Sunday, June 20, 2021

Higher levels of men’s family carework were associated with lower suicide mortality, especially among men and under high-unemployment conditions, wich points to the suicide-protective potential of men’s family carework

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Caregiving as suicide-prevention: an ecological 20-country study of the association between men’s family carework, unemployment, and suicide...

55 traditional cultures: Experts with observable motor skills like toolmaking were often generous teachers, but specialists with conceptual know-how for uncommon problems (health) used secretive knowledge to help clients

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Ethnoscientific expertise and knowledge specialisation in 55 traditional cultures. Aaron D. Lightner, Cynthiann Heckelsmiller and Edward H. ...

Animals also hold beliefs and there are some aspects that underly the formation of beliefs which are shared with other animal species, namely the relationship between causality, predictability and utility of beliefs

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An Evolutionary Approach to the Adaptive Value of Belief. Anabela Pinto. Chapter in Evolutionary Psychology Meets Social Neuroscience, June ...

What Are Friends for in Russia Versus Canada?; the notions of trust and help in adversity emerged as defining features of friendship in Russia but were less clearly present in Canada

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What Are Friends for in Russia Versus Canada?: An Approach for Documenting Cross-Cultural Differences. Marina M. Doucerain, Andrew G. Ryder,...

Mask-wearing improved wearers’ sense of the attractiveness of faces, which were rated as less attractive when a mask was not worn after the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic

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Effects of masks worn to protect against COVID-19 on the perception of facial attractiveness. Miki Kamatani, Motohiro Ito, Yuki Miyazaki, an...

Long-term gene–culture coevolution and the human evolutionary transition: There is strong evidence that culture is a major adaptive force in the evolution of many animal species

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Long-term gene–culture coevolution and the human evolutionary transition. Timothy M. Waring and Zachary T. Wood. Proceedings of the Royal So...

Uncontrollable mortality creates selective advantages for families with many “cheap” offspring; declining mortality and medical progress facilitate the transition towards growth-promoting “low-fertility-high-quality” phenotypes

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Darwin beats Malthus: evolutionary anthropology, human capital and the demographic transition. Katharina Mühlhoff. Cliometrica, Jun 16 2021....
Saturday, June 19, 2021

Connecting with others makes people happier, but strangers in close proximity often ignore each other; we may avoid pleasant conversations with strangers because of miscalibrated concerns about starting them

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Hello, stranger? Pleasant conversations are preceded by concerns about starting one. Juliana Schroeder, Donald Lyons, & Nicholas Epley. ...

Individuals rated their past relationship quality more negatively in retrospect than they had actually reported at the time

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Peetz, Johanna, Aidan Smyth, and Adreinne Capaldi. 2021. “Ex-appraisal Bias: Negative Illusions in Appraising Relationship Quality Retrospec...

Those who believe crime is caused by a single gene believe that punishment should be weakened, are less supportive of rehabilitation efforts, and believe that offenders are less capable of redemption

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Beyond a Crime Gene: Genetic Literacy and Correctional Orientation. Amanda Graham, J.C. Barnes, Hexuan Liu & Francis T. Cullen. American...

Studies of females with congenital adrenal hyperplasia show how prenatal androgens affect behavior across the life span; large effects on interest and engagement in gendered activities, moderate effects on spatial abilities

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Evidence and Implications From a Natural Experiment of Prenatal Androgen Effects on Gendered Behavior. Sheri A. Berenbaum, Adriene M. Beltz....

New Research Claims Darwin Made an Error About Sexual Selection: Evolution of large males is associated with female-skewed adult sex ratios in amniotes

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Evolution of large males is associated with female-skewed adult sex ratios in amniotes. András Liker, Veronika Bókony, Ivett Pipoly, Jean-Fr...

Autism diagnosis and symptoms were associated with greater brain maleness, but the effects appeared to be driven by differences in brain size; brain maleness may be due to he same factors that influence brain size

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Testing the extreme male brain hypothesis: Is autism spectrum disorder associated with a more male-typical brain? Liza van Eijk, Brendan P. ...
Friday, June 18, 2021

People who recognize that they possess inconsistent personal qualities may nonetheless attain a coherent understanding of themselves by spontaneously developing a contextually-embedded sense of self

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Personality coherence in acts and texts: Searching for coherence within and beyond trait categories. Mairéad McKenna et al. European Journal...

While political polarization in the US is real, intense & increasing, partisans consistently overestimate its magnitude; this “false polarization” is insidious because it reinforces actual polarization and inhibits compromise

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False Polarization: Cognitive Mechanisms and Potential Solutions. Philip M. Fernbach, Leaf Van Boven. Current Opinion in Psychology, June 17...

Recognition of Masked Faces in the Era of the Pandemic: No Improvement, Despite Extensive, Natural Exposure

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Freud, Erez, Andreja Stajduhar, R. Shayna Rosenbaum, Galia Avidan, and Tzvi Ganel. 2021. “Recognition of Masked Faces in the Era of the Pand...

Norway: Genetic Influences on Lifetime Income Increases with Gender Equality

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Isungset, Martin Arstad, Tina Baier, and Torkild H. Lyngstad. 2021. “Genetic Influences on Lifetime Income Increases with Gender Equality.” ...
Thursday, June 17, 2021

Cultural Change Reduces Gender Differences in Mobility and Spatial Ability among Seminomadic Pastoralist-Forager Children in Northern Namibia

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Cultural Change Reduces Gender Differences in Mobility and Spatial Ability among Seminomadic Pastoralist-Forager Children in Northern Namibi...

Puritanical moralizations condemn & praise behaviors which are perceived as affecting people’s propensity to cooperate, by modifying their ability to resist short-term impulses conflicting with cooperative motivations

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Fitouchi, Léo, Jean-Baptiste André, and Nicolas Baumard. 2021. “Moral Disciplining: The Cognitive and Evolutionary Foundations of Puritanica...

Animal identity: The most common situations participants recalled feeling like an animal were survival, sexual, physiological, and being outdoors

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I am Homo Sapien: Perceptions of Evolutionary Theory, Animal Identity, and Human–Animal Relationships among US Law and Policy Students. Leah...

Forms and functions of the social emotions: Shame functions to minimize the spread of discrediting information about yourself and the threat of being devalued by others

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Forms and Functions of the Social Emotions. Daniel Sznycer, Aaron Sell, Debra Lieberman. Current Directions in Psychological Science, June 1...
Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Violent offenders show reduced attention orienting to the eyes while viewing faces; although offenders & controls show comparable emotion recognition performance, reduced eye gaze is lined to lower recognition for fearful faces

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Attention orienting to the eyes in violent female and male offenders: An eye-tracking study. Nina A. Gehrer et al. Biological Psychology, Ju...