Sunday, September 20, 2020

Older chimpanzees have more propensities to engage with others

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Shifting sociality during primate ageing. Zarin P. Machanda and Alexandra G. Rosati. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biol...

Culture among animals is most likely more widespread and pervasive than commonly thought and an important avenue to local adaptation; we most likely built upon a very broad, pre-existing cultural capacity

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Animal cultures: how we've only seen the tip of the iceberg. Caroline Schuppli and Carel P. van Schaik. Evolutionary Human Sciences, Vol...

Like psychology more broadly, developmental psychology has long suffered from a narrow focus on children from WEIRD societies

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Cross-cultural, developmental psychology: integrating approaches and key insights. Dorsa Amir, Katherine McAuliffe. Evolution and Human Beha...

Daily politics is a stressor: Understandably, people frequently tried to regulate their politics-induced emotions using cognitive strategies (reappraisal and distraction); this regulation predicted greater well-being

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Feinberg, Matthew, Brett Q. Ford, Sabrina Thai, Arasteh Gatchpazian, and Bethany Lassetter. 2020. “The Political Is Personal: Daily Politics...
Saturday, September 19, 2020

Longitudinal data from the Child Development Project: Parental psychological control perceived at age 16 predicts insecure attachment at age 18, which then predicts psychological intimate partner violence at age 24

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Psychological Intimate Partner Violence, Insecure Attachment, and Parental Psychological Control from Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood. So ...

93 math teachers grading exam papers: those who underestimated their own implicit stereotypes engaged in more pro-male discrimination compared to those who overestimated or accurately estimated them

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On the Origins of Gender-Biased Behavior: The Role of Explicit and Implicit Stereotypes. Eliana Avitzour, Adi Choen, Daphna Joel, Victor Lav...

We show evidence that a well-socialized companion cat was able to reproduce actions demonstrated by a human model

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Did we find a copycat? Do as I Do in a domestic cat (Felis catus). Claudia Fugazza, Andrea Sommese, Ákos Pogány & Ádám Miklósi. Animal C...

2016 US elections: “Born this way”-type beliefs in the innateness & immutability of sexual orientation did not significantly distinguish respondents’ support for presidential candidates or party affiliation

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Grzanka, P. R., Zeiders, K. H., Spengler, E. S., Hoyt, L. T., & Toomey, R. B. (2020). Do beliefs about sexual orientation predict voting...

Himba women who face greater resource constraints are less discriminating in the number of partners they are open to, & have stronger preferences for resource-related traits; number of dependants was an important predictor

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Resource demands reduce partner discrimination in Himba women. Sean P. Prall and Brooke A. Scelza. Evolutionary Human Sciences (2020), 2, e4...

First, Best, Forbidden and Worst Kisses: Memorable Experiences of Intimate Kisses Among U.S. Adults

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First, Best, Forbidden and Worst: Memorable Experiences of Intimate Kisses Among Heterosexual and Sexual Minority U.S. Adults. Kendra S. Was...
Friday, September 18, 2020

The findings suggest that the presence of two parents—or of a male parent—is not essential for children to flourish; family structure seems less influential in children’s adjustment than the quality of family relationships

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Golombok, S., Zadeh, S., Freeman, T., Lysons, J., & Foley, S. (2020). Single mothers by choice: Parenting and child adjustment in middle...