Tuesday, January 26, 2021

We investigate the often-stated, but disputed claim in the political science and political communication literature that increasing media choice widens inequalities in political knowledge, & find little support

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Increased Media Choice and Political Knowledge Gaps: A Comparative Longitudinal Study of 18 Established Democracies 1995-2015. Atle Haugsgje...

Sometimes, individuals strategically avoid information to hold particular beliefs or to take certain actions—such as behaving selfishly—with lower image costs; more important are a desire to avoid interpersonal tradeoffs or bad news, & laziness

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Information Avoidance and Image Concerns. Christine L. Exley & Judd B. Kessler. NBER Working Paper 28376, January 2021. DOI 10.3386/w283...

On the worldviews of the new tech elite: A social group that shares particular views of the world, which in this case means meritocratic, missionary, and inconsistent democratic ideology

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Brockmann H, Drews W, Torpey J (2021) A class for itself? On the worldviews of the new tech elite. PLoS ONE 16(1): e0244071. https://doi.org...

Consistently growing outside of the relationship in ways that are not shared with a romantic partner may reduce feelings of closeness and connection, and ultimately passion

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Carswell, K. L., Muise, A., Harasymchuk, C., Horne, R. M., Visserman, M. L., & Impett, E. A. (2021). Growing desire or growing apart? Co...

Indonesia: Women in self-choice marriages had more offspring (controlling for marriage duration) than woman in arranged marriages

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Arranged Marriage, Partner Traits and Parental Investment: Examining the Reproductive Compensation Hypothesis in Humans. Annemarie M. Hasnai...

Sex Differences in Spatial Activity & Anxiety Levels, COVID-19: Women minimize their mobility & outdoor contacts; men's wariness was less associated with the novel virus threat, but to potentical economic losses

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Sex Differences in Spatial Activity and Anxiety Levels in the COVID-19 Pandemic from Evolutionary Perspective. Olga Semenova, Julia Apalkova...

The Nation... The Rise and Fall of the ‘Steele Dossier.’

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The Rise and Fall of the ‘Steele Dossier.’ A case study in mass hysteria and media credulity. Aaron Maté. The Nation, Jan 11 2021. https://w...

From 2018... At lower levels of stress, higher average testosterone corresponded to higher average solitary desire for men, but lower solitary desire on average for women

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From 2018... Average Associations Between Sexual Desire, Testosterone, and Stress in Women and Men Over Time. Jessica C. Raisanen, Sara B. C...

Recent work on female competition: These authors research an alternative—the female rivalry hypothesis—that concealed ovulation benefited females by allowing them to avoid aggression from other females

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An agent-based model of the female rivalry hypothesis for concealed ovulation in humans. Jaimie Arona Krems, Scott Claessens, Melissa R. Fal...

The Nation... The Votes of Black Americans Should Count Twice: Vote reparations would empower us to replace oppressive institutions with life-affirming structures of equality

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The Votes of Black Americans Should Count Twice: Vote reparations would empower us to replace oppressive institutions with life-affirming st...

People believe that facts are essential for earning the respect of adversaries; wrong, sharing personal experiences about a political issue—especially experiences involving harm—is what helps to foster respect

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Personal experiences bridge moral and political divides better than facts. Emily Kubin et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science...

Sex differences of negative voice hearing experiences: Women have more negative emotions and report more distress due to voices, which may be rooted in differences in relating to voices

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Can Gender Differences in Distress Due to Difficult Voices Be Explained by Differences in Relating? Björn Schlier, Xenia Sitara, Clara Strau...

Stronger partisan identities drive stronger intentions to engage in political violence, but that this effect holds for partisans with the callous, manipulative personality indicated by high dark triad scores only

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Dark triad, partisanship and violent intentions in the United States. Oluf Gøtzsche-Astrup. Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 1...