Sunday, July 12, 2020

Sexual activity appears to be a health indicator of all-cause and cancer mortality in US middle-aged adults in a dose-response manner

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Cao C, Yang L, Xu T, et al. Trends in Sexual Activity and Associations With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Among US Adults. J Sex Me...

Attributions of Democratic vs Republican blame or responsibility for anti‐Semitism & perceptions of threat are primarily explained by political ideology & partisan vote choice over & above awareness, engagement, or personal experience

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Polarization and American Jews: The Partisan Debate Over Attribution of Blame and Responsibility for Rising Anti‐Semitism in the United Stat...
Saturday, July 11, 2020

Participants accepted more offers, including more unfair offers, from surgical mask-wearing opponents than from opponents without a mask; effect was enhanced when participants ascribed more altruistic motives

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Fatfouta, Ramzi, and Yulia Oganian. 2020. “Bargaining Under Social Distancing Requirements: Effects of Face Masks on Socio-economic Decision...

In the mid-2000s, "hate" appears with a relative frequency that is about 70pct higher than in 1980

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Haslam, N., & Murphy, S. C. (2020). Hate, dehumanization, and “hate”. In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.), Perspectives on hate: How it originates,...

Media coverage over time (2011‐2016) has used more negative tone in discussing police‐citizen interactions; relative to other jobs, policing was categorized as a pervasively stigmatized job

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Is Policing Becoming a Tainted Profession? Media, Public Perceptions, and Implications. Deepshikha Chatterjee  Ann Marie Ryan. Journal of Or...

Although conflict (operationalized as one partner doing something the other did not like) was unassociated with the likelihood of sex on a given day, it predicted a lower likelihood the following day

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Kiss and Makeup? Examining the Co-occurrence of Conflict and Sex. Jessica A. Maxwell & Andrea L. Meltzer. Archives of Sexual Behavior (2...

Concern for distressed others was seen early in the first year of life, long before previous theories assumed: Empathic concern was moderately consistent across both situation & age, from as early as 3‐months

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Caring Babies: Concern for Others in Distress during Infancy. Maayan Davidov  Yael Paz  Ronit Roth‐Hanania  Florina Uzefovsky  Tal Orlitsky ...

Perceptions of fake news prevalence, partisanship strength, and political interest were associated with a higher likelihood of providing a politicized and accusatory response about fake news

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“Fake News is Anything They Say!” – Conceptualization and Weaponization of Fake News Among the American Public. Chau Tong, Hyungjin Gill,Jia...
Friday, July 10, 2020

Heterosexual women placed more value on orgasm frequency and the frequency of sex than lesbian and bisexual women

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Female Sexual Satisfaction and Sexual Identity. Laura L. Holt , Y. Barry Chung, Erick Janssen & Zoë D. Peterson. The Journal of Sex Rese...

Across 58 published studies in 23 species, we find strong evidence that animals copy the mate choice of others

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A meta-analysis of factors influencing the strength of mate-choice copying in animals. Alice D Davies, Zenobia Lewis, Liam R Dougherty. Beha...

Despite the fact that the time-of-day manipulation successfully influenced participants’ self-reported alertness levels, the time-of-day did not affect guilt judgments or sensitivity to case information

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David L. Dickinson & Andrew R. Smith & Robert McClelland, 2019. "An Examination of Circadian Impacts on Judgments," Workin...

Eminent jurist: Though India has adhered to the [One China policy], New Delhi should find ways to violate it, if not in letter, then in spirit

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Chanakya can trump Confucius, writes Abhishek Manu Singhvi. Hindustan Times, Jul 09, 2020. https://www.hindustantimes.com/analysis/chanakya-...

The consistently-married group was slightly higher in well-being at the end of life than the consistently-single and varied histories groups; the latter two groups did not differ in their well-being

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Loved and lost or never loved at all? Lifelong marital histories and their links with subjective well-being. Mariah F. Purol ,Victor N. Kell...

Positive self-evaluation is a fundamental human need; there is an overpowering effect of self-enhancement motivation in directing individuals’ attention & behavior relative to other self-evaluation motives

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Anseel, Frederik, and Elena Martinescu. 2020. “Praise from a Self-enhancement Perspective: More, I Want More?.” PsyArXiv. July 9. doi:10.432...
Thursday, July 9, 2020

Requisite Skills and the Meaningful Measurement of Cognition Among the Lowly Educated or Non-Medicated Schizophrenics

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Requisite Skills and the Meaningful Measurement of Cognition. Richard S. E. Keefe, Michael F. Green, Philip D. Harvey. JAMA Psychiatry. Publ...

From 2015... Reductionist evidence in science debate by laypersons is viewed as more explanatory & conclusive than comparable evidence from macrolevel processes; the preference for reductionist information does not go away with education

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From 2015... The Influence of Reductionist Information on Perceptions of Scientific Validity. Rebecca Rhodes. PhD Thesis, Michigan Univ., Ps...

Blame Crime on Name? People with Bad Names Are More Likely to Commit Crime in Continental China

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Bao, Han-Wu-Shuang, Jianxiong Wang, and Huajian Cai. 2020. “Blame Crime on Name? People with Bad Names Are More Likely to Commit Crime.” Psy...

Baboons (Papio anubis) living in larger social groups have bigger brains

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Baboons (Papio anubis) living in larger social groups have bigger brains. Adrien Meguerditchian et al. Evolution and Human Behavior, Jul 9 2...

Helping was facilitated in rats that had previously observed other rats’ helping and were then tested individually; the influence of bystanders on helping behavior in rats seems close to human helping

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The bystander effect in rats. View ORCID ProfileJohn L. Havlik et al. Science Advances Jul 8 2020:Vol. 6, no. 28, eabb4205. DOI: 10.1126/sci...
Wednesday, July 8, 2020

It was alleged that neuroscience evidence bring bias because of its over-persuasiveness for people without neuroscience training; but in severe criminal cases, neuroscientific evidence is not more persuasive than behavioral one

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Yin, Ji-Xing, Yuepei Xu, and Chuan-Peng Hu. 2020. “Neuroscience Evidence Is Not More Persuasive Than Behavioral Evidence for Both Adults and...

Noninvasive acoustic manipulation of objects in a living pigs using a phased array: These beams were shown to levitate & steer solid objects (3-mm-diameter glass spheres) along preprogrammed paths

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Noninvasive acoustic manipulation of objects in a living body. Mohamed A. Ghanem, Adam D. Maxwell, Yak-Nam Wang, Bryan W. Cunitz, Vera A. Kh...

Why chimpanzees carry dead infants: an empirical assessment of existing hypotheses

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Why chimpanzees carry dead infants: an empirical assessment of existing hypotheses. Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Michael L. Wilson, Emily Boehm, J...