Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Both extraversion & agreeableness are positively associated with life satisfaction and this association is much stronger for extraversion; agreeableness can even be detrimental on life satisfaction

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Agreeableness, extraversion and life satisfaction: Investigating the mediating roles of social inclusion and status. Filip Fors Connolly, In...

People high in hostile sexism especially likely to attribute negative outcomes to women who keep their last names after marriage; some effects especially strong among women judging other women

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Functional perceptions of relational success and infidelity concerns for violators of gendered naming conventions in marriage. Kelsey Drea, ...

Laboratory: Moderate alcohol consumption unleashes homo economicus by inhibiting cooperation (due to a deterioration in mood and an increase in physiologic stress)

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Zak PJ, Hayes K, Paulson E, Stringham E (2021) Alcohol unleashes homo economicus by inhibiting cooperation. PLoS ONE 16(6): e0253296, Jun 22...

Both Google Search and Google Scholar more often than not ranked a link to the original article higher than a link indicating that the article has been retracted

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The Dissemination of Scientific Fake News: On the Ranking of Retracted Articles in Google. Emmanuel Genot, Erik J Olsson. Jun 2021. Chapter ...

“Ounce equivalents” of animal- and plant-based protein-rich foods may not be metabolically equivalent after all

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Metabolic Evaluation of the Dietary Guidelines’ Ounce Equivalents of Protein Food Sources in Young Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Sa...

Laughter in response to tickling might express gender stereotypes of socio-expressive behavior in playful social interaction; involuntary muscle contractions may reflect biological components of playfulness in opposite gender constellations

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The importance of skin area and gender in ticklishness. Sven Svebak. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, June 21 2021. https://doi.org/10.11...
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...