Sunday, July 11, 2021

"Including Social Security and retirement wealth in the wealth concept results in significantly lower top shares and less growth in the concentration of wealth."

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Wealth Concentration in the United States Using an Expanded Measure of Net Worth. Lindsay Jacobs, Elizabeth Llanes, Kevin Moore, Jeffrey P. ...

Matrimonial ads published in France, 1928-1994: Economic criteria were progressively replaced by personality criteria; in the search for a long-term partner, non-material needs are more palatable than material ones?

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From Material to Non-Material Needs? The Evolution of Mate Preferences through the Twentieth Century in France. The Journal of Economic Hist...

Sex differences in anger states after violent video game play & the relationship of empathy and emotional invalidation as pre-aggressive predictors in young adults: Only females showed increased levels of state anger

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Sex differences in anger states after violent video game play and the relationship of empathy and emotional invalidation as pre-aggressive p...

The sympathetic plot, featuring a goal-directed protagonist who confronts obstacles, overcomes them, and wins rewards, builds interest by confronting a protagonist with a problem and induces satisfaction when the problem is solved

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The Sympathetic Plot, Its Psychological Origins, and Implications for the Evolution of Fiction. Manvir Singh. Emotion Review, July 8, 2021. ...

The 2D:4D magnitude and its sexual dimorphism remained stable throughout the ontogeny; both sex and population origin were permanent reliable predictors of 2D:4D, whereas average digit length was not

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Sex, population origin, age and average digit length as predictors of digit ratio in three large world populations. Marina Butovskaya, Valen...

Adolescent boys are less attentive in classroom settings than girls, but boys’ visuospatial abilities compensate for their relatively poor in-class attentive behavior in learning mathematics

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Boys’ visuospatial abilities compensate for their relatively poor in-class attentive behavior in learning mathematics. David C. Geary, Mary ...

Binocular rivalry (a phenomenon of visual perception in which perception alternates between different images presented to each eye): Attractive faces dominated longer time & were more often seen as the first percept

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Shang J., Yang H. (2021) The Impact of Facial Attractiveness and Affective Person Knowledge on Visual Awareness. In: Kurosu M. (eds) Human-C...
Saturday, July 10, 2021

From the Natural Selection of Bad Science to the Intelligent Design of Better Science

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Practical Methodological Reform Needs Good Theory. Will M.  Gervais. Perspectives on Psychological Science, January 29, 2021. https://doi.or...

Dating is widely thought of as a test phase for romantic relationships, during which new romantic partners carefully evaluate each other for long-term fit; but we are not that choosy

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We’re Not That Choosy: Emerging Evidence of a Progression Bias in Romantic Relationships. Samantha Joel, Geoff MacDonald. Personality and So...

Willingness to try new foods impacts perceptions of sexual unrestrictedness and desirability

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You are what you (are willing to) eat: Willingness to try new foods impacts perceptions of sexual unrestrictedness and desirability. Hannah ...

In everyday life, people mostly empathize with very close others, and they empathize with positive emotions 3 times as frequently as with negative emotions

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The Experience of Empathy in Everyday Life. Gregory John Depow, Zoë Francis, Michael Inzlicht. Psychological Science, July 9, 2021. https://...