Friday, August 27, 2021

Increases in happiness, but not in depression, were associated with people being in a higher group of cardiovascular risk, despite the literature that says that subjective well-being has a protective role over cardiovascular health

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Happiness is related to cardiovascular risk: a cross-sectional study in Spain. Oriol Yuguero, Ana Blasco-Belled, Álvaro Vilela & Carles ...

A 15 to 25 pct reduction in expected returns for drugs in the top quintile of expected returns is associated with a 0.5 pct annual reduction in number of new drugs in the 1st decade, increasing to an 8 pct in the 3rd decade

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Simulation Model of New Drug Development. CBO, Working Paper 2021-09. Aug 26 2021. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57010 Summary: This paper...
Thursday, August 26, 2021

Notable sex differences in autonomic functioning among trauma-exposed individuals: A prospective examination

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A prospective examination of sex differences in posttraumatic autonomic functioning. Antonia V. Seligowski et al. Neurobiology of Stress, Vo...

Consumers Believe That Products Work Better for Others... including that medical products, social distancing against COVID-19, and SARS-CoV-2 vaccines

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Consumers Believe That Products Work Better for Others. Evan Polman, Ignazio Ziano, Kaiyang Wu, Anneleen Van Kerckhove. Journal of Consumer ...

After finding they were right, participants could send a neutral message or a message that included "I told you so"; most participants sent, at least once, "I told you so," despite not liking hearing that statement themselves

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Impression (Mis)Management: When What You Say Is Not What They Hear. Ovul Sezer. Current Opinion in Psychology, August 26 2021. https://doi....

Comments on Secretary Blinken's words... If the Taliban behave well enough, "that’s a government we can work with"

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Secretary Blinken: If the Taliban behave well enough, "that’s a government we can work with". A friend's note, sent to Sec Bli...

Some people around the world report they would choose a psychologically rich life at the expense of a happy/meaningful life, and that approx 1/3 say that undoing their life’s biggest regret would have made their lives psychologically richer

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Oishi, S., & Westgate, E. C. (2021). A psychologically rich life: Beyond happiness and meaning. Psychological Review, Aug 2021. https://...

Some highly satisfied individuals were also more likely to have engaged in infidelity, suggesting a more complex relationship between relationship satisfaction and infidelity

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Is Infidelity Predictable? Using Explainable Machine Learning to Identify the Most Important Predictors of Infidelity. Laura M. Vowels, Matt...

Sexuality, Sexual Behavior, and Relationships of Asexual Individuals: Differences Between Aromantic and Romantic Subtypes of Asexual Individuals

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Carvalho, Ana C., and David L. Rodrigues. 2021. “Sexuality, Sexual Behavior, and Relationships of Asexual Individuals: Differences Between A...

Topological measures for identifying and predicting the spread of complex contagions

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Topological measures for identifying and predicting the spread of complex contagions. Douglas Guilbeault & Damon Centola. Nature Communi...

Beetles: Rapid evolution of sexual size dimorphism facilitated by Y-linked genetic variance

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Rapid evolution of sexual size dimorphism facilitated by Y-linked genetic variance. Philipp Kaufmann, Matthew E. Wolak, Arild Husby & El...

The effects of alpha male removal on the social behavior of a group of olive baboons: Females seem to respond to male removal showing a more affiliative and tolerant behavior

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The effects of alpha male removal on the social behavior of a group of olive baboons (Papio anubis). Ester Orient & Federico Guillén-Sal...