Tuesday, October 6, 2020

COVID-19: Joint pornography use was associated with more sex quality & more satisfaction & intimacy with their partners, which in turn was associated with better perceived physical health & better sleep quality

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Rodrigues, David L., and Joana Martins. 2020. “Personal and Relational Outcomes of Online Pornography Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Psy...

Rolf Degen summarizing... Psychology students were easily tricked into believing that they had witnessed a genuine paranormal event

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Talking to the Dead in the Classroom: How a Supposedly Psychic Event Impacts Beliefs and Feelings. Lise Lesaffre et al. Psychological Report...

We are able to recognise very subtle differences between facial expressions even for the shortest presentation time; we can recognise these expressions based on information contained in the eye region only

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In the Blink of an Eye: Reading Mental States From Briefly Presented Eye Regions. Gunnar Schmidtmann et al. i-Perception, October 5, 2020. h...

Does Parental Separation Lower Genetic Influences on Children's School Performance?

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Does Parental Separation Lower Genetic Influences on Children's School Performance? Tina Baier  Zachary Van Winkle. Journal of Marriage ...

Low contact frequency was associated with poor health & low survival rates; but increasing the frequency of social interactions beyond a moderate level was no longer associated with better health & longevity

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Is More Always Better? Examining the Nonlinear Association of Social Contact Frequency With Physical Health and Longevity. Olga Stavrova, Do...

While offering a new understanding of the coevolution of genes, culture, and human behavior, niche‐construction models also invoke multivariate causality, which require multiple time series to resolve

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Genes, culture, and the human niche: An overview. Michael J. O'Brien  R. Alexander Bentley. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and...

Evolution provides a critical foundation for proposing why men’s neurobiological and hormonal systems (testosterone) would have the functional capacity to respond to certain forms of partnering and parenting

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Gettler L.T. (2020) Exploring Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Fatherhood and Paternal Biology: Testosterone as an Exemplar. In: Fitzgeral...

Individuals who perceived their competitors to be of high mate-value were more supportive of traditional gender roles and, only for men, more opposed to promiscuity and sexual liberalism

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Does the Quality of Mating Competitors Affect Socio-Political Attitudes? An Experimental Test. Francesca R. Luberti, Khandis R. Blake & ...

It sounds like food: Phonotaxis of a diurnal lizard -- There is a complex interaction between the Balearic lizard, Podarcis lilfordi and the dead horse arum, Helicodiceros muscivorus

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Pérez-Cembranos A and Pérez-Mellado V. (2020). It sounds like food: Phonotaxis of a diurnal lizard. Behavioural Processes 179:104217. DOI: 1...
Monday, October 5, 2020

Are there dedicated female neurons for saying no to sex? In the sophisticated fly Drosophila, there are.

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Neuroscience: The Female Art of Saying No. Anne C.von Philipsborn. Current Biology, Volume 30, Issue 19, October 5 2020, Pages R1080-R1083. ...

Contrary to the common impression, the U.S. public is largely uninformed rather than misinformed of a wide range of factual claims verified by journalists

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The Value of Not Knowing: Partisan Cue-Taking and Belief Updating of the Uninformed, the Ambiguous, and the Misinformed. Jianing Li, Michael...