Thursday, May 20, 2021

Norway: Our study does therefore not indicate a decline in intercourse frequency, as suggested in some countries

›
Sexual intercourse activity and activities associated with sexual interaction in Norwegians of different sexual orientations and ages. Bente...

We expect employers to reward effort even if the employers knew output was determined by luck; when effort is unobservable, we work harder if the employer doesn't know earnings are determined by luck

›
Effort Provision in a Game of Luck. Mads Nordmo Arnestad, Kristoffer W. Eriksen, Ola Kvaløy and Bjørnar Laurila. Front. Psychol., May 20 202...

Bystanders are more sympathetic of female victims of physical assault than male victims; dangerous emergencies do not always affect diffusion of responsibility as extant research suggests

›
Revisiting the gender-relations debate in the violent murder of Kitty Genovese: Another side of gender-bias favoring women in bystander reac...

Women care more about a greater number of characteristics when considering sexual attractiveness in a potential mate, with highly educated women more keen on looks

›
Whyte S, Brooks RC, Chan HF, Torgler B (2021) Sex differences in sexual attraction for aesthetics, resources and personality across age. PLo...

Improvements in religious liberty tend to precede economic freedom; increases in religious liberty have a wide array of spillovers that are important determinants of economic freedom & explain the direction of causality

›
Makridis, Christos, Religious, Civil, and Economic Freedoms: What's the Chicken and What's the Egg? (April 24, 2021). SSRN: http://d...

Consequences of slowly gaining olfactory function after lifelong lack of it: Most of odors are unpleasant and intense

›
Consequences of gaining olfactory function after lifelong anosmia. Robert PellegrinoORCID Icon,Coralie Mignot,Charalampos Georgiopoulos,Antj...
Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Almost 58% of the participants indicated that they would use three or more strategies in order to detect their partners’ infidelity; 17% would spy on the partner

›
Strategies for Detecting Infidelity: An Explorative Analysis. Menelaos Apostolou & Maria Ioannidou. Evolutionary Psychological Science, ...

From 2020... Biculturals—who identify with at least two cultures—often frame switch, adapting their behavior to their shifting cultural contexts; are perceived as inauthentic, less likable, trustworthy, warm, competent

›
From 2020... The Cost of Being “True to Yourself” for Mixed Selves: Frame Switching Leads to Perceived Inauthenticity and Downstream Social ...

Graduating during a period of high unemployment increases entry to entrepreneurship; the firms founded by these forced entrepreneurs are more likely to survive, innovate, & receive venture-backing, compared to voluntary entrepreneurs

›
Hacamo, Isaac and Kleiner, Kristoph, Forced Entrepreneurs (April 29, 2021). Journal of Finance, Forthcoming. SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139...

Individually-housed monkeys exhibited consistently blunted sensitivity to ostensibly threatening stimuli as compared to socially-housed monkeys

›
Social Housing Status Impacts Rhesus Monkeys’ Affective Responding in Classic Threat Processing Tasks. Joey A. Charbonneau, David G. Amaral,...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, parents in consensually nonmonogamous relationships navigated public health directives to social distance and avoid contact between households & adapted via creative strategies

›
Consensually nonmonogamous parent relationships during COVID-19. Melissa H Manley, Abbie E Goldberg. Sexualities, May 15, 2021. https://doi....

Born to Be Managers? Genetic Links between Risk-Taking and the Likelihood of Holding Managerial Positions

›
Lin, Jinjie and Zhao, Bingxin, Born to Be Managers? Genetic Links between Risk-Taking and the Likelihood of Holding Managerial Positions (Ap...

In addition to counseling students about pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection risk, clinicians might assess patients’ engagement in choking/strangulation during sex, given the risk for serious outcomes

›
Herbenick D, Patterson C, Beckmeyer J, et al. Diverse Sexual Behaviors in Undergraduate Students: Findings From a Campus Probability Survey....
Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Mental disorders were 3- to 4-fold more prevalent in children with parents in the lowest income percentiles; parents’ own mental disorders, other socio-demographic factors etc. did not fully explain these associations

›
Parental income and mental disorders in children and adolescents: prospective register-based study. Jonas Minet Kinge et al. International J...