Saturday, April 17, 2021

Girls exhibit greater empathy than boys following a minor accident

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Girls exhibit greater empathy than boys following a minor accident. Joyce F. Benenson, Evelyne Gauthier & Henry Markovits. Scientific Re...

A more accepting attitude toward sugar relationships was found to be associated with more unrestricted sociosexuality, preference to engage in playful love relationships and more self-focused sexual motivation

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It Takes Two to Tango: Development, Validation, and Personality Correlates of the Acceptance of Sugar Relationships in Older Men and Women S...

Predicting Regional Variations in Nationalism with Online Expression of Disgust in China

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Predicting Regional Variations in Nationalism with Online Expression of Disgust in China. Shuqing Gao,  Hao Chen,  Kaisheng Lai and  Weining...

Are citizens who share fake news ignorant and lazy? Are they fueled by sinister motives, seeking to disrupt the social status quo? Or do they seek to attack partisan opponents in an increasingly polarized political environment?

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Osmundsen, Mathias, Alexander Bor, Peter B. Vahlstrup, Anja Bechmann, and Michael Bang Petersen. 2020. “Partisan Polarization Is the Primary...

Overestimation? The projected global mean sea-level rise is about 25% lower at the end of this century in the eddying model

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Ocean eddies strongly affect global mean sea-level projections. René M. van Westen and Henk A. Dijkstra. Science Advances  Apr 9 2021, Vol. ...

Adonization is the positive attitude toward the use of physical appearance to influence others; women perceiving themselves as physically or socially attractive reported higher adonization

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The role of self-perceived attractiveness and contingencies of self-worth. Eugenia Mandal, Marcin Moroń. Personality and Individual Differen...

Frequent, light-moderate alcohol consumption was associated with maintenance of normal weight; although heavy drinking was linked to obesity, effect sizes were modest

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How alcohol consumption influences obesity in middle-aged men: A systematic review. Laura Sayers. The Journal of Health Design, Apr 2021. ht...

How are people making fortunes today? Roughly 3/4 by starting companies and 1/4 by investing

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How People Get Rich Now. Paul Graham, April 2021. paulgraham.com/richnow.html Every year since 1982, Forbes magazine has published a list of...

Cross-Partisan Discussions on YouTube: Conservatives Talk to Liberals but Liberals Don't Talk to Conservatives

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Cross-Partisan Discussions on YouTube: Conservatives Talk to Liberals but Liberals Don't Talk to Conservatives. Siqi Wu, Paul Resnick. a...

Poland sample: We will rescue Italy, but we dislike the European Union... Collective narcissism and the COVID-19 threat

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We will rescue Italy, but we dislike the European Union: Collective narcissism and the COVID-19 threat. Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska et al....

How Civilization Broke Our Brains What can hunter-gatherer societies teach us about work, time, and happiness?

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How Civilization Broke Our Brains What can hunter-gatherer societies teach us about work, time, and happiness? Derek Thomson. The Atlantic, ...

Many negativity biases, such as negativity dominance, might not be "biases" after all but reflect people's correct encoding of evaluative ecologies

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Explaining Negativity Dominance without Processing Bias. Christian Unkelbach, Alex Koch, Hans Alves. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, April 16 ...

Rolf Degen summarizing... Neurology patient developed the delusion that her daughter had been replaced by a different "replica" at each visit

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Evolution of Capgras syndrome in neurodegenerative disease: the multiplication phenomenon. Aline von Siebenthal,Virginie Descloux,Christel B...

Many practitioners in the US are unaccustomed to using probability in diagnosis and clinical practice; widespread overestimates of the probability of disease likely contribute to overdiagnosis and overuse

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Accuracy of Practitioner Estimates of Probability of Diagnosis Before and After Testing. Daniel J. Morgan et al. JAMA Intern Med., April 5, ...