Sunday, July 25, 2021

Greece: Gay people were not less likely than people of other sexual orientations to be in a relationship; gay men but not women experienced longer spells of singlehood than people of other sexual orientations

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The effect of sexual orientation on singlehood: Evidence from the Greek cultural context. Menelaos Apostolou. Personality and Individual Dif...

COVID-19: Across 17 countries with lower fluctuations in births, the number of births fell on average by more than 5% in Nov & Dec 2020 & 8.9% in Jan 21, YoY; Spain births plummeted by 20% in Dec 20 and Jan 21

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Sobotka, Tomas, Aiva Jasilioniene, Ainhoa A. Galarza, Kryštof Zeman, Laszlo Nemeth, and Dmitri Jdanov. 2021. “Baby Bust in the Wake of the C...

Additional wealth and unearned income effects: An extra dollar of unearned income in a given period reduces pre-tax labor earnings by about 50 cents, decreases total labor taxes by 10 c, & increases consumption by 60 c

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How Americans Respond to Idiosyncratic and Exogenous Changes in Household Wealth and Unearned Income. Mikhail Golosov, Michael Graber, Magne...

Historical language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions in recent decades: Maybe recent socioeconomic changes, new technology, and social media are associated with a surge of those distortions

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Historical language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions in recent decades. Johan Bollen et al. Proceedings of the National Acade...

“You don’t believe in God? You ain’t Black”: Identifying as atheist elicits identity denial from Black ingroup members

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Howard, S., Kennedy, K. C., & Vine, K. T. (2021). “You don’t believe in God? You ain’t Black”: Identifying as atheist elicits identity d...

Sexual Orientation, Sexual Arousal, and Finger Length Ratios in Women

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Sexual Orientation, Sexual Arousal, and Finger Length Ratios in Women. Luke Holmes, Tuesday M. Watts-Overall, Erlend Slettevold, Dragos C. G...
Saturday, July 24, 2021

In the U.K., he noted "a tendency to admire authoritarian China among scientists that surprised some people;" "scientists take a somewhat top-down view of the political world," contrary to bottom-up Evolution

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How science lost the public’s trust. Tunku Varadarajan. The Wall Street Journal, July 24 2021. https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-china-medi...

In general, pornography use trended downward over the pandemic, for both men and women; problematic pornography use trended downward for men and remained low and unchanged in women

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Porndemic? A Longitudinal Study of Pornography Use Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Nationally Representative Sample of American...

Behavioral Ecology of the Family: Harnessing Theory to Better Understand Variation in Human Families

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Behavioral Ecology of the Family: Harnessing Theory to Better Understand Variation in Human Families. Paula Sheppard, Kristin Snopkowski. So...

Determinants of the Arab Spring Protests in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya: The role of economic factors was inconsistent, whereas political grievances were more clearly related to the motive to participate in the uprisings

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Determinants of the Arab Spring Protests in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya: What Have We Learned? Zahraa Barakat, Ali Fakih. Soc. Sci. 2021, 10(8...

Lethal coalitionary attacks of chimpanzees on gorillas in the wild

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Lethal coalitionary attacks of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) on gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in the wild. Lara M. Southern...