Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Assessed 3 a priori defined cohorts of sexual minorities (born 1956–1963, b. 1974–1981, & b. 1990–1997): Psychological distress & suicide behavior were not improved, were worse for the younger than the older cohorts

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Meyer IH, Russell ST, Hammack PL, Frost DM, Wilson BDM (2021) Minority stress, distress, and suicide attempts in three cohorts of sexual min...

Childhood gender nonconformity & stability of self-reported sexual orientation: Girls reporting being lesbian were more likely to report changes in their sexual orientation than gay adolescent boys

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Xu, Y., Norton, S., & Rahman, Q. (2021). Childhood gender nonconformity and the stability of self-reported sexual orientation from adole...

Jiaolong Co. built a city by being a central contractor, which acquired planning rights by contract, & signed a series of tax sharing contracts with government, farmers, tenants, & businesses, reducing greatly the transaction costs

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From 2016... The Contractual Nature of the City. Qian Lu. Man and the Economy Volume 3 Issue 1, 2016. DOI 10.1515/me-2016-0013 Abstract: Urb...

Association between subjective inequality & less well-being, more depression, anxiety, stress, status anxiety, and less trust: Happened only in the US & in Canada, but not in England, Sweden, Japan, & South Africa

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The Construct of Subjective Economic Inequality. Anita Schmalor, Steven J. Heine. Social Psychological and Personality Science, March 9, 202...

Deceptive up-pricing of low-price wine significantly influenced ratings for pleasantness, whereas deceptive down-pricing of high-price wine had no effect on pleasantness ratings

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Price information influences the subjective experience of wine: A framed field experiment. Christoph Patrick et al. Food Quality and Prefere...

Genetic factors had a regionally variable influence on brain organization, such that the heritability of network topography was greatest in prefrontal, precuneus, and posterior parietal cortex

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Heritability of individualized cortical network topography. Kevin M. Anderson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March ...

OkCupid data: Women are no longer waiting for someone to message them

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One Year Later: How Covid-19 Changed Dating. OkCupid, Feb 26 2021. https://theblog.okcupid.com/one-year-later-how-covid-19-changed-dating-9c...

A large proportion of voters live with virtually no exposure to voters from the other party in their residential environment: Democrats & Republicans living in the same city are segregated by party

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The measurement of partisan sorting for 180 million voters. Jacob R. Brown & Ryan D. Enos. Nature Human Behaviour, March 8 2021. https:/...

For ordinary folk, especially the more educated population in the US, free will is a dynamic construct centred on the ability to choose following one’s goals & desires, whilst being uncoerced & reasonably free from constraints

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Lam, Alison. 2021. “Folk Conceptions of Free Will: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis of Psychological Research.” Thesis Commons. M...
Monday, March 8, 2021

Brain Development and Physical Aggression: Regardless of gender, children’s physical aggressiveness peaks at 2-4 years of age but then starts diverging, as girls learn more quickly than boys to suppress such behaviors

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Brain Development and Physical Aggression: How a Small Gender Difference Grows into a Violence Problem. Lise Eliot. Current Anthropology, Vo...

The Human Brain Is Best Described as Being on a Female/Male Continuum: Evidence from a Neuroimaging Connectivity Study

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The Human Brain Is Best Described as Being on a Female/Male Continuum: Evidence from a Neuroimaging Connectivity Study. Yi Zhang et al. Cere...

Can You Ever Be Too Smart for Your Own Good? Comparing Linear and Nonlinear Effects of Cognitive Ability on Life Outcomes

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Can You Ever Be Too Smart for Your Own Good? Comparing Linear and Nonlinear Effects of Cognitive Ability on Life Outcomes. Matt I. Brown, Jo...

Estimating the Prevalence of Transparency and Reproducibility-Related Research Practices in Psychology (2014–2017)

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Estimating the Prevalence of Transparency and Reproducibility-Related Research Practices in Psychology (2014–2017). Tom E. Hardwicke et al. ...