Monday, August 2, 2021

From 2018... The Polarizing Consequences of Ideological Identities: When we are discussing ideology—a presumably issue-based concept—we are not entirely discussing issues, but our social attachments to ideological labels

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From 2018... Ideologues without Issues: The Polarizing Consequences of Ideological Identities. Lilliana Mason. Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol...
Sunday, August 1, 2021

Incarceration has meaningful reoffending-reducing average effects that diminish in incarceration length; as a result, budget-neutral reductions in sentence length combined with increases in incarceration rates can decrease recidivism

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How Does Incarceration Affect Reoffending? Estimating the Dose-Response Function. Evan K. Rose and Yotam Shem-Tov. Journal of Political Econ...

Why Women Choose Divorce: An Evolutionary Perspective

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Why Women Choose Divorce: An Evolutionary Perspective. Gillian Parker et al. Current Opinion in Psychology, July 31 2021. https://doi.org/10...

A fast-growing body of evidence suggests that people have difficulties in envisioning how their future selves will look like and behave; so, what determines that one’s future self feels like a dissimilar stranger or exactly the same person?

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Stranger or a Clone? Future Self Connectedness Depends on Who You Ask, When You Ask, and What Dimension You Focus On. Eirini Kapogli, Jordi ...

Partner's traits which motivate people to stay in an intimate relationship: The “Faithful and trustworthy” & the “Does well with my friends and family” factors, were associated with more years in a relationship

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Partner's traits which motivate people to stay in an intimate relationship: An explorative analysis. Menelaos Apostolou, Christoforos Ch...

Some Revenge Now or More Revenge Later? Applying an Intertemporal Framework to Retaliatory Aggression

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West, Samuel J., Emily Lasko, Calvin Hall, Nayaab Khan, and David Chester. 2021. “Some Revenge Now or More Revenge Later? Applying an Intert...

None of the constructs of the dark triad are meaningfully related to intelligence; this challenges the notion that the dark triad is an adaptive set of personality traits that enables individuals to effectively manipulate their social surroundings

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General Intelligence and the Dark Triad: A Meta-Analysis. Moritz Michels. Journal of Individual Differences, Jul 29 2021. https://doi.org/10...

Is this analysis realistic?: Male rape happens about as often as female rape, and possibly exceeds it; evidence also shows that 80% of those who rape men are women

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 On the Sexual Assault of Men. David DiMarco, John Mizzoni & Ryan Savitz. Sexuality & Culture, Jul 29 2021.  https://rd.springer.com...
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The meta-analysis provides evidence that men’s self-perceived mate value positively predicts their tendency to engage in short-term mating, but that the total effect size is small

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Men’s Mate Value Correlates with a Less Restricted Sociosexual Orientation: A Meta-Analysis. Steven Arnocky, Jessica Desrochers, Amanda Rote...

Positive intergroup contact, under some conditions, can undermine the interest of members of both socially disadvantaged and advantaged groups to act for equality

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Ambivalent Effects of Positive Contact Between Women and Men on Collective Actions for Women’s Rights. Alexandra Vázquez et al. Personality ...

Why friendships end: The most important factor was selfishness, followed by romantic involvement, the lack of frequent interaction, and the perceptions of friends and family

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Apostolou, M., & Keramari, D. (2021). Why friendships end: An evolutionary examination. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, Jul 2021. http...
Saturday, July 31, 2021

Individual selfishness in high-impact decisions affecting a large group is compatible with prosociality in bilateral low-stakes interactions; human beings can simultaneously be generous with others and selfish with large groups

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Generous with individuals and selfish to the masses. Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Jaume García-Segarra & Alexander Ritschel. Nature Human Behavio...

Are partisans able to accurately describe their opponents’ position, or do they instead generate unrepresentative “straw man” arguments?

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The straw man effect: Partisan misrepresentation in natural language. Michael Yeomans. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, July 20, ...

How colonialist attitudes toward native fishes were rooted in elements of racism and sexism; the term “rough fish” is pejorative and degrading to native fish

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Goodbye to “Rough Fish”: Paradigm Shift in the Conservation of Native Fishes. Andrew L. Rypel et al. Fisheries, July 21 2021. https://doi.or...

The Emergence of Cultural Attractors: How Dynamic Populations of Learners Achieve Collective Cognitive Alignment

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Falandays, James B., and Paul E. Smaldino. 2021. “The Emergence of Cultural Attractors: How Dynamic Populations of Learners Achieve Collecti...

U.N. climate panel confronts implausibly hot forecasts of future warming

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U.N. climate panel confronts implausibly hot forecasts of future warming. Paul Voosen. Science Magazine, Jul. 27, 2021. https://www.sciencem...

COVID-19: The compliants (90%) reported greater worries, & perceived protective measures as effective, whilst the non-compliant group (about 10%) saw them as problematic, were lower on agreeableness & more extraverted, & reactant

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To comply or not comply? A latent profile analysis of behaviours and attitudes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sabina Kleitman, Dayna J. Fulle...