Thursday, January 7, 2021

The Psychology, Geography, and Architecture of Horror: How Places Creep Us Out

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The Psychology, Geography, and Architecture of Horror: How Places Creep Us Out. Francis T. McAndrew. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Cul...

Women: Of factors like sexual orientation/shame/pride/assertiveness/& attitudes (permissiveness, birth control &c), and endorsement of traditional gender roles & of the double standard, assertiveness better predicts more orgasms

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The Big “O”: Sociocultural Influences on Orgasm Frequency and Sexual Satisfaction in Women. Anna Maree Lentz & Yuliana Zaikman. Sexualit...

Drosophila brain: The systems that mediate the pleasure component of reward in mammals, including those involving the endogenous opioid & endocannabinoid systems, are unlikely to be present in insects

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Drosophila reward system - A summary of current knowledge. Jiri Dvoracek, Dalibor KodrIk. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, January ...

Comparison of the Hadza hunter-gatherers & non-human primates: The sexual division of labour likely co-evolved with increased sex differences in spatial behaviour and landscape use

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Gendered movement ecology and landscape use in Hadza hunter-gatherers. Brian M. Wood, Jacob A. Harris, David A. Raichlen, Herman Pontzer, Ka...

Sadness pervades affective responses to death; words chosen to represent perceptions of others’ feelings towards death suggest that we perceived others as feeling more negative about death than they we do ourselves

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Miller-Lewis LR, Lewis TW, Tieman J, Rawlings D, Parker D, Sanderson CR (2021) Words describing feelings about death: A comparison of sentim...

Born to Shop? Past research indicating that deal-prone consumers are likely to have one or more deal-prone parents has suggested that there may be genetic factors involved in the appeal of retail sales promotions

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Born to Shop? A Genetic Component of Deal Proneness. Robert M. Schindler, Vishal Lala, and Jeanette E. Taylor. Journal of the Association fo...
Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Maybe rodents regulate a ratio of protein to dietary carbohydrates in order to achieve metabolic benefits (reduced insulin levels, improved blood glucose control, and, in the long term, reduced weight & fat gain)

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What does self‐selection of dietary proteins in rats tell us about protein requirements and body weight control? Patrick C. Even  Joséphine ...

Chimpanzees: Adolescent males mated with nulliparous females and reproduced primarily with these first-time mothers, who are not preferred as mating partners by older males

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The development of affiliative and coercive reproductive tactics in male chimpanzees. Rachna B. Reddy, Kevin E. Langergraber, Aaron A. Sande...