Thursday, February 11, 2021

What people “see” with retinal prostheses? Fundamentally, qualitatively different than natural vision, all invoked electrical stimuli to describe the appearance of their percepts; the process never ceased to be cognitively fatiguing

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Erickson-Davis C, Korzybska H (2021) What do blind people “see” with retinal prostheses? Observations and qualitative reports of epiretinal ...

These results indicate that despite dexterity and visual constraints, pigs have the capacity to acquire a joystick-operated video-game task

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Acquisition of a Joystick-Operated Video Task by Pigs (Sus scrofa). Candace C. Croney1 and Sarah T. Boysen. Front. Psychol., February 11 202...

We find that sharing personal experiences about a political issue—especially experiences involving harm—help to foster respect via increased perceptions of rationality

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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...
Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Exercise-induced euphoria and anxiolysis are independent of direct occupancy of endogenous μ-opioid receptors binding; endocannabinoids are better candidates than endorphins to explain a runner's high in humans

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Exercise-induced euphoria and anxiolysis do not depend on endogenous opioids in humans. Michael Siebers et al. Psychoneuroendocrinology, Feb...

‘She doesn’t think that happens’: When heterosexual men say no to sex

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‘She doesn’t think that happens’: When heterosexual men say no to sex. Joni L  Meenagh. Sexualities, July 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1177/1...

Contemporary understandings of paleoanthropological data illustrate that the search for a line defining, or a specific point designating, “modern human” is problematic

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The ripples of modernity: How we can extend paleoanthropology with the extended evolutionary synthesis. Marc Kissel  AgustÍn Fuentes. Evolut...

500 Harlequin romance novel cover images, published from 1953 to 2014: Exploring the interactions among women’s evolved mating behaviors & sociocultural norm changes; increasing explicitness reflects permissiveness shifts

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Fisher, M. L., & Meredith, T. (2021). Evolutionary and sociocultural themes in cover art on harlequin romance novels: A temporal analysi...

About 80% of those with a current sexual or romantic partner engaged in rough sex with them & most who engaged it liked it; bisexual women reported greater frequency & enjoyment, 54% enjoying it "very much"

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What Is Rough Sex, Who Does It, and Who Likes It? Findings from a Probability Sample of U.S. Undergraduate Students. Debby Herbenick, Tsung-...

There is little reason to think that accommodative monetary policy plays a significant role in reducing racial inequities in the way often discussed; on the contrary, it may well accentuate inequalities for extended periods

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Bartscher, Alina K. and Kuhn, Moritz and Schularick, Moritz and Wachtel, Paul, Monetary Policy and Racial Inequality (January 2021). FRB of ...

Gratitude facilitates obedience: New evidence for the social alignment perspective

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Tong, E. M. W., Ng, C.-X., Ho, J. B. H., Yap, I. J. L., Chua, E. X. Y., Ng, J. W. X., Ho, D. Z. Y., & Diener, E. (2020). Gratitude facil...

By making information retrievability salient, Internet search reduces the likelihood of information being stored in memory; & searching online leads to the misattribution of online information to internal memory, masking learning deficits

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Information without knowledge: the effects of Internet search on learning. Matthew Fisher, Adam H. Smiley & Tito L. H. Grillo. Memory, F...

People can know how their relationship partners make them feel, but, because they often desire to see their relationship partners in a positive light, they may avoid accessing these feelings

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Hicks, L. L., McNulty, J. K., Faure, R., Meltzer, A. L., Righetti, F., & Hofmann, W. (2021). Do people realize how their partners make t...
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...