Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Gift givers (vs. nongivers) subsequently made more selfish decisions at their friends' expense; giving a gift to one's romantic partner changes givers' interpretation of which behaviors constitute questionable fidelity

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Are people more selfish after giving gifts? Evan Polman  Zoe Y. Lu. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, May 18 2021. https://doi.org/10.1...

Lab: A Chronic Lack of Perceived Low Personal Control Increases Women and Men’s Self-Reported Preference for High-Status Characteristics When Selecting Romantic Partners

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A Chronic Lack of Perceived Low Personal Control Increases Women and Men’s Self-Reported Preference for High-Status Characteristics When Sel...

The Scams Among Us: Who Falls Prey and Why

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The Scams Among Us: Who Falls Prey and Why. Yaniv Hanoch, Stacey Wood. Current Directions in Psychological Science, May 17, 2021. https://do...

Seduction of the Superman: For fifty years GB Shaw expressed a desire for state liquidation of recalcitrant or incorrigibly unproductive citizens in the hope of clearing the ground for a higher kind of human creature

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The Utopian Imagination of George Bernard Shaw: Totalitarianism and the Seduction of the Superman. Matthew B Yde. PhD Thesis, Ohio State Uni...

The age of peak earnings increased from the late 30s to the mid-50s; a great share of this shift is explained by increased employment in decision-intensive occupations, which have longer and more gradual periods of earnings growth

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The Growing Importance of Decision-Making on the Job. David J. Deming. NBER Working Paper 28733, April 2021. DOI 10.3386/w28733 Abstract: Ma...

Contrary to what old criminology studies said, those who underwent physical training and scored higher on physical fitness test are less likely to engage in deviance, supporting self-control theory

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Tai, K., Liu, Y., Pitesa, M., Lim, S., Tong, Y. K., & Arvey, R. (2021). Fit to be good: Physical fitness is negatively associated with d...

People over-estimate COVID-19 risks, and those over-estimates were consistently related to stronger support for continuing restrictions past vaccinations

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Graso, Maja. 2021. “Over-estimation of Covid-19 Risks to Healthy and Non-elderly Predict Support for Continuing Restrictions Past Vaccinatio...
Monday, May 17, 2021

The Sexual Mind: Exploring the Origins of Arousal

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The Sexual Mind: Exploring the Origins of Arousal. Osmo Kontula, May 2021 (Finnish 2017). https://www.vaestoliitto.fi/uploads/2021/05/ccafc9...

Substantial percentages of people do not want to receive information even when it bears on health, sustainability, & consumer welfare; , substantial percentages of people also do want to receive that information

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Sunstein, Cass R. and Reisch, Lucia and Kaiser, Micha, What Do People Want to Know? Information Avoidance and Food Policy Implications (May ...

The uses and abuses of tree thinking in cultural evolution

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The uses and abuses of tree thinking in cultural evolution. Cara L. Evans, Simon J. Greenhill, Joseph Watts, Johann-Mattis List, Carlos A. B...

Girls know how to choose: Fathers lived in larger cities, had higher education, were heavier and taller , more attractive & masculine, had lighter eyes, darker hair, & were more agreeable, conscientious, & emotionally stable than non-fathers

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She Always Steps in the Same River: Similarity Among Long-Term Partners in Their Demographic, Physical, and Personality Characteristics. Zuz...
Sunday, May 16, 2021

Bias Is a Big Problem, But So Is ‘Noise’

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Bias Is a Big Problem. But So Is ‘Noise.’ Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein. TNYT, May 15, 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/...

“Brave Men” and “Emotional Women”: A Theory-Guided Literature Review on Gender Bias in Health Care and Gendered Norms towards Patients with Chronic Pain

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From Feb 2018... “Brave Men” and “Emotional Women”: A Theory-Guided Literature Review on Gender Bias in Health Care and Gendered Norms towar...

Across 48 nations we found age-related increases in self-esteem from late adolescence to middle adulthood and significant gender gaps, with males consistently reporting higher self-esteem than females

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Bleidorn, W., Arslan, R. C., Denissen, J. J. A., Rentfrow, P. J., Gebauer, J. E., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (2016). Age and gender di...

Those who see themselves as less attractive might be willing to reject more attractive partners as a protective strategy

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Harper, Kaitlyn, Fiona Stanley, Morgan Sidari, Anthony J. Lee, and Brendan P. Zietsch. 2021. “The Role of Accurate Self-assessments in Optim...

Sex differences in personality scores on six scales: Many significant, but mostly small, differences

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Sex differences in personality scores on six scales: Many significant, but mostly small, differences. Adrian Furnham & Luke Treglown. Cu...