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Friday, June 4, 2021

Based on a panel between 1980 & 2016, I find that one more Sunday with precipitation at the time of church increases yearly drug-related, alcohol-related & white-collar crimes, but not for violent or property crimes

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Sinning in the Rain: Weather Shocks, Church Attendance and Crime. Jonathan Moreno-Medina. The Review of Economics and Statistics 1–46. Mar 1...

Emotions and temperature are closely related through embodied processes, and people seem to associate temperature concepts with emotions

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Barbosa Escobar F, Velasco C, Motoki K, Byrne DV, Wang QJ (2021) The temperature of emotions. PLoS ONE 16(6): e0252408, Jun 3 2021. https://...

Similar to humans, Eurasian jays are susceptible to magic effects that utilize fast movements, but unlike us, they do not appear to be misled by magic effects that rely on the observer’s intrinsic expectations in human object manipulation

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Exploring the perceptual inabilities of Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius) using magic effects. Elias Garcia-Pelegrin, Alexandra K. Schnell...

Observed significant increases in frequencies of alleles of more body fat in females contradicts hypotheses that sex differences have adaptively decreased following subsistence transitions from hunting & gather'g to agric

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Arner AM, Grogan KE, Grabowski M, Reyes-Centeno H, Perry GH (2021) Patterns of recent natural selection on genetic loci associated with sexu...
Thursday, June 3, 2021

Young men & women overestimate their future wages; when given realistic future wage information, women properly adjust down, but men adjust even further up

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Gender differences in wage expectations. Ana Fernandes, Martin Huber, Giannina Vaccaro. PLoS One, June 2, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Higher order cognition is related to baseline pupil size; baseline pupil size is uniquely related to fluid intelligence

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The relationship between baseline pupil size and intelligence. Jason S. Tsukahara, Tyler L. Harrison, Randall W. Engle. Cognitive Psychology...

The intensities of felt shame and of various motivations of shame (hiding, lying, destroying evidence, & threatening witnesses) vary in proportion to one another, & to the degree to which audiences devalue the disgraced individual

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Are Emotions Natural Kinds After All? Rethinking the Issue of Response Coherence. Daniel Sznycer, Adam Scott Cohen. Evolutionary Psychology,...

Protective techniques: Turkana in our sample had a high prevalence of PTSD symptoms, but those with high symptom severity had lower prevalence of depression-like symptoms than American service members

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Combat stress in a small-scale society suggests divergent evolutionary roots for posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms. Matthew R. Zefferma...
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...
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