Sunday, February 9, 2020

The neoliberal pressures in the form of raising achievement benchmarks contributes to the reversal of the gender gap in physics & computer science courses, having less girls in STEM

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Explaining a reverse gender gap in advanced physics and computer science course‐taking: An exploratory case study comparing Hebrew‐speaking ...

Pictorial Cigarette Pack Warnings Increase Some Risk Appraisals But Not Risk Beliefs

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Pictorial Cigarette Pack Warnings Increase Some Risk Appraisals But Not Risk Beliefs: A Meta-Analysis. Seth M Noar, Jacob A Rohde, Joshua O ...
Saturday, February 8, 2020

A more egalitarian society (more equal distribution of unpaid care & domestic work) correlates with women being increasingly supportive of a large and encompassing welfare state, much more than men

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The gender gap in welfare state attitudes in Europe: The role of unpaid labour and family policy. Mikael Goossen. Journal of European Social...

Power play in BDSM: Submissives showed increases in cortisol & endocannabinoid levels, & dominants only showing increased endocannabinoid levels

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Wuyts E, De Neef N, Coppens V, et al. Between Pleasure and Pain: A Pilot Study on the Biological Mechanisms Associated With BDSM Interaction...

Time to Orgasm in Women in a Monogamous Stable Heterosexual Relationship: Mean reported time was 13.41 ± 7.67 min; 17% of the participants had never experienced the orgasm

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Bhat GS, Shastry A. Time to Orgasm in Women in a Monogamous Stable Heterosexual Relationship. J Sex Med 2020;XX:XXX–XXX. https://www.science...

"It's not about the money. It's about sending a message!": Unpacking the Components of Revenge

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"It's not about the money. It's about sending a message!": Unpacking the Components of Revenge. Andras Molnar, Shereen J C...

Behavioural Changes in Mice after Getting Accustomed to the Mirror

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Behavioural Changes in Mice after Getting Accustomed to the Mirror. Hiroshi Ueno et al. Behavioural Neurology, Volume 2020 |Article ID 40713...

Greek Cultural Context: About half of men preferring several sexual partners, not minding lower mate malue; about a third of women preferred several lifetime sexual partners, minding the mate value

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Desire for Sexual Variety in the Greek Cultural Context. Menelaos Apostolou. The Cyprus Review, Vol. 31 No. 1 (2019), Feb 4, 2020. http://cy...

Results provided very limited evidence for the existence of opinion-based homogeneity on YouTube, even when the whole network was divided into sub-networks

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Opinion-based Homogeneity on YouTube: Combining Sentiment and Social Network Analysis. Daniel Röchert+German Neubaum+Björn Ross+Florian Brac...

Cities have a negative impact on navigation ability: evidence from 38 countries

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Cities have a negative impact on navigation ability: evidence from 38 countries. Antoine Coutrot, Ed Manley, Demet Yesiltepe, Ruth C Dalton,...
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...