Wednesday, July 14, 2021

The evolution of perennially enlarged breasts in women: Maybe not due to sexual selection, to assist in nursing or other hypotheses; a novel explanation is that they could be a by-product of other evolutionary changes

›
The evolution of perennially enlarged breasts in women: a critical review and a novel hypothesis. Bogusław Pawłowski, Agnieszka Żelaźniewicz...

Masculine Voices Predict Attachment Style and Relationship Communication Patterns in Romantic Relationships

›
Masculine Voices Predict Attachment Style and Relationship Communication Patterns in Romantic Relationships. Jing Zhang &Lijun Zheng. Jo...

Observed gender differences in prescriptive gender stereotypes were smaller or non-existent for sexual and ethnic minority targets compared to straight and White targets

›
Hudson, Sa-kiera T. J., and Asma Ghani. 2021. “Sexual Orientation and Race Mute the Prescriptive Nature of Gender Stereotypes.” PsyArXiv. Ju...

Clone images elicited higher eeriness than individuals with different faces; related to distinguishableness of each face, the duplication of identity, avoidance reactions based on disgust sensitivity, inter alia

›
Yonemitsu F, Sasaki K, Gobara A, Yamada Y (2021) The clone devaluation effect: A new uncanny phenomenon concerning facial identity. PLoS ONE...

Life satisfaction does not adapt to high income: After five or more years, people who maintain high incomes still have higher life satisfaction than the average population

›
Happiness adaptation to high income: Evidence from German panel data. Jianbo Luo. Economics Letters, July 13 2021, 109995. https://doi.org/1...

Wearing an opposite-sex virtual body enhanced participants’ perceptions of pleasantness and erogeneity for caresses on intimate areas from a same-sex toucher; this effect was stronger in men than in women

›
Wearing same- and opposite-sex virtual bodies and seeing them caressed in intimate areas. Manuel Mello et al. Quarterly Journal of Experimen...

Yawning Is More Contagious in Pregnant Than Nulliparous Women

›
Yawning Is More Contagious in Pregnant Than Nulliparous Women. Naturalistic and Experimental Evidence. Ivan Norscia, Lucia Agostini, Alessia...