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Bipartisan Alliance, a Society for the Study of the US Constitution, and of Human Nature, where Republicans and Democrats meet.

Monday, April 12, 2021

Related to phylogeny, we summarize theories of romantic love’s evolutionary history & show that romantic love probably evolved in concert with pair-bonds in our recent ancestors

Proximate and Ultimate Perspectives on Romantic Love. Adam Bode and Geoff Kushnick. Front. Psychol., April 12 2021. https://doi.org/10.3389/...

Politically misaligned bureaucrats incur in greater cost overruns, are generally less motivated, & are perceived as less loyal to their missions

Ideology and Performance in Public Organizations. Jorg L. Spenkuch, Edoardo Teso & Guo Xu. NBER Working Paper 28673, April 2021. DOI 10....

From 2007... Among the married, a higher discrepancy between men's and women's number of previous intercourse partners was related to lower levels of love, satisfaction, and commitment in the relationship

From 2007... Matching in Sexual Experience for Married, Cohabitating, and Dating Couples. Luis T. Garcia & Charlotte Markey. The Journal...

Sunday, April 11, 2021

Dynamic network perspective represents major departure from localist models; instead of cognitive functions mapping to discrete neural regions/connects, mental operations are suggested to be supported by unique conjunctions of distributed brain regions

Neuroimaging evidence for a network sampling theory of individual differences in human intelligence test performance. Eyal Soreq, Ines R. Vi...

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