Tuesday, November 3, 2020

The effect of eyelash length on attractiveness: While eyelashes of an optimum ratio are considered more attractive, this preference is not solely a biologically adaptive phenomenon and is influenced by cultural norms

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Pazhoohi, F., & Kingstone, A. (2020). The effect of eyelash length on attractiveness: A previously uninvestigated indicator of beauty. E...

Participants most wished to avoid information about their partners’ prior sexual behavior or infidelity, as well as their partners’ prejudices; threats to the self and relationship may influence the decision to avoid information

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Avoiding information about one’s romantic partner. Maryam Hussain et al. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, November 3, 2020. htt...

Overnighting – staying overnight at someone else’s home or having them stay overnight at your place -- is widespread throughout the epidemic, over half American adults had at least one overnight

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Kelley, Jonathan, MDR Evans, and Sarah Kelley. 2020. “Let's Spend the Night Togheter: A Challenge for Medically Optimal Coronavirus Soci...

Playing With Fear: A Field Study in Recreational Horror

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Playing With Fear: A Field Study in Recreational Horror. Marc Malmdorf Andersen et al. Psychological Science, November 2, 2020. https://doi....

Most Democrats are very confident in a Biden win while most Republicans are very confident in a Trump win; also, respondents predict a fairly rosy economic scenario if their preferred candidate wins but a dire one otherwise

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Coibion, Olivier and Gorodnichenko, Yuriy and Weber, Michael, Political Polarization and Expected Economic Outcomes (October 27, 2020). Univ...

Secularism, even in small amounts, is associated with population stagnation or even decline, whereas highly religious countries have higher fertility rates that promote population growth

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Schnabel, Landon. 2016. “Secularism and Fertility Worldwide.” SocArXiv. July 19. doi:10.31235/osf.io/pvwpy Rolf Degen's take: https://tw...

The narcissistic wine consumer: How Social Attractiveness Associated with Wine Prompts Narcissists to Engage in Wine Consumption

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The narcissistic wine consumer: How Social Attractiveness Associated with Wine Prompts Narcissists to Engage in Wine Consumption. Renaud Lun...

Physical strength & attractiveness positively predicted Extraversion & specific facets; strength negatve predicted Emotionality & fearfulness

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Functional coordination of personality strategies with physical strength and attractiveness: A multi-sample investigation at the HEXACO face...
Monday, November 2, 2020

Physical attractiveness: Not all implicit biases are negative, some traits foster positive unfairness, advantaging some candidates over others; mask wearing is appropriate may play some role in mitigating attractiveness bias

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Guarding Against Implicit Bias: Attractiveness. Harrison L. Love, Richard B. Gunderman. Journal of the American College of Radiology, Octobe...

Combine people’s 1st estimate with their 2d estimate made from the perspective of a person they often disagree with; this produces highly accurate inner crowds, as compared to when people simply make a second guess

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van de Calseyde, Philippe, and Emir Efendic. 2019. “Taking a Disagreeing Perspective Improves the Accuracy of People’s Quantitative Estimate...

We already knew... Leaving the Loners Alone: Preference for Solitude Evokes Ostracism

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Leaving the Loners Alone: Dispositional Preference for Solitude Evokes Ostracism. Dongning Ren, Anthony M. Evans. Personality and Social Psy...

Novel techniquest (exorcism) instead of the Salem witchcraft convictions could have conferred even greater wealth for the Puritan church; but exorcism was inferior to executions for the congregant-maximizing Puritan ministers

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The economics of Puritanism’s treatment of bewitchment: exorcism as a potential market-pull innovation? Franklin G. Mixon Jr. & Kamal P....

The Accuracy and of Personality Impressions from Faces, and the meta-accuracy (i.e., whether they are aware of their judgment accuracy), are both low

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Jaeger, Bastian, Willem Sleegers, Julia Stern, Lars Penke, and Alex L. Jones. 2020. “The Accuracy and Meta-accuracy of Personality Impressio...
Sunday, November 1, 2020

Descriptive, Predictive and Explanatory Personality Research: Different Goals, Different Approaches, but a Shared Need to Move Beyond the Big Few Traits

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Mõttus, René, Dustin Wood, David M. Condon, Mitja Back, Anna Baumert, Giulio Costantini, Sacha Epskamp, et al. 2020. “Descriptive, Predictiv...

If it was possible to be presented with a comprehensive list of everyone who has thought about you while having sex, would you want to see it?; his guess is that the list would destroy us all

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The Masturbation List - A thought experiment. Jack Pemment. Psychology Today, Oct 31, 2020. https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/blame-...
Saturday, October 31, 2020

Gender gap in organizations of excellence... Studying an organized criminal network shows women occupying structural positions generally associated with a lack of power; overall, women are less present in the network

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A Man’s world? Comparing the structural positions of men and women in an organized criminal network. Tomáš Diviák, James A. Coutinho & A...