Friday, May 7, 2021

Austria, England, Ireland and Sweden: Voters from all sides are more satisfied if there are more parties to choose from; the positive effect is stronger among the higher educated

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Do voters prefer more parties on the ballot? John Högström, André Blais & Carolina Plescia. Acta Politica, May 6 2021. https://rd.spring...

Beauty perceptions causally influenced moral standing attributions across a wide range of animal species independently from perceived patiency, agency, and harmfulness

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Beauty of the Beast: Beauty as an important dimension in the moral standing of animals. Christoph Klebl et al. Journal of Environmental Psyc...

Greater likelihood of substance use when a worker receives performance pay: Result supports conjectures that stress & effort increase with performance pay & that alcohol & drug use is a coping mechanism for workers

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From 2020... Does performance pay increase alcohol and drug use? Benjamin Artz, Colin P. Green & John S. Heywood. Journal of Population ...

We not only favor our genes (altruism for those with similar genetics), greater memetic similarity (similarity in important attitudes & values) was associated with greater altruism

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Baucal, Aleksandar, and Aleksandra Lazić. 2021. “Selfish Genes or Selfish Memes?.” PsyArXiv. May 5. doi:10.31234/osf.io/c4j92 Abstract: When...

Violating the male breadwinning norm results in a 35 per cent increase in the likelihood of partner violence and a 20 per cent increase in emotional abuse against women

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Gender norms and domestic abuse: Evidence from Australia. Zhang, Y; Breunig, R. Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Working paper 5/2021. May...

Damselflies: Latitudinal clines in sexual selection, sexual size dimorphism and sex-specific genetic dispersal during a poleward range expansion

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Latitudinal clines in sexual selection, sexual size dimorphism and sex-specific genetic dispersal during a poleward range expansion. Rachael...
Thursday, May 6, 2021

We find support for coalition formation between individuals who share food & labour, & especially kinship; physically formidable men & men higher in informal status were more likely to provide coalitional support over time

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Coalitions and conflict: A longitudinal analysis of men's politics. Daniel Redhead, Christopher R. von Rueden. Evolutionary Human Scienc...

From 2020... Sex and gender: modifiers of health, disease, and medicine

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From 2020... Sex and gender: modifiers of health, disease, and medicine. Franck Mauvais-Jarvis et al. The Lancet, Volume 396, Issue 10250, A...

Personality might at least partly be expressed in people’s voice pitch: Results suggest substantial negative relationships between voice pitch and self-reported sociosexuality, dominance & extraversion in men & women

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Stern, Julia, Christoph Schild, Benedict C. Jones, Lisa M. DeBruine, Amanda Hahn, David Puts, Ingo Zettler, et al. 2019. “Do Voices Carry Va...

Rolf Degen summarizing... Win–win denial: People have a strong tendency to misperceive trade as a zero sum game in which buyers get the short end of the stick

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Win–win denial : the psychological underpinnings of zero-sum thinking. Johnson, Samuel G B, Zhang, Jiewen and Keil, Frank C. Journal of Expe...
Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Gender differences in climate change views are statistically significant only in relatively affluent countries, the differences are larger at higher levels of affluence, & greater climate risk amplifies the difference in concern

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Gender and climate change views in context: a cross-national multilevel analysis. Kyle W. Knight & Jennifer E. Givens. The Social Scienc...

Is Divisive Politics Making Americans Sick? Associations of Perceived Partisan Polarization with Physical and Mental Health Outcomes Among Adults in the US

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Is Divisive Politics Making Americans Sick? Associations of Perceived Partisan Polarization with Physical and Mental Health Outcomes Among A...

National development—and particularly economic growth—is under severe challenge as an important and legitimate objective of action within the development industry

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National Development Delivers: And How! And How? Lant Pritchett. April 26, 2021. https://lantpritchett.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Develo...

Both men and women stereotype women (but not men) who engage in casual sex as having low self-esteem, mediated by inferences that women who have casual sex are unsatisfied with their mating strategy

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Lay Beliefs About Gender and Sexual Behavior: First Evidence for a Pervasive, Robust (but Seemingly Unfounded) Stereotype. Jaimie Arona Krem...

Single dose testosterone administration enhances novelty responsiveness and short-term habituation in healthy males

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Single dose testosterone administration enhances novelty responsiveness and short-term habituation in healthy males. Huihua Fang et al. Horm...

While children felt about 3 years or 34% older than their chronological age, older adults (60+ years) felt, on average, between 10.74 and 21.07 years or 13%–18% younger

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Pinquart, M., & Wahl, H.-W. (2021). Subjective age from childhood to advanced old age: A meta-analysis. Psychology and Aging, 36(3), 394...
Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Dramatic Changes to Well-known Places Go Unnoticed

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Rosenbaum, R. Shayna, Julia G. Halilova, Sabrina Agnihotri, Maria C. D'Angelo, Gordon Winocur, Jennifer Ryan, and Morris Moscovitch. 202...

When people exercised with their romantic partner, they experienced higher positive affect during exercise, higher daily positive affect, and were more satisfied with their relationship

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Better together: The impact of exercising with a romantic partner. Kyrsten Sackett-Fox, Judith Gere, John Updegraff. Journal of Social and P...

Heterosexual, lesbian, and gay participants all perceived bisexual men as more attracted to men than to women

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Bisexual erasure: Perceived attraction patterns of bisexual women and men. Thekla Morgenroth  Teri Kirby. European Journal of Social Psychol...

The assisted reproduction families generally showed high levels of family functioning and children's adjustment from early childhood through to adolescence

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Love and Truth: What Really Matters for Children Born Through Third‐Party Assisted Reproduction. Susan Golombok. Child Development Perspecti...

Polycarpa mytiligera, a chordate incapable of asexual development, achieves bidirectional regeneration & fully regenerates all body structures & organs after being cut in three pieces; each fragment got to be an independent, functional individual

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And Then There Were Three…: Extreme Regeneration Ability of the Solitary Chordate Polycarpa mytiligera. Tal Gordon et al. Front. Cell Dev. B...

CMIP6 models: They considerably overestimate the warming rate observed in 1998–2013, exhibiting an obvious warming acceleration rather than the observed deceleration

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Could CMIP6 climate models reproduce the early-2000s global warming slowdown? Meng Wei, Qi Shu, Zhenya Song, Yajuan Song, Xiaodan Yang, Yong...

1985-2011: Elderly West Germans were much less satisfied throughout their last 5 years of life & spent a larger proportion of their remaining lifetime in dissatisfaction; mechanisms that contributed were health & social isolation

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Increasing longevity and life satisfaction: is there a catch to living longer? Janina Nemitz. Journal of Population Economics, May 3 2021. h...