Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Being more happy (more positive affect) was associated with heavy alcohol use

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Daily associations between affect and alcohol use among adults: The importance of affective arousal. Dusti R. Jones et al. Addictive Behavio...

Men’s decision to augment their masculinity via full beardedness occurs under conditions characterised by stronger inter-sexual and intra-sexual selection (competition)

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Cross-Cultural Variation in Men’s Beardedness. Barnaby J. W. Dixson & Anthony J. Lee. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology (2020). Sep...

The belief that “my side” sees the world objectively while the “other side” sees it through the lens of its biases (the “objectivity illusion”), was strong & persistent among Trump and Clinton supporters before the election

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The objectivity illusion and voter polarization in the 2016 presidential election. Michael C. Schwalbe, Geoffrey L. Cohen, and Lee D. Ross. ...

Liking for foods high in salt and fat is associated with a lower diet quality but liking for foods high in sugar is not

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Liking for foods high in salt and fat is associated with a lower diet quality but liking for foods high in sugar is not – Results from the P...

Rolf Degen summarizing... A majority of laypersons mistakenly believe that people can be trained to become highly accurate judges of truth and deception ("truth wizards")

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The psychology of confessions: A comparison of expert and lay opinions. Fabiana Alceste  Timothy J. Luke  Allison D. Redlich  Johanna Hellgr...

Testosterone administration increases the audience effect & further buttress the social status hypothesis (which posits that testosterone promotes status-seeking behaviour in a context-dependent manner)

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Exogenous testosterone increases the audience effect in healthy males: Evidence for the social status hypothesis. Yin Wu et al. Proceedings ...

Women show pre-copulatory mating preferences for human leucocyte antigen-dissimilar men; a possibility is that the ultimate mating bias towards HLA-dissimilar partners could occur after copulation, at the gamete level

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Post-copulatory genetic matchmaking: HLA-dependent effects of cervical mucus on human sperm function. Annalaura Jokiniemi, Martina Magris, J...
Monday, August 31, 2020

Positive relationship between intolerance & perceived homosexuality; The more a given gender-role violation is thought to implicate homosexuality, the more negatively/less positively people tend to react to the violation

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Differential Reactions to Male and Female Gender-Role Violations: Testing the Sexual Orientation Hypothesis. Ursula A. Sanborn-Overby & ...

We find a ‘good-looking giver’ effect–that more physically attractive people are more likely to engage in giving behaviors, and vice versa

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The Good-looking Giver Effect: The Relationship Between Doing Good and Looking Good. Sara Konrath, Femida Handy. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sec...

Expressions of Sexual Deviance in Black Serial Killers: The number of Black serial killers has increased, but empirical studies have not focused on this unique population

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Expressions of Sexual Deviance in Black Serial Killers. Lucia J. Weatherall. PhD Thesis, Walden Univ, 2020. https://search.proquest.com/open...

Imagination, the Brain’s Default Mode Network, and Imaginative Verbal Artifacts

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Carroll J. (2020) Imagination, the Brain’s Default Mode Network, and Imaginative Verbal Artifacts. In: Carroll J., Clasen M., Jonsson E. (ed...

The Role of Aesthetic Style in Alleviating Anxiety About the Future

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Carney J. (2020) The Role of Aesthetic Style in Alleviating Anxiety About the Future. In: Carroll J., Clasen M., Jonsson E. (eds) Evolutiona...

Women's wellbeing and fertility in rural Tanzania: Overall, women's wellbeing was highest in husband-older marriages, but among women married to older men, spousal age gap was unrelated to wellbeing

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Shared interests or sexual conflict? Spousal age gap, women's wellbeing and fertility in rural Tanzania. David W. Lawson et al. Evolutio...

Kin-Avoidance in Cannibalistic Homicide

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Kin-Avoidance in Cannibalistic Homicide. Marlies Oostland and Michael Brecht. Front. Psychol., August 31 2020. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg...

Social status is a universal and consequential dimension of variation within human groups; multiple prominent theories have been proposed to explain how status is allocated

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Psychological foundations of human status allocation. Patrick K. Durkee, Aaron W. Lukaszewski, and David M. Buss. Proceedings of the Nationa...

Nostalgia is a bittersweet emotion, but more sweet than bitter

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The Hedonic Character of Nostalgia: An Integrative Data Analysis. Joost Leunissen et al. Emotion Review, August 30, 2020. https://doi.org/10...
Sunday, August 30, 2020

Voters seem to react more to relatively smaller scandals by high-quality officials compared to low-quality ones

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Strategic Opposition Research. Benjamin Ogden & Alejandro Medina. Texas A&M University Working Paper, June 2020. https://static1.squ...

Behavioral Response to Increased Pedestrian and Staying Activity in Public Space: Men may be more likely to be attracted to places with more public users, while females may be less likely to stay

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The Behavioral Response to Increased Pedestrian and Staying Activity in Public Space: A Field Experiment. Oscar Zapata and Jordi Honey-Rosés...