Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Personal values are desirable, trans-situational goals guiding principles in people’s lives; they have wide-ranging effects on attitudes, emotions and behavior

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How Do Values Affect Behavior? Let Me Count the Ways. Lilach Sagiv, Sonia Roccas. Personality and Social Psychology Review, May 28, 2021. ht...

From 2010... Insecure individuals presented themselves as warm, engaging, & humorous people when communicating with potential mates; insecure people have numerous dating tactics & positive qualities to display to win over romantic partners

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Adult attachment and dating strategies: How do insecure people attract mates? Claudia Chloe Brumbaugh, R. Chris Fraley. Personal Relationshi...

Women in different-sex couples less likely to report taking care of distressed spouse’s tasks or giving spouse more personal time/space (compared to same-sex women or men); men in different-sex couples less likely to report encouraging spouse to talk

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Support in response to a spouse’s distress: Comparing women and men in same-sex and different-sex marriages. Mieke Beth Thomeer, Amanda M. P...

Are couples w/at least one secure-attach person satisfied (buffering hypothesis)? Contrary to the author's expectations, secure partners do not “buffer” insecurely attached individuals

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Dyadic effects of attachment and relationship functioning. Elizabeth B. Lozano et al. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, March 5,...

The authors argue eating behavior is highly intertwined with learning and memory processes; they suggest memory systems may have evolved to help animals obtain food

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Eating Behavior as a New Frontier in Memory Research. Benjamin M. Seitz, A. Janet Tomiyama, Aaron P. Blaisdell. Neuroscience & Biobehavi...

The sustainability of “local” food: a review for policy-makers

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The sustainability of “local” food: a review for policy-makers. Alexander J. Stein & Fabien Santini. Review of Agricultural, Food and En...

Women significantly hid more being the victim of sexual assault & that they had practiced/were interested in BDSM/kink play; men kept secret that they had engaged in sex with multiple partners at the same time

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Gender Differences in Sex Secret Disclosure to a Romantic Partner. Keely Fox, Alexandria M. Ashley, Lacey J. Ritter, Tara Martin & David...

First evidence that the ability to generate visual imagery increases the likelihood of experiencing complex and vivid anomalous percepts, compared to individuals with aphantasia

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The Ganzflicker experience: High probability of seeing vivid and complex pseudo-hallucinations with imagery but not aphantasia. Varg T. Köni...
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...