Wednesday, March 4, 2020

True statistical inference is found outside of the great apes: Kea can integrate knowledge across different cognitive domains to flexibly adjust their predictions of sampling events

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Kea show three signatures of domain-general statistical inference. Amalia P. M. Bastos & Alex H. Taylor. Nature Communications volume 11...
Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Perceptions of President Donald Trump’s Personality Disorder Traits: The relative strength of the traits associated with the disorders (sadistic, narcissistic, antisocial, & passive-aggressive) was highly similar between conservatives & liberals

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Voter Perceptions of President Donald Trump’s Personality Disorder Traits: Implications of Political Affiliation. Jacob A. Fiala et al. Clin...

Beliefs about religious evil remain a strong and consistent predictor of attitudes about issues involving sexuality, including abortion, homosexuality, premarital sex, extramarital sex, and pornography use

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The Flesh and The Devil: Belief in Religious Evil and Views of Sexual Morality. Joseph O. Baker, Andrea Molle & Christopher D. Bader. ...

Female threespine sticklebacks: Consistent individual differences in neuroendocrine correlates of personality traints, and in activity, sociability and risk taking after an opportunity to mate

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Personality traits change after an opportunity to mate. Chloe Monestier, Alison Bell. bioRxiv, March 03, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020....

Men reported higher levels of extradyadic behaviors and sexual desire, gave more importance to physical attractiveness, and perceived their current relationship as having less quality than women

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Extradyadic Behaviors and Gender: How Do They Relate With Sexual Desire, Relationship Quality, and Attractiveness. Joana Arantes, Fátima Ba...

Rolf Degen summarizing: Less than half of all parents manage to transmit their partisan identities to their children

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The Role of Child Perception and Motivation in Political Socialization. Peter K. Hatemi, Christopher Ojeda. British Journal of Political Sci...

Aversiveness to both the tendency of male infants to produce more expiratory phonations when crying, as well as their visual appearance when crying, may contribute to their increased vulnerability to abuse

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Perception of male and female infant cry aversiveness by adult men. Lynnet Richey, Ting Li & James K. Rilling. Journal of Reproductive a...

Severity and the number of common cold symptoms: Women were expected to report more symptoms & a higher severity; no differences found between men and women in their reports

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From 2019... Sex differences in the severity and number of common cold symptoms. Eva Lutgerink. Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences T...

Rosy memories: Mainly in autobiographical memory & particularly for self-relevant information, positive memory biases emerge from the operation of powerful mechanisms aimed at maintaining the individual’s well-being

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Chapter 7 - A “rosy view” of the past: Positive memory biases. Orly Adler, Ainat Pansky. In Cognitive Biases in Health and Psychiatric Disor...

Middle- and old-aged individuals: Moderate lifetime alcohol intake was associated with lower cerebral beta amyloid deposition compared to a lifetime history of not drinking

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Association of moderate alcohol intake with in vivo amyloid-beta deposition in human brain: A cross-sectional study. Jee Wook Kim et al. PL...

It seems people selectively attend to moral stimuli; moral content might be prioritized in conscious awareness after an initial perceptual encoding but before subsequent memory processing or action preparation

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From 2019... Gantman, Ana P., Sayeed Devraj-Kizuk, Peter Mende-Siedlecki, Jay J. Van Bavel, and Kyle E. Mathewson. 2019. “The Time-course of...
Monday, March 2, 2020

When discounted at the risk-free rate, real Social Security wealth increased from $5.6 tn in 1989 to $42.0 tn in 2016; adjusting for systematic risk, it grew from $4.6 tn in 1989 to $34.0 tn in 2016

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Catherine, Sylvain and Miller, Max and Sarin, Natasha, Social Security and Trends in Inequality (February 29, 2020). SSRN: https://papers.ss...

CEO types: “Leaders,” who do multifunction, high-level meetings, & “managers,” who do individual meetings with core functions; firms that hire leaders perform better (it takes 3 years to see the difference)

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Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat, Stephen Hansen, and Raffaella Sadun, "CEO Behavior and Firm Performance," Journal of Political Econo...

Himba men prioritize mate fidelity and current reproductive partners in investment decisions, but social obligations to past and current partners and the presence of other male investors also influence decisions

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Paternity confidence and social obligations explain men's allocations to romantic partners in an experimental giving game. Brooke A.Scel...
Sunday, March 1, 2020

Erotic dreams occurred in about 6% of the analyzed dreams, with men reporting slightly more erotic dreams than women; kissing was the most frequent erotic component

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College students’ erotic dreams: Analysis of content and emotional tone. C. Geißler, M. Schredl. Sexologies, Volume 29, Issue 1, January–Mar...

Body odor disgust sensitivity is positively related to social, but not economic conservatism, & to implicit bias toward an outgroup; social attitudes may be linked to basic chemosensory processes (pathogen cues)

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An Overprotective Nose? Implicit Bias Is Positively Related to Individual Differences in Body Odor Disgust Sensitivity. Marta Zuzanna Zakrze...