Monday, February 8, 2021

Gross Employment Effects in the Renewable Energy Industry in Germany 2000 to 2018 — Employment halved

›
Erneuerbare-Energien Branche und Beschäftigung: Vergangenheit, Gegenwart, Zukunft [Renewable energies sector and employment: past, present, ...

Selecting a long-term romantic partner is largely contingent upon identifying behavioral repertoires indicating an ability to foster individual & communal flourishing through benevolence & relational fidelity

›
Preliminary evidence for virtue as a cue to long-term mate value. Mitch Brown et al. Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 167, 1 D...

Ideological Asymmetries and the Determinants of Politically-Motivated Reasoning: We find little evidence for the asymmetry hypothesis

›
Ideological Asymmetries and the Determinants of Politically-Motivated Reasoning. Brian Guay, Christopher Johnston. Sep 1 2020. https://www.b...

We concluded the Google search engine may have shortcomings when used to obtain information on dietary supplements & cancer after we assessed the quality of online health and nutrition information

›
Using the Google™ Search Engine for Health Information: Is there a Problem? Case Study: Supplements for Cancer. Hannah C Cai, Leanne E King,...
Sunday, February 7, 2021

The Under-Utilization of Women’s Talent in Future Leadership Positions: Men supervise more people than women at work during their early-to-mid careers, regardless of their grade point averages (GPAs) in high school

›
The Under-Utilization of Women’s Talent: Academic Achievement and Future Leadership Positions. Yue Qian, Jill E Yavorsky. Social Forces, soa...

Avoiding information about the pandemic had larger effect sizes related to symptoms of psychopathology than acquiring information about the pandemic from any source

›
Amundsen, Ole M., Asle Hoffart, Sverre U. Johnson, and Omid V. Ebrahimi. 2021. “Information Dissemination and the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Rel...

Women in consensually non-monogamous relationships reported earlier pubertal development; CNM individuals also reported more social and ethical risk-taking, less aversion to germs, and greater interest in short-term mating

›
Life History and Multi-Partner Mating: A Novel Explanation for Moral Stigma Against Consensual Non-monogamy. Justin K. Mogilski et al. Front...

Dating apps users had a higher short-term mating orientation than non-users (more frequent behavior, higher desire, & more positive attitude); simultaneously, those apps seem not a bad (nor good) option for finding long-term love

›
Barrada JR, Castro A, Fernandez del Rio E, Ramos-Villagrasa PJ (2021) Do young dating app users and non-users differ in mating orientations?...

Comparison of fatigue-related impairment to drug and alcohol-related impairment: Findings suggest that work and driving performance is significantly impaired after less than 5 h prior sleep

›
How much sleep do you need? A comprehensive review of fatigue related impairment and the capacity to work or drive safely. D.Dawson M.Sprajc...

Evolutionary perspectives on the mechanistic underpinnings of personality

›
Chapter 19 - Evolutionary perspectives on the mechanistic underpinnings of personality. Aaron W. Lukaszewski. The Handbook of Personality Dy...

High neuroticism & low conscientiousness had the strongest link to dementia risk; low extraversion, openness, and agreeableness were also related to increased risk

›
Is Personality Associated with Dementia Risk? A Meta-Analytic Investigation. Damaris Aschwanden et al. Ageing Research Reviews, February 6 2...

We found that children were more likely to punish the perpetrator of selfishness than to compensate the victim - justice was more retributive than distributive

›
Children favor punishment over restoration. Katherine McAuliffe  Yarrow Dunham. Developmental Science, February 2 2021. https://doi.org/10.1...

Weak empirical support to say that problems with punishment (increases in escape & avoidance responses, punishment‐induced aggression, countercontrol, etc) are necessarily ubiquitous, long‐lasting, or specific to punishment

›
Punishment and its putative fallout: A reappraisal. Rafaela M. Fontes  Timothy A. Shahan. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavio, D...