Thursday, January 14, 2021

Oxford guys think that, in 2030, Africa total electricity generation will more than double current levels, & fossil fuels will account for 62pct of all generated electricity; of 2,500 power plants, about half will be coal & gas

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A machine-learning approach to predicting Africa’s electricity mix based on planned power plants and their chances of success. Galina Alova,...

When news is repeatedly retold it undergoes a stylistic transformation (disagreeable personalization), wherein original facts are increasingly supplanted by opinions and interpretations, with a slant toward negativity

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The Dynamics of Distortion: How Successive Summarization Alters the Retelling of News. Shiri Melumad, Robert Meyer, Yoon Duk Kim. Journal of...

Most women do not want a career in STEM and nor do most men; why should the small fraction of women who do want such a career be the same size as the small fraction of men?

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Men, women and STEM: Why the differences and what should be done? Steve Stewart-Williams, Lewis G Halsey. European Journal of Personality, J...

People regard a large number of friends as a signal of social capital that increases their interpersonal attractiveness, but they personally prefer to make friends with someone who has a relatively small number of friends

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Si, K., Dai, X., & Wyer, R. S., Jr. (2021). The friend number paradox. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120(1), 84–98, Jan ...

Universality of the Triangular Theory of Love: Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the Triangular Love Scale in 25 Countries

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Universality of the Triangular Theory of Love: Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the Triangular Love Scale in 25 Countries. Piotr So...

Extramarital Sex among Chinese Men and Women: Among married adults aged 20–59, the occurrence rate of EMS nearly tripled over the period 2000–2015, going from 12.9% to 33.4% for men, & from 4.7% to 11.4% for women

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Prevalence and Patterns of Extramarital Sex among Chinese Men and Women: 2000-2015. Yueyun Zhang, Xin Wang & Suiming Pan. The Journal of...
Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Understanding Sugaring, the World of Sugar Daddies and Sugar Babies: Participants perceived sugar dating to be drama-free, casual, mutually beneficial and different from conventional romantic relationships

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Sugaring: Understanding the World of Sugar Daddies and Sugar Babies. Srushti Upadhyay. The Journal of Sex Research, Jan 12 2021. https://www...

Using Dutch registry and U.S. survey data, we show that couples with daughters face higher risks of divorce, but only when daughters are 13 to 18 years old

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Daughters and Divorce. Jan Kabátek, David C Ribar. The Economic Journal, ueaa140, December 30 2020. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaa140 Abstr...
Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Pornography Consumption and Attitudes Towards Pornography Legality Predict Attitudes of Sexual Equality

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Pornography Consumption and Attitudes Towards Pornography Legality Predict Attitudes of Sexual Equality. David Speed  et al. The Journal of ...

Ability emotional intelligence was a stronger predictor of performance in humanities than science; mechanisms under the EI/performance link can be regulating academic emotions & building social relationships at school

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MacCann, C., Jiang, Y., Brown, L. E. R., Double, K. S., Bucich, M., & Minbashian, A. (2020). Emotional intelligence predicts academic pe...