Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Rolf Degen summarizing... Men have more explicit, overt sexual initiation turn-on preferences than women, which women rarely satisfy

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Questionnaire for Turn-on Initiation Preference: Development and Initial Reliability and Validation. Petra Zebroff. The Journal of Sex Resea...

Pygmalion in the genes? On the potentially negative impacts of polygenic scores for educational attainment

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Pygmalion in the genes? On the potentially negative impacts of polygenic scores for educational attainment. Lucas J. Matthews, Matthew S. Le...

Addictions do have a genetic component, but genome-wide association studies indicate that it consists of many genetic factors with small additive effects - and of different genes than those originally suspected

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The Streetlight Effect: Reappraising the Study of Addiction in Light of the Findings of Genome-wide Association Studies. Hall F.S. · Chen Y....

A regularity in US American politics is that liberals have more policy consensus than do conservatives; in European data, this conclusion is not as clear

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Brandt, Mark J., Anthony Aron, Megan Parker, Cristina Rodas, and Megan Shaffer. 2021. “Leftists Possess More National Consensus in Europe in...
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

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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

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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

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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

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