Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Individuals Who Own Sex Dolls: Had more sexual fantasies related to coercion (biastophilia), but lower offense proclivity; were also more likely to see women as unknowable; have more stable negative mood

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Harper, Craig A., Rebecca Lievesley, and Katie Wanless. 2021. “Exploring the Psychological Characteristics of Individuals Who Own Sex Dolls....

The extent to which the less powerful citizens within a country expect & accept that power is distributed unequally shows negative association with both Covid-19 morbidity & mortality, ensuring conformity to prescribed behaviors

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Impact of Societal Culture on Covid-19 Morbidity and Mortality across Countries. Rajiv Kumar. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, June 15,...

Beards Increase the Speed, Accuracy, and Explicit Judgments of Facial Threat

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Beards Increase the Speed, Accuracy, and Explicit Judgments of Facial Threat. Barnaby J. W. Dixson, Claire L. Barkhuizen & Belinda M. Cr...

Precision-grasping muscles & and power-grasping muscles... Reconstructing occupations thru muscles to allow us to look into our ancestral past

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New horizons in reconstructing past human behavior: Introducing the “Tübingen University Validated Entheses-based Reconstruction of Activity...

Hysterical reaction to "poorly understood" consequences? Fourth author thinks this "might be the most important paper of my career;" addresses "the harm wrought by dramatically restructuring human communication o[n] the span of a decade, with no aim other than selling ads"

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Stewardship of global collective behavior. Joseph B. Bak-Coleman, M A, W B, Carl T. Bergstrom et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

In lower-income countries, the economic contractions that accompany lockdowns to contain the spread of COVID-19 can increase child mortality, counteracting the mortality reductions achieved by the lockdown

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The Intergenerational Mortality Tradeoff of COVID-19 Lockdown Policies. Lin Ma, Gil Shapira, Damien de Walque, Quy-Toan Do, Jed Friedman ...

From 2019... Clearing the path for an anti-imperialist feminist universalism by showing how feminist complicity in imperialism is not caused by the fact of having universalist normative commitments

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From 2019... Is Universalism the Cause of Feminist Complicity in Imperialism? Serene Khader. Health, Well-being & Society, Volume 35, 20...

The first large-scale assessment of ravens' cognitive abilities suggests that, by 4 months of age, ravens do about as well as adult chimps and orangutans on tests of causal reasoning, social learning, theory of mind, &c.

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Ravens parallel great apes in physical and social cognitive skills. Simone Pika, Miriam Jennifer Sima, Christian R. Blum, Esther Herrmann ...