrett, D. I. (2019). The attractive side of trustworthiness...

Brain regions in response to character feedback associated with the state self-esteem

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Brain regions in response to character feedback associated with the state self-esteem. Maoying Peng et al.  Biological Psychology, July 25 2...

The More You Have, the More You Want? Higher Social Class Predicts a Greater Desire for Wealth and Status

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The More You Have, the More You Want? Higher Social Class Predicts a Greater Desire for Wealth and Status. Zhechen Wang  Jolanda Jetten  Nik...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

General belief superiority (GBS)—the tendency for people to think their beliefs are superior to alternatives— is mostly a male phenomenon

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General belief superiority (GBS): Personality, motivation, and interpersonal relations. Kaitlin T. Raimi & Katrina P. Jongman-Sereno. Se...

Perpetrators of discrimination are held less accountable and often seen as less worthy of punishment when their behavior is attributed to implicit rather than to explicit bias

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Consequences of attributing discrimination to implicit vs. explicit bias. Natalie M. Daumeyer et al. Journal of Experimental Social Psycholo...

The Terrifying Rise of Authoritarian Populism

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The Terrifying Rise of Authoritarian Populism. Tom G. Palmer. Cato, Jul 24 2019. https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/terrifying-ris...

At least superficially, conservative political and religious ideology is thought to be associated with rule following and morality; the opposite was found at least in relation to bullying behavior

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The curious link between politics, religion, and bullying behavior. Kilian James Garvey. Human Behavior and Evolution Society 31st annual me...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Women are less competitive than men in most contexts; men are more likely to believe that competition improves performance, builds character, and leads to creative problem-solving

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Lay beliefs about competition: Scale development and gender differences. Selin Kesebir, Sun Young Lee, Andrew J. Elliot, Madan M. Pillutla. ...

HAHAHAHAHA: Apparently genuine cases of ghost possession (in this case, patient's criminal behavior was due to episodic ghost possession) can be exorcism-resistant; clopenthixol may relieve symptoms

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Exorcism-resistant Ghost Possession Treated with Clopenthixol. Anthony S. Hale and Narsimha R. Pinninti. The British Journal of Psychiatry, ...

Let's stop the unfairness of having the same rights! 18–27yr olds: 6x voting weight; 68+yr olds: 1x voting weight

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Age-Weighted Voting. William MacAskill. Jul 12 2019. https://medium.com/@william.macaskill/age-weighted-voting-8651b2a353cc. Crossposted fro...

Adults demonstrate aesthetic preferences for natural environments over urban ones; children aged 4–11 years do not show that preference for nature; there is a gradual development of that preference

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The gradual development of the preference for natural environments. Kimberly L. Meidenbauer et al. Journal of Environmental Psychology, July...

A Closer Look at China’s Supposed Misappropriation of U.S. Intellectual Property

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A Closer Look at China’s Supposed Misappropriation of U.S. Intellectual Property. Ana Maria Santacreu and Makenzie Peake. St Louis Fed, 2019...