Thursday, January 21, 2021

Moral condemnation of recreational drug use seems related to a genetic trait in order to make more difficult a sexual strategy of being more into casual sex vs being more into a committed relationship

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Karinen, Annika, Laura Wesseldijk, Patrick Jern, and Joshua M. Tybur. 2021. “Sex, Drugs, and Genes: Illuminating the Moral Condemnation of R...

Self-esteem's importance is higher in women (vs men); and there are cultural differences, it is higher in Euro-Canadians (vs Asian-Canadians)

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Naïve beliefs about self-esteem's importance. Thomas I.Vaughan-Johnston, Jill A.Jacobson. Personality and Individual Differences, Volume...

Religiosity is associated with a more feminine intelligence profile: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth, 1979

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Religiosity is associated with a more feminine intelligence profile: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth, 1979. Edward Du...

Individuals avoid asking sensitive questions due to concerns about others’ discomfort and about impression management, overestimating the interpersonal costs of asking such questions (a forecasting error)

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The (better than expected) consequences of asking sensitive questions. Einav Hart, Eric M. Van Epps, Maurice E. Schweitzer. Organizational B...

Placed in the correct configuration relative to a metal fork, a metal knife appears transparent, with some observers experiencing a bistable percept in which transparency alternates with reflective appearance

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The Fork-and-Knife Illusion. Blaise Balas, Benjamin Balas. Perception, January 20, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006620988847 Abstract: ...

Trade in sex is legal in Denmark, but a majority of respondents hold negative attitudes towards it, women finding transactional sex less acceptable than men do

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Predicting Attitudes Towards Transactional Sex: The Interactive Relationship Between Gender and Attitudes on Sexual Behaviour. Michael A. Ha...

We find that all analyzed dietary indices have a heritable component, suggesting that there is a genetic predisposition regulating what you eat

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Genetic and Environmental Influences of Dietary Indices in a UK Female Twin Cohort. Olatz Mompeo et al. Twin Research and Human Genetics, Ja...

Rolf Degen summarizing... Across countries, men tend to exhibit lower total fertility rates than women

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Male–Female Fertility Differentials Across 17 High-Income Countries: Insights From A New Data Resource. Christian Dudel & Sebastian Klüs...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Experiencing and receiving expressions of gratitude were associated with greater sexual communal strength (the extent to which people are motivated to be responsive to their partner’s sexual needs)

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Gratitude Increases the Motivation to Fulfill a Partner’s Sexual Needs. Ashlyn Brady et al. Social Psychological and Personality Science, Ap...

Those who engaged in consensual nonmonogamy experienced significant increases in sexual satisfaction, particularly if they did so with the explicit goal of addressing sexual incompatibilities within their relationships

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A Prospective Investigation of the Decision to Open Up a Romantic Relationship. Annelise Parkes Murphy, Samantha Joel, Amy Muise. Social Psy...

American men (but not women) who reported engaging in same-sex sex in the previous year were more likely than other men to say they were unhappy, but only if they viewed homosexuality as “always wrong”

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Sex and Its Discontents: How Moral Incongruence Connects Same-Sex and Non-Marital Sexual Activity with Unhappiness. Samuel L. Perry, Joshua ...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Rolf Degen summarizing... The expression of moral outrage on Twitter is at least partly maintained by reinforcement learning, the reaping of social rewards

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Brady, William J., Killian L. McLoughlin, Tuan N. Doan, and Molly Crockett. 2021. “How Social Learning Amplifies Moral Outrage Expression in...

If platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter are the engines of social media use, what is the gasoline? The answer can be found in the psychological dynamics behind consumer habit formation & performance

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Habits and the electronic herd: The psychology behind social media’s successes and failures. Ian A. Anderson  Wendy Wood. Consumer Psycholog...

People sometimes treat the moral value of a belief as an independent justification for belief, and on that basis, sometimes prescribe evidentially poor beliefs to others

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Morality justifies motivated reasoning in the folk ethics of belief. Corey Cusimano, Tania Lombrozo. Cognition, January 19 2021, 104513. htt...