Tuesday, May 11, 2021

We strongly overestimate the power of self-interest on others' blood donation willingness and smoking policies

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Self-interest Is Overestimated: Two Successful Pre-registered Replications and Extensions of Miller and Ratner (1998). Cameron Brick et al. ...

Negative events and experience, although lower in frequency, are more salient and have a higher urgency; negative ties are more consequential for individual outcomes than positive ones

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Negative Social Ties: Prevalence and Consequences. Shira Offer. Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 47, July 2021, online May 3, 2021. https:...

We identify several methodological & conceptual factors—in particular, an overreliance on self-reports—that likely inflated, or even wholly created, the apparent associations between disgust sensitivity, ideology, & pandemic response

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Ruisch, Benjamin, Shelby Boggs, Courtney Moore, Javier G. Samayoa, Jesse T. Ladanyi, Steffen Steinert, and Russell Fazio. 2021. “Investigati...

We identify weaknesses and inconsistencies in the Sperm Count Decline hypothesis; sperm count varies within a wide range, much of which can be considered non-pathological and species-typical

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The future of sperm: a biovariability framework for understanding global sperm count trends. Marion Boulicault et al. Human Fertility, May 1...

COVID... Very different patterns across higher- & lower-income migrants: Higher income households moving out of more populous cities at greater rates, and moving more for lifestyle reasons and much less for work-related reasons

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Haslag, Peter H. and Weagley, Daniel, From L.A. to Boise: How Migration Has Changed During the COVID-19 Pandemic (March 26, 2021). SSRN: htt...

The dark triad consists of psychopathy, machiavellianism, and narcissism; the dark triad is mostly negatively related to emotional intelligence; only narcissism is positively related to trait EI

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Emotional intelligence and the dark triad: A meta-analysis. Moritz Michels, Ralf Schulze. Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 180...
Monday, May 10, 2021

More women (45.8%) than men (21.6%) report that they wished they had waited until an older age to have sex; fewer women (1.5%) than men (13.9%) wished that it had occurred sooner; no differences in actual age of sexual debut

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Perhaps It Was Too Soon: College Students’ Reflections on the Timing of Their Sexual Debut. Susan Sprecher et al. The Journal of Sex Researc...