Monday, October 19, 2020

Touch is perceived as more pleasant when caressing touch is paired with attractive, compared to unattractive, faces; attractive faces particularly enhance subjective and autonomic responses to slow caresses

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Hedonic responses to touch are modulated by the perceived attractiveness of the caresser. Giovanni Novembre, Roberta Etzi, India Morrison. N...

Whereas people with low self-esteem display insight into people with high self-esteem, people with high self-esteem fail to reciprocate

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Asymmetries in Mutual Understanding: People With Low Status, Power, and Self-Esteem Understand Better Than They Are Understood. Sanaz Talaif...

Childhood Abuse Classes for Incarcerated Men and Women: Are There Unique Gender Patterns in Abuse Classes?

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Childhood Abuse Classes for Incarcerated Men and Women: Are There Unique Gender Patterns in Abuse Classes? Nancy Wolff et al. Journal of Int...

Cross–cultural Validity of the Reactive–Proactive Aggression Questionnaire Among Adults Across Five Countries

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Cross–cultural Validity of the Reactive–Proactive Aggression Questionnaire Among Adults Across Five Countries. Bojana M. Dinić et al. Journa...

PISA stats: An Examination of Different Scale Usage Correction Procedures to Enhance Cross-Cultural Data Comparability

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An Examination of Different Scale Usage Correction Procedures to Enhance Cross-Cultural Data Comparability. Jia He, Joanne M. Chung, Fons J....
Sunday, October 18, 2020

An evolutionary account for why men have to wait between orgasms

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Why Women Can Have Multiple Orgasms and Men Cannot. Glenn Geher. Psychology Today, Oct 18, 2020. https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/d...

Highly convincing evidence that mental health factors are associated with obesity; suggestive evidence that a range of cognitive and psychosocial factors are also; associations tend to be small in statistical size

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The psychology of obesity: An umbrella review and evidence-based map of the psychological correlates of heavier body weight. Eric Robinson e...

Monopoly Myths: Is Concentration Eroding Labor’s Share of National Income?

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Monopoly Myths: Is Concentration Eroding Labor’s Share of National Income? Joe Kennedy. ITIF, October 13, 2020. https://itif.org/publication...

On Bari Weiss comments about the current situation (Stop Being Shocked, Oct 15 2020)

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On Bari Weiss comments about the current situation (Stop Being Shocked, Oct 15 2020 , https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/stop-...

A smaller proportion of males reported having a best friend (85% vs 98% of females); the quality of these relationships seemed to be a great deal less intimate than was the case for females

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Sex Differences in Intimacy Levels in Best Friendships and Romantic Partnerships. Eiluned Pearce, Anna Machin & Robin I. M. Dunbar. Adap...

Why do animals sometimes kill each other's offspring? Among hyenas, infanticide is a leading source of juvenile mortality; in all observed cases, killers were adult females, frequently higher-ranking than the mothers

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Infanticide by females is a leading source of juvenile mortality in a large social carnivore. Ally Kelsey Brown et al. , Oct 17 2020. https:...

We attribute our own phone use to positive social motives & overestimate our ability to multitask compared to others; we may fail to recognize the negative consequences of phone use

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Barrick, Elyssa M., Diana Tamir, and Alixandra Barasch. 2020. “The Unexpected Social Consequences of Diverting Attention to Our Phones.” Psy...
Saturday, October 17, 2020

Safe Space Where to Imagine Futures

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Safe Space Where to Imagine Futures 0  Why this group Members of this group are sick of polarization and efforts to convert us to others...