Monday, November 23, 2020

Sexual Minorities: Increased hours per day on Twitter and the greater likelihood of making downward social comparisons were the primary social media behaviors

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A Comparison of Social Media Behaviors Between Sexual Minorities and Heterosexual Individuals. Sierra Kaiser  et al. Computers in Human Beha...
Sunday, November 22, 2020

The preference for music genres did not contribute to the happiness of any country; happiness increased with lesser Homicide rates and higher Substance abuse

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Kapoor, Ishaan, Junmoni Borgohain, and Manas K. Mandal. 2020. “Can Music Genre Determine the Happiness of a Country?.” PsyArXiv. November 22...

Does Self-rated Attractiveness Predict Women’s Preferences for Facial Masculinity? Data from an Arab Sample

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Alharbi, Sarah A., Iris J. Holzleitner, Anthony J. Lee, Selahattin A. Saribay, and Benedict C. Jones. 2020. “Does Self-rated Attractiveness ...
Saturday, November 21, 2020

Sexual selection appears to have shaped the acoustic signals of diverse species, including humans; deep, resonant vocalizations in particular may function in attracting mates and/or intimidating same-sex competitors

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Linking human male vocal parameters to perceptions, body morphology, strength and hormonal profiles in contexts of sexual selection. Christo...

How Cheating in Romance Might Signal Positive Well-Being in Adolescents, favoring adolescents’ personal growth, because of the need to explore new sensations and feelings that arise during this period

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The Relationship Between the Motivation to Commit Infidelity and Negative Affect and Self-Esteem: How Cheating in Romance Might Signal Posit...

At least 89 nonhuman primate species eat meat; the main importance of meat is probably as a source of vitamins, minerals, and micronutrients

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Meat eating by nonhuman primates: A review and synthesis. David P. Watts. Journal of Human Evolution, Volume 149, December 2020, 102882. htt...

Gender differences in choosing to enter competitions: Focal random selection from a preselected pool removes the difference in competitiveness between men & women and does not dilute the qualifications of the entrants

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Focal random selection closes the gender gap in competitiveness. Joël Berger et al. Science Advances  Nov 20 2020:Vol. 6, no. 47, eabb2142. ...

From 2014... States with Democratic US Representatives on the House oversight committee received roughly 60,000 additional doses per legislator during the initial allocation period; the advantage dissipated after 3 weeks

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From 2014... Allocating Infection: The Political Economy of the Swine Flu (H1N1) Vaccine. Matt E Ryan. Economic Enquiry, Vol. 52, No. 1, Jan...

89% of smartphone interactions are initiated by users, only 11% by notifications; participants interact with their phones about every 5 minutes regardless of context

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Why Are Smartphones Disruptive? An Empirical Study of Smartphone Use in Real-Life Contexts. Maxi Heitmayer, Saadi Lahlou. Computers in Human...

Women reported refraining from sex despite experiencing desire (and having a willing partner) more often than men, & were more likely to endorse relationship goals factoring into their consideration to refrain

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Benning, Stephen D. 2020. “Why College Women and Men Refrain from Sex Despite Desire.” PsyArXiv. November 20. doi:10.31234/osf.io/gyxs2 Rolf...

We presented subject rats with three simultaneous choice alternatives: releasing a restrained conspecific, engaging a non-restrained conspecific, or not socializing; they found no preference for helping

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No preference for prosocial 'helping' behavior in rats with concurrent social interaction opportunities. Kelsey A Heslin, Michael F ...
Friday, November 20, 2020

Neither non-algorithmic nor algorithmically determined news contribute to higher levels of partisan polarization; & getting news from sites of algorithms-generated content corresponds with more political participation

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Exploring the Effects of Algorithm-Driven News Sources on Political Behavior and Polarization. Jessica T. Feezell, John K. Wagner, Meredith ...

Individuals are largely incapable of distinguishing between AI- and human-generated text; partisanship affects the perceived credibility of the story; and exposure to the text does little to change individuals’ policy views

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All the News That’s Fit to Fabricate: AI-Generated Text as a Tool of Media Misinformation. Sarah Kreps, R. Miles McCain and Miles Brundage. ...

Men in same-sex couples are 12% points less likely to have completed a bachelor’s degree in a STEM field compared to men in different sex couples, a bigger gap than the STEM degree gap between all white & black men

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Turing’s children: Representation of sexual minorities in STEM. Dario Sansone, Christopher S. Carpenter. PLoS One, Nov 18 2020. https://jour...
Thursday, November 19, 2020

Scale usage correction procedures to enhance the cross-cultural comparability of Likert scale data: Scores were least affected for females who did not repeat a grade and students with higher math achievement

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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....

Do Links Between Personality and Life Outcomes Generalize? Testing the Robustness of Trait–Outcome Associations Across Gender, Age, Ethnicity, and Analytic Approaches

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Do Links Between Personality and Life Outcomes Generalize? Testing the Robustness of Trait–Outcome Associations Across Gender, Age, Ethnicit...

Consumers higher in motivations to make sense of their environments tend to detect persuasion where there is none; manipulation beliefs are related, inter alia, to conspiracy ideation & desbelief of free will

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Khon, Zarema, Samuel G. B. Johnson, and Haiming Hang. 2020. “Lay Theories of Manipulation: Do Consumers Believe They Are Susceptible to Mark...

Extreme Speakers on Campus: Contrary to earlier studies of political tolerance, this study finds that Republicans (and ideological conservatives) are slightly more tolerant of extreme speech than are Democrats and liberals

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The Limits of Tolerance: Extreme Speakers on Campus. Anna Boch. Social Problems, spaa019, June 18 2020. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spaa0...

Trends in US Income and Wealth Inequality: David Splinter's Reply To Saez And Zucman (2020)

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Trends in US Income and Wealth Inequality: Revising After the Revisionists. David Splinter. November 17, 2020. http://www.davidsplinter.com/...

People in lockdown thought significantly less often about missing their freedom than did first-time prisoners, were significantly less engaged in a range of daily activities, & reported feeling more hopeless than them

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Are People Experiencing the ‘Pains of Imprisonment’ During the COVID-19 Lockdown? Mandeep K. Dhami, Leonardo Weiss-Cohen and Peter Ayton. Fr...

You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling: Using the 1980 to 2016 American National Election Studies, we find that women are more affectively polarized than men, working indirectly through political identities and issue positions

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You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling: How Gender Shapes Affective Polarization. Heather Louise Ondercin, Mary Kate Lizotte. American Politics Res...
Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Disinformation can covertly modify the unconscious behavior of individuals; fake news can target implicit attitudes and emotions; current mitigation methods do not prevent behavior modification

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Would you notice if fake news changed your behavior? An experiment on the unconscious effects of disinformation. Zach Bastick. Computers in ...

Behavior when matches are held on closed doors: Decisions of fouls, yellow cards, red cards & penalties that tend to favor home teams in normal matches, are much more balanced without the crowd pressing on referees

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Social Pressure in the Stadiums: Do Agents Change Behavior without Crowd Support? Vincenzo Scoppa. Journal of Economic Psychology, November ...

Randomized Controlled Trial of Bt Eggplant in Bangla: Bt brinjal raises yields by 51%, reduces pesticide costs by 37.5%, increases 128% net revenues, reduces pesticides toxicity above 70%

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The Impacts of GM Foods: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial of Bt Eggplant in Bangladesh. Akhter U. Ahmed  John Hoddinott  Naveen Ab...

Overall, Democrats perceived more risk associated with COVID-19 than Republicans, including for getting infected, being hospitalized and dying if infected, as well as running out of money

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Political polarization in US residents’ COVID-19 risk perceptions, policy preferences, and protective behaviors. Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Htay...