Sunday, March 28, 2021

Reconnaissance Satellites and Interstate Disputes: Despite considerable interest and debate, it has proven surprisingly difficult to demonstrate a systematic link between technological change and patterns of war and peace

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Spying from Space: Reconnaissance Satellites and Interstate Disputes. Bryan R. Early, Erik Gartzke. Journal of Conflict Resolution, March 23...

People hold narrative beliefs about how humans in general change over the course of the lives: In some areas, we expect growth (e.g., wisdom), while in others, we expect stability (e.g., extroversion)

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Getting better all the time: Master narratives, expectations of change, and their effect on temporal appraisals. James G. Hillman and David ...

Pluralistic ignorance occurs when group members mistakenly believe others’ cognitions and/or behaviors are systematically different from their own

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Pluralistic Ignorance Research in Psychology: A Scoping Review of Topic and Method Variation and Directions for Future Research. Rikki H. Sa...

Masculine children showed significantly more interest in male-typical occupations than did control or feminine children; masculine children also had significantly lower interest in female-typical jobs than did control or feminine children

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Preschool Gender-Typed Play Behavior Predicts Adolescent Gender-Typed Occupational Interests: A 10-Year Longitudinal Study. Karson T F Kung....

Men and people with lower education backgrounds were more likely to have previously engaged in polyamory (compared to women and people with higher education backgrounds, respectively)

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Desire, Familiarity, and Engagement in Polyamory: Results From a National Sample of Single Adults in the United States. Amy C. Moors, Amanda...

In more gender equal countries gender differences in redistributive preferences are significantly larger (women are systematically pro-redistribution); right-leaning women are more favorable to redistribution than right-leaning men

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Women’s Voice on Redistribution: from Gender Norms to Taxation. Monica Bozzano, Paola Profeta, Riccardo Puglisi, Simona Scabrosetti. Società...

Feeling jealous when friends make new friends is probably NOT due to evils of Western capitalism, immaturity, or being a bad person; rather, friendship jealousy might actually help us hang on to valued pals

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Friendship jealousy: One tool for maintaining friendships in the face of third-party threats? Krems, J. A., Williams, K. E. G., Aktipis, A.,...
Saturday, March 27, 2021

The most human bot: Female gendering increases humanness perceptions of bots and acceptance of AI

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The most human bot: Female gendering increases humanness perceptions of bots and acceptance of AI. Sylvie Borau  Tobias Otterbring  Sandra L...

People tend to naturally drop their efforts to be optimistic when they expect things to go badly, especially when being evaluated; people likely know that optimism is not the most beneficial mindset to adopt at all times

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Optimism: Enduring resource or miscalibrated perception? Mariah F. Purol  William J. Chopik. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Marc...

Why sexual coercion is so prevalent in orangutans & how this type of sexual selection may be much more common across animals than often recognized

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Orangutan socio-sexual behavior and sexual conflict: Insights for human evolution. Cheryl D. Knott. European Human Behaviour and Evolution A...

Our work shows that maternal childhood trauma can affect infant growth parameters; it also suggests that early maternal stress might set child’s development for faster life trajectory

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Accelerated growth in infants of mothers with early childhood trauma. Apanasewicz-Grzegorczyk, A; Danel, D; Ziomkiewicz-Wichary, A. European...

Republicans have a higher within-party facial resemblance than Democrats; UK Conservative MPs are more similar looking to each other than Labour

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Pahontu, Raluca L. and Poupakis, Stavros, Resemblance and Discrimination in Elections (March 22, 2021). SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Individuals high on Machiavellianism or psychopathy traits choose to stay single if they are low on sociosexuality

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Individuals high on the Dark Triad traits choose to stay single if they are low on sociosexuality. Vlad Burtăverde, Cristina Ene. Personalit...

Our pattern of pelvic sex differences did not evolve de novo in modern humans and must have been present in the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees, and thus also in the extinct Homo species

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Sex differences in the pelvis did not evolve de novo in modern humans. Barbara Fischer, Nicole D. S. Grunstra, Eva Zaffarini & Philipp M...

Likelihood of overweight/obesity was higher among Nepalese males compared with females who used the internet frequently

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Sex Differences in the Association between Internet Usage and Overweight/Obesity: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey in Nepal....

Social preference in rats: They preferred social over nonsocial options, choosing their cagemate rat over an empty chamber, and an unfamiliar over a familiar rat, choosing a non‐cagemate over their cagemate

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Social preference in rats. Timothy D. Hackenberg  Lauren Vanderhooft  Jasmine Huang  Madeline Wagar  Jordan Alexander  Lavinia Tan. Journal ...

Harm inflation: Concepts creep to the Left and the Right

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Harper, Craig A., Harry R. M. Purser, and Thom Baguley. 2021. “Concepts Creep to the Left and the Right.” PsyArXiv. March 26. doi:10.31234/o...

The administration of testosterone to women caused a significant enlargement of participants’ peripersonal space, suggesting that testosterone caused participants to implicitly appropriate a larger space as their own

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Testosterone administration in women increases the size of their peripersonal space. Catherine Masson, Donné van der Westhuizen, Jean-Paul N...
Friday, March 26, 2021

STEM education: Compared with the US, students in China, India & Russia do not gain critical thinking skills over 4 years; & while students in India & Russia gain academic skills during the first 2 years, students in China do not

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Skill levels and gains in university STEM education in China, India, Russia and the United States. Prashant Loyalka, Ou Lydia Liu, Guirong L...

Belgian representative sample: Young adults 16 - 24 years are twice as likely to be victimized in their lifetimes & more than three times more likely in the past 12 months compared to adults aged 50 - 69 years

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Schapansky, Evelyn, Joke Depraetere, Ines Keygnaert, and Christophe Vandeviver. 2020. “Prevalence and risk factors of sexual victimization: ...

Women are more liberal and more conservative than men at the same time

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Gender Differences in Social and Political Attitudes: It’s Protection versus Freedom, not Liberalism versus Conservatism. Gerhard Meisenberg...