Thursday, November 28, 2019

Switzerland: Those exposed to civil conflict/mass killing during childhood are 35 pct more prone to violent crime; effect is mostly confined to co-nationals, consistent with inter-group hostility persisting over time

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Couttenier, Mathieu, Veronica Petrencu, Dominic Rohner, and Mathias Thoenig. 2019. "The Violent Legacy of Conflict: Evidence on Asylum ...

Could they be lying?: Vegetarian women reported that they are more prosocially motivated to follow their diet & adhere to their diet more strictly (i.e., are less likely to cheat & eat meat)

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Gender Differences in Vegetarian Identity: How Men and Women Construe Meatless Dieting. Daniel L.Rosenfeld. Food Quality and Preference, Nov...

Great interest exists in identifying methods to predict neuropsychiatric disease states and treatment outcomes from high-dimensional data, including neuroimaging and genomics data; best practices are discussed

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Establishment of Best Practices for Evidence for Prediction: A Review. Russell A. Poldrack, Grace Huckins, Gael Varoquaux. JAMA Psychiatry, ...

Among well-nourished populations of Westerners, men's high testosterone levels represent an outlier of cross‐cultural variation; probably due to intrasexual competition in reproductive contexts; it increases prostate cancer risk

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From 2012... Do evolutionary life‐history trade‐offs influence prostate cancer risk? A review of population variation in testosterone level...

Liberals & conservatives are similarly obedient to their own authorities & condemn perceived abuses of their ideology’s sacralized objects & and heroes; liberals & conservatives seem made up of the same psychological stuff

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Do liberals and conservatives use different moral languages? Two replications and six extensions of Graham, Haidt, and Nosek’s (2009) moral ...

They meta-analyze whether race or ethnicity moderate the heritability of intelligence in the US; find moderate to high heritabilities that do not substantially differ by race or ethnicity

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Racial and ethnic group differences in the heritability of intelligence: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Bryan J.Pesta et al. Intelli...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

From 2017... Opiate of the Masses? Inequality, Religion, and Political Ideology in the U.S.

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Schnabel, Landon. 2017. “Opiate of the Masses? Inequality, Religion, and Political Ideology in the United States.” SocArXiv. July 18. doi:10...

Religious affiliation and marital satisfaction: commonalities among Christians, Muslims, and atheists

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Religious affiliation and marital satisfaction: commonalities among Christians, Muslims, and atheists. Piotr Sorokowski1, Marta Kowal1 and  ...

Perceptions of married life among single never‐married, single ever‐married, & married adults: Conceptualizations of marriage may be changing to be less positive or less discrepant from conceptualizations of single life

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Perceptions of married life among single never‐married, single ever‐married, and married adults. Amanda N. Gesselman et al. Personal Relatio...

Women who are more satisfied with their bodies & appearance are more comfortable undressing in front of a partner, having sex with the lights on, trying new sexual activities; initiate sex more often, report more orgasms

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A review of research linking body image and sexual well-being. Meghan M. Gillen, Charlotte H. Markey. Body Image, Volume 31, December 2019, ...