Friday, April 23, 2021

Multimodal mate choice: Exploring the effects of sight, sound, and scent on partner choice in a speed-date paradigm

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Multimodal mate choice: Exploring the effects of sight, sound, and scent on partner choice in a speed-date paradigm. Tom S. Roth, Iliana Sam...

Most insults targeted at men derogated formidability/status and sexuality/gender, and most insults targeted at women derogated physical appearance and ascribed promiscuity

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Harrison, M. A., & Hughes, S. M. (2021). Ugly or weak? Insults target sex-specific cues of mate value. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences,...

From 2015... The love-darts of simultaneous hermaphrodites like land snails seem to have evolved as a result of conflict over the fate of donated sperm

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The love-darts of land snails: integrating physiology, morphology and behaviour. Monica Lodi, Joris M. Koene. Journal of Molluscan Studies, ...

Authors discuss the possible role of skill in determining mating success; they highlight functional similarities between fighting and mating behaviours

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Skilful mating? Insights from animal contest research. Sarah M. Lane, Mark Briffa. Animal Behaviour, Apr 22 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j....
Thursday, April 22, 2021

Hemispheric asymmetries in visual mental imagery are difficult to reconcile with the dominant model of visual mental imagery, which relies on large-scale brain networks

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Hemispheric asymmetries in visual mental imagery. Jianghao Liu, Alfredo Spagna & Paolo Bartolomeo . Brain Structure and Function, Apr 22...

The Netherlands: Male & female police officers were taller than the average population; overall, especially among women, height was linearly associated with occupational rank: the taller one was, the higher one’s rank

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Effect of Self-reported Height on Occupational Rank Among Police Officers: Especially for Women it Pays to be Tall. Abraham P. Buunk, Gert S...

Highly speculative: Evolution of genetic networks for human creativity

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Evolution of genetic networks for human creativity. I. Zwir, C. Del-Val, M. Hintsanen, K. M. Cloninger, R. Romero-Zaliz, A. Mesa, J. Arnedo,...