Friday, February 7, 2020

Physiology predicting ideology: The relationship have not fully replicated in more recent, well-powered replications

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Physiology predicts ideology. Or does it? The current state of political psychophysiology research. Kevin B Smith, Clarisse Warren. Current ...

We analyze whether the positive relation between education and health is causal; no causal effect found; result is extremely robust to changes in the main specification and using other databases

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Education and adult health: Is there a causal effect? Pedro Albarrán, Marisa Hidalgo-Hidalgo, Iñigo Iturbe-Ormaetxea. Social Science & M...

The Manosphere, a conglomerate of predominantly Web-based misogynist movements roughly focused on men's issues, is characterized by a volume of hateful speech appreciably higher than other Web communities

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From Pick-Up Artists to Incels: A Data-Driven Sketch of the Manosphere. Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Jeremy Blackburn, Barry Bradlyn, Emiliano De C...

Moral incongruence, self-perceived addiction and problematic pornography use

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Lewczuk, K., Glica, A., Nowakowska, I., et al. Evaluating Pornography Problems Due to Moral Incongruence Model. J Sex Med 2020;17:300–311. h...
Thursday, February 6, 2020

Users with nonproblematic low-frequency pornography use are around 68–73% of all users, nonproblematic high-frequency pornography users are approx 19–29% & problematic high-frequency users are around 3–8% of the total

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Bőthe B, Tóth-Király I, Potenza MN, et al. High-Frequency Pornography Use May Not Always Be Problematic. J Sex Med 2020;XX:XXX–XXX. https://...

The War on Porn Is Back: Conservatives hope to renew their old alliance with radical feminists

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The War on Porn Is Back: Conservatives hope to renew their old alliance with radical feminists. Katherine Mangu-Ward. Mar 2020 issue. https:...

Life: Seen as more satisfying, more meaningful, & characterized to a greater extent by more intense positive & negative emotions when reflecting on life in general than when reflecting on daily life in real time

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Global reports of well-being overestimate aggregated daily states of well-being. David B. Newman,Norbert Schwarz &Arthur A. Stone. The J...

Watching eyes do not stop dogs stealing food: evidence against a general risk-aversion hypothesis for the watching-eye effect

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Watching eyes do not stop dogs stealing food: evidence against a general risk-aversion hypothesis for the watching-eye effect. Patrick Neila...

Preparation hypothesis: Women’s indiscriminate genital responses do not indicate or necessarily promote sexual interest & motivation, but rather prepare the vaginal lumen for possible sexual activity & therefore prevent injuries

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The Empirical Status of the Preparation Hypothesis: Explicating Women’s Genital Responses to Sexual Stimuli in the Laboratory. Martin L. Lal...

Sexual Chemosignals: Evidence that Men Process Olfactory Signals of Women’s Sexual Arousal

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Sexual Chemosignals: Evidence that Men Process Olfactory Signals of Women’s Sexual Arousal. Arnaud Wisman & Ilan Shrira. Archives of Sex...
Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Investigating Google's suicide-prevention efforts in celebrity suicides: Celebrities who die by suicide can elicit relatively strong copycat effects, but Google never displayed preventive information in celebrity-suicide-related searches

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Investigating Google's suicide-prevention efforts in celebrity suicides using agent-based testing: A cross-national study in four Europe...

Dissatisfaction with breast size affects 70.7 % of women sampled: linked to greater Neuroticism, lower Conscientiousness, lower Western media exposure, greater local media exposure, lower financial security, & younger age

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The Breast Size Satisfaction Survey (BSSS): Breast size dissatisfaction and its antecedents and outcomes in women from 40 nations. Viren Sw...