Sunday, April 25, 2021

Play vocalisations in primates and other mammals often include sounds of panting, supporting the theory that human laughter evolved from an auditory cue of laboured breathing during play

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Play vocalisations and human laughter: a comparative review. Sasha L. Winkler & Gregory A. Bryant. Bioacoustics, Apr 19 2021. https://do...
Saturday, April 24, 2021

Deceptive self-presentation in social media: The more sex-egalitarian the country, the more females reported more use of physical attractiveness and males reported use of personal achievement

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Gender gaps in deceptive self-presentation on social media platforms vary with gender equality: A multinational investigation. Dasha Kolesny...

Apparent contradiction between dogs' stronger affectional bonds toward humans than toward members of their own species: Dogs' intense sensitivity to social hierarchy contributes to their willingness to accept human leadership

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Dogs' (Canis lupus familiaris) behavioral adaptations to a human-dominated niche: A review and novel hypothesis. Clive D. L. Wynne. Adva...

Does success change people? Examining objective career success as a precursor for personality development

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Does success change people? Examining objective career success as a precursor for personality development. Andreas Hirschi et al. Journal of...

Public Confidence in the Police: The degree of confidence in the government as a whole is by far the largest determinant of how much confidence they feel in the police; no factors other than race play a clear role; in short, all this is mainly party politics

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Kelley, Jonathan, MDR Evans, and Charlotte Corday. 2021. “Crisis, Plunge, and Recovery of Public Confidence in the Police: Data from Six Nat...

English language: In a broad range of settings involving both spoken and written speech, and with varying degrees of formality, women do not use euphemisms more than men

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Kapron-King, Anna, and Yang Xu. 2021. “A Quantitative Evaluation of Gender Asymmetry in Euphemism.” PsyArXiv. April 23. doi:10.31234/osf.io/...

Fathers across Western populations tend to provide more care to sons than daughters; may (at least in part) be due to differences in fitness returns to paternal direct investments by child’s sex

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Why the Son-bias in Caregiving? Testing Sex-differences in the Associations Between Paternal Caregiving and Child Outcomes in England. Emily...
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, ...