Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Chimpanzees and humans establish preferences over individuals they may benefit more from through scoring indirect reputation; however, humans prefer prosocial individuals even at their own cost

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Effects of indirect reputation and type of rearing on food choices in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Nereida Bueno-Guerra, Montserrat Colell...

Volitional Control of Individual Neurons in the Human Brain

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Volitional Control of Individual Neurons in the Human Brain. Kramay Patel et al. bioRxiv, May 6 2020. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.05.079...

Firms whose names are lexicographically earlier in the Chinese-character rank export more to countries that have greater language proximities to Chinese; same for English-romanization names

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Lexicographic biases in international trade. Hua Cheng, Cui Hu, Ben G. Li. Journal of International Economics, May 30 2020, 103346. https://...

Individuals vulnerable to depression are less likely to identify with mainstream conservative parties, to vote for them, and to place themselves on the right side of the political spectrum

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Depression and political predispositions: Almost blue? Luca Bernardi. Party Politics, June 9, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068820930391...

Personality and Sexual Orientation: New Data and Meta-analysis

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Personality and Sexual Orientation: New Data and Meta-analysis. Mark S. Allen & Davina A. Robson. The Journal of Sex Research , Jun 8 20...

Large double-blind & placebo-controlled replication of an influential paper, Kosfeld et al. 2005 (intranasal administration of oxytocin increases the transfers made by investors in the trust game), fails

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A registered replication study on oxytocin and trust. Carolyn H. Declerck, Christophe Boone, Loren Pauwels, Bodo Vogt & Ernst Fehr. Natu...
Tuesday, June 9, 2020

The Hadza report a higher happiness with their lives than do Polish people; age was a negative predictor of happiness only for Poles; maybe a positive perception of aging in societies may increase happiness

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Subjective Happiness Among Polish and Hadza People. Tomasz Frackowiak, Anna Oleszkiewicz, Marina Butovskaya, Agata Groyecka, Maciej Karwowsk...

Disgust: While avoiding contaminated food is a key adaptive problem, we also had to avoid having sex with individuals that could harm our survival, our children’s survival, or generally reproductive success

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Sexual Disgust: An Evolutionary Perspective. Courtney L. Crosby and David M. Buss.  Emotion Researcher, 2020. emotionresearcher.com/sexual-d...