Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Rolf Degen summarizing... There was no connection between the attractiveness of the face and the voice, again casting doubt on the "good genes" theory of physical attractiveness

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Attractiveness and distinctiveness between speakers' voices in naturalistic speech and their faces are uncorrelated. Romi Zäske, Verena ...

People differ in how much they prioritize immediate rewards, including sociosexual opportunities, vs long-term goals; individual differences in sleep behaviors, and attitudes toward sleep, correspond with such differing priorities

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Live Fast, Die Young, and Sleep Later: Life History Strategy and Human Sleep Behavior. Vahe Dishakjian, Daniel M T Fessler, Adam Maxwell Spa...

The strongest predictors of antihero affinities were aggression, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy

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Greenwood, D., Ribieras, A., & Clifton, A. (2020). The dark side of antiheroes: Antisocial tendencies and affinity for morally ambiguous...

How Many People Have Ever Had a Threesome?

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How Many People Have Ever Had a Threesome? Justin J. Lehmiller. Psychology Today, De 8 2020. https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-m...

Complicated relationship between Machiavellianism and social-cognitive skill because Machiavellianism encompasses features that blend deficiency, proficiency, and average levels of social-cognitive skills

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Hart, W., Breeden, C. J., & Kinrade, C. (2020). Re-conceptualizing Machiavellianism and social-cognitive skills: Machiavellianism blends...
Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Loosening the GRIP (Gender Roles Inhibiting Prosociality) to Promote Gender Equality

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Loosening the GRIP (Gender Roles Inhibiting Prosociality) to Promote Gender Equality. Alyssa Croft. Personality and Social Psychology Review...

We show that family background matters significantly for children’s accumulation of wealth and investor behavior as adults, even when removing the genetic connection between children and the parents raising them

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Why do wealthy parents have wealthy children? Andreas Fagereng, Magne Mogstad, and Marte Rønning. Journal of Political Economy, Jun 2020. ht...

Reward valuation in social contexts is made relatively in reference to others; socially relative reward valuation triggers various ‘other-regarding’ emotions

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Socially relative reward valuation in the primate brain. Masaki Isoda. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, Volume 68, June 2021, Pages 15-22. h...

Considerate altruists were perceived to be more intelligent, easy going, creative, cooperative, sympathetic, wealthy and thought to be better parents

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Norman, Ian (2020) Distinguishing between altruistic behaviours: the desirability of considerate and heroic altruism and their relationship ...

The participants evaluated smiling faces as older in direct evaluations, regardless of the facial stimuli culture or their nationality, although they believed that smiling makes people look younger

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Yoshimura, Naoto, Koichi Morimoto, Mariko Murai, Yusaku Kihara, Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos, Veit Kubik, and Yuki Yamada. 2020. “Age of Smile: ...

Compliance with gender roles in risky behavior may be exacerbated in Western countries, where the level of road safety is higher and the need for compliance with traditional social roles is less emphasized

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Effect of Culture on Gender Differences in Risky Driver Behavior through Comparative Analysis of 32 Countries. Marie-Axelle Granié et al. Tr...

While men and women are both susceptible to motivated reasoning in general, men find it particularly attractive to believe that they outperformed others and distort information processing to favor their performance

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Gender Differences in Motivated Reasoning. Michael Thaler. arXiv Dec 2 2020, https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.01538 Men and women systematically d...

Those worried about getting ill in the epidemic made harsher moral judgments than those who were not worried, effect not restricted to transgressions involving purity, but also to those involving harm, fairness, authority, & loyalty

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Henderson, Robert K., and Simone Schnall. 2020. “Disease and Disapproval: COVID-19 Concern Is Related to Greater Moral Condemnation.” PsyArX...
Monday, December 7, 2020

Teachers with some factual knowledge of the brain were more easily believers of neuromyths; those who endorsed neuromyths were generally more confident in their answers than those who identified the myths

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Why do teachers believe educational neuromyths? Brenda Hughes, Karen A. Sullivan, Linda Gilmore. Trends in Neuroscience and Education, Volum...

Higher income is more consistently linked to how frequently individuals experience happiness than how intensely happy each episode is; in part because lower-income individuals spend more time engaged in passive leisure activities, reducing the frequency of positive affect

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Income More Reliably Predicts Frequent Than Intense Happiness. Jon M. Jachimowicz et al. Social Psychological and Personality Science, Decem...

Recent research involving birds, ‘enculturated’ chimpanzees, and humans suggests that the cognitive mechanisms that make imitation possible are constructed during development through social interaction

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Heyes, Cecilia. 2020. “Imitation Primer.” PsyArXiv. December 7. doi:10.31234/osf.io/tn34f Abstract: In this Primer, Cecilia Heyes explains w...

Many conservatives reject both gender equality & evolution of sex differences, embracing instead “naturally occurring” gender differences; many liberals reject evolved gender differences & naturally occurring gender differences, while nonetheless strongly endorsing evolution

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Lewandowsky, S., Woike, J. K., & Oberauer, K. (2020). Genesis or Evolution of Gender Differences? Worldview-Based Dilemmas in The Proces...