Monday, June 8, 2020

Big Five traits are associated with the frequency with which we visit different places on a daily basis; & spending time in a particular place predicts momentary personality states & their short-term trait expression over time

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Matz, S. C., & Harari, G. M. (2020). Personality–place transactions: Mapping the relationships between Big Five personality traits, stat...

Advisors want their advice to be used – but not too much: An interpersonal perspective on advice taking

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Advisors want their advice to be used – but not too much: An interpersonal perspective on advice taking. Fabian Ache, Christina Rader, Mandy...

All investigations of police practice that were preceded by "viral" incidents of deadly force have led to a large and statistically significant increase in homicides and total crime

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Policing the Police: The Impact of "Pattern-or-Practice" Investigations on Crime. Tanaya Devi, Roland G. Fryer Jr. NBER Working Pa...

People use facial information to infer others’ leadership potential across numerous domains; but what forms the basis of these judgements and how much do they matter?

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How static facial cues relate to real-world leaders’ success: a review and meta-analysis. Miranda Giacomin & Nicholas O. Rule. European ...
Sunday, June 7, 2020

Does Partisanship Shape Investor Beliefs? The beliefs of partisan Republicans about equities remain relatively unfazed during the COVID-19 pandemic, while other users become considerably more pessimistic

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Cookson, J. Anthony and Engelberg, Joseph and Mullins, William, Does Partisanship Shape Investor Beliefs? Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemi...

More recently-developed crops are evaluated less favorably, whether they are produced by artificial selection (i.e., conventional breeding), natural or man-made irradiation, or genetic engineering

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Recency negativity: Newer food crops are evaluated less favorably. Yoel Inbar, Jordan Phelps, Paul Rozin. Appetite, June 6 2020, 104754. htt...

I Feel Better Naked: Communal Naked Activity Increases Body Appreciation by Reducing Social Physique Anxiety

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I Feel Better Naked: Communal Naked Activity Increases Body Appreciation by Reducing Social Physique Anxiety. Keon West. The Journal of Sex ...

Letters To A Spanish Youngster CCLVI

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Letters To A Spanish Youngster CCLVI [...] Your Honor the high priestess, la mia donna , Who puts in amoroso incendio il cor * and the ci...
Saturday, June 6, 2020

At least 42.7% of adult women have experienced orgasm during sleep and they have significantly higher mean Female Genital Self-Image scores than women who have not experienced orgasm during sleep

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Things that Go Bump in the Night: Prevalence, Genital Self-Image, and Experiences of Women Who Orgasm during Sleep. Lyndsay Irene Mercier. 2...

Why some memories are prioritized over others, why memory loss sometimes leads to impaired decision-making, and why decisions are shaped by regret and counterfactual thinking

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What Are Memories For? The Hippocampus Bridges Past Experience with Future Decisions. Natalie Biderman, Akram Bakkour, Daphna Shohamy. Trend...

Estimations of Typical, Ideal, Premature Ejaculation, and Actual Latencies by Men and Female Sexual Partners of Men During Partnered Sex

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Côté-Léger P, Rowland DL. Estimations of Typical, Ideal, Premature Ejaculation, and Actual Latencies by Men and Female Sexual Partners of Me...

Dissertation: An Examination of Sexual Fantasy And Infidelity

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Haus, Katherine Rose, "AN EXAMINATION OF SEXUAL FANTASY AND INFIDELITY" (2020). Univ of Kentucky Theses and Dissertations--Kinesio...
Friday, June 5, 2020

Grandiose narcissists consider intelligence so important bc they see it as leading to benefits across life domains; maintain & defend illusory positive intellectual self-views; & are extremely motivated to appear intelligent

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Why Do Narcissists Care So Much About Intelligence? Marcin Zajenkowski, Michael Dufner. Current Directions in Psychological Science, June 4,...

Men appreciate more aggresive and sexual humor; other differences seem based in roles, not natural differences

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Gender differences in humor-related traits, humor appreciation, production, comprehension, (neural) responses, use, and correlates: A system...

No pain, no gain: Perceived partner mate value mediates the desire-inducing effect of being hard to get

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No pain, no gain: Perceived partner mate value mediates the desire-inducing effect of being hard to get during online and face-to-face encou...

USA & Denmark: Those scoring higher in narcissism participate more in politics (contacting politicians, signing petitions, joining demonstrations, donating money, & voting in midterm elections)

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Narcissism in Political Participation. Zoltán Fazekas, Peter K. Hatemi. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, June 4, 2020. https://do...
Thursday, June 4, 2020

Tendency for Interpersonal Victimhood (an enduring feeling that the self is a victim across different kinds of interpersonal relationships) & the need for recognition, moral elitism, lack of empathy, & rumination

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The tendency for interpersonal victimhood: The personality construct and its consequences. Rahav Gabay et al. Personality and Individual Dif...

To beer or not to beer: A meta-analysis of the effects of beer consumption on cardiovascular health

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To beer or not to beer: A meta-analysis of the effects of beer consumption on cardiovascular health. Giorgia Spaggiari et al. PLoS, June 3, ...

Achilles & Patroklos - from Edward Carpenter's book, Ioläus: An Anthology of Friendship (1902)

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Achilles & Patroklos [The following excerpt, on the lover-warriors Achilles and Patroklos (or Patroclus), is from Edward Carpenter...

Assessment of Psychopathology: Is Asking Questions Good Enough?

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Assessment of Psychopathology: Is Asking Questions Good Enough? Barbara Pavlova. JAMA Psychiatry. 2020;77(6):557-558. March 11 2020, doi:10....
Wednesday, June 3, 2020

We present converging evidence demonstrating poor reliability of task-fMRI measures

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What Is the Test-Retest Reliability of Common Task-Functional MRI Measures? New Empirical Evidence and a Meta-Analysis. Maxwell L. Elliott e...

Japanese macaques: Some adult females mount adult males in the context of heterosexual consortships; this research has implications for the evolution of non-conceptive sex in primates

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Is female-male mounting functional? An analysis of the temporal patterns of sexual behaviors in Japanese macaques. Noëlle Gunst et al. Physi...

Sperm sex ratio adjustment in a mammal: perceived male competition leads to elevated proportions of female-producing sperm

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Sperm sex ratio adjustment in a mammal: perceived male competition leads to elevated proportions of female-producing sperm. Renée C. Firman,...

The Earliest Origins of Genetic Nurture: The Prenatal Environment Mediates the Association Between Maternal Genetics and Child Development

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The Earliest Origins of Genetic Nurture: The Prenatal Environment Mediates the Association Between Maternal Genetics and Child Development. ...
Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Most US transportation infrastructure is not deteriorating and the existing scientific literature and does not show that infrastructure creates growth or reduces congestion

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Transportation Infrastructure in the US. Matthew Turner, Gilles Duranton, Geetika Nagpal. NBER Working Paper No. 27254, May 2020. https://ww...

“They Don’t Know Better Than I Do”: People Are Reluctant to Rely on the Wisdom of Crowds in Individual Decision Making

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Yonah, Merav, and Yoav Kessler. 2020. ““They Don’t Know Better Than I Do”: People Are Reluctant to Rely on the Wisdom of Crowds in Individua...
Monday, June 1, 2020

From 2019... The Psychology of Alibis

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From 2019... The Psychology of Alibis. Steve Charman, Kureva Matuku, Alexandra Mosser. Advances in Psychology and Law pp 41-72, February 6 2...
Sunday, May 31, 2020

Rational, impartial, benevolent bureaucratic government: Arthur Naftalin, Minneapolis Mayor

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"You Can't Legislate the Heart": Minneapolis Mayor Charles Stenvig and the Politics of Law and Order. Jeffrey T. Manuel and An...

Although evidence in modern humans does not support the prosociality hypothesis of homosexuality, the sociosexuality hypothesis has received notable support

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Luoto, S. Did Prosociality Drive the Evolution of Homosexuality? Arch Sex Behav (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-020-01749-0 Introdu...

From 2015... Walking a fine line: Young people negotiate pornified heterosex

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From 2015... Walking a fine line: Young people negotiate pornified heterosex. Monique Mulholland. Sexualities, 2015, Vol. 18(5/6) 731–74. DO...