Saturday, March 13, 2021

From 2020... For men, who are expected to spend less time considering relationships, spending more time on those relationships might indicate more attention to the details of making relationships work

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From 2020... Personality in Its Natural Habitat’ Revisited: A Pooled, Multi-sample Examination of the Relationships Between the Big Five Per...

Demonstrating mirror self recognition at group level in Equus caballus

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If horses had toes: demonstrating mirror self recognition at group level in Equus caballus. Paolo Baragli, Chiara Scopa, Veronica Maglieri ...

Rolf Degen summarizing... Everybody thinks they are doing a better job at following public health recommendations to contain COVID-19 than "other people"

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Social Comparisons for Following Health Recommendations and Their Relation to Worry and Intentions During COVID-19. Jason P Rose, Keith A. E...

Perceived Abilities And Specially Handsomeness Outperform Objective Intelligence Test Performance in Predicting Mate Appeal in Speed Dating

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Hofer, Gabriela, Roman Burkart, Laura Langmann, and Aljoscha Neubauer. 2021. “What You See Is What You Want to Get: Perceived Abilities Outp...

A Model of the Cosmos in the ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism

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A Model of the Cosmos in the ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism. Tony Freeth, David Higgon, Aris Dacanalis, Lindsay MacDonald, Myrto Georga...

Participants read hypothetical wrongdoings, recalled unethical events, reported daily transgressions, and learned of novel immoral behavior committed by close others

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Forbes, Rachel C., and Jennifer E. Stellar. 2021. “When the Ones We Love Misbehave: Exploring Moral Processes Within Intimate Bonds.” PsyArX...

Interactions including voice (phone, video chat, and voice chat) created stronger social bonds and no increase in awkwardness, compared with interactions including text (e-mail, text chat)

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Kumar, A., & Epley, N. (2021). It’s surprisingly nice to hear you: Misunderstanding the impact of communication media can lead to subopt...
Friday, March 12, 2021

Cultural values emphasizing the desire to acquire status, as well as cultures values devaluing similarity with others & gender egalitarianism, predict higher levels of competitiveness toward members of one’s own gender

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Buunk, A. P. (2020). Cultural dimensions associated with intrasexual competitiveness. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, Mar 2021. https://do...

Robust evidence that monozygotic twins are more likely to be concordant for handedness than dizygotic twins; this finding supports a partially genetic determination of handedness

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Pfeifer, Lena S., Judith Schmitz, Marietta Papadatou-Pastou, Jutta Peterburs, Silvia Paracchini, and Sebastian Ocklenburg. 2021. “Handedness...

A memory must be malleable to maintain its predictive value in a dynamic environment; after being retrieved, a consolidated memory may become susceptible to updating (via reconsolidation, extinction, or forgetting)

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Understanding the dynamic and destiny of memories. Lucas de Oliveira Alvares, Fabricio H. Do-Monte. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews...

The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Disposable Bag Regulation

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Skipping the Bag: The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Disposable Bag Regulation. Tatiana Homonoff, Lee-Sien Kao, Javiera Selman ...

Meta-analysis: The amygdala is significantly involved in the ha-ha experience of decoding punchlines

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Humor and emotion: Quantitative meta analyses of functional neuroimaging studies. Andrew H. Farkas et al. Cortex, March 11 2021. https://doi...
Thursday, March 11, 2021

Contemporary Post-mortem Survival Narratives are popular & convincing, in part, because they meet default cognitive assumptions about what human survival would look like if it were possible

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From 2018... How to Know You’ve Survived Death: A Cognitive Account of the Popularity of Contemporary Post-mortem Survival Narratives. Clair...

Lifestyle and mental health disruptions during COVID-19

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Lifestyle and mental health disruptions during COVID-19. Osea Giuntella et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2, 202...

We consider whether Orgasmic Meditation (OM), a structured, partnered, largely non-verbal practice that includes genital touch, also increases relationship closeness with both romantic & non-romantic partners

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Prause N, Siegle GJ, Coan J (2021) Partner intimate touch is associated with increased interpersonal closeness, especially in non-romantic p...