Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Simply wait for deniers & contrarians to “age out;” said Nye: “There’s an old saying — ‘science proceeds one funeral at a time,’” Nye said, “but it’s not happening fast enough.”

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Will Aguirre | The Daily Collegian. Apr 22, 2021. https://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/campus/penn-state-professor-climate-scientist-michael-m...

Porn use is only linked to relationship dissatisfaction when one partner uses it alone and the other doesn't; but porn itself doesn't seem to be the problem in these cases—porn appears to be a symptom of dissimilarity in sex drive

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But What’s Your Partner Up to? Associations Between Relationship Quality and Pornography Use Depend on Contextual Patterns of Use Within the...

Rolf Degen summarizing... Changes in a person's morality are perceived as a greater disruption of their self than changes in other aspects of personhood—except by psychopaths

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Everett, Jim A. C., Joshua A. Skorburg, and Jordan Livingston. 2021. “Me, My (moral) Self, and I.” PsyArXiv. August 4. doi:10.31234/osf.io/a...
Tuesday, August 3, 2021

The Wealth Inequality of Nations: Wealth inequality varies greatly across countries, and there is no clear correlation with countries’ levels of income inequality

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The Wealth Inequality of Nations. Fabian T. Pfeffer, Nora Waitkus. American Sociological Review, July 30, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003...

Mice carrying the humanized Foxp2 allele were using higher frequencies and more complex syllable types than mice of the corresponding wildtype inbred strain

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A humanized version of Foxp2 affects ultrasonic vocalization in adult female and male mice. Sophie von Merten, Christine Pfeifle, Sven Künze...

Promising behavioral evidence suggests that we may become more prosocial as we age; Reduced reward activity in the brain in response to self-gains & increased reward activity to others' gains may underlie age-related changes in altruism

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Neurocomputational models of altruistic decision-making and social motives: Advances, pitfalls, and future directions. Anita Tusche, Lisa M....

Unveiling the neural underpinnings of optimism: Two key brain areas were linked to optimism, one involved in imagining the future & processing of self-referential information, another for response inhibition & processing relevant cues

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Unveiling the neural underpinnings of optimism: a systematic review. Fatima Erthal, Aline Bastos, Liliane Vilete, Leticia Oliveira, Mirtes P...

Economic Development and Modernization in Africa Homogenize National Cultures

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Economic Development and Modernization in Africa Homogenize National Cultures. Michael Minkov, Anneli Kaasa, Christian Welzel. Journal of Cr...

Gender and evaluation criteria for tenure and promotion: At the top quality level, there are no differences between males and females in the probabilities of preferring bibliometric criteria

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What should be rewarded? Gender and evaluation criteria for tenure and promotion. Laura Cruz-Castro, Luis Sanz-Menendez. Journal of Informet...