Thursday, July 15, 2021

Sociosexuality, comfort with sex outside the confines of a committed relationship, and parent–child dynamics have been associated with experiences of sex guilt

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The Experience of Sex Guilt: The Roles of Parenting, Adult Attachment, and Sociosexuality. Jana M. Hackathorn & Esther Malm. Sexuality ...

The cultural success of folk beliefs about the economy is predictable if we consider the influence of specialized, largely automatic inference systems that evolved as adaptations to ancestral human small-scale sociality

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Folk-Economic Beliefs: An Evolutionary Cogniti­­ve Model. With Michael Bang Petersen. In Human Cultures through the Scientific Lens: Essays ...

Both organisational & societal conspiracy beliefs are associated with sensation seeking (a preference for exciting and intense experiences); one reason why people believe conspiracy theories is because they find them entertaining

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The entertainment value of conspiracy theories. Jan-Willem van Prooijen, Joline Ligthart, Sabine Rosema, Yang Xu. British Journal of Psychol...

Compared to heterosexual couples, gay coupless, men and women, tend to have or be willing to accept larger age differences

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Age-dissimilar couple relationships: 25 years in review. Lara McKenzie. Journal of Family Theory & Review, July 14 2021. https://doi.org...
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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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