Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Predicting Others’ Social Interaction Preferences: What to Do, for How Long, and How Often; how people make inferences about other people’s preferences, as well as the consequences of making incorrect inferences

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Predicting Others’ Social Interaction Preferences: What to Do, for How Long, and How Often. Peggy J. Liu, Theresa A. Kwon. Current Opinion i...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Short-term mating orientation as a predictor of alcohol use and risky sexual behavior

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Short-term mating orientation as a predictor of alcohol use and risky sexual behavior. Susanna V. Lopez et al. Journal of American College H...

Understanding woman’s interest in sexual activity beyond a narrow window during which sex can lead to conception: The dual sexuality framework

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Understanding Women's Estrus and Extended Sexuality: The Dual Sexuality Framework. Steven W Gangestad et al. In book: D. M. Buss and P. ...

Individuals exhibiting higher levels of Narcissism are not only less knowledgeable but also more interested in politics and more likely to participate when given the opportunity

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From 2020... The Dark Side of Politics: Participation and the Dark Triad. Philip Chen, Scott Pruysers, Julie Blais. Political Studies, April...

Why some hesitate more: Cross-cultural variation in vaccine hesitancy, vaccine trust, and COVID-19 vaccine acceptance rates are mainly driven by differences in the prevalence of conspiratorial thinking across countries

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Why some hesitate more: Cross-cultural variation in conspiracy beliefs, belief in science, and vaccine attitudes. Gul Deniz Salali,  Mete Se...

Native German women do not help immigrant Muslim women with a lemon bag that teared if they perceive the holder to favor sex inequality

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Donghyun Danny Choi et al, The Hijab Penalty: Feminist Backlash to Muslim Immigrants. American Journal of Political Science, Jul 8 2021. htt...
Monday, July 12, 2021

The Friends-to-Lovers Pathway to Romance: Prevalent, Preferred, and Overlooked by Science

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The Friends-to-Lovers Pathway to Romance: Prevalent, Preferred, and Overlooked by Science. Danu Anthony Stinson, Jessica J. Cameron, Lisa B....

Moral inference is not only sensitive to whether people make moral decisions, but also to features of decisions that reveal their suitability as a relational partner

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The relational logic of moral inference. Molly J. Crockett, Jim A.C. Everett, Maureen Gill, Jenifer Z. Siegel. Advances in Experimental Soci...

Dark Triad traits in a sample of 318 seafarers from Croatia

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Dark Triad traits and attitudes toward communication and coordination in seafarers. Krešimir Jakšić, Toni Bielić, Jelena Čulin. Personality ...
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...