Sunday, April 18, 2021

Sleep duration is not significantly correlated with overall academic performance for US adolescents, but sleep quality is.

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Associations between Sleep and Academic Performance in US Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Leslie A. Musshafen et al. Sle...

Citizens in Western democracies often have negative attitudes toward political bodies, yet consistently re-elect their own representatives to these same political bodies

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Why People Hate Congress but Love Their Own Congressperson: An Information Processing Explanation. Joris Lammers et al. Personality and Soci...

Men & women: Magnitude of differences, small, fluctuated somewhat as a function of the psychological domain (cognitive variables, social & personality variables, well-being), but was largely constant across age, culture, & generations

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Zell, E., Krizan, Z., & Teeter, S. R. (2015). Evaluating gender similarities and differences using metasynthesis. American Psychologist,...

Relationship between intelligence and creative achievement: Albeit statistically significant, is of small-to-moderate size

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Karwowski, Maciej, Marta Czerwonka, Ewa Wiśniewska, and Boris Forthmann. 2021. “How Is Intelligence Test Performance Associated with Creativ...

Early alphabetic writing; Its proliferation in the Southern Levant should be considered a product of Levantine-Egyptian interaction during the mid 2nd millennium BC, rather than of later Egyptian domination

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Early alphabetic writing in the ancient Near East: the ‘missing link’ from Tel Lachish. Felix Höflmayer, Haggai Misgav, Lyndelle Webster,  K...
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...