Friday, June 25, 2021

Fictions with imaginary worlds should be more appealing for individuals higher in Openness to experience, for younger people, & be more successful in more economically developed societies

›
Why imaginary worlds? Exploratory preferences explain the cultural success of fictions with imaginary worlds in modern societies. Edgar Dubo...

Modern racial categorization may be a byproduct of a system designed for ancestral alliance detection; phenotype-based classifications are suppressed when valid cues of allegiance are made

›
A Sufficiency Test of the Alliance Hypothesis of Race. Daniel Conroy-Beam. Human Behavior & Evolution Society HBES 2021, Jun-Jul 2021. h...

It is more permissible to harm a few animals to save a greater number of animals than to harm a few humans to save a greater number of humans, even when animals are described as having greater suffering capacity than some humans

›
Caviola, L., Kahane, G., Everett, J. A. C., Teperman, E., Savulescu, J., & Faber, N. S. (2021). Utilitarianism for animals, Kantianism f...

The caution observed in medical decisions does not replicate in financial decisions with large amounts; in fact, risk-taking was accentuated for large amounts in the gain domain

›
Batteux, E., Ferguson, E., & Tunney, R. J. (2021). Do we become more cautious for others when large amounts of money are at stake? Exper...

Toddlers from an indigenous people were considerably less likely to recognize themselves in the mirror, possibly due to lack of being imitated by their mothers

›
Cebioğlu, S., & Broesch, T. (2021). Explaining cross-cultural variation in mirror self-recognition: New insights into the ontogeny of ob...

People With Larger Social Networks Show Poorer Voice Recognition

›
People With Larger Social Networks Show Poorer Voice Recognition. Shiri Lev-Ari. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, June 24, 2021...

Beyond Aesthetic Judgment: Beauty Increases Moral Standing Through Perceptions of Purity

›
Beyond Aesthetic Judgment: Beauty Increases Moral Standing Through Perceptions of Purity. Christoph Klebl, Yin Luo, Brock Bastian. Personali...

Work with infants suggests that the adaptive problems humans faced with respect to plants have left their mark on the human mind

›
From 2019... How Plants Shape the Mind. Annie E.Wertz. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 23, Issue 7, July 2019, Pages 528-531. https://d...

Results robustly show that humans across the Globe (25 countries, 6 continents) respond with stronger preferences for dominant leaders when they find themselves in contexts of intergroup conflict

›
Intergroup Conflict and Preferences for Dominant Leaders: Testing Universal Features of Human Followership Psychology across 25 Countries. L...
Thursday, June 24, 2021

Testing the buffering hypothesis: Breastfeeding problems, cessation, and social support in the UK

›
Testing the buffering hypothesis: Breastfeeding problems, cessation, and social support in the UK. Abigail E. Page, Emily H. Emmott, Sarah M...

A veil of ignorance can promote fairness in a mammal society

›
H. H. Marshall, R. A. Johnstone, F. J. Thompson, H. J. Nichols, D. Wells, J. I. Hoffman, G. Kalema-Zikusoka, J. L. Sanderson, E. I. K. Vitik...