Thursday, July 8, 2021

Short-term challenges resulting from colder temperature experienced by hominins were apparently countered via phenotypic adaptation toward larger bodies as a buffer mechanism; no such association of temperature with brain size

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Different environmental variables predict body and brain size evolution in Homo. Manuel Will, Mario Krapp, Jay T. Stock & Andrea Manica....

Beauty, the feeling

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Beauty, the feeling. Aenne A. Brielmann, Angelica Nuzzo, Denis G. Pelli. Acta Psychologica, Volume 219, September 2021, 103365. https://doi....

“I Made It Work”: How Using a Self-Assembled Product Increases Task Performance

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“I Made It Work”: How Using a Self-Assembled Product Increases Task Performance. Sören Köcher, Keith Wilcox. Journal of Consumer Psychology,...

Nonreligiosity and Life Satisfaction: Reexamining a Supposedly Negative Relationship

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Pöhls, Katharina  (2021). Nonreligiosity and Life Satisfaction: Reexamining a Supposedly Negative Relationship. PhD thesis, Universität zu K...

What do couples’ activities and behaviors on Instagram reveal about the quality of their relationships?

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Picture perfect? Examining associations between relationship quality, attention to alternatives, and couples’ activities on Instagram. Liese...

Greater conformity to traditional gender roles predicted more frequent consumption of beef and chicken and lower openness to vegetarianism among men but offered no predictive value among women

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Gender differences in meat consumption and openness to vegetarianism. Daniel L. Rosenfeld, A. Janet Tomiyama. Appetite, Volume 166, November...
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Regularly drinking alcohol & drinking with meal is significantly associated with a lower risk of all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease mortality, cancer mortality, or other-cause mortality

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Alcohol Consumption Levels as Compared With Drinking Habits in Predicting All-Cause Mortality and Cause-Specific Mortality in Current Drinke...

Sex differences in risk taking: Our findings suggest that sensitivity to rewards, associated with resting-state theta oscillations in the anterior cingulate cortex, is a trait that potentially contributes to those sex differences

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Resting-State Theta Oscillations and Reward Sensitivity in Risk Taking. Maria Azanova, Maria Herrojo Ruiz, Alexis V. Belianin, Vasily Klucha...