Friday, August 2, 2019

Sibling analysis of 232 mice: Twins were exposed to either enriched or impoverished environments; enrichment was associated with an increase in the heritability of some personality & cognitive traits

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Mouse twins separated when young: A history of exploration doubles the heritability of boldness and differentially affects the heritability ...

Paternal biobehavioral influence on the family: Preliminary data from the D.A.D.I.O. Project

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Paternal biobehavioral influence on the family: Preliminary data from the D.A.D.I.O. Project. Nikki J Clauss, Erin Harrington, Jennifer Byrd...

The duty to vote is more widespread than the duty to be informed and almost half of those who say that they have a moral obligation to vote indicate that they do not have a duty to keep informed

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Is It a Duty to Vote and to be Informed? André Blais, Carol Galais, Danielle Mayer. Political Studies Review, August 1, 2019. https://doi.or...
Thursday, August 1, 2019

The Embryos of Turtles Can Influence Their Own Sexual Destinies Just by Moving Within the Egg

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The Embryos of Turtles Can Influence Their Own Sexual Destinies. Yin-Zi Ye et al. Current Biology, August 1 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j....

Nonstate actors (environmentally motivated organizations/individuals, tolerated or even covertly sponsored by states) appear to have increasing power, in part due to new technologies that alter actors’ capacities & incentives

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Highly decentralized solar geoengineering. Jesse L. Reynolds & Gernot Wagner. Environmental Politics, Jul 29 2019. https://doi.org/10.10...

Univariate analyses of structural neuroimaging data: Sex was identified with a balanced accuracy of 82.6% in cisgender, but only with 67.5% in transgender participants

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Sex Matters: A Multivariate Pattern Analysis of Sex- and Gender-Related Neuroanatomical Differences in Cis- and Transgender Individuals Usin...

In this large population‐based study, either a beneficial or no effect of advanced parenthood on child problem behavior was observed

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Parental Age and Offspring Childhood Mental Health: A Multi‐Cohort, Population‐Based Investigation. Maria A.J. Zondervan-Zwijnenburg et al. ...
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Clearance rates for murder & other serious crimes have declined significantly for almost 60 years despite significant technological improvements in police investigations; the reasons are not well understood

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Rethinking criminal investigations. John E. Eck, D. Kim Rossmo. Criminology &Public Policy, July 31 2019. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9...

The 2015 Volkswagen emissions scandal: A natural experiment to provide evidence that collective reputation externalities matter for firms; it reduced the U.S. sales of the other German auto manufacturers

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Firms and Collective Reputation: a Study of the Volkswagen Emissions Scandal. Ruediger Bachmann, Gabriel Ehrlich, Ying Fan, Dimitrije Ruzic....

Gossipers who punish social norm violators are evaluated positively

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Gossipers who punish social norm violators are evaluated positively. Mark D. Cloud, Melinda M. Funk, Jaime M. Cloud. Human Behavior and Evol...

Incidence & causes of human error as a source of adverse events associated with surgical care: 56.4% adverse events were due to human error, of which cognitive error accounted for 51%

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Analysis of Human Performance Deficiencies Associated With Surgical Adverse Events. James W. Suliburk et al. JAMA Netw Open. 2019;2(7):e1980...

Choosy Gulf pipefish males ignore age but prefer active females with deeply keeled bodies (choose by body depth and display); ornamentation has no effect

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Choosy Gulf pipefish males ignore age but prefer active females with deeply keeled bodies. Andrew P. Anderson, Adam G. Jones. Animal Behavio...

Personality similarity associated with formation and maintenance of male social bonds in macaques; males did not adapt their personality to their partners.

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Personality homophily affects male social bonding in wild Assamese macaques, Macaca assamensis. Anja Ebenau et al. Animal Behaviour, Volume ...

Even though chili peppers can elicit aversive oral burn and pain, cues of foods containing chili recruit brain circuits underlying cue reactivity and craving for drug and natural rewards

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Extreme spicy food cravers displayed increased brain activity in response to pictures of foods containing chili peppers: An fMRI study. Yizh...

This speaks against the idea that worldview defense following mortality salience occurs because mortality salience produces higher physiological arousal

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Effects of mortality salience on physiological arousal. Johannes Klackl and Eva Jonas. Front. Psychol., Jul 2019, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01...

Assisted childbirth, due to high mortality, is ubiquitous; this feature likely played a critical role in shaping human sociality & may have been mediated by women’s ability to detect & respond to the hormonal status of other women

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The role of oxytocin in social support during pregnancy. Citlally Contreras, Elizabeth Pillsworth. Human Behavior and Evolution Society 31st...

Researchers have long theorized about the function of self‐esteem; could be a monitor of fundamental psychological need satisfaction

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Self‐esteem as a monitor of fundamental psychological need satisfaction. Jennifer L. Howell, Nicholas Sosa, Hannah J. Osborn. Social and Per...

Free will as a process of generative self-construction, by which an iterative search process samples from experience in an adaptively exploratory fashion, allowing the agent to explore itself in the construction of alternative futures

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Neurocognitive free will. Thomas T. Hills. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Volume 286, Issue 1908. July 31 2019. https://doi.org/10.109...

The more controlling and invested the women were, the more they engaged in mate guarding overall as well as confronted rivals, publicized their relationship, escorted their partner, used covert tactics, monopolized, & were aggressive

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Validity of the mate guarding scale in women. Alita J. Cousins, Lauren E. Beverage, Madeleine A. Fugere. Human Behavior and Evolution Societ...
Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Factors giving confidence to date girls: Of height, strength, athleticism, muscularity, erect penis size, flaccid penis size, face, hair, & weight, the only relevant factors were perceptions of relative strength and erect penis size

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Masculinity and dating confidence. Ro Cunningham, Cassidy Best, Yasmin Akbari, David Frederick. Human Behavior and Evolution Society 31st an...

Aberrant brain gray matter in murderers

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Aberrant brain gray matter in murderers. Ashly Sajous-Turner et al. Brain Imaging and Behavior, July 5 2019. https://link.springer.com/artic...

Poor test-retest reliability of task-fMRI: New empirical evidence and a meta-analysis

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Poor test-retest reliability of task-fMRI: New empirical evidence and a meta-analysis. Maxwell L. Elliott, Annchen R. Knodt, David Ireland, ...

Antisocial behaviour was consistently rated as less genetically influenced than prosocial behaviour; this was true regardless of whether genetic explanations were explicitly provided or refuted

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Asymmetrical genetic attributions for prosocial versus antisocial behaviour. Matthew S. Lebowitz, Kathryn Tabb & Paul S. Appelbaum. Natu...

Strong evidence of profound gender-specific differences between men and women in terms of dietary habits, the taste of food and in the relationship with meal; women have greater nutritional knowledge

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Lombardo, M., Aulisa, G., Padua, E., Annino, G., Iellamo, F., Pratesi, A., Caprio, M. and Bellia, A. (2019), "Gender differences in tas...

Women are less likely than men to comment online, particularly on state, national, or international topics, more likely to comment on local news

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The Gender Gap in Online News Comment Sections. Emily Van Duyn, Cynthia Peacock, Natalie Jomini Stroud. Social Science Computer Review, July...
Monday, July 29, 2019

Reactions to Male-favoring Vs. Female-favoring Sex Differences: The average man & average woman reacted more positively to the female-favoring sex differences

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Stewart-Williams, Steve, Dr, Andrew G. Thomas, Jesse D. Blackburn, and Chern Y. M. Chan. 2019. “Reactions to Male-favoring Vs. Female-favori...

People who were least healthy regarding a behavior tended to be the most miscalibrated in their estimation for that behavior in the others

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Miller, Jane E., Paul Windschitl, Teresa Treat, and Aaron M. Scherer. 2019. “Unhealthy and Unaware? Misjudging Social Comparative Standing f...

A Libertarian With Doubts About Statism: Lessons from the East Asian Economic Miracle

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A Libertarian With Doubts About Statism: Lessons from the East Asian Economic Miracle. Byrne Hobart. Medium, Mar 11 2019. https://medium.com...