Thursday, August 26, 2021

Some have examined if disgust can be evoked by contacting an object, yet none have examined if reported disgust changes when the hand leaves the object; surprising, given that post-contact tactile disgust is a driver of hand hygiene

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Tactile disgust: Post-contact can be more disgusting than contact. Supreet Saluja, Richard Stevenson. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psyc...

Mere awareness of future improvement led participants to experience present versions as less enjoyable—even bid more money to be able to end their participation early; knowledge led these participants to perceive more flaws in present versions

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The “Next” Effect: When a Better Future Worsens the Present. Ed O’Brien. Social Psychological and Personality Science, August 25, 2021. http...

Participants were more willing to share news they found more interesting-if-true, as well as news they deemed more accurate; they deemed fake news less accurate but more interesting-if-true than true news, & were more likely to share true news than fake news

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“If This account is True, It is Most Enormously Wonderful”: Interestingness-If-True and the Sharing of True and False News. Sacha Altay, Emm...

Zoo-housed gorillas: General preference for unnatural over natural sounds

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Silence is Golden: Auditory Preferences in Zoo-housed Gorillas. Jordyn Truax & Jennifer Vonk. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science,...
Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Exercise-Induced Orgasm and Its Association with Sleep Orgasms and Orgasms During Partnered Sex: About 9pct of Americans reported having ever experienced exercise-induced orgasm

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Exercise-Induced Orgasm and Its Association with Sleep Orgasms and Orgasms During Partnered Sex: Findings From a U.S. Probability Survey. De...

Rolf Degen summarizing... Although many individuals in committed relationships had a crush on a third party, they did not want to play out their attraction, but just to keep him/her as a silent reserve in the sidelines

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Loving you from afar: Attraction to others (“crushes”) among adults in exclusive relationships, communication, perceived outcomes, and expec...

More intelligent individuals have a higher tendency to fish for good news

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Si Chen & Carl Heese, 2021. "Fishing for Good News: Motivated Information Acquisition," CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series crc...

Individuals with high digital literacy are less likely to fall for fake news, but no less willing to share those

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Sirlin, Nathaniel, Ziv Epstein, Antonio A. Arechar, and David G. Rand. 2021. “Digital Literacy and Susceptibility to Misinformation.” PsyArX...

The androgynous brain is advantageous for mental health and well-being

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Brain sex differences: the androgynous brain is advantageous for mental health and well-being. Qiang Luo & Barbara J. Sahakian. Neuropsy...

Nudges are behavioral interventions to subtly steer citizens’ choices toward “desirable” options: Mapping Conditions of Susceptibility to Nudge Influence

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Nudgeability: Mapping Conditions of Susceptibility to Nudge Influence. Denise de Ridder, Floor Kroese, Laurens van Gestel. Perspectives on P...
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...