Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Darwin suggested that in many cases female preferences for elaborately ornamented males derived from a female’s taste for the beautiful, the notion that females were attracted to sexual beauty for its own sake

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Darwin, sexual selection, and the brain. Michael J. Ryan. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 23, 2021 118 (8) e200819...

36% of participants found some beauty in the perfume experience; 45% of participants found some beauty in candy taste

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Diessner, R., Genthôs, R., Arthur, K., Adkins, B., & Pohling, R. (2021). Olfactory and gustatory beauty: Aesthetic emotions and trait ap...

Advisors robustly display overconfidence as a self-promotion tactic—even when it is punished by others

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Van Zant, A. B. (2021). Strategically overconfident (to a fault): How self-promotion motivates advisor confidence. Journal of Applied Psycho...

Girls’ depressive symptoms increased, self-esteem decreased, at a significantly greater rate than boys’ symptoms; the peak point of differentiation of these variables is at around age 13

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Gittins CB, Hunt C (2020) Self-criticism and self-esteem in early adolescence: Do they predict depression? PLoS ONE 15(12): e0244182; Dec 18...

Emotions on which females scored universally higher were care & sadness; emotions that showed variability based on geography were fear & play; gender differences increased when moving from 'East' to 'West'

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Gender effects in personality: a cross-cultural affective neuroscience perspective. F. G. Özkarar-Gradwohl & O. H. Turnbull. Culture and...

Facial attractiveness and face recognition are positively and linearly related; contrary to prediction, females don't outperform males in face recognition

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Facial attractiveness, social status, and face recognition. Thomas E. Malloy, Carissa DiPietro, Brandon DeSimone, Christine Curley, Sathiari...

The perception of one’s partner’s higher agreeableness/commitment predicted one’s higher perceived relationship power; effect is stronger in women

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Lindová, Jitka; Habešová, Tereza; Klapilová, Kateřina; Havlíček, Jan. 2021. "Commitment, Dominance, and Mate Value: Power Bases in Long...

Fast life history strategy males express highest levels of rule breaking & slow LHS males lowest; no differences in rule breaking between slow & fast LHS females; differences could be explained by role of males in rearing

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Life History Theory: Evolutionary mechanisms and gender role on risk-taking behaviors in young adults. Javier Salas-Rodríguez, Luis Gómez-Ja...

Computational and neurocognitive approaches to the political brain: key insights and future avenues for political neuroscience

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Computational and neurocognitive approaches to the political brain: key insights and future avenues for political neuroscience. Leor Zmigrod...

We examined participant & target predictors of dating behavior in a swiping task; target attractiveness & race were the largest predictors of decisions; individual personality traits were not important to make decisions

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Modeling dating decisions in a mock swiping paradigm: An examination of participant and target characteristics. William J. Chopik, David J. ...
Monday, February 22, 2021

Involuntary singlehood and its causes: The effects of flirting capacity, mating effort, choosiness and capacity to perceive signals of interest

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Involuntary singlehood and its causes: The effects of flirting capacity, mating effort, choosiness and capacity to perceive signals of inter...

Conservatives were less influenced by overall consequences for the greater good in comparison with liberals: On average, conservatives are less inclined to accept harmful actions for the greater good than liberals

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Political Ideology and Moral Dilemma Judgments: An Analysis Using the CNI Model. Dillon M. Luke, Bertram Gawronski. Personality and Social P...

Extraocular photoreception has been observed in many and diverse species; now they show that in response to illumination, octopuses' arm tip reacts in a reflex-like manner, folding in and moving away from light

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Feel the light – sight independent negative phototactic response in octopus' arms. Itamar Katz, Tal Shomrat, Nir Nesher. Journal of Expe...

Wind Power Economics – Rhetoric and Reality: The average load factor for onshore turbines declines at about 3% per year as turbines age; for offshore turbines declines at about 4.5% per year

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Wind Power Economics – Rhetoric and Reality. Gordon Hughes. Edinburgh Univ, November 3 2020. https://www.ref.org.uk/ref-blog/365-wind-power-...