Friday, February 12, 2021

Laboratory earthquake forecasting: A machine learning competition

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Laboratory earthquake forecasting: A machine learning competition. Paul A. Johnson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, F...

Cats show no avoidance of people who behave negatively to their owner, unlike dogs

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Chijiiwa, H., Takagi, S., Arahori, M., Anderson, J. R., Fujita, K., & Kuroshima, H. (2021). Cats (Felis catus) show no avoidance of peop...

The stability of psychological adjustment among donor-conceived offspring in the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study from childhood to adulthood: Good adjustment in the long term

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The stability of psychological adjustment among donor-conceived offspring in the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study from childh...

From 2019... Simple hair‐like feathers served as insulating pelage, but the first feathers with complex branching structures and a plainer form evolved for the purpose of sexual display

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From 2019... Feather evolution exemplifies sexually selected bridges across the adaptive landscape. W. Scott Persons  Philip J. Currie. Evol...

Individuals with depression express more distorted thinking on social media

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Individuals with depression express more distorted thinking on social media. Krishna C. Bathina, Marijn ten Thij, Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, La...
Thursday, February 11, 2021

Our results showed that the exposure to fear chemosignals (vs. rest chemosignals and a no-sweat condition) while not changing vigilance behavior leads to faster answers to threatening events

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The Function of Fear Chemosignals: Preparing for Danger. Nuno Gomes, Gün R Semin. Chemical Senses, bjab005, February 11 2021. https://doi.or...

Reduced decision bias and more rational decision making following cortex damage

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Reduced decision bias and more rational decision making following ventromedial prefrontal cortex damage. Sanjay Manohar et al. Cortex, Febru...

We find that experts and lay people fared poorly at predicting social and psychological consequences of the pandemic and misperceive what effects it may have already had

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Hutcherson, Cendri, Constantine Sharpinskyi, Michael E. W. Varnum, PhD, Amanda M. Rotella, Alexandra Wormley, Louis Tay, and Igor Grossmann....

High-income women may prenatally masculinize their sons at the expense of the fitness of their daughters; low-income women may prenatally feminize their daughters at the fitness expense of their sons

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Parental income inequality and children’s digit ratio (2D:4D): a ‘Trivers-Willard’ effect on prenatal androgenization? J.T. Manning et al. J...