Saturday, July 17, 2021

Beauty Thesis: How Skin Tone and Beauty Rankings Interact in Labor Market Outcomes

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Beauty Thesis: How Skin Tone and Beauty Rankings Interact in Labor Market Outcomes. Isabel Queen. Haverford College, Department of Economic....

Aggression-related sexual fantasies are a frequent phenomenon even in the general population and among women and show strong associations with sexual aggression

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Bondü R, Birke JB, Aggression-Related Sexual Fantasies: Prevalence Rates, Sex Differences, and Links With Personality, Attitudes, and Behavi...

Are people in bigger cities less ethical human beings? Evidence on urban living and moral values

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Are people in bigger cities less ethical human beings? Evidence on urban living and moral values. Eric A. Morris, Deirdre Pfeiffer, John Gab...

Conservatives report more positive attitudes toward viewpoint diversity in their communities; liberals report more positive attitudes toward demographic diversity

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On the Varieties of Diversity: Ideological Variations in Attitudes Toward, and Understandings of Diversity. Kathryn A. Howard, Daniel Cervon...

Across 195 countries, rates of depressive disorders in women & men are higher among islanders (relative to mainlanders) at more northern locations in the Northern Hemisphere & at more southern locations in the South'n Hemisph

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Who is more prone to depression at higher latitudes? Islanders or mainlanders? Van de Vliert, Evert; Rentfrow, Peter Jason. Current Research...

The human sleep pattern is paradoxical: Sleep is vital for optimal physical and cognitive performance, yet humans sleep the least of all primates; short, high-quality, and flexibly timed sleep likely originated as a response to predation risks

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The Human Sleep Paradox: The Unexpected Sleeping Habits of Homo sapiens. David R. Samson. Annual Review of Anthropology  Volume 50, 2021, on...
Friday, July 16, 2021

Complicated relationship between Machiavellianism and social-cognitive skill: Machiavellianism encompasses features that blend deficiency, proficiency, and average levels of social-cognitive skills

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Hart, W., Breeden, C. J., & Kinrade, C. (2021). Re-conceptualizing Machiavellianism and social-cognitive skills: Machiavellianism blends...

What Makes a Champion? Early Multidisciplinary Practice, Not Early Specialization, Predicts World-Class Performance

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What Makes a Champion? Early Multidisciplinary Practice, Not Early Specialization, Predicts World-Class Performance. Arne Güllich, Brooke N....

From 2020... Art, Music, and Literature: Do the Humanities Make Our Lives Richer, Happier, and More Meaningful?

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From 2020... Westgate, Erin C. 2020. “Art, Music, and Literature: Do the Humanities Make Our Lives Richer, Happier, and More Meaningful?” Ps...

A large literature characterizes urbanisation as resulting from productivity growth attracting rural workers to cities; these authors think it is in reverse: when rural workers move to cities, the resulting urbanisation yields productivity growth

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Urbanisation and the Onset of Modern Economic Growth. Liam Brunt, Cecilia García-Peñalosa. The Economic Journal, ueab050, June 30 2021. http...

Mate copying (the increased probability of preferring an individual as a mate, as a result of them having been chosen by same-sex peers previously), does not shows in having a lot of Facebook opposite-sex friends

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Non-Independent Mate Choice in Humans: An Investigation of Online Mate Choice Copying and Sex Differences. Cagla Tekin & Ryan C. Anderso...

Wellcome skepticism... Neither prediction markets (nor surveys) performed well in predicting outcomes for DARPA's Next Generation Social Science programme

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Using prediction markets to predict the outcomes in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's next-generation social science progr...

The current literature on satisfaction in interracial relationships as less satisfied than intraracial relationships may be a reflection of publication bias in which statistically significant differences are published

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Differences in Satisfaction? A Meta-Analytic Review of Interracial and Intraracial Relationships. James E. Brooks. Marriage & Family Rev...
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...