Sunday, January 5, 2020

From 2007... Statutory sex crime relationships between juveniles & adults: How to prevent youth from becoming involved & how to prevent adults from entering relationships

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From 2007... Statutory sex crime relationships between juveniles and adults: A review of social scientific research. Denise A. Hines, David ...

There seems to be a genetic predisposition to following a vegetarian diet; & a link between vegetarianism and political ideology may exist because of a shared genetic predisposition

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Where the Rubber Meats the Road: Relationships between Vegetarianism and Socio-political Attitudes and Voting Behavior. John B. Nezlek &...

Infection and Ideology: Perceived Vulnerability to Disease Predicts Political Conservatism

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Jacob Appleby, Christopher M. Federico, Joseph A. Vitriol, Allison L. Williams. 2020. “Infection and Ideology- Perceived Vulnerability to Di...

Increased Support for Same-sex Marriage in the US: Americans of all ages modified their beliefs about same-sex marriage over time

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Increased Support for Same-sex Marriage in the US: Disentangling Age, Period, and Cohort Effects. Jean M. Twenge &Andrew B. Blake. Journ...
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...