Sunday, June 6, 2021

COVID-19 lockdown: Women did more chores & had less satisfaction; men who were the primary caregiver or were not working fulltime had negative relationship outcomes when they did more housework & parenting

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Gendered division of labor during a nationwide COVID-19 lockdown: Implications for relationship problems and satisfaction. Nina Waddell et a...

We provide strong evidence for greater male variability in preferences; men are more likely to have extreme time, risk, and social preferences, while women are more likely to have moderate preferences

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Converging evidence for greater male variability in time, risk, and social preferences. Christian Thöni and Stefan Volk. Proceedings of the ...

From 2019... Urban spatial order: street network orientation, configuration, and entropy

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From 2019... Urban spatial order: street network orientation, configuration, and entropy. Geoff Boeing. Applied Network Science volume 4, Ar...

We present the results of a pilot study conducted in Bangladesh which suggests that heightened mortality arising from mother-in-law/daughter-in-law conflict may be a two-way street

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In-Law Relationships in Evolutionary Perspective: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Martin Daly, Gretchen Perry. Front. Sociol., June 4 2021....

Awareness of lateral posing asymmetries: Although people do not have an acute awareness of their lateral posing preference, they reliably show one side of their faces to express or hide emotions

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Do you know your best side? Awareness of lateral posing asymmetries. Matia Okubo & Takato Oyama. Asymmetries of Brain, Behaviour, and Co...

Among liberal countries, inequality was negatively related to subjective well-being for men & women; there was some evidence that the relation was stronger for women; in conservative countries, the relation was not significant

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Culture Moderates the Relation Between Gender Inequality and Well-Being. Chen Li, Miron Zuckerman, Ed Diener. Psychological Science, June 1,...

Breeding season length (bsl) & mating system are the strongest predictors of testosterone concentrations; bsl, environmental temperature, & variability in precipitation are the strongest predictors of within-population variation in test.

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Life history and environment predict variation in testosterone across vertebrates. Jerry F. Husak et al. Evolution, March 23 2021. https://d...
Saturday, June 5, 2021

Rolf Degen summarizing... The sources of information by which people were most often exposed to politically dissimilar news were search engines and social media, once again giving the lie to the condescending notion of "echo chambers"

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Avenues to News and Diverse News Exposure Online: Comparing Direct Navigation, Social Media, News Aggregators, Search Queries, and Article H...

Insufficiently Complimentary?: Underestimating the Positive Impact of Compliments Creates a Barrier to Expressing Them

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Zhao, Xuan, and Nicholas Epley. 2021. “Insufficiently Complimentary?: Underestimating the Positive Impact of Compliments Creates a Barrier t...

The share of participants willing to be vaccinated increased with the payment amount; a significant change required large rewards of €3,250 or more

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Sprengholz, Philipp, Luca Henkel, and Cornelia Betsch. 2021. “Payments and Freedoms: Effects of Monetary and Legal Incentives on COVID-19 Va...

Romantic Partners Are Similar in Their Well-Being and Sociopolitical Attitudes but Change Independently Over Time

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Romantic Partners Are Similar in Their Well-Being and Sociopolitical Attitudes but Change Independently Over Time. Matthew D. Hammond, Chris...

Those with simple number systems (an upper limit not much higher than ‘four’) often had few material possessions, such as weapons, tools or jewellery; those with elaborate systems always had a richer array of possessions

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How did Neanderthals and other ancient humans learn to count? Colin Barras. Nature 594, 22-25, Jun 2 2021. https://www.nature.com/articles/d...
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...