Wednesday, May 12, 2021

More-men-more-violence association holds particularly for male violence against other men, but is insignificant for violence against women; significant among childless men, but not fathers; robustness checks question causality of associations

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Are skewed sex ratios associated with violent crime? A longitudinal analysis using Swedish register data. Andreas Filser et al. Evolution an...

CRED Louvain climate disaster events “This is creating weather-related disasters that are completely unprecedented”

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Dot Earth NEW YORK TIMES BLOG SEARCH Gore Pulls Slide of Disaster Trends BY ANDREW C. REVKIN FEBRUARY 23, 2009 12:31 PM February 23, 2009 1...

From 2019... Middle‐aged women with a greater number of recent stressful life events demonstrate memory decline over a decade later

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Stressful life events and cognitive decline: Sex differences in the Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area Follow‐Up Study. Cynthia A. Munro...

From “NASA Lies” to “Reptilian Eyes”: Mapping Communication About 10 Conspiracy Theories

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From “Nasa Lies” to “Reptilian Eyes”: Mapping Communication About 10 Conspiracy Theories, Their Communities, and Main Propagators on Twitter...

Since it is difficult to hold politicians accountable for personal welfare changes, to protect our self-image we tend to take personal responsibility for positive changes & hold the government responsible for negative changes

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How Do Voters Hold Politicians Accountable for Personal Welfare? Evidence of a Self-Serving Bias. Martin Vinæs Larsen. The Journal of Politi...
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...