Wednesday, July 28, 2021

A School-Based Drug Prevention Program on Sexual Risk Behavior Among Adolescents in Brazilian Schools may be ineffective & possibly harmful for preventing sexual risk behaviors, especially among girls

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Effects of a School-Based Drug Prevention Program on Sexual Risk Behavior Among Adolescents in Brazilian Schools. Larissa F. Reis, Juliana Y...

Attentional Bias in Humans Toward Human and Bonobo Expressions of Emotion: The sex scenes were rated very positively, especially by male participants

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Attentional Bias in Humans Toward Human and Bonobo Expressions of Emotion. Mariska E. Kret, Evy van Berlo. Evolutionary Psychology, July 28,...

Three key elements that drive character judgments: behavior (good vs. bad, norm violations, & deliberation), mind (intentions, explanations, capacities), & identity (appearance, social groups, & warmth).

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Deconstructing Moral Character Judgments. Rachel Hartman, Will Blakey, Kurt Gray. Current Opinion in Psychology, July 28 2021. https://doi.o...

We provide evidence that pet dogs distinguish between human true beliefs & false beliefs scenarios, suggesting that the mechanisms underlying sensitivity to others' beliefs have not evolved uniquely in the primate lineage

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Dogs follow human misleading suggestions more often when the informant has a false belief. Lucrezia Lonardo, Christoph J. Völter, Claus Lamm...

Do We Still Believe There Is a G-spot? The never-ending search to find, literally, a spot, a magic button delivering a unique orgasmic experience produced evident harm for the whole field of sexual medicine

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Do We Still Believe There Is a G-spot? Daniele Mollaioli, Andrea Sansone, Elena Colonnello, Erika Limoncin, Giacomo Ciocca, Linda Vignozzi ...

In the no-command condition participants almost always crashed the drone on the military site (96%), whereas in the command condition they chose to obey & sacrifice civilians to protect the military material 33% of the time

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The Dilemma Of Disobedience: An ERP study. Eve F. Fabre, Mickaël Causse, Maryel Othon, Jean-Baptiste Van Der Henst. bioRxiv, Jul 5 2021. htt...

After Trump's victory: Republican-leaning counties experience a sharp & persistent increase in fertility relative to Democratic counties: a 1.1 to 2.6 pct point difference in annual births, depending on the intensity of partisanship

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Partisan Fertility and Presidential Elections. Gordon Dahl, Runjing Lu & William Mullins. NBER Working Paper 29058. DOI 10.3386/w29058. ...

Cross-Cultural Measurement Invariance in the Personality Inventory for DSM-5: Examination in several cultural environments or countries

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Cross-Cultural Measurement Invariance in the Personality Inventory for DSM-5. M.A. Sorrel et al. Psychiatry Research, July 22 2021, 114134. ...
Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Putting the cart before the horse: claims for mirror self-recognition in horses are unfounded

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Putting the cart before the horse: claims for mirror self-recognition in horses are unfounded. Gordon G. Gallup Jr. & James R. Anderson....

Strangers Look Sicker (with Implications in Times of COVID-19)

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Bressan, Paola. 2021. “Strangers Look Sicker (with Implications in Times of COVID-19).” PsyArXiv. July 26. doi:10.1002/bies.202000158 Abstra...

Potential for Collaboration: Differences Between Evolutionary Anthropology and Evolutionary Psychology as Scientific Disciplines

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Hahnel-Peeters, Rebecka K. 2021. “Potential for Collaboration: Differences Between Evolutionary Anthropology and Evolutionary Psychology as ...

Domestic cats (Felis catus) prefer freely available food over food that requires the slightest effort

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Domestic cats (Felis catus) prefer freely available food over food that requires effort. Mikel M. Delgado, Brandon Sang Gyuc Han & Melis...