Thursday, April 8, 2021

People tend to assign higher attractiveness to an individual viewed from the back than head on; this tendency is pronounced when males rate the attractiveness of women

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Romantic Bias in Judging the Attractiveness of Faces from the Back. Fuka Ichimura, Miho Moriwaki & Atsunori Ariga. Journal of Nonverbal ...

Attractive people are not only seen more favorably, but also more accurately, maybe due to their acceptance being relatively decoupled from their behaviors, which lowers inhibitions and allow for better "study" of their personalities

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The Good Target of Personality Judgments. Marie-Catherine Mignault and Lauren J. Human. In The Oxford Handbook of Accurate Personality Judgm...

Estimating the Effect Size of Moral Contagion in Online Networks: Each message is 12% more likely to be shared for each additional moral-emotional word

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Brady, William J., and Jay J. Van Bavel. 2021. “Estimating the Effect Size of Moral Contagion in Online Networks: A Pre-registered Replicati...
Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Rolf Degen summarizing... People are surprisingly reluctant to pressure others to behave prosocially, even if they themselves would act prosocially

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Do People Intervene to Make Others Behave Prosocially? Viola Ackfeld, Axel Ockenfels. Games and Economic Behavior, April 6 2021. https://doi...

Pursued & implemented past civic activism in the offline sphere can mobilize further durable online political participation; the path from online to offline form of political behavior was found to be non-significant

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A longitudinal study of the bidirectional causal relationships between online political participation and offline collective action. Maria C...

Exploring the relationship between sex and gender, country income level, and COVID-19

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Recorded but not revealed: exploring the relationship between sex and gender, country income level, and COVID-19. Sarah Hawkes et al. The La...

Infidelity in Relation to Sex and Gender: The Perspective of Sociobiology Versus the Perspective of Sociology of Emotions

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Infidelity in Relation to Sex and Gender: The Perspective of Sociobiology Versus the Perspective of Sociology of Emotions. Joanna Wróblewska...

Results from this study indicate that marijuana use is not a reliable gateway cause of illicit drug use; as such, prohibition policies are unlikely to reduce illicit drug use

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Is marijuana really a gateway drug? A nationally representative test of the marijuana gateway hypothesis using a propensity score matching d...

Found a significant, negative relationship between resting metabolic rate and Extraversion; less extraverted individuals had a 30% higher RMR than the most extraverted ones; seems an allocation energy trade-off

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Bergeron P, Pagé A, Trempe M (2021) Integrating humans into pace-of-life studies: The Big Five personality traits and metabolic rate in youn...

It is difficult for people to be persuaded by competing media accounts during a contentious election campaign; the real consequence of online partisan media may be an erosion of trust in mainstream news

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The consequences of online partisan media. Andrew M. Guess et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 6, 2021 118 (14) e2...

Brain shape shares significant signal w/most neuropsych traits, as well as all behavioral– cognitive and subcortical volume traits; in contrast, face shape does not show significant sharing with any neuropsych disorders or behavioral–cognitive traits

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Shared heritability of human face and brain shape. Sahin Naqvi, Yoeri Sleyp, Hanne Hoskens, Karlijne Indencleef, Jeffrey P. Spence, Rose Bru...
Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Women who support far-right parties in Europe do not fit the stereotype

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Individual- and party-level determinants of far-right support among women in Western Europe. Trevor J. Allen and Sara Wallace Goodman. Europ...

Taller respondents (proxy for formidability) are likelier to approve of police officers hitting male citizens in several circumstances, as well as corporal criminal-justice punishment in the form of the death penalty

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Physical formidability and acceptance of police violence. R. Urbatsch. Evolution and Human Behavior, April 6 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j...

Physical Strength Partly Explains Sex Differences in Trait Anxiety in Young Americans

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Physical Strength Partly Explains Sex Differences in Trait Anxiety in Young Americans. Nicholas Kerry, Damian R. Murray. Psychological Scien...

Some navigation abilities decline in midlife and differ by sex, but others (path integration) do not decline

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Age-Related Changes in Spatial Navigation Are Evident by Midlife and Differ by Sex. Shuying Yu et al. Psychological Science, April 5, 2021. ...

Incidence of suicide decreased among Swedish men aged 50–59 after July 2013 when patent rights to sildenafil (i.e., Viagra) ceased, prices fell, and its use increased dramatically

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Sildenafil and suicide in Sweden. Ralph Catalano, Sidra Goldman-Mellor, Tim A. Bruckner & Terry Hartig. European Journal of Epidemiology...