Saturday, May 15, 2021

Not only is animal-source food wrong, plant-source food is wrong too... Let's transition to house flies, funghi, mealworm beetles and algae

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Tzachor, A., Richards, C.E. & Holt, L. Future foods for risk-resilient diets. Nat Food (2021). May 13 2021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s430...

The benefits of cognitive diversity are not equally distributed about collective intelligence tasks, & are best seen for complex, multi-stage, creative problem solving, during problem posing & hypothesis generation

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Sulik, Justin, Bahador Bahrami, and Ophelia Deroy. 2021. “The Diversity Gap: When Diversity Matters for Knowledge.” PsyArXiv. May 10. doi:10...

Relations between HEXACO personality and ideology variables are mostly genetic in nature

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Relations between HEXACO personality and ideology variables are mostly genetic in nature. Reinout E. de Vries et al. European Journal of Per...

(De)Politicizing Polyamory: Social Media Comments on Media Representations of Consensual Non-Monogamies

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(De)Politicizing Polyamory: Social Media Comments on Media Representations of Consensual Non-Monogamies. Daniel Cardoso, Ana Rosa & Mari...

We choose not to see life's violence on our daily strolls; every time we say nature is beautiful, we are saying a prayer, fingering our worry beads

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We choose not to see life's violence on our daily strolls; every time we say nature is beautiful, we are saying a prayer, fingering our ...

Intuitive perception of long-term mating strategies increases association with religiosity, perception of short-term mating strategies decreases association with religiosity

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Intuitive Perceptions of the Relationship Between Mating Strategies and Religiosity: Participant Religiosity Influences Perceptions, but Not...

What Himba want in formal & informal concurrent partners: Men follow a dual strategy, preferring hard-working wives & attractive girlfriends; women prefer wealthy husbands & generous boyfriends

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Partner preferences in the context of concurrency: What Himba want in formal and informal partners. Brooke A. Scelz, Sean P. Prall. Evolutio...

Active males, reactive females: stereotypic sex roles in sexual conflict research?

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Active males, reactive females: stereotypic sex roles in sexual conflict research? Kristina Karlsson  Green, Josefin A. Madjidian. Animal Be...

People rated themselves as more attractive at later times of a bar's opening hours; this “closing time effect” applied to men regardless of their relationship status, and applied only to single women

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Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder but rarely because of the beer. Tobias Otterbring, Kristian Rolschau. Personality and Individual Dif...

People who have had COVID-19 may be more sociable than those who have not had it; people who have had COVID-19 were more conservative-leaning

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Personality Correlates of COVID-19 Infection Proclivity: Extraversion Kills. Vania Rolon et al. Personality and Individual Differences, May ...
Friday, May 14, 2021

The Cross-national Association of Gun Ownership Rates and Suicide Rates: An Analysis of 194 Nations

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The Cross-national Association of Gun Ownership Rates and Suicide Rates: An Analysis of 194 Nations. Gary Kleck. Archives of Suicide Researc...

Interventions to induce skepticism had a significantly stronger average effect on attitudes than did ones that intended to promote belief in climate change; seems that belief in climate change is more easily weakened than strengthened

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Influencing Climate Change Attitudes in the United States: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Jacob B.Rode, Amy L.Dent, Caitlin N.Benedi...

The Political Consequences of an Optimistic Personality: Is a psychological resource that contributes to the practice of good citizenship behaviors (more politically engaged & participatory than those with pessimistic dispositions)

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The Political Consequences of an Optimistic Personality. Carey Stapleton, Jacob Oliver & Jennifer Wolak. Political Behavior, May 13 2021...

From 2019... Personal info than can be inferred from eye-tracking data: A user's sex, age, ethnicity, personality traits, drug-consumption habits, emotions, fears, skills, interests, sexual preferences, & physical & mental health

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From 2019... Kröger J.L., Lutz O.HM., Müller F. (2020) What Does Your Gaze Reveal About You? On the Privacy Implications of Eye Tracking. In...

About the economy, women are less likely to provide a judgment than their male counterparts, are less likely to give "extreme" answers in which they strongly agree or disagree, & are less confident in their answer's accuracy

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Confidence Men? Evidence on Confidence and Gender among Top Economists. Heather Sarsons and Guo Xu. AEA Papers and Proceedings. May 2021, Vo...
Thursday, May 13, 2021

On days when employees reflected on their best possible leader self, they engaged in more helping and visioning via positive affect

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Reflecting on one's best possible self as a leader: Implications for professional employees at work. Remy E. Jennings  Klodiana Lanaj  J...

Desire for power mediates associations between narcissism and mate retention behaviors; the present studies provide additional support for the importance of distinguishing between different aspects of narcissism

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Desire for power mediates associations between narcissism and mate retention behaviors. Virgil Zeigler‐Hill  David Andrews  Karla Borgerding...

High‐Status people are more individualistic and analytic‐thinking in the west and wheat‐farming areas, but not rice‐farming areas

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High‐Status people are more individualistic and analytic‐thinking in the west and wheat‐farming areas, but not rice‐farming areas. Haotian Z...

Body-wide unique photoreceptor cells that allows head-removed flatworms to move like intact animals reveals the mechanistic framework underpinning one of the most sensitive eye–brain-independent responses known

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Discovery of a body-wide photosensory array that matures in an adult-like animal and mediates eye–brain-independent movement and arousal. Ni...

Many initiatives have been put in place to reduce the effect of gender differences in negotiation; the strongest evidence on effectiveness in narrowing gender disparities is found for policies that increase transparency

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Gender Differences in Negotiation and Policy for Improvement. Maria Recalde & Lise Vesterlund. NBER Working Paper 28183, December 2020. ...
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...