Sunday, August 15, 2021

Things do not become more desirable just because we have chosen them before: The "mere choice effect", an economic psychology classic, fails under scrutiny

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Does choice change preferences? An incentivized test of the mere choice effect. Carlos Alós-Ferrer & Georg D. Granic. Experimental Econo...

Women that score high on agreeableness are significantly less likely to discuss politics online than men with the same trait; also find significant differences in the way the personality traits extraversion & openness influence women’s & men’s participation

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It’s a man’s (online) world. Personality traits and the gender gap in online political discussion. Simone Abendschön & Gema García-Albac...

From 2020... There are few things as irrefutable as the evidence that our limbs belong to us, but persons with body integrity dysphoria deny the ownership of one of their fully functional limbs and seek its amputation

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From 2020... Neural Correlates of Body Integrity Dysphoria. Gianluca Saetta et al. Current Biology, May 07, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j....

Meanings Ascribed to Sex and Commitment Among College-Attending and Non-College Emerging Adults: 5 Types, i.e. committers, connectors, flexibles, testers, & recreationers

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Meanings Ascribed to Sex and Commitment Among College-Attending and Non-College Emerging Adults: A Replication and Extension. Spencer B. Olm...

A man who had been partnered up for a longer time was more highly appreciated by women for long- and short term mating

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Women’s Sensitivity to Men’s Past Relationships: Reliable Information Use for Mate-Choice Copying in Humans. Yoichi Amano & Yoshinori Wa...

In municipalities where the Spanish Inquisition persecuted more citizens, incomes are lower, trust is lower, and education is markedly lower than in other comparable towns and cities

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The long-run effects of religious persecution: Evidence from the Spanish Inquisition. Mauricio Drelichman, Jordi Vidal-Robert, and Hans-Joac...

A man who had been partnered up for a longer time was more highly appreciated by women for long- and short term mating

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Meanings Ascribed to Sex and Commitment Among College-Attending and Non-College Emerging Adults: A Replication and Extension. Spencer B. Olm...

Unusual sexual interests could be clustered into 5 factors that were largely comparable for women and men: submission/masochism, forbidden sexual activities, dominance/sadism, mysophilia, and fetishism

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Schippers EE, Smid WJ, Huckelba AL, et al. Exploratory Factor Analysis of Unusual Sexual Interests. J Sex Med 2021;XX:XXX–XXX. https://doi.o...

Claim: One-third of Investors Trade While Drunk

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One-third of Investors Trade While Drunk. John Sullivan. 401k Specialist, August 12, 2021. https://401kspecialistmag.com/one-third-of-invest...

Very preliminary, fragmentary, with lots of limitations... Exploring Male Multiple Orgasm in a Large Online Sample: Refining Our Understanding

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Griffin-Mathieu G, Berry M, Shtarkshall RA, Amsel R, Binik YM, Gérard M. Exploring Male Multiple Orgasm in a Large Online Sample: Refining O...

A reduction in state, due to a negative stimulus, reduces fitness more than a positive stimulus of equal objective magnitude increases it, producing a negativity bias due to the difference in subjective stimulus potency

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Negativity bias: An evolutionary hypothesis and an empirical programme. John Lazarus. Learning and Motivation, Volume 75, August 2021, 10173...

Consumers' ratings for restaurants are lower when they went to the restaurants on special occasions, which can be explained by one theory of attribution bias (disappointment of high expectations)

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Huang, Ying-Kai, Hope Hurts: Attribution Bias in Yelp Reviews (July 22, 2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3891195 Abstract: This paper ...
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 ...