Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Work from a more diverse array of societies suggests there may be important variation in how much people rely on mental states, with people in some societies judging accidental harms just as harshly as intentional ones

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Kinship intensity and the use of mental states in moral judgment across societies. Cameron M. Curtin et al. Evolution and Human Behavior, Vo...

Feedback Between Psychological Science and Policy in the Context of Same-Sex Couples

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Feedback Between Psychological Science and Policy in the Context of Same-Sex Couples. Adam W. Fingerhut, David M. Frost. Policy Insights fro...

Marriage does not relate to major histocompatibility complex: a genetic analysis based on 3691 couples

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Marriage does not relate to major histocompatibility complex: a genetic analysis based on 3691 couples. Ilona Croy, Gerhard Ritschel, Denise...

Neighbourhood wealth, not urbanicity or population density, predicts prosociality towards strangers

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Neighbourhood wealth, not urbanicity, predicts prosociality towards strangers. Elena Zwirner and Nichola Raihani. Proceedings of the Royal S...

Gay men: Having older brothers, older sisters, & being an only-child increase in different amounts the probability of being gay

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Reassessing the Effect of Older Sisters on Sexual Orientation in Men. Ray Blanchard & Richard A. Lippa. Archives of Sexual Behavior, Oct...

References to high‐risk drinking persist during the pandemic despite restrictions on large social gatherings; more alcohol‐related blackout tweets were written between March 13th and April 24th in 2020 than 2019

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Describing the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on alcohol‐induced blackout tweets. Rose Marie Ward  Benjamin C. Riordan  Jennifer E. Merrill...

A main conclusion of previous research on homogamy among romantic couples is that “matching partners are far from random”; this paper disagrees

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Homogamy in Gender Role Attitudes Among Young Couples: Evidence from Germany. Ansgar Hudde. KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozi...

Marginally significant: Boys might find solo play less rewarding than joint play, whereas girls find solo and joint play equally rewarding

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Exploring the Benefits of Doll Play Through Neuroscience. Salim Hashmi, Ross E. Vanderwert, Hope A. Price & Sarah A. Gerson. Front. Hum....

Both men and women who played a violent game had significantly lower self-perceived performance, and as a result, reported a lower self-perceived mate value

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Kasumovic, M. M., Hatcher, E., Blake, K. R., & Denson, T. F. (2020). Performance in video games affects self-perceived mate value and ma...
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...