Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Parallel to the reward system, the brain harbors an anti-reward system, which responds most vigorously to worst outcome among the available alternatives (disappointments, punishment)

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Avoiding monetary loss: a human habenula functional MRI ultra-high field study. Kathrin Weidacker et al. Cortex, June 1 2021. https://doi.or...

Fragile Heterosexuality: Previous research demonstrates that membership of majority groups is often perceived as more fragile than membership of minority groups

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Fragile Heterosexuality. Keon West, Martha Lucia Borras-Guevara, Thomas Morton, and Katy Greenland. Social Psychology, Vol. 52, No. 3, May 3...

Can the Dunning-Kruger effect occur in the motor performance domain?

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Can the Dunning-Kruger effect occur in the motor performance domain? Kell S. Tremayne, Glenn Newbery, Patsy Tremayne & Kenneth A. Nolan....

About 22% of Americans always (8%) or sometimes (14%) self-identify as “anti-vaxxers” (activists who support vaccine refusal), and that those who do tend to embrace the label as a form of social identity

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Identifying the prevalence, correlates, and policy consequences of anti-vaccine social identity. Matt Motta, Timothy Callaghan, Steven Sylve...

From 2017... What factors are associated with reporting lacking interest in sex and how do these vary by gender? Findings from the third British national survey of sexual attitudes and lifestyles

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From 2017... What factors are associated with reporting lacking interest in sex and how do these vary by gender? Findings from the third Bri...

Individualism in market societies is often criticized as corrupting morality and discouraging charitable giving, but these authors disagree

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Cai, Meina and Caskey, Greg and Cowen, Nick and Murtazashvili, Ilia and Murtazashvili, Jennifer Brick and Salahodjaev, Raufhon, Individualis...

Colour Preferences and Personality: Blue and yellow was the most and least preferred; no gender differences; the blue group had higher scores on agreeableness & extraversion, & the red group had lower scores on agreeableness

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Watten, R.G.; Fostervold, K.I. Colour Preferences and Personality Traits. Preprints 2021, 2021050642, doi 10.20944/preprints202105.0642.v1 A...

Novels (n = 158) by lesbian authors showed minor signs of psycholinguistic masculinisation; novels (n = 167) by homosexual men had a female-typical psycholinguistic pattern

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Sexual Dimorphism in Language, and the Gender Shift Hypothesis of Homosexuality. Severi Luoto. Front. Psychol., May 31 2021. https://doi.org...

Attitudes toward life extension: Men indicated a higher level of willingness to use the life extension treatment; younger-old and older-old adults indicated that they would prefer to live permanently at an older age

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Who wants to live forever? Age cohort differences in attitudes toward life extension. Michael D. Barnett, Jessica H. Helphrey. Journal of Ag...

Intelligence can be detected but is not found attractive in videos and live interactions; more intelligent people were perceived as more intelligent, but not as funnier

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Intelligence can be detected but is not found attractive in videos and live interactions. Julie C. Driebe et al. Evolution and Human Behavio...