Saturday, September 5, 2020

Causes of Variation in Food Preference in the Netherlands: Our study convincingly showed that genetic factors play a significant role in food preference

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Causes of Variation in Food Preference in the Netherlands. Jacqueline M. Vink  et al. Twin Research and Human Genetics, Volume 23, Issue 4, ...

Sexual dimorphism in body clocks: The repeated pattern of dimorphic rhythmicity observed in humans & animal models suggest that these differences are not attributable simply to societal pressures on either sex

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Sexual dimorphism in body clocks. Seán T. Anderson, Garret A. FitzGerald. Science  Sep 4 2020, Vol. 369, Issue 6508, pp. 1164-1165, DOI: 10....

Prenatal substance exposure, socioeconomic adversity, caregiver distress/depression, & adverse family functioning and birthweight/gestational age, physical illness, uniquely predicted more risky sexual & aggressive behavior in youngsters

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Early external‐environmental and internal‐health predictors of risky sexual and aggressive behavior in adolescence: An integrative approach....

We find that school districts in locations with stronger teachers’ unions are less likely to reopen in person; also, no evidence that measures of COVID-19 risk are correlated with school reopening decisions

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DeAngelis, Corey and Makridis, Christos, Are School Reopening Decisions Related to Union Influence? (September 1, 2020). SSRN: http://dx.doi...

Who are the Conspiracy Theorists? Demographics and conspiracy theories

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Who are the Conspiracy Theorists? Demographics and conspiracy theories. Steven M. Smallpage, Hugo Drochon, Joseph E. Uscinski, Casey Klofsta...

Emophilia is a trait characterized by falling in love fast, easily, & often; is associated with ignoring red flags and rushing into relationships; the Dark Triad personality traits are interpersonally toxic but considered attractive to some

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Emophilia and other predictors of attraction to individuals with Dark Triad traits. Jacqueline Lechuga, Daniel N. Jones. Personality and Ind...

No significant evidence that people with high trait neuroticism access social media particularly frequently or for long periods of time; also, failed to find a relationship between status update frequency & neuroticism

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Understanding neuroticism and social media: A systematic review. Thomas Bowden-Green, Joanne Hinds, Adam Joinson. Personality and Individual...

Personality traits & the propensity to protest: Higher levels of agreeableness, emotional stability, & openness to experience are significantly associated with a decreased likelihood of protest participation

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Personality traits and the propensity to protest: a cross-national analysis. Yi-Bin Chang et al. Asian Journal of Political Science, Sep 1 2...

Prosociality: Younger givers had higher levels of well-being other than physical health, older/retired givers reported better physical health only; females had better physical health, eudaimonic well-being, & psychological malfunctioning

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Hui, B. P. H., Ng, J. C. K., Berzaghi, E., Cunningham-Amos, L. A., & Kogan, A. (2020). Rewards of kindness? A meta-analysis of the link ...

Low-level physiological differences in sensory processing may shape an individual’s politics: Fungiform papilla density, a proxy for taste bud density, predicts conservatism (association statistically mediated by disgust sensitivity)

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Ruisch, B. C., Anderson, R. A., Inbar, Y., & Pizarro, D. A. (2020). A matter of taste: Gustatory sensitivity predicts political ideology...

Bus drivers were twice as willing to let white testers ride free as black testers (72% vs. 36% of the time); signals of wealth and patriotism improve minority testers’ outcomes

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The Colour of a Free Ride. Redzo Mujcic, Paul Frijters. The Economic Journal, ueaa090, September 2 2020. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaa090 ...

The roles of attractiveness and competitive abilities to understand conditionality in men’s short-term reproductive strategies

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Testing strategic pluralism: The roles of attractiveness and competitive abilities to understand conditionality in men’s short-term reproduc...
Friday, September 4, 2020

The immoral behavior of poor guys was attributed to situational factors and was discounted, whereas wealthy guys’ behavior was perceived as less excusable & was attributed primarily to bad moral character

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Weiner, D. S., & Laurent, S. M. (2020). The (income-adjusted) price of good behavior: Documenting the counter-intuitive, wealth-based mo...

Sex differences in the use of competitive tactics have been well documented & may reflect evolved predispositions; some say these differences may be eliminated in single-sex environments; paper says the differences persist

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Deaner, R. O., McClellan, A., Zeigler-Hill, V., & Benenson, J. F. (2020). Sex differences in exclusion and aggression on single-sex spor...

Justice is (not so) blind: Effects of facial masculinity and agreeableness on perceptions of criminal guilt

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Justice is (not so) blind: Effects of facial masculinity and agreeableness on perceptions of criminal guilt. Ford, K. D., Penton-Voak, I. S....

Keeping an intimate relationship is challenging; common reasons are “Fading away enthusiasm,” followed by “Long work hours” and “Lack of personal time and space”

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The Challenges of Keeping an Intimate Relationship: An Evolutionary Examination. Menelaos Apostolou, Yan Wang. Evolutionary Psychology, Sept...