Thursday, March 18, 2021

From 2017... Who Wants To Live Forever? Explaining the Cross-Cultural Recurrence of Reincarnation Beliefs

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Who Wants To Live Forever? Explaining the Cross-Cultural Recurrence of Reincarnation Beliefs. Claire White. Journal of Cognition and Culture...

59 societies: In individualistic societies, passion predicts a larger gain & explains more variance in achievement; in contrast, in collectivistic societies, parental support predicts achievement over & above passion

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Passion matters but not equally everywhere: Predicting achievement from interest, enjoyment, and efficacy in 59 societies. Xingyu Li, Miaozh...

Being male and having higher arousal in response to erotic stimuli, however, was associated with a greater willingness to engage in coercive sex

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Sex, sexual arousal, and sexual decision making: An evolutionary perspective. Courtney L. Crosby, David M. Buss, Lawrence K. Cormack, Cindy ...

Project Debater, an autonomous debating system that can engage in a competitive debate with humans

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An autonomous debating system. Noam Slonim et al. Nature volume 591, pp379–384, Mar 17 2021. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-0321...

What Does Women’s Facial Attractiveness Signal? Implications for an Evolutionary Perspective on Appearance Enhancement

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What Does Women’s Facial Attractiveness Signal? Implications for an Evolutionary Perspective on Appearance Enhancement. Benedict C. Jones, A...

Our results suggest that compressing a neural circuit through the "genomic bottleneck" serves as a regularizer, enabling evolution to select simple circuits that can be readily adapted to important real-world tasks

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Encoding innate ability through a genomic bottleneck. Alexei Koulakov, Sergey Shuvaev, Anthony Zador. bioRxiv Mar 16 2021. https://doi.org/1...

Our findings challenge the role of social media in the creation of like-minded discussion; instead, we should look to the role of individual attributes, such as personality traits

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The Role of Personality in Political Talk and Like-Minded Discussion. Shelley Boulianne, Karolina Koc-Michalska. The International Journal o...
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Hippocampal volume has been associated with impaired & expert navigation, but large pre-registered studies found no such correlation in healthy adults; network models offer greater explanatory power for flexibility & individual differences

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Hippocampal volume and navigational ability: The map(ping) is not to scale. Steven M. Weisberg, Arne D. Ekstrom. Neuroscience & Biobehav...

Potential ‘super-spreaders’ –people with many social interactions, extraverts–, the people most likely to widely spread COVID-19, are the most willing to take a free test, despite the increased probability of being quarantined

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Testing for COVID-19: willful ignorance or selfless behavior? Linda Thunstroem et al. Behavioural Public Policy , Volume 5, Issue 2, April 2...

Facet-level personality development in the transition to adolescence: Girls increase their conscientiousness, boys' stay relatively constant; agreeableness and introversion increase for both boys & girls

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Brandes, C. M., Kushner, S. C., Herzhoff, K., & Tackett, J. L. (2020). Facet-level personality development in the transition to adolesce...

Self-rated Attractiveness Predicts Preferences for Sexually Dimorphic Facial Characteristics: Evidence from a Culturally Diverse Sample

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Marcinkowska, Urszula M., Benedict C. Jones, and Anthony J. Lee. 2021. “Self-rated Attractiveness Predicts Preferences for Sexually Dimorphi...
Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Empathic accuracy was beneficial (for well-being & ill-being) or not harmful (for marital satisfaction) at low socio-economic levels; was not beneficial (well- & ill-being), or was harmful for mat. satisf. for high levels

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Empathy in context: Socioeconomic status as a moderator of the link between empathic accuracy and well-being in married couples. Emily F. Hi...

Vulnerable narcissism higher in Germany than Japan, related to self-construal; grandiose narcissism not equivalent across cultures; culturally incongruent forms of narcissism show more mental health problems

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Narcissism in independent and interdependent cultures. Emanuel Jauk et al. Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 177, July 2021, 11...

Facial attractiveness in women was negatively correlated with age at menopause and positively correlated to current fecundity

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Żelaźniewicz A, Nowak-Kornicka J, Zbyrowska K, Pawłowski B (2021) Predicted reproductive longevity and women’s facial attractiveness. PLoS O...