Sunday, April 11, 2021

Delinquency: Substantial genetic origin for those of persistently bad or aggresive behaviour (heritability = 67%), whereas genetic influences were negligible for lower-risk subgroups

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Developmental Trajectories of Delinquent and Aggressive Behavior: Evidence for Differential Heritability. Joshua Isen, Catherine Tuvblad, Di...

Reaping a benefit at the expense of multiple others: We make more selfish choices, and judge others’ selfish choices more lightly, when the social losses are dispersed more thinly across a group

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Reaping a benefit at the expense of multiple others: How are the losses of others counted? Meir Barneron, Shoham Choshen-Hillel, Ilan Yaniv....

People ascribe differing degrees of genetic influence to the same phenotype depending on whether it is expressed in socially favored or disfavored ways

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Genetic attributions and perceptions of naturalness are shaped by evaluative valence. Matthew S. Lebowitz, Kathryn Tabb & Paul S. Appelb...
Saturday, April 10, 2021

In all, results suggest that the relationships between physical activity, mental health, and well-being are tenuous, at best

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Klussman, K., Langer, J., & Nichols, A. L. (2021). The relationship between physical activity, health, and well-being: Type of exercise ...

Chest beats as an honest signal of body size in male mountain gorillas: Positive correlations among male body size, dominance rank and reproductive success

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Chest beats as an honest signal of body size in male mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei). Edward Wright, Sven Grawunder, Eric Nday...

Women endorsed self-estimates of storge (friendship and intimacy), pragma (practical ventures) and agape (altruistic love) more than men did; males assessed their female partners higher in mania (obsession and possessiveness)

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Gender Differences in Estimates of Love Styles for Self and Others. Félix Neto. Sexuality & Culture, Apr 6 2021. https://link.springer.c...

How Social Relationships Shape Moral Judgment

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Earp, Brian D., Killian L. McLoughlin, Joshua Monrad, Margaret S. Clark, and Molly Crockett. 2020. “How Social Relationships Shape Moral Jud...
Friday, April 9, 2021

These results support claims that dogs display jealous behavior, and they provide the first evidence that dogs can mentally represent jealousy-inducing social interactions

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Dogs Mentally Represent Jealousy-Inducing Social Interactions. Amalia P. M. Bastos et al. Psychological Science, April 7, 2021. https://doi....

Overall, martial arts & combat sports have no relationship with more or less anger or aggression levels

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Effects of martial arts and combat sports training on anger and aggression: A systematic review. Jorge Lafuente, Marta Zubiaur, Carlos Gutié...

Bodies were perceived as more threatening as they had added musculature & portliness, & less threatening with more emaciation, but threatening faces exerted the most influence when paired with non-threatening bodies

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McElvaney TJ, Osman M, Mareschal I (2021) Perceiving threat in others: The role of body morphology. PLoS ONE 16(4): e0249782, Apr 8 2021. ht...

This study reinforces the notion that morningness and eveningness as explicit identities are associated with political ideology: Author found a relationship between morning orientation and conservatism

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Political ideology and diurnal associations: A dual-process motivated social cognition account. Aleksander Ksiazkiewicz. Politics and the Li...

Attending to Social Information: What Makes Men Less Desirable

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Attending to Social Information: What Makes Men Less Desirable. Ryan C. Anderson. Sexuality & Culture, Apr 8 2021. https://rd.springer.c...

Rolf Degen summarizing... People tend to belittle the extent of their meat consumption to mitigate the cognitive dissonance triggered by the meat paradox

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Meat‐related cognitive dissonance: The social psychology of eating animals. Hank Rothgerber  Daniel L. Rosenfeld. Social and Personality Psy...
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...