Saturday, March 6, 2021

While physical attractiveness was less important to blind men, blind women considered physical attractiveness as important as sighted women

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The Role of Vision in the Emergence of Mate Preferences. Meike Scheller, Francine Matorres, Anthony Little, Lucy Tompkins, Alexandra de Sous...

Animals in Dreams of Children, Adolescents, and Adults: The UK Library Study

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Animals in Dreams of Children, Adolescents, and Adults: The UK Library Study. Michael Schredl, Mark Blagrove. Imagination, Cognition and Per...

In men, adults and older adults spent almost twice as long on the Internet for sexual purposes than early adolescents and adolescents

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Problematic and non-problematic engagement in Online Sexual Activities across the lifespan. Rafael Ballester-Arnal et al. Computers in Human...

Having more money makes people feel more proud, contented, and confident & less sad, afraid, and ashamed, but does not affect whether they feel grateful, caring, & angry

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Tong, E. M. W., Reddish, P., Oh, V. Y. S., Ng, W., Sasaki, E., Chin, E. D. A., & Diener, E. (2021). Income robustly predicts self-regard...
Friday, March 5, 2021

UK self-selected sample: A significant proportion of individuals reported drinking more frequently in lockdown, drinking more units per drinking occasion and more frequent heavy episodic drinking

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Characterising the patterns of and factors associated with increased alcohol consumption since COVID‐19 in a UK sample. Melissa Oldham et al...

Implicit transgender attitudes predicted multiple outcomes, including gender essentialism, contact with transgender people, and support for transgender-related policies, over and above explicit attitudes

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Implicit Transgender Attitudes Independently Predict Beliefs About Gender and Transgender People. Jordan R. Axt et al. Personality and Socia...

Transgenders’ sociosexuality is largely influenced by their sexual genotype despite their incongruent gender self-perception; the relationships between behavior, attitude, & sociosexual desire are different from those of cisgenders

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Influence of Sexual Genotype and Gender Self-Perception on Sociosexuality and Self-Esteem among Transgender People. Rodrigo de Menezes Gomes...

Finance employees in India: The relationship between dark triad traits and job performance is positive at the lower end of dark triad traits but flattens out as the dark triad traits intensify

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Uppal, N. (2021), "Does it pay to be bad? An investigation of dark triad traits and job performance in India", Personnel Review, F...

Of key predictors of religious disbelief, witnessing fewer credible cultural cues of religious commitment was the most potent, followed distantly by reflective cognitive style, & less advanced mentalizing

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The Origins of Religious Disbelief: A Dual Inheritance Approach. Will M. Gervais, Maxine B. Najle, Nava Caluori. Social Psychological and Pe...

We find that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, lawyers are not particularly unhappy; indeed, they suffer rates of mental illness much lower than the general population

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Measuring Lawyer Well‐Being Systematically: Evidence from the National Health Interview Survey. Yair Listokin  Raymond Noonan. Journal of Em...

We find little evidence that teachers have worse health and wellbeing outcomes than other occupational groups

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How does the mental health and wellbeing of teachers compare to other professions? Evidence from eleven survey datasets. John Jerrim, Sam Si...

Lilliputian hallucinations concern hallucinated human, animal or fantasy entities of minute size

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Leroy’s elusive little people: A systematic review on lilliputian hallucinations. Jan Dirk Blom. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, M...

Self-regulation composite (preschool & ages 17-37) predicts capital formation at 46, but preschool delay of gratification alone does not predict such capital formation

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Predicting mid-life capital formation with pre-school delay of gratification and life-course measures of self-regulation. Daniel J.Benjamin ...
Thursday, March 4, 2021

Can Researchers’ Personal Characteristics Shape Their Statistical Inferences?

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Can Researchers’ Personal Characteristics Shape Their Statistical Inferences? Elizabeth W. Dunn, Lihan Chen et al. Personality and Social Ps...

Body dissatisfaction is highest in heterosexual women and lowest in heterosexual men

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Malillos, Monica H., Elena Theofanous, Keith R. Laws, and Paul Jenkinson. 2021. “Gender, Sexual Orientation and Body Dissatisfaction: A Meta...

Conservative (vs. liberal) providers enhance consumer experience because conservative providers are higher on trait‐conscientiousness; consumers expect to receive better service from liberals due to their higher openness

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How Consumer Experience Is Shaped by the Political Orientation of Service Providers. Alexander Davidson  Derek A. Theriault. Journal of Cons...