Saturday, January 4, 2020

Low-probability events were viewed as more random than similar events that were judged (rightly or wrongly) to be more likely; only extremely deviant outcomes made some people reject the randomness account

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Are random events perceived as rare? On the relationship between perceived randomness and outcome probability. Karl Halvor Teigen & Gide...

Fisher's lost model of runaway sexual selection: Sexy sons theory survives math modeling better than good genes theory

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Fisher's lost model of runaway sexual selection. Jonathan M. Henshaw  Adam G. Jones. Evolution, December 30 2019. https://doi.org/10.111...

Menopause may be the result of the accumulation of infertility mutations in older women due to men’s preference for younger mates;it can de-evolve, be delayed and even disappear, in theory

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Is menopause still evolving? Evidence from a longitudinal study of multiethnic populations and its relevance to women's health. Rama Sha...

Older Brothers and Male Homosexuality: Antibodies as an Explanation

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Older Brothers and Male Homosexuality: Antibodies as an Explanation. T.S. Sathyanarayana Rao, Chittaranjan Andrade. Journal of Psychosexual ...

There is a positive relation between the personal importance that subjects attribute to a moral issue and the objectivity they bestow to it; presenting moral demands as objective may be instrumental to the function of choosing sides in moral debate

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Hopster, Jeroen and Klenk, Michael, Evolution and the Objectivity of Moral Judgments (December 9, 2019). SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssr...

Young people tend to be more liberal than older people; half of the change to conservatism occurs after being 45

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Peltzman, Sam, Political Ideology over the Life Course (December 9, 2019). SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3501174 Abstract: Young pe...
Friday, January 3, 2020

What If Companies Get Big Because They're Better? The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms

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The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms. David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence F. Katz, Christina Patterson, and John Van Re...

Sleeping With Younger Men: Women’s Accounts of Sexual Interplay in Age-Hypogamous Intimate Relationships

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Sleeping With Younger Men: Women’s Accounts of Sexual Interplay in Age-Hypogamous Intimate Relationships. Milaine Alarie. The Journal of Sex...