Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Intellectual, narcissistic, or Machiavellian? How Twitter users differ from Facebook-only users

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Marshall, T. C., Ferenczi, N., Lefringhausen, K., Hill, S., & Deng, J. (2020). Intellectual, narcissistic, or Machiavellian? How Twitter...

Religiosity could be associated with a stronger desire for emotions that strengthen foundational religious beliefs or with a stronger desire for emotions that promote prosocial engagement; it was the first

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Religiosity and Desired Emotions: Belief Maintenance or Prosocial Facilitation? Allon Vishkin et al. Personality and Social Psychology Bulle...

Smiling as negative feedback affects social decision-making and its neural underpinnings

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Smiling as negative feedback affects social decision-making and its neural underpinnings. Martin Weiß, Patrick Mussel & Johannes Hewig. ...

Drug misuse increased since 1995–96 for those with lower socioeconomic status; mental health accounted for only a small part of the increase in misuse; pain explained most of the period trend in misuse of prescription painkillers

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Changes in mental health, pain, and drug misuse since the Mid-1990s: Is there a link? Dana A. Glei, Andrew Stokes, Maxine Weinstein. Social ...

Half of the dogs without previous training showed spontaneous rescue behaviors directed to their owners, behavior not motivated by obedience nor by the motivation to re-establish social contact with the owner

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Do dogs rescue their owners from a stressful situation? A behavioral and physiological assessment. Fabricio Carballo, Victoria Dzik, Esteban...

Altered brain network organization in romantic love: Romantic love is a complex state that has been seen as similar to addiction; paper finds decreased overall brain functional segregation

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Altered brain network organization in romantic love as measured with resting-state fMRI and graph theory. Chuan Wang et al. Brain Imaging an...

As found in men, women similarly know how to infer sexual exploitability; unlike men, only some of these cues were associated with short-term attractiveness; so, if a man is too easy, she won't be interested as frequently as men are

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Adair, L., Andersen, B., & Hinton, T. (2020). He looks “easy” and she’s not into it: Sexual exploitation cues and attraction. Evolutiona...

Opinion leaders in Tweeter: Those with stronger motivations to distribute relevant information tended to overestimate their influence in the network

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#Opinionleaders: a comparison of self-reported and observable influence of Twitter users. Stephan Winter et al. Information, Communication ...

Breastfeeding: Feminists have aligned themselves on both sides of this issue; we find support for breastfeeding as an intrasexual domain for signaling one’s social status and resources

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Volk, A. A., & Franklin, P. (2020). When is the breast best? Infant feeding as a domain of intrasexual competition. Evolutionary Behavio...

Female authors created female heroes who were more likely to be human girls without superhuman abilities, while males created female heroes who were unlikely to be fully human

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Ingalls, V. (2020). Who creates warrior women? An investigation of the warrior characteristics of fictional female heroes based on the sex o...

Twin studies showed evidence for genetic effects on values; heritability influence values to a greater extent than the shared environment; shared environment was more relevant to self-enhancement & openness to change than to other values

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Beyond culture and the family: Evidence from twin studies on the genetic and environmental contribution to values. Louise Twito, Ariel Knafo...
Monday, January 6, 2020

Waist to hip ratio and breast size modulate the processing of female body silhouettes: An EEG study

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Waist to hip ratio and breast size modulate the processing of female body silhouettes: An EEG study. Farid Pazhoohi, Joana Arantes, Alan Kin...

Reaching Further Back in Evolutionary Time for the Origins of REM Sleep: Lizards have it too

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What Is REM Sleep? Mark S. Blumberg et al. Current Biology, Volume 30, Issue 1, 6 January 2020, Pages R38-R49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub...

Fast predictions are more optimistic than slow ones; when people think about their personal future, the first response is optimistic, which only later may be followed by a second step of reflective realism

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Sjåstad, Hallgeir, and Roy Baumeister. 2020. “Fast Optimism, Slow Realism? Causal Evidence for a Two-step Model of Future Thinking.” PsyArXi...

Internationally, sex work research, public opinion, policy, laws, and practice are predicated on the assumption that commercial sex is a priori sold by women and bought by men; that's a mistake

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Sex counts: An examination of sexual service advertisements in a UK online directory. Sarah Kingston  Nicola Smith. The British Journal of S...