Monday, April 5, 2021

Contrary to expectations, the suicide rate in the U.S. decreased in 2020, possibly due to a "we are all in the same boat" effect and an increased appreciation for life

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Why Did U.S. Suicides Decrease in 2020? Kathryn Gordon. Psychology Today, Apr 5 2021. https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/out-the-ivor...

“Time Slows Down Whenever You Are Around” for Women but Not for Men

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“Time Slows Down Whenever You Are Around” for Women but Not for Men. Joana Arantes et al. Front. Psychol., April 6 2021 | https://doi.org/10...

Sex differences in brain in response to midlife stress linked to fetal stress exposures

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Impact of prenatal maternal cytokine exposure on sex differences in brain circuitry regulating stress in offspring 45 years later. Jill M. G...

Naïve, unenculturated chimpanzees fail to make and use flaked stone tools

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Naïve, unenculturated chimpanzees fail to make and use flaked stone tools. E Bandini et al. European Human Behaviour and Evolution Associati...

Intent-based morality in Colombian and Spanish children: Punishment & retribution

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Intent-based morality in Colombian and Spanish children. RL Arini et al. European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association, 15th Conference...

Even though inaccurate beliefs lead to costly mistakes, people interpret favorable feedback to be more informative; author casts a new light on the origins of overconfidence & the mechanisms that perpetuate it in the face of feedback

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Belief-Based Utility and Signal Interpretation. Marta Kozakiewicz. February 23, 2021. https://marta-kozakiewicz.github.io/assets/kozakiewicz...

Claims About The Hidden Cost of Religiosity and the Gender Wage Gap

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The Hidden Cost of Prayer: Religiosity and the Gender Wage Gap. Traci Sitzmann and Elizabeth M. Campbell. Academy of Management Journal, Oct...
Sunday, April 4, 2021

Do EITC expansions pay for themselves? Effects on tax revenue and government transfers

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Do EITC expansions pay for themselves? Effects on tax revenue and government transfers. Jacob E. Bastian, Maggie R. Jones. Journal of Public...

The ‘Big Gods Hypothesis’ offered a solution to the origins of religion & of complex societies by proposing that beliefs in moralizing supernatural punishment culturally evolved to facilitate cooperation among strangers

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Whitehouse, Harvey, Pieter François, Daniel Hoyer, Kevin C. Feeney, Enrico Cioni, Rosalind Purcell, Robert M. Ross, et al. 2021. “Big Gods D...

Anxiety sensitivity, female sex, and smoking are risk factors for physical inactivity; high levels of anxiety sensitivity were related to more time spent walking for females but not males

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Understanding sex differences in physical activity behavior: The role of anxiety sensitivity. Gloria J. Gomez et al. Mental Health and Physi...

Sociosexuality significantly predicted self-reported wellbeing during social lockdown for women, but not for men; those with high levels of desire for casual sex reported a greater negative impact on their self-reported levels of wellbeing

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Changes in Sexual Desire and Behaviors among UK Young Adults During Social Lockdown Due to COVID-19. Liam Wignall et al. The Journal of Sex ...
Saturday, April 3, 2021

Adult playfulness: An update on an understudied individual differences variable and its role in romantic life... including possible negative effects of playfulness

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Adult playfulness: An update on an understudied individual differences variable and its role in romantic life. Kay Brauer  René T. Proyer  G...

Adult playful individuals have more long- and short-term relationships

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Moraes YL, Varella MAC, Silva CSA, Valentova JV (2021). Adult playful individuals have more long- and short-term relationships. Evolutionary...

Although the men indicated a willingness to pursue slightly older partners in surveys, they rarely acted on these statements in real-life dating

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Partner preference and age: User's mating behavior in online dating. Marketa Setinova, Renáta Topinková. Journal of Family Research, Mar...

We expected people to feel less culpable about the outcome if they acted in accordance with their superior’s injunction than if they made the decision themselves, but they felt more culpable when they followed orders

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Feelings of Culpability: Just Following Orders Versus Making the Decision Oneself. Maayan S. Malter, Sonia S. Kim, Janet Metcalfe. Psycholog...

Women find men less attractive as new long-term partners if they have first imagined them as one-night stands; men find women less attractive as one-night stands if they have first imagined them as new long-term partners

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Short term, long term: An unexpected confound in human-mating research. Paola Bressan. Evolution and Human Behavior, April 2 2021. https://d...
Friday, April 2, 2021

Great apes, like humans, possess impressive knowledge of their social world: they remember social partners for decades, encode their dispositions and relationships, & even track their perspectives in surprisingly rich ways

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Origins of the social mind: Cognition in humans and other apes. Christopher Krupenye. European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association, 15...

Happy people retain their jobs because they enjoy doing their work; happiness leads people to place more weight on enjoyment than on competence in the enjoyment-competence trade-off context

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Enjoyment Versus Competence Trade-Off: Happy People Value Enjoyment Over Competence More Than Unhappy People. Mina Jyung, Incheol Choi &...