Tuesday, February 9, 2021

People with adverse childhood conditions had faster life history strategies and higher Dark Triad traits, and were more prone to be inflamed (i.e., sexually transmitted infections)

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Childhood adversity is associated with adulthood white blood cell count through narcissism. Yaoguo Geng  et al. Personality and Individual D...

No differences in subjective well-being & limited differences in personality traits between childfree individuals & parents, not-yet-parents, or childless individuals; politically, childfree individuals were more liberal than parents

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Neal, Jennifer W., and Zachary Neal. 2021. “Who Are the Childfree?.” PsyArXiv. February 9. doi:10.31234/osf.io/57bjr Abstract Objective: Thi...

Self-Reported Symptoms of COVID-19, Including Symptoms Most Predictive of SARS-CoV-2 Infection, Are Heritable In Some Degree

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Self-Reported Symptoms of COVID-19, Including Symptoms Most Predictive of SARS-CoV-2 Infection, Are Heritable. Frances M. K. Williams. Twin ...

Superintelligence Cannot be Contained: Lessons from Computability Theory

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Superintelligence Cannot be Contained: Lessons from Computability Theory. Manuel Alfonseca et al. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Researc...

Moreover, they believe that propaganda reduces other citizens’ willingness to protest, which in turn reduces their own willingness to protest; propaganda's power may lie more in the social perceptions & uncertainty it creates

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Propaganda, Presumed Influence, and Collective Protest. Haifeng Huang & Nicholas Cruz. Political Behavior, Feb 8 2021. https://rd.spring...

A general theory about how sexual desires develop is provided that may explain how something, including another person, becomes an object of sexual desire

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High and Tight, Please: Self-explanations for Experiencing Short Haircuts as Erotic. Robert W. Mitchell. Sexuality & Culture, Feb 9 2021...

Sharing food can reduce the perceived fattening potential of a consumption episode without biasing caloric estimates, even when explicit caloric information is provided

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Your Fries are Less Fattening than Mine: How Food Sharing Biases Fattening Judgments Without Biasing Caloric Estimates. Nükhet Taylor  Theod...

Self-perceived smile attractiveness: The increased strength of the effect in females provides support to the notion that females are overall more aware of their smile and the impact it has on their public image

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Smile dimensions affect self-perceived smile attractiveness. Simone Horn, Natalia Matuszewska, Nikolaos Gkantidis, Carlalberta Verna & G...

Moderate, naturally occurring ethanol concentration of 4% results in increased Drosophila larval fitness; but higher concentrations of 10% & 20% ethanol, which rarely or never appear in nature, increase mortality

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Ethanol-guided behavior in Drosophila larvae. Isabell Schumann et al. bioRxiv, Feb 8 2021. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.07.430116 Rolf De...
Monday, February 8, 2021

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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