Saturday, October 19, 2019

From 2013... The Good-in-Bed Effect: College Students’ Tendency to See Themselves as Better Than Others as a Sex Partner

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The Good-in-Bed Effect: College Students’ Tendency to See Themselves as Better Than Others as a Sex Partner. James K. Beggan, Jennifer A. Ve...

Childhood Maltreatment, Gender Nonconformity, and Adolescent Sexual Orientation: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study

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Childhood Maltreatment, Gender Nonconformity, and Adolescent Sexual Orientation: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study. Yin Xu  Sam Norton  Qazi...

Lavender vote: Partnered lesbians and gay men are more likely than comparable heterosexuals to identify with the left, support leftist policy objectives, and vote for left‐of‐centre political parties

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The European lavender vote: Sexuality, ideology and vote choice in Western Europe. Stuart J Turnbull. The European Journal of Political Rese...

Testing popular news discourse on the “echo chamber” effect: Little evidence that political polarisation occurs among those relying on social media as their primary politics news source

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Testing popular news discourse on the “echo chamber” effect: Does political polarisation occur among those relying on social media as their ...

Echo Chambers, USA: Overall, we find no evidence that online/social media explain support for right-wing populist candidates & parties; use of online media decreases support for right-wing populism

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Right-Wing Populism, Social Media and Echo Chambers in Western Democracies. Shelley Boulianne, Karolina Koc-Michalska, Bruce Bimber. New Med...
Friday, October 18, 2019

Older adults were less diverse in social interaction, but more diverse in activities in the afternoons, whereas younger adults reported less diverse activities partly due to working or studying more often

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Weber, C., Quintus, M., Egloff, B., Luong, G., Riediger, M., & Wrzus, C. (2019). Same old, same old? Age differences in the diversity of...

Complexity in Assessing the Benefit vs Risk of Vaccines - Experience With Rotavirus and Dengue

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Complexity in Assessing the Benefit vs Risk of Vaccines - Experience With Rotavirus and Dengue Virus Vaccines. H. Cody Meissner. JAMA. Octob...

We investigated the possibility that “successful” psychopathic individuals exhibited greater development of neural structures that promote “successful” self-regulation; results support a compensatory model of psychopathy

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An investigation of the relationship between psychopathy and greater gray matter density in lateral prefrontal cortex. Emily N. Lasko et al....

It was widely believed that acute hunger would always undermine prosociality; these authors think it is not so

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Acute hunger does not always undermine prosociality. Jan A. Häusser, Christina Stahlecker, Andreas Mojzisch, Johannes Leder, Paul A. M. Va...

Different conceptualizations of injustice/unfairness: Whereas Liberals are more likely to engage in protest when the equality and need rules are violated, Conservatives are more likely to protest when the merit rule is violated

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What Is (Un)fair? Political Ideology and Collective Action. Gosia Mikołajczak, Julia C. Becker. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, ...

Environmentalists were sought after as cooperation partners and elicited more cooperation from others, though they didn't behave more cooperatively

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Pro-environmental behavior as a signal of cooperativeness: Evidence from a social dilemma experiment. Stepan Vesely, Christian A. Klöckner, ...

Our findings suggest that the differences between conservatives and liberals in disgust sensitivity are context dependent rather than a stable personality difference

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Is Disgust a “Conservative” Emotion? Julia Elad-Strenger*, Jutta Proch*, Thomas Kessler. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, October...
Thursday, October 17, 2019

European Social Survey (n = 235,339): Does Gender Equality Cause Gender Differences in Values? Inconclusive results

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Does Gender Equality Cause Gender Differences in Values?: Reassessing the Gender-Equality-Personality Paradox. Fors Connolly, Filip; Goossen...

Masturbation is associated with psychopathological and reproduction health conditions: an online survey among campus male students

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Masturbation is associated with psychopathological and reproduction health conditions: an online survey among campus male students. Timei Ji...

From 2013... Macaques: Male masturbation may help maintain a high sexual arousal to decrease the length of the next mount & increase the probability of ejaculating through mating

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From 2013... Effect of mating activity and dominance rank on male masturbation among free-ranging male rhesus macaques. Constance Dubuc, Sea...

In the nations with the most abject poverty, we observed substantial (~30–40%) genetic influence on cognitive abilities; shared environmental influences were similar to those found in adolescents growing in affluent countries

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Genetic and Environmental Influences on Cognitive Abilities in Extreme Poverty. Yoon-Mi Hur and Timothy Bates. Twin Research and Human Genet...

From 2016... Participants were reminded of death (vs. control) and evaluated new, 20‐, or 100‐year‐old objects; death reminders resulted in greater valuation of older objects

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From 2016... When existence is not futile: The influence of mortality salience on the longer‐is‐better effect. Simon McCabe, Melissa R. Spin...

People’s tendency to deem bearers of bad news as unlikeable stems in part from their desire to make sense of chance processes; dislike is mitigated when messenger’s motives are benevolent

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John, L. K., Blunden, H., & Liu, H. (2019). Shooting the messenger. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(4), 644-666. OCt 20...

There is no indication for potential devastating effects of social media on school achievement; social media use and school grades are unrelated for adolescents

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Are Social Media Ruining Our Lives? A Review of Meta-Analytic Evidence. Markus Appel, Caroline Marker, Timo Gnambs. Review of General Psycho...

Enriched Environment Exposure Accelerates Rodent Driving Skills

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Enriched Environment Exposure Accelerates Rodent Driving Skills. L.E.Crawford et al. Behavioural Brain Research, October 16 2019, 112309. ht...

Public discourse is often caustic and conflict-filled; the present work sought to examine a potentially novel explanatory mechanism defined in philosophical literature: Moral Grandstanding

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Grubbs JB, Warmke B, Tosi J, James AS, Campbell WK (2019) Moral grandstanding in public discourse: Status-seeking motives as a potential ...

Amateurs pay trainers $1000 to $10,000 to enter marathons with them; ‘like a little concierge service’

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Want to Win That Race? Hire a Coach to Stay Alongside You and Carry Your Phone. Hilary Potkewitz. The Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2019....

Long-married couples recall their wedding day: the influence of collaboration and gender on autobiographical memory recall

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Long-married couples recall their wedding day: the influence of collaboration and gender on autobiographical memory recall. Azriel Grysman e...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

In a cohort study of 82 232 participants, personality traits in adolescence—a time when dementia pathology is unlikely to be present—were a factor associated with incident dementia almost 5 decades later

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Association Between High School Personality Phenotype and Dementia 54 Years Later in Results From a National US Sample. Benjamin P. Chapman ...

Wild bonobos consume meat at higher rates than previously thought; the individual controlling the carcass frequently resisted sharing, and aggressive attempts to take the carcass were observed

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New Observations of Meat Eating and Sharing in Wild Bonobos (Pan paniscus) at Iyema, Lomako Forest Reserve, Democratic Republic of the Congo...

Studies in Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: The somewhat high frequency of “positive” results seems spurious and may reflect bias; caution is warranted in accepting rTMS as an established treatment

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Amad A, Jardri R, Rousseau C, Larochelle Y, Ioannidis J, P, A, Naudet F: Excess Significance Bias in Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimul...

The intensity of polarization on Twitter varies greatly from one country to another

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Context matters: political polarization on Twitter from a comparative perspective. Aleksandra Urman. Media, Culture & Society, October 1...

Beliefs About Human Intelligence in a Sample of Teachers and Non-teachers: There are conflicts between currently accepted intelligence theory and the subjects' beliefs

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Warne, Russell T., and Jared Z. Burton. 2019. “Beliefs About Human Intelligence in a Sample of Teachers and Non-teachers.” PsyArXiv. July 17...

Empathic contagious pain and consolation in laboratory rodents: Rodents also have the ability to feel, recognize, understand and share the other’s distressing states, and allolick injuries and allogroom bodies

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Empathic contagious pain and consolation in laboratory rodents: species and sex comparisons. Rui Du et al. bioRxiv, October 15, 2019. https:...

Online Vigilance and Affective Well-being in Everyday Life: Thinking about smartphone-mediated social interactions (i.e., the salience dimension of online vigilance) was negatively related to affective well-being

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Johannes, Niklas, Adrian Meier, Leonard Reinecke, Saara Ehlert, Dinda N. Setiawan, Nicole Walasek, Tobias Dienlin, et al. 2019. “The Relatio...

The pay premium for high‐potential women: They don't report higher levels of pay satisfaction, suggesting that high‐potential women did not perceive their pay premium to be an inequitable advantage

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The pay premium for high‐potential women: A constructive replication and refinement. George F. Dreher, Nancy M. Carter, Terry Dworkin. Perso...
Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Guppies: Brain size affects responsiveness in mating behavior to variation in predation pressure and sex‐ratio

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Brain size affects responsiveness in mating behavior to variation in predation pressure and sex‐ratio. Alberto Corral‐López  Maksym Romensk...

7 types of sugaring: Sugar prostitution, compensated dating, compensated companionship, sugar dating, sugar friendships, sugar friendships with benefits, & pragmatic love

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“It’s Its Own Thing”: A Typology of Interpersonal Sugar Relationship Scripts. Maren T. Scull. Sociological Perspectives, September 16, 2019....

Red-colored male sticklebacks carry more oxidative DNA damage in muscle, testis & sperm in the peak breeding season, but the females find them more attractive

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Attractive male sticklebacks carry more oxidative DNA damage in the soma and germline. Sin‐Yeon Kim  Alberto Velando. Journal of Evolutionar...

The Negative Intelligence–Religiosity Relation: New and Confirming Evidence

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The Negative Intelligence–Religiosity Relation: New and Confirming Evidence. Miron Zuckerman at al. Personality and Social Psychology Bullet...

The size of the stereotype threat effect that can be experienced on tests of cognitive ability in operational (real-world) scenarios such as college admissions tests and employment testing may range from negligible to small

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Shewach, O. R., Sackett, P. R., & Quint, S. (2019). Stereotype threat effects in settings with features likely versus unlikely in operat...

Lifespan Cognitive Reserve—A Secret to Coping With Neurodegenerative Pathology

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Lifespan Cognitive Reserve—A Secret to Coping With Neurodegenerative Pathology. Sylvia Villeneuve. JAMA Neurol. 2019;76(10):1145-1146. Octob...