Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Nationality, age, services offered, ethnicity, region & sexual orientation influenced rates & popularity in the market for commercial sexual services; research consistently underestimates the importance & number of men in sex work

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Selling sex: what determines rates and popularity? An analysis of 11,500 online profiles. Alicia Mergenthaler & Taha Yasseri. Culture, H...

David Schmitt summarizing... From 2020... Contributions to cheating: Age, education, gender, race/ethnicity, religiosity; after statistically accounting for those, people who were less conscientious (less hard-working, organized) were more likely to have a partner cheat on them

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Self‐reported Big Five personality traits of individuals who have experienced partner infidelity. Meghna Mahambrey. Personal Relationships, ...

Beware of correlations: When correlating two signals which both evolve slowly over time, the chances of finding a significant correlation between the two are much higher than when comparing signals which lack this property

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Meijer, Guido. 2021. “Neurons in the Mouse Brain Correlate with Cryptocurrency Price: A Cautionary Tale.” PsyArXiv. April 27. doi:10.31234/o...

Sets of cultural dimensions in the literature: Instead of looking at dimensions from different sets one by one, each set of dimensions can be viewed as one unit covering a certain space of values, norms, beliefs, attitudes

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Merging Hofstede, Schwartz, and Inglehart into a Single System. Anneli Kaasa. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, April 19, 2021. https://...

Metadehumanization, the perception that another group dehumanizes your own group, is a robust predictor of Americans’ support for anti-democratic norms

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Landry, Alexander. 2021. “Metadehumanization Erodes Democratic Norms During the 2020 Presidential Election.” PsyArXiv. April 26. doi:10.3123...

Demographic and social factors impacting coming out as a sexual minority among Generation-Z teenage boys

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Moskowitz, D. A., Rendina, H. J., Alvarado Avila, A., & Mustanski, B. (2021). Demographic and social factors impacting coming out as a s...

Girls with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) appear to have more genetic mutations than boys with ASD; differences in brain structure and function; advocate caution in drawing conclusions regarding female ASD based on male-predominant cohorts

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A neurogenetic analysis of female autism. Allison Jack et al. Brain, awab064, April 16 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awab064 Abstract:...

Men lower in status-linked variable "perceived mate value" are relatively disinclined to offset their high hostile sexism with high benevolent sexism

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Curvilinear Sexism and Its Links to Men’s Perceived Mate Value. Jennifer K. Bosson, Gregory J. Rousis, Roxanne N. Felig. Personality and Soc...
Monday, April 26, 2021

Quality assurance and cultural sensitivity: The case study of interpreting taboo from English and French to Kinyarwanda and vice versa

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Quality assurance and cultural sensitivity: The case study of interpreting taboo from English and French to Kinyarwanda and vice versa. Vita...

Research found that people are willing to compromise on physical attractiveness for other qualities; against expectations, people gave more importance to attractiveness than before the epidemic, maybe as proxy for good health

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Settling down without settling: Perceived changes in partner preferences in response to COVID-19 concern. Alexopoulos, Cassandra et al. Jour...

Egos deflating with the Great Recession: Narcissistic traits rose and fell with the U.S. economy, incresed 1982 to 2008 and then declined; economic growth is linked to more narcissism and individualism.

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Egos deflating with the Great Recession: A cross-temporal meta-analysis and within-campus analysis of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory...

When and how does the number of children affect marital satisfaction? An international survey

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Kowal M, Groyecka-Bernard A, Kochan-Wójcik M, Sorokowski P (2021) When and how does the number of children affect marital satisfaction? An i...