Friday, January 24, 2020

Leaders with business experience make smaller contributions to collective defense because they are egoistic and more comfortable relying on a powerful ally for their defense

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When Do Leaders Free‐Ride? Business Experience and Contributions to Collective Defense. Matthew Fuhrmann. American Journal of Political Scie...

Sex Differences in Misperceptions of Sexual Interest Can Be Explained by Sociosexual Orientation and Men Projecting Their Own Interest Onto Women

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Sex Differences in Misperceptions of Sexual Interest Can Be Explained by Sociosexual Orientation and Men Projecting Their Own Interest Onto ...

Sexual Orientation and Cognitive Ability: A Multivariate Meta-Analytic Follow-Up

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Sexual Orientation and Cognitive Ability: A Multivariate Meta-Analytic Follow-Up. Yin Xu, Sam Norton, Qazi Rahman. Archives of Sexual Behavi...
Thursday, January 23, 2020

From 2019: Synaptic and brain-expressed gene sets relate to the shared genetic risk across five psychiatric disorders

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Synaptic and brain-expressed gene sets relate to the shared genetic risk across five psychiatric disorders. Anke R. Hammerschlag, Christiaan...

Crocodile tears: Pretenders are seen as significantly more manipulative, less reliable, less warm, less competent; are less welcomed as friends, colleagues, neighbors, & babysitter

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The damaging effects of perceived crocodile tears for an individual’s image. Inge van Roeyen, Madelon Riem, Marko Toncic and Ad Vingerhoets....

Men's odds of marriage are decreased by working in predominantly female occupations; working in a predominately female occupation increases the odds that men have never married by ages 30 & 40

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Occupational Sex Composition and Marriage: The Romantic Cost of Gender‐Atypical Jobs. Elizabeth Aura McClintock. Journal of Marriage and Fam...

The “mystical stance” – the capacity to become immersed in the religious experience, to enter into trance states, arose as one of several mechanisms we developed to bond our relatively large social groups

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Dunbar, RIM. 2019. “Religion, the Social Brain and the Mystical Stance.” Archive for Psychology of Religion. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uu...

Gore on climate: This is Thermopylae. This is Agincourt. This is Dunkirk. This is the Battle of the Bulge. This is 9/11

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Al Gore compares climate crisis to historic events like 9/11. Sam Meredith. CNBC, Jan 23 2020. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/22/wef-2020-al-g...

A surprising fact about the 2016 election is that Trump received fewer votes from whites with the highest levels of racial resentment than Romney did in 2012

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Who Put Trump in the White House? Explaining the Contribution of Voting Blocs to Trump’s Victory. Justin Grimmer, William Marble. ecember 12...

Across primate species, immature females demonstrate greater interest in infants than males do, likely because practice with infant care increases a mother's chance of keeping her baby alive

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Sex Differences in Primate Social Relationships During Development. Joyce F. Benenson. In The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and...

Religious attendance as factors in wellbeing and social engagement

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Religiosity and religious attendance as factors in wellbeing and social engagement. R.I.M. Dunbar. Religion, Brain & Behavior, Jan 22 20...

How to get along with your tc

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From absolutecarrot blog, no date, Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/search/absolutecarrot , accessed Jan 23 2020: How to get along with your t...

Contrary to previous findings, higher psychopathic traits were not associated with higher liking ratings for bitter stimuli, but instead associated with higher disgust ratings

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Exploring the Relationship Between Psychopathy and Taste Perception. Mehmet K. Mahmut & Breanna Banzer, Chemosensory Perception, Jan 23 ...

Congruence with the president, in terms of party and ideology, matters the most for those with extreme political views, and is deeply linked to their self-reported higher happiness than that of those with moderate political views

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Presidential congruence and happiness: the role of extreme political views. Jeremy Jackson. Applied Economics Letters, May 12 2019. https://...