Thursday, March 25, 2021

People with schizophrenia, and possibly forensic personality disorders populations, demonstrate a range of reading skills deficits

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Reading skills deficits in people with mental illness: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Martina Vanova et al. European Psychiatry, Vol...

Promoting a message that highlights threat to life may be effective in raising levels of adherence to measures of infection control, but may also lead to a reduction in health-promoting behaviours

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Brown, Richard D., Lynne Coventry, and Gillian V. Pepper. 2020. “COVID-19: The Relationship Between Perceptions of Risk and Behaviours Durin...

No convincing evidence outgroups are denied uniquely human characteristics: Distinguishing intergroup preference from trait-based dehumanization

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No convincing evidence outgroups are denied uniquely human characteristics: Distinguishing intergroup preference from trait-based dehumaniza...

Women were much more likely to report long-term mate attraction to the benevolent, vs to the hostile, sexist; the hostile sexist one generated greater distrust and dislike in both men & women, compared to the benevolent one

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Grab 'em by the...: Hostile and benevolent sexism as signals of mating strategies. Adair, L. & Ferenczi, N. European Human Behaviour...

The trophic level of the Homo lineage that most probably led to modern humans evolved from a low base to a high, carnivorous position during the Pleistocene; partially reversed later & with the advent of agriculture

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The evolution of the human trophic level during the Pleistocene. Miki Ben‐Dor  Raphael Sirtoli  Ran Barkai. American Journal of Physical Ant...