Tuesday, August 24, 2021

How are gene variants associated with same-sex sexual behaviour maintained in the gene pool? New study suggests that the same variants, when found in individuals who don't engage in SSSB behavior, are associated with having more sexual partners

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Genomic evidence consistent with antagonistic pleiotropy may help explain the evolutionary maintenance of same-sex sexual behaviour in human...

Acute scarcity significantly increases the propensity to engage in unethical economic behavior; find no evidence that chronic experiences of scarcity in the form of low social class affect unethical economic behavior

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Material Scarcity and Unethical Economic Behavior: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Christian Elbaek, Panagiotis Mitkidis, Lene Aarøe,...

From 2010... Lesions and Behavior Associated with Forced Copulation of Juvenile Pacific Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina richardsi) by Adult Southern Sea Otters (Enhydra lutris nereis)

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Lesions and Behavior Associated with Forced Copulation of Juvenile Pacific Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina richardsi) by Southern Sea Otters (E...

Depression & complexity: Beyond the topics (low energy & sleep issues), people experience different symptoms, with different levels of severity, at different times in their lives, with episodes that last different lengths of time

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Depression is complicated – this is how our understanding of the condition has evolved over time. Saloni Dattani. Our World In Data, August ...

Moral universalism (the extent to which people exhibit the same level of altruism and trust toward strangers as toward in-group members): Have fewer friends, spend less time with them, and feel more lonely

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Moral Universalism: Measurement and Economic Relevance. Benjamin Enke, Ricardo Rodríguez-Padilla, Florian Zimmermann. Management Science, Au...

Why are heavily regulated European labor markets associated with a smaller share of women in top management positions compared with liberal market economies such as in the US?

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The Dilemma of Gender Equality: How Labor Market Regulation Divides Women by Class. Torben Iversen, Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Øyvind Skorge...
Monday, August 23, 2021

Rhesus monkeys also choke under pressure; this indicates that there may be shared neural mechanisms that underlie the behavior in both humans and monkeys

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Monkeys exhibit a paradoxical decrease in performance in high-stakes scenarios. Adam L. Smoulder et al.  Proceedings of the National Academy...

Despite commonly experiencing empathy in daily life, older adults are not more prosocial than other age cohorts

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Pollerhoff, Lena, Julia Stietz, Gregory J. Depow, Michael Inzlicht, Philipp Kanske, Shu-Chen Li, and Andrea M. Reiter. 2021. “Investigating ...

Residues of glyphosate in food and dietary exposure

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Residues of glyphosate in food and dietary exposure. John L. Vicini, Pamela K. Jensen, Bruce M. Young, John T. Swarthout. Comprehensive Revi...

Less intelligent Americans & British voters were more likely to have nationalist attitudes; the tendency to be more nationalist & belligerent may, among other things, form the microfoundation of democratic peace in international relations

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Possible Evolutionary Origins of Nationalism. Satoshi Kanazawa. Political Behavior, Aug 23 2021. https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11...

Changes in sexual behavior observed in the early months of the pandemic have continued, with small but significant decreases in many partnered sexual behaviors & a small increase in men's solitary sexual behaviors

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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Sexual Behaviors: Findings from a National Survey in the United States. Neil Gleason et al. The Journ...

Happiness has positive effects both on income generation and preferring more leisure time; the net effect on income generation is positive and significant

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Effects of Happiness on Income and Income Inequality. Satya Paul. Journal of Happiness Studies, Aug 22 2021. https://rd.springer.com/article...

Androgynous individuals are less likely to suffer depression while undifferentiated individuals are more susceptible to depression; masculinity traits seem to be a robust protective factor for depression regardless of gender

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Does gender role explain a high risk of depression? A meta-analytic review of 40 years of evidence. Jingyuan Lin et al. Journal of Affective...
Sunday, August 22, 2021

Physical pain, gender, & economic trends in 146 nations: Pain falls in a boom and rises in a downturn; pain is high when unemployment is high; increases in pain in recessions are borne predominantly by women

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Physical pain, gender, and economic trends in 146 nations. Lucía Macchia, Andrew J. Oswald. Social Science & Medicine, August 21 2021, 1...

We show general tracking accuracy in detecting a partner’s sexual rejection, but also overestimate the degree & occurrence of this rejection; the overestimation bias was associated with lower daily relationship & sexual satisfaction

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Perceptual Accuracy for Sexual Rejection in Romantic Relationships. Kiersten Dobson, James Kim & Emily A. Impett. Archives of Sexual Beh...

There are about 2.5 million cooks and chefs in the USA; one in four reports experiencing physical violence in the workplace—roughly 632,500 victims; bullying and harassment are romanticized in food media

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The Normalization of Violence in Commercial Kitchens Through Food Media. Ellen T. Meiser, Penn Pantumsinchai. Journal of Interpersonal Viole...

Sex differences in language competence of 4-year-old children: Female advantages are mediated by phonological short-term memory

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Sex differences in language competence of 4-year-old children: Female advantages are mediated by phonological short-term memory. Benjamin P....

Life gets miserable with age, but those with higher life satisfaction & in better health tend to live longer, & , among survivors, individuals with higher life satisfaction are more likely to remain in the survey, masking the decline

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The age profile of life satisfaction after age 65 in the U.S. Péter Hudomiet, Michael D. Hurd, Susann Rohwedder. Journal of Economic Behavio...

Rejection in a date sends waves in brain areas that overlap with the physical pain matrix

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Neural correlates of acceptance and rejection in online speed dating: An electroencephalography study. Xukai Zhang, M. J. W. van der Molen, ...

Low autonomic arousal (low resting heart rate) is a risk factor for reoffending

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Oskarsson S, Kuja-Halkola R, Latvala A, Andersson A, Garcia-Argibay M, Bertoldi BM, et al. (2021) Low autonomic arousal as a risk factor for...
Saturday, August 21, 2021

Today’s young adults are ascribed a mixed stereotype content, subject to harsher social judgments than both older age groups & recollections of former generations at the same age, & victim of discriminatory behaviors

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Francioli, S. P., & North, M. S. (2021). Youngism: The content, causes, and consequences of prejudices toward younger adults. Journal of...

Is Voting Transformative? Found no impact on voters' political knowledge, attitudes, or behaviors

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Is Voting Transformative? Expanding and Meta-Analyzing the Evidence. John B. Holbein, Marcos A. Rangel, Raeal Moore & Michelle Croft. Po...

Sexual arousal evokes sexual disinhibition (increased self-reported likelihood to engage in uncommon, risky, and coercive sexual activities); among disinhibition indicators: "Can you imagine having sex with a 50-year-old woman/man?"

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Sexual Disinhibition Under Sexual Arousal: Evidence for Domain Specificity in Men and Women. Roland Imhoff & Alexander F. Schmidt. Archi...
Friday, August 20, 2021

What narrative strategies durably reduce prejudice? Omitting analogic perspective-taking and vicarious perspective-giving does not diminish effects; conversations employing only perspective-getting narratives work

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Kalla, Joshua, and David Broockman. 2020. “Which Narrative Strategies Durably Reduce Prejudice? Evidence from Field and Survey Experiments S...

Psychopathy & personality disorder were not found to be associated with membership in the mafia for either gender; seems more of a mentality characterized by beliefs & practices determined by a deviant culture rather than psychopathology

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Women and men of mafia between traditional cultural contexts and new social roles. Felice Carabellese, Alan R. Felthous, Harry G. Kennedy, D...

Does testosterone affect men’s willingness to compete, confidence, and risk-taking—dimensions of economic behavior that are theoretically linked to the Challenge Hypothesis? Effects are small and inconsistent

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Nave, Gideon, Amos Nadler, Colin Camerer, and Matthias Wibral. 2021. “Does Testosterone Administration Increase Competitiveness, Confidence ...

Following the 2020 presidential race, many pundits and academics were quick to claim that the pandemic might have altered the outcome of the election; these authors disagree

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Did exposure to COVID-19 affect vote choice in the 2020 presidential election? Marco Mendoza Aviña, Semra Sevi. Research & Politics, Aug...