Sunday, September 6, 2020

Unhappiness is hill-shaped in age and the average age where the maximum occurs is 49 with or without controls

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Unhappiness and age. David G. Blanchflower. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 176, August 2020, Pages 461-488. https:/...

Men Fake Orgasms Too - Research suggests that men fake orgasm in one out of four sexual encounters

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Men Fake Orgasms Too - Research suggests that men fake orgasm in one out of four sexual encounters. Berit Brogaard. Psychology Today, Sep 04...

The tallest men have the most children & men in the lowest two deciles of height have significantly lower fertility; the strong associations persist even among men who married

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The Influence of Health in Early Adulthood on Male Fertility. Kieron Barclay  Martin Kolk. Population and Development Review, August 25 2020...
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...