Sunday, February 28, 2021

Rolf Degen summarizing... Atheism is as much a part of the original state of the human mind as is belief in god

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New Cognitive and Cultural Evolutionary Perspectives on Atheism. Thomas J. Coleman III, Kyle Messick, Valerie van Mulukom. In The Routledge ...

The average American user is increasingly integrating politics into social identities, adding political words to describe themselves; they are more likely to describe themselves by their political affiliation than their religious one

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Using Twitter Bios to Measure Changes in Self-Identity: Are Americans Defining Themselves More Politically Over Time? Nick Rogers; Jason J. ...

Individual Valuing of Social Equality in Political and Personal Relationships: We will sometimes prioritize equality over competing values, but the weight of social equality diminishes when moving from personal to political cases

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Individual Valuing of Social Equality in Political and Personal Relationships. Ryan W. Davis & Jessica Preece. Review of Philosophy and ...

Recent research on sexual orientation and sexual fluidity illustrates distinctions among subtypes of same-gender sexuality (such as mostly-heterosexuality, bisexuality, and exclusive same-gender experience)

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The New Genetic Evidence on Same-Gender Sexuality: Implications for Sexual Fluidity and Multiple Forms of Sexual Diversity The New Genetic E...

From 2016... Facial expressions and other behavioral responses to pleasant and unpleasant tastes in cats (Felis silvestris catus)

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From 2016... Facial expressions and other behavioral responses to pleasant and unpleasant tastes in cats (Felis silvestris catus). Michaela ...

Shoplift is common, we eat a few of the customer's fries when delivering food to them, we overcharge buyers in computer repairs or fish markets... New study: Field experiments on dishonesty and stealing

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Field experiments on dishonesty and stealing: what have we learned in the last 40 years? Hugo S. Gomes, David P. Farrington, Ivy N. Defoe ...

Study suggests that women may have greater cognitive reserve but faster cognitive decline than men, which could contribute to sex differences in late-life dementia

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Sex Differences in Cognitive Decline Among US Adults. Deborah A. Levine et al. JAMA Netw Open. 2021;4(2):e210169. February 25, 2021, doi:10....

Cross‐sex shifts in two brain imaging phenotypes and their relation to polygenic scores for same‐sex sexual behavior: A study of 18,645 individuals from the UK Biobank

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Cross‐sex shifts in two brain imaging phenotypes and their relation to polygenic scores for same‐sex sexual behavior: A study of 18,645 indi...

Understanding the appeal of libertarianism: Gender and race differences in the endorsement of libertarian principles

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Understanding the appeal of libertarianism: Gender and race differences in the endorsement of libertarian principles. Mary‐Kate Lizotte  Tho...
Saturday, February 27, 2021

Males were the most eager to view sexually arousing images of the opposite sex, whereas females were more strongly motivated to view less sexual images of couples

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Sex Differences in the Motivation for Viewing Sexually Arousing Images. Maiko Kobayashi, Koyo Nakamura & Katsumi Watanabe. Evolutionary ...