Thursday, April 15, 2021

Opening up relationships: Those with perceptions of higher‐quality alternatives had clearly more interest in consensual non‐monogamy

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Quality of alternatives positively associated with interest in opening up a relationship. Geoff MacDonald  Yoobin Park  Alathea Hayes  Isabe...

How Narcissism Shapes Responses to Antisocial and Prosocial Behavior: Hypo-Responsiveness

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How Narcissism Shapes Responses to Antisocial and Prosocial Behavior: Hypo-Responsiveness or Hyper-Responsiveness? Jiafang Chen et al. Perso...

The tendency toward last-minute cancellations (“social zapping”) is mainly predicted by Machiavellianism & narcissism; attentional impulsivity & timeliness procrastination are additional predictors

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Predictors of social-zapping behavior: Dark Triad, impulsivity, and procrastination facets contribute to the tendency toward last-minute can...

Professionals keep overestimating replicability of research

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Gordon M, Viganola D, Dreber A, Johannesson M, Pfeiffer T (2021) Predicting replicability—Analysis of survey and prediction market data from...

Unexpected losses of local teams lead to a small decrease in the number of births nine months thereafter due to reduced short-term sexual interest and intercourse

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Soccer Scores, Short-Term Mood and Fertility. Fabrizio Bernardi & Marco Cozzani. European Journal of Population, Apr 14 2021, https://rd...

Humans sometimes picture themselves from an external vantage point, particularly when they consider events in a broader context or care about their reputation

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Picturing yourself: a social-cognitive process model to integrate third-person imagery effects. Zachary Adolph Niese,Richard P. Eibach &...

An ant can increase and decrease its brain size, according to its reproductive status

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Reversible plasticity in brain size, behaviour and physiology characterizes caste transitions in a socially flexible ant (Harpegnathos salta...
Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Neither Facial Aggressiveness nor Facial Width to Height Ratio Are Related to Fighting Success

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Richardson, Thomas, Anam Bhutta, Elena Bantoft, and R. Tucker Gilman. 2021. “Neither Facial Aggressiveness nor Facial Width to Height Ratio ...

We believe we rely more on reasoning, and less on feelings, than others, driven by the motivation to self‐enhance because we believe the use of reasoning is superior & self‐enhancing, compared to the use of feelings

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More Rational or More Emotional than Others? Lay Beliefs about Decision‐Making Strategies. Noah VanBergen  Nicholas H. Lurie  Zoey Chen. Jou...
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....