Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Taller individuals were less supportive of government wealth redistribution overall, especially if they were wealthier; but effects were equally strong in males & females, inconsistent with current evolutionary theories

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Height is associated with more self-serving beliefs about wealth redistribution. Thomas Richardson. Evolution and Human Behavior, Dec 30 202...
Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Grandparents Raising Grandchildren generally experience a larger degree of adverse mental health outcomes than their non-parenting counterparts

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The Mental Health Well-Being of Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Susan J. Kelley, Deborah M. Whitl...

Most people do not reduce their meat consumption in the face of humanized food animals, instead switching to healthier meat dishes, to find something pardonable in the act

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Guilt of the Meat‐Eating Consumer: When Animal Anthropomorphism leads to Healthy Meat Dish Choices. JM Danny  Sunyee Yoon. Journal of Consum...

We found a reminiscence bump in adolescence (peaking around age 14) for both ratings of the autobiographical salience of songs featured in the charts during that period and the familiarity of these songs

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A Cross-Sectional Study of Reminiscence Bumps for Music-Related Memories in Adulthood. Kelly Jakubowski et al. Music & Science, October ...

Norwegian mating: Men were more selective in physical appearance, whereas women were more selective in all the other mate preferences (e.g., understanding, dominant, kind, intellectual, etc.)

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Norwegian Men and Women Value Similar Mate Traits in Short-Term Relationships. Mehmet Mehmetoglu, Ilmari Määttänen. Evolutionary Psychology,...

Work perceived as immoral is associated with higher wages; the least moral types are more likely to be employed in such work

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Sorting and wage premiums in immoral work. Florian H. Schneider, Fanny Brun and Roberto A. Weber. University of Zurich, Department of Econom...

Feminist men report having sex with women more recently than those who do not call themselves feminists; our study cannot answer whether some men adopt a feminist identity to increase their access to sexual partners

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Feminist Men and Sexual Behavior: Analyses of Men’s Sex with Women. Max Stick, Tina Fetner. Men and Masculinities, December 24, 2020. https:...

The Aesthetic Self. The Importance of Aesthetic Taste in Music and Art for Our Perceived Identity

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The Aesthetic Self. The Importance of Aesthetic Taste in Music and Art for Our Perceived Identity. Joerg Fingerhut,  Javier Gomez-Lavin, Cla...

Group size is more frequently two; four mechanisms that may help explain this finding are reciprocity, coordination, social exclusion, and reproduction

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Peperkoorn LS, Becker DV, Balliet D, Columbus S, Molho C, Van Lange PAM (2020) The prevalence of dyads in social life. PLoS ONE 15(12): e024...