Saturday, August 15, 2020

People with greater olfactory discrimination acuity were higher in dispositional sexual disgust, but not pathogen or moral disgust; were also less inclined towards short-term mating

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Investigating the relationship between olfactory acuity, disgust, and mating strategies. Marjorie L. Prokosch Zachary Airington Damian R. Mu...

Women’s demand for redistribution is higher; the gender difference appears only when the source of inequality is based on relative abilities, but not when it is based on luck; men are more overconfident on their abilities

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Overconfidence and gender gaps in redistributive preferences: Cross-Country experimental evidence. Thomas Buser et al. Journal of Economic B...

Speed of perceived time is slower for those of higher IQ

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Measures of Temporal Perception as Predictive Factors for Individual Intelligence and Further Relationships Between Intelligence and Tempora...

Voting Republican was associated with higher levels of commitment compared with voting Democrat; being partnered with someone voting Republican was associated with higher relationship adjustment & commitment

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Fangmeier, T. L., Stanley, S. M., Knopp, K., & Rhoades, G. K. (2020). Political party identification and romantic relationship quality. ...

Although there is a small segment that chooses the newer option for what they infer to be its higher efficacy, most consumers believe that an older drug is both safer and more efficacious

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Older is better: Consumers prefer older drugs. Yun Jie. Psychology & Marketing, August 13 2020. https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21395 Abst...

16 Possible Factors for Sweden’s High Covid Death Rate among the Nordics: It is plausible that Sweden’s lighter lockdown accounts for but a small part of Sweden’s higher Covid death rate

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16 Possible Factors for Sweden’s High Covid Death Rate among the Nordics. Daniel B. Klein, Joakim Book, Christian Bjørnskov. SSRN, August 14...
Friday, August 14, 2020

Gender gaps in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) participation are larger in societies where women have greater freedom of choice... Why?

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A Cultural Psychological Model of Cross-National Variation in Gender Gaps in STEM Participation. Nur Soylu Yalcinkaya, Glenn Adams, Personal...

Male secondary sexual characters may have evolved to advertise males that carry large numbers of beneficial sexually transmitted microbes highly potent against pathogens

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Reinoculation of Ideas about the Benefits of Copulation: Reply to Rowe et al. Michael P. Lombardo, Patrick A. Thorpe, Harry W. Power. Trends...

Screening for Dark Personalities: The authors say they uncovered a novel link between sadism and sexuality, but sadists are not maladjusted

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Screening for Dark Personalities: The Short Dark Tetrad (SD4). Delroy L. Paulhus et al. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, July 2...

We found that men and women told larger and more frequent lies to their parents, with women telling the largest and most frequent lies of all to their fathers; both men & women frequently say they are chaster than really are

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Papa Don’t Preach? Using Lies to Expose the Truth about Who Suppresses Female Sexuality. Dax J. Kellie, Barnaby J. W. Dixson & Robert C....

Subjective age changed during a global health crisis, with people feeling younger with the emergence of COVID-19; partly reflects a coping process of psychological distancing from older age (the most vulnerable group)

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Changes in Subjective Age During COVID-19. Antonio Terracciano et al. The Gerontologist, gnaa104, August 7 2020. https://doi.org/10.1093/ger...

How does animal welfare taste? Information regarding animal welfare affects hedonic liking & willingness to pay; consumers rated the organic product higher than those with animal welfare labels

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How does animal welfare taste? Combining sensory and choice experiments to evaluate willingness to pay for animal welfare pork. Sabine Gross...

We investigated whether jurors assign more weight to evidence if obtained through technological means-and the impact of crime severity on juror decision-making (CSI Effect & Tech Effect)

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Lodge, Chloe, and Mircea Zloteanu. 2020. “Jurors' Expectations and Decision-making: Revisiting the CSI Effect.” PsyArXiv. August 13. doi...

The positive effect of expressed affection exceeded the effect of received affection

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Affectionate communication and health: A meta-analysis. Colin Hesse et al. Communication Monographs, Aug 12 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/03...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

Recent studies point to a “cynical” view of social perceivers who assume that even moderately moral people could engage in moderately immoral behaviors; this view seems to vary among cultures

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Patrice Rusconi, Simona Sacchi, Marco Brambilla, Roberta Capellini, and Paolo Cherubini (2020). Being Honest and Acting Consistently: Bounda...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Older adults do not access less negatively emotional memories or describe the memories more positively, but they just evaluate these memories more positively than the young

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The happiest and the saddest autobiographical memories and aging. Simay Ikier & Çağla Duman. Current Psychology (2020). Aug 12 2020. htt...

Participants indicated they would stand, sit or walk closer to the stranger when either of them was wearing a mask; this form of risk compensation was stronger for those who believed masks were effective

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Luckman, Ashley, Hossam Zeitoun, Andrea Isoni, Graham Loomes, Ivo Vlaev, Nattavudh Powdthavee, and Daniel Read. 2020. “Risk Compensation Dur...

There is little evidence for obesity-related differences in enhanced neural reactivity to visual food cues & that such differences might be mediated by additional factors that are often not considered

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Is obesity related to enhanced neural reactivity to visual food cues? A review and meta-analysis. Filip Morys, Isabel García-García, Alain D...

Despite Australia’s skills-based immigration policy, immigrants report worse labor market outcomes than in the US; skills-based imm. policy don't result in more selected immigrants, nor in better integration

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The Integration Paradox: Asian Immigrants in Australia and the United States. Van C. Tran, Fei Guo, Tiffany J. Huang. The ANNALS of the Amer...

Myths and Misconceptions About Hypnosis and Suggestion: Separating Fact and Fiction

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Myths and Misconceptions About Hypnosis and Suggestion: Separating Fact and Fiction. Steven Jay Lynn  Irving Kirsch  Devin B. Terhune  Josep...

As hypothesized, individuals’ levels of basal testosterone were positively related to susceptibility to minority influence; in contrast, susceptibility to majority influence was unaffected by basal testosterone

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Basal Testosterone Renders Individuals More Receptive to Minority Positions. Markus Germar, Andreas Mojzisch. Social Psychological and Perso...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Friendship jealousy is sensitive to the value of the threatened friendship, strongly calibrated to cues that one is being replaced, & ultimately motivates behavior aimed at countering third-party threats to friendship (“friend guarding”)

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Krems, J. A., Williams, K. E. G., Aktipis, A., & Kenrick, D. T. (2020). Friendship jealousy: One tool for maintaining friendships in the...

Out-of-partnership births in East and West Germany: Single women in East Germany are significantly more likely to give birth to a child than single women in West Germany, partly predating 1945

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Out-of-partnership births in East and West Germany. Uwe Jirjahn & Cornelia Chadi. Review of Economics of the Household volume 18, pages8...

Religious individuals assert superior, but false, knowledge on domains highly relevant to religiosity (e.g., international health charities, humanitarian aid organizations)

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Do Religious People Self-Enhance? Constantine Sedikides, Jochen E Gebauer. Current Opinion in Psychology, August 10 2020. https://doi.org/10...
Monday, August 10, 2020

People are somewhat conflicted in their evaluations of those smarter than they are whereas similarly and less intelligent people presented less of an apparent conflict in evaluations (which was unfavorable)

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The potentially conflicted evaluations of others based on their intelligence. Peter K. Jonason, Jamie Hughes. Personality and Individual Dif...

Sexual minority men showed statistically higher levels of body dissatisfaction than heterosexual men, with no difference among gay & bisexual men; sexual minority & heterosexual women had no difference in body dissatisfaction

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Body dissatisfaction and sexual orientations: A quantitative synthesis of 30 years research findings. Jinbo He et al. Clinical Psychology Re...

Physical characteristics of politicians such as their obesity can be used as proxy variables for political corruption when the latter are not available, for instance at a very local level

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Obesity of politicians and corruption in post‐Soviet countries. Pavlo Blavatskyy. Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, July 18 ...

The presence of African American soldiers in the U.K. during World War II reduced anti-minority prejudice, a result of the positive interactions which took place between soldiers and the local population

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Shocking Racial Attitudes: Black G.I.s in Europe. David Schindler, Mark Westcott. The Review of Economic Studies, rdaa039, August 3 2020. ht...

In two studies we tested the hypothesis that observers can accurately distinguish between convicted criminals and matched controls, merely by scrutinizing facial photographs

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The face of crime: Apparent happiness differentiates criminal and non-criminal photos. Kennon M. Sheldon, Mike Corcoran & Jason Trent. T...

On Aristotelian virtue, human flourishing, human sexuality & animal instinct, innocence, erotic neutralization & the view that sex is an exceptional aspect of morality

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Childhood ‘Innocence’ is Not Ideal: Virtue Ethics and Child–Adult Sex. Thomas O’Carroll. Sexuality & Culture volume 22, pages1230–1262(2...

Three different strategies used by people to place themselves within an ideologically homogeneous information environment: selective approach, selective avoidance, & the belief in the importance of silencing others

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From 2019... Personality Factors Differentiating Selective Approach, Selective Avoidance, and the Belief in the Importance of Silencing Othe...
Sunday, August 9, 2020

Evidence of a tendency to perceive bodies in static poses as more feminine and bodies in dynamic poses as more masculine; & male bodies were judged more dynamic than female bodies with the same pose

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Motion and Gender-Typing Features Interact in the Perception of Human Bodies. Giulia D’Argenio, Alessandra Finisguerra and Cosimo Urgesi. Fr...