Thursday, January 16, 2020

Young men had higher proportions of sexual abstinence than middle-aged men due to unavailability of a partner, lower educational levels, low socioeconomic status, conservative & religious conditions

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Irfan M, Hussain NHN, Noor NM, et al. Sexual Abstinence and Associated Factors Among Young and Middle-Aged Men: A Systematic Review. J Sex M...

Failure to replicate: We found no short-term or long-term effects of the 4th of July on social distance from partisan and ideological ingroups or outgroups

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Brandt, Mark J., and Felicity M. Turner-Zwinkels. 2020. “Proximity to the July 4th Holiday Does Not Affect Affective Polarization.” PsyArXiv...

Age trends for all dark personality features were progressive through adolescence, but negative through adulthood; trends for agreeableness partly mirrored these trends & changes in dark personality features & agreeableness were correlated

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The Unfolding Dark Side: Age Trends in Dark Personality Features. Theo A.Klimstra et al. Journal of Research in Personality, January 16 2020...

A comparison of men’s and women’s perceptions of the female body using a multidimensional scaling analysis of naturalistic stimuli

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A comparison of men’s and women’s perceptions of the female body using a multidimensional scaling analysis of naturalistic stimuli. Deana D ...

Same sex sexual attraction evolved as just one of a suite of traits responding to strong selection for prosocial behavior (reduced reactive aggression, increased social affiliation, social communication, & ease of social integration)

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Prosociality and a Sociosexual Hypothesis for the Evolution of Same-Sex Attraction in Humans. Andrew B. Barron and Brian Hare. Front. Psycho...