Saturday, August 14, 2021

Great apes exchange signals and gaze before entering and exiting joint actions, actions that resemble those of humans; it seems that joint commitment as process was already present in our last common ancestor with Pan

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Assessing joint commitment as a process in great apes. Raphaela Heesen et al. , August 11, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102872 ...

A Covid outbreak that has partially shut one of the world’s busiest container ports (Ningbo-Zhoushan) is heightening concerns that the rapid spread of the delta variant will lead to a repeat of last year’s shipping nightmares

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China Port Shutdown Raises Concerns for Global Shipping. Joe Deaux, Yvonne Yue Li, and Ann Koh. Bloomberg. Aug 12 2021.  https://www.bloombe...

Confucian clans enabled pre-industrial China to sustain explosive population growth: Prefectures with stronger clans had significantly higher population density due to better resilience during natural disasters & fewer premature deaths of children

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Chen, Zhiwu and Ma, Chicheng, The Confucian Clan as a Risk-Sharing Institution: How Pre-Industrial China Became the Most Populous Nation (Ju...

Deceptive Affection (like faking sexual pleasure, expressing affection when feeling negatively) Is Strategically Expressed Under Relational Threat—but Not Towards Partners with Low Mate Value

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Caton, Neil R., and Sean M. Horan. 2021. “Deceptive Affection Is Strategically Expressed Under Relational Threat—but Not Towards Partners wi...

Men were more accurate than women in detecting attraction when they were not interested in their partner compared to when they were interested

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The Role of Emotion Projection, Sexual Desire, and Self-Rated Attractiveness in the Sexual Overperception Bias. Iliana Samara, Tom S. Roth ...

It is misleading to think that psychedelic God experiences tend to dissolve atheist convictions, & that atheist convictions, once dissolved, are replaced with traditional monotheist beliefs

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Psychedelic Drugs and Atheism: Debunking the Myths. Wayne Glausser. Religions  Volume 12  Issue 8, 614, August 8 2021. https://doi.org/10.33...

To encourage social distancing during COVID-19, Delta Air Lines did not sell the middle seat on its flights that had them & raised its fares by 15%; therefore, passengers paid $23 to prevent a stranger from sitting next to them

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The value of space during a pandemic. Max J. HymanaIan Savage. Economics Letters, August 11 2021, 110039. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet....

Intelligence was the single strongest predictor of political tolerance, with larger effects than education, openness to experience, ideology, and threat

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Cognitive ability is a powerful predictor of political tolerance. Stig Hebbelstrup Rye Rasmussen, Steven Ludeke. Journal of Personality, Aug...
Friday, August 13, 2021

Rolf Degen summarizing... Even inaccurate gossip can discipline people to behave prosocially, by fueling worries about reputation

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Direct and Indirect Reciprocity among Individuals and Groups. Angelo Romano, Ali Seyhun Saral, Junhui Wu. Current Opinion in Psychology, Aug...

Conservative ideologies have been suggested to correlate with elevated sensitivity to threat, but we do not support such association; rather, elevated anxiety may increase concerns about social inequality & the environment

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Clinical symptoms of anxiety disorders as predictors of political attitudes: A prospective cohort study. Vilja Helminen, Marko Elovainio, Ma...

The 10 pct most active tweeters (based upon lifetime tweets) generate 81pct of all tweets

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Using Administrative Records and Survey Data to Construct Samples of Tweeters and Tweets. Adam G Hughes, Stefan D McCabe, William R Hobbs, E...
Thursday, August 12, 2021

Genetic influences were strongest in education and weakest in income, and always strongest among those with the most advantaged socioeconomic background, independent of the socioeconomic indicator used

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Socioeconomic Background and Gene–Environment Interplay in Social Stratification across the Early Life Course. Jani Erola, Hannu Lehti, Tina...