Wednesday, January 29, 2020

What We Owe to Family: Agents who helped a stranger were judged as more morally good & trustworthy than those who helped kin, but agents who helped a stranger instead of kin were judged as less morally good & trustworthy

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What We Owe to Family: The Impact of Special Obligations on Moral Judgment. Ryan M. McManus, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Liane Young. Psychological ...

Male bowerbirds add berries to their bowers to increase attractiveness to choosy mates; when berries are added artificially, increased intrasexual aggression in the form of bower destructions by neighbouring rivals occur

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From 2002... Bower decorations attract females but provoke other male spotted bowerbirds: bower owners resolve this trade-off. Joah Robert M...

Germ theory, long before it led to medical treatments, drove down mortality rates by revolutionizing sanitation and hygiene

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Draining the swamp. Jason Crawford. The Roots of Progress, Jan 28. https://rootsofprogress.org/draining-the-swamp Excerpts (the original li...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

How many electric vehicles can the current Australian electricity grid support? Current grid can support EVs at 5–10% penetration under uncontrolled charging

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How many electric vehicles can the current Australian electricity grid support?, Li and Lenzen, International Journal of Electrical Power ...

Immersive virtual reality: Het. men rated the female avatar’s touch as more appropriate & erogenous, while het. women rated female & male touches as equally appropriate (the latter being most erogenous)

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Fusaro, Martina, Matteo Lisi, Gaetano Tieri, and Salvatore M. Aglioti. 2020. “Touched by Vision: How Heterosexual, Gay, and Lesbian People R...

From 2018... The First Ejaculation: A Male Pubertal Milestone Comparable to Menarche?

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From 2018... The First Ejaculation: A Male Pubertal Milestone Comparable to Menarche? Jordan A. Chad. The Journal of Sex Research, Volume 57...

Hormonal contraceptive use and subjective sleep reports in women: An online survey

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Hormonal contraceptive use and subjective sleep reports in women: An online survey. Andréia Gomes Bezerra  Monica Levy Andersen  Gabriel Nat...

Individual & Joint Pornography Use Among Romantic Couples: Partner knowledge of use had little direct association with well-being, but unknown individual use may be associated with less sexual, but more relationship, satisfaction

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Behind Closed Doors: Individual and Joint Pornography Use Among Romantic Couples. Brian J. Willoughby & Nathan D. Leonhardt. The Journal...

Norway: The higher risk of childlessness was associated with the highest intelligence score, & and this effect was mediated by whether participants had ever been in a relationship by their late twenties

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Does Intelligence Predict Childlessness in Men? An Analysis of the Direct and Indirect Associations Between Intelligence and Childlessness i...

Widespread Gray Matter Gain 4-6 Weeks After Giving Birth: A restoration of brain tissue or a substantial brain reorganization, possibly to accommodate a multi-faceted repertoire of complex behaviors associated to being a mother

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From Baby Brain to Mommy Brain: Widespread Gray Matter Gain After Giving Birth. Eileen Luders et al. Cortex, January 28 2020. https://doi.or...

How Large Are Gender Differences in Toy Preferences? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Toy Preference Research

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How Large Are Gender Differences in Toy Preferences? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Toy Preference Research. Jac T. M. Davis &...

Intact microbiota is a key component of older males attractiveness; age-based preferences may break down when the microbiota is impaired, like when individuals are exposed to naturally occurring antibiotics, extreme temperatures

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Drosophila Sexual Attractiveness in Older Males Is Mediated by Their Microbiota. Chloe Heys et al. Microorganisms 2020, 8(2), 168. Jan 22 20...

The Mismeasure of Genes: No Support for the Genetic Hypothesis of the Black-white Achievement Gap Using Polygenic Scores and Tests for Divergent Selection

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Bird, Kevin A. 2020. “The Mismeasure of Genes: No Support for the Genetic Hypothesis of the Black-white Achievement Gap Using Polygenic Scor...

Fever dreams were more bizarre & more negatively toned & included more references to health & temperature perception compared to normal dreams – findings that are in line with the continuity hypothesis of dreaming

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Fever Dreams: An Online Study. Michael Schredl and Daniel Erlacher. Front. Psychol., January 28 2020. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00...

Sub-par embryos are terminated automatically; embryos improve test performance by exaggerating formerly honest quality signals; new honest indicators arise while old degraded indicators linger

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Embryo Selection and Mate Choice: Can ‘Honest Signals’ Be Trusted? Dakota E. McCoy, David Haig. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, January 2...
Monday, January 27, 2020

The major purpose that episodic counterfactual thinking serves is mood regulation: to daydream and to feel better

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Branch, Jared. 2020. “Involuntary Mental Time Travel into the Episodic Future, Episodic Past, and Episodic Counterfactual Past in Everyday L...

Affective polarization (steady growth of the mutual dislike between Republicans and Democrats): Elites in the US have polarized faster than those in eight other OECD countries of study

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Cross-Country Trends in Affective Polarization. Levi Boxell, Matthew Gentzkow, Jesse M. Shapiro. NBER Working Paper No. 26669, January 2020....