Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Comparing the effects of a mindfulness versus relaxation intervention on romantic relationship wellbeing: No significant differences

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Comparing the effects of a mindfulness versus relaxation intervention on romantic relationship wellbeing. Johan C. Karremans, Gesa Kappen, M...

The vast majority students in a college sample believe that students can simply be bad test-takers; the majority also believe that they themselves are bad test-takers, a perspective which is maladaptive in light of relevant research

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The Bad Test-Taker Identity. Jeffrey D. Holmes. Teaching of Psychology, December 29, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1177/0098628320979884 Abstract...

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,...