Thursday, April 22, 2021

External stressors brought on by COVID-19 were associated with sexual desire among people in relationships, in part due to reports of depressive symptoms

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Balzarini, Rhonda N., Amy Muise, Giulia Zoppolat, Amanda N. Gesselman, Justin J. Lehmiller, Justin R. Garcia, Richard B. Slatcher, et al. 20...

How the language you speak aligns to your genetic origins and may impact research on your health

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Genetic substructure and complex demographic history of South African Bantu speakers. Dhriti Sengupta, Ananyo Choudhury, Cesar Fortes-Lima, ...

Pornography use is both ubiquitous and controversial in developed nations

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Pornography Use and Psychological Science: A Call for Consideration. Joshua B. Grubbs, Shane W. Kraus. Current Directions in Psychological S...
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Participants viewed psychiatric disorders as more likely to be innate and immutable when the diagnosis was supported by a brain test as compared to a behavioral test

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Essentialist Biases Toward Psychiatric Disorders: Brain Disorders Are Presumed Innate. Iris Berent  Melanie Platt. Cognitive Science, April ...

From 2020... Some advertisements work well across many cultures, others do not

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From 2020... The evolution-similarity matrix: an evolutionary psychology perspective on cross-cultural advertising. Lachezar Ivanov ORCID , ...

Your Personality does not Care Whether you Believe it Can Change: Beliefs about Whether Personality can Change do not Predict Change among Emerging Adults

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Your Personality does not Care Whether you Believe it Can Change: Beliefs about Whether Personality can Change do not Predict Trait Change a...

Societies characterized by higher importance of religion or higher degree of church attendance reported higher likelihood of staying at home behavior

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Cooperation and Trust Across Societies During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Angelo Romano et al. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, April 13, 20...

One appears more attractive in a selfie with other people than in isolation, as long as the other people are equally or less attractive

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Change in Evaluation Mode Can Cause a Cheerleader Effect. Claude Messner, Mattia Carnelli and Patrick Stefan Hähener. Front. Psychol., April...

College Students in the Western World are Becoming Less Emotionally Intelligent

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College Students in the Western World are Becoming Less Emotionally Intelligent: A Cross‐Temporal Meta‐Analysis of Trait Emotional Intellige...
Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Short-term mate attraction tactics: Men's behaviours that were considered most effective by women are related to investment and long-term interest (dinner, movies, spending time with her)

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Want to Hookup?: Sex Differences in Short-term Mate Attraction Tactics. T. Joel Wade, Maryanne L. Fisher, Catherine Salmon & Carly Downs...

Men owning shirts with larger luxury brand logos were rated higher on mating effort, lower on parental investment, higher on interest in brief sexual affairs, lower on interest in long-term committed relationships

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Phenotypic Mimicry Distinguishes Cues of Mating Competition From Paternal Investment in Men’s Conspicuous Consumption. Daniel J. Kruger. Per...

People found the speech of the opposite political camp more offensive than their own, although they denied any influence of camp affiliation on offensiveness

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Whose Words Hurt? Contextual Determinants of Offensive Speech. Manuel Almagro Holgado et al. Research Gate, April 2021. https://www.research...