Friday, January 29, 2021

Arab Countries: First large-scale multi-national survey to be conducted in Arab countries to investigate pornography viewing

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MA Eljawad, H Se'eda, S Ghozy, et al. Pornography Use Prevalence and Associated Factors in Arab Countries: A Multinational Cross-Section...
Thursday, January 28, 2021

Rolf Degen summarizing... Our memory helps preserve a rosy view, wiping out inconvenient truths about ourselves

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Optimistic Amnesia: How Online and Offline Processing Shape Belief Updating and Memory Biases in Immediate and Long-Term Optimism Biases. Zi...

We could thus find no link between handedness and depression

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Packheiser, Julian, Judith Schmitz, Gesa Berretz, Lena S. Pfeifer, Clara C. Stein, Marietta Papadatou-Pastou, Jutta Peterburs, et al. 2021. ...

To Avoid More Political Violence, Allow Americans To Escape Each Other's Control - Let people join with the like-minded to reject officials and laws that don’t suit them and to construct systems that do

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To Avoid More Political Violence, Allow Americans To Escape Each Other's Control. J D Tuccille. Reason, Jan 19 2021. https://reason.com/...

Receptivity to casual sexual requests: The more attractive the requester, the higher the proportion of agreement; heterosexuals were most impacted by the attractiveness of the target

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Receptivity to casual sexual requests. John E. Edlund ,Dailyn Q. Clark,Alissa M. Kalmus &Aquene Sausville. The Journal of Social Psychol...

Secular rituals might play a similar role to religious ones in fostering feelings of social connection and boosting positive affect

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Charles SJ, van Mulukom V, Brown JE, Watts F, Dunbar RIM, Farias M (2021) United on Sunday: The effects of secular rituals on social bonding...

Europe & marriage of the unequals: Authors confirm the decline of hypergamy as women gain advantage in education, with only 4 countries out of 27 showing some remnants of a male educational lead

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Educational assortative mating and the decline of hypergamy in 27 European countries: An examination of trends through cohorts. Dávid Erát. ...

People more receptive to bullshit grossly overestimate their ability to detect it and believe they are better able to detect it than others (i.e., “bullshit blind spot”)

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A bullshit blind spot? Dunning-Kruger effects in bullshit detection. Shane Littrell and Jonathan Fugelsang. Waterloo Univ., Jan 2021. https:...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Changes in sexual behavior during of the COVID-19 pandemic and physical distancing measures in single and partnered participants in Germany, Switzerland and Austria

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The disruptive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexual behavior of a German-speaking population. Z. Hille, U.C. Oezdemir, K.M. Beier, L. H...

The Impact of the Economy on Presidential Elections Throughout US History: Voters, we find, appear to judge incumbent presidents on the economy all the way back to George Washington

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The Impact of the Economy on Presidential Elections Throughout US History. Eric Guntermann, Gabriel S. Lenz & Jeffrey R. Myers. Politica...

Sperm donation: Mostly altruistic, donors favored anonymity; education level, conscientiousness, empathic concern were positively correlated to donation; age, & conservative and religious values were negatively associated

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Motivations and Attitudes of Men Towards Sperm Donation: Whom to Donate and Why? João Areias, Jorge Gato & Mariana Moura-Ramos. Sexualit...

We showed that 46% of the variability in sleep duration & 44% of the variability in sleep quality is genetically determined; the remaining variation in the sleep characteristics can mostly be attributed to the unique environment

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Heritability of Sleep Duration and Quality: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Desana Kocevska et al. Sleep Medicine Reviews, January 27...

Over just 10 years, both implicit and explicit male-science/female-arts and male-career/female-family stereotypes have shifted toward neutrality, weakening by 13%–19%, in all US regions & several other countries

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Patterns of Implicit and Explicit Stereotypes III: Long-Term Change in Gender Stereotypes. Tessa E. S. Charlesworth, Mahzarin R. Banaji. Soc...

Following Twitter: Anger, but not the other constructs, was distinctly reflected in followed accounts, and there was some indication of bias in predictions for women but not for racial/ethnic minorities

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Predicting Mental Health From Followed Accounts on Twitter. Cory Costello; Sanjay Srivastava; Reza Rejaie; Maureen Zalewski. Psychology (202...