Saturday, March 20, 2021

Sex differences in early experience and the development of aggression in wild chimpanzees

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Sex differences in early experience and the development of aggression in wild chimpanzees. Kris H. Sabbi et al. Proceedings of the National ...

Sympathy for the underdog: people are inclined to adopt the emotional perspective of powerless (versus powerful) others

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Sympathy for the underdog: people are inclined to adopt the emotional perspective of powerless (versus powerful) others. François Quesque, A...

Spending on clothing is linked to more happiness among males (less happiness among females); spending less on alcohol is linked to less happiness; less luxury has only a limited relationship with happiness

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Happiness and Consumption: A Research Synthesis Using an Online Finding Archive. Ruut Veenhoven et al. SAGE Open, March 19, 2021. https://do...

Adaptation of sperm whales to open-boat whalers: Captures dropped 58pct in a few years, it appears that whales swiftly learned effective defensive behaviour

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Adaptation of sperm whales to open-boat whalers: rapid social learning on a large scale? Hal Whitehead, Tim D. Smith and Luke Rendell. The R...

Increased subjective age (personal aging rate perception) increases mortality very much; biggest factors in SubjAge are physical health and expections of sex life in 10 years

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PsychoAge and SubjAge: development of deep markers of psychological and subjective age using artificial intelligence. Alex Zhavoronkov et al...

Inducing cognitive structure led novice consumers to experience numbness (less intense emotion); however, shifting experts away from using their cognitive structure restored their experience of emotion

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Emotionally Numb: Expertise Dulls Consumer Experience. Matthew D Rocklage, Derek D Rucker, Loran F Nordgren. Journal of Consumer Research, u...
Friday, March 19, 2021

Primate landscape genetics: A review and practical guide

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Primate landscape genetics: A review and practical guide. Westphal D, Mancini AN, Baden AL. Evolutionary Anthropology, Mar 15 2021, DOI: 10....

On days when anxiously attached people perceived their partner as responsive to their sexual needs, they reported similar levels of relationship and sexual satisfaction, trust, and commitment as people lower in anxiety

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Raposo, S., & Muise, A. (2021). Perceived partner sexual responsiveness buffers anxiously attached individuals’ relationship and sexual ...

Men’s higher benevolent sexism predicted lower aggressive parenting, & women’s higher benevolent sexism predicted greater aggressive behavior toward partners, irrespective of power & relationship quality

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Overall, N. C., Chang, V. T., Cross, E. J., Low, R. S. T., & Henderson, A. M. E. (2021). Sexist attitudes predict family-based aggressio...

Extraverts report higher levels of authenticity and extraverted behavior predicts increased feelings of authenticity, even by introverts

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Wilt, Joshua A., Jessie Sun, Rowan Jacques-Hamilton, and Luke D. Smillie. 2021. “Why Does It Feel Authentic to Be and Act Extraverted? Explo...

Participants who were exposed to a salient health threat (loud coughing after the COVID-19 epidemic started) displayed a lower level of overconfidence than did participants in the control condition

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The bright side of the COVID-19 pandemic: Public coughing weakens the overconfidence bias in non-health domains. Heng Li, Yu Cao. Personalit...

People were relatively modest and self-critical about their ideas’ funniness; women rated their responses as less funny; & people showed some discernment and insight into their ideas’ funniness

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If You’re Funny and You Know It: Personality, Gender, and People’s Ratings of Their Attempts at Humor. Paul J. Silvia et al. Journal of Rese...

I know a dog when I see one: dogs (Canis familiaris) recognize dogs from videos

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I know a dog when I see one: dogs (Canis familiaris) recognize dogs from videos. Paolo Mongillo, Carla Eatherington, Miina Lõoke & Lieta...
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...