Thursday, February 25, 2021

Student sex work is a current phenomenon all over the world; study found no difference in happiness between student sex workers and non-sex working students

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Students in the Sex Industry: Motivations, Feelings, Risks, and Judgments. Felicitas Ernst1 et al. Front. Psychol., February 25 2021. https:...

Men more than women report regret passing up short-term sexual opportunities, while women regret having had sexual encounters; no evidence of mating strategy changes following sexual regret

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The Function of Casual Sex Action and Inaction Regret: A Longitudinal Investigation. Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair, Trond Viggo Grøntvedt, Mon...

Social media use for news is positively associated to uncivil political discussion & social media unfriending

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Social Media Filtering and Democracy: Effects of Social Media News Use and Uncivil Political Discussions on Social Media Unfriending. Manuel...

How do we take the temperature of a crowd? Perceivers preferentially attend to faces exhibiting strong emotions, seeing the crowd’s average emotional state more extreme than actually is (crowd-emotion-amplification effect)

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The Crowd-Emotion-Amplification Effect. Amit Goldenberg et al. Psychological Science, February 24, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976209...

Left- and Right-leaning News Organizations' Negative Tweets Are More Likely to Be Shared Than the Non-Negative Ones

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Bellovary, Andrea, Nathaniel A. Young, and Amit Goldenberg. 2021. “Left- and Right-leaning News Organizations' Negative Tweets Are More ...

Are We Deliberately Captivated in Homogeneous Cocoons? An Investigation on Political Tie Building on Facebook Shows We Aren't

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Are We Deliberately Captivated in Homogeneous Cocoons? An Investigation on Political Tie Building on Facebook. Manuel Cargnino & German ...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Facial shape provides a valid cue to sociosexuality in men but not women

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Facial shape provides a valid cue to sociosexuality in men but not women. Joseph C. Antar, Ian D. Stephen. Evolution and Human Behavior, Feb...

Pathogen disgust sensitivity protects against infection in a high pathogen environment

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Pathogen disgust sensitivity protects against infection in a high pathogen environment. Tara J. Cepon-Robins et al. Proceedings of the Natio...

Some individuals have a strong desire to incite chaos when they perceive themselves to be marginalized by society; tend to see chaos as a way to invert the power structure and gain social status in the process

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Some people just want to watch the world burn: The prevalence, psychology and politics of the “Need for Chaos.” Kevin Arceneaux, Timothy B. ...

A Systematic Review on Sexual Boredom: Sexual boredom is a bigger problem for men and narcissists

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de Oliveira L, Carvalho J, Nobre P. A Systematic Review on Sexual Boredom. J Sex Med 2020;XX:XXX–XXX. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsxm.2020.12...