Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Mouse movements linked to more deliberate responding (less unnecessary clicks, more fixations) are associated to higher Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, and Openness, and lower Neuroticism

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Meidenbauer, Kimberly L., Tianyue Niu, Kyoung Whan Choe, Andrew Stier, and Marc Berman. 2021. “Mouse Movements Reflect Personality Traits an...

Combined, our results provide comprehensive support for the argument that intrasexual selection has uniquely shaped Homo sapiens upper limb length to enhance fighting performance in real-world combat

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Caton, Neil R., and David M. G. Lewis. 2021. “Armed Forces: Intrasexual Selection for Upper Limb Length in Homo Sapiens.” PsyArXiv. August 3...
Monday, August 30, 2021

Loving you from afar: Attraction to others (“crushes”) among adults in exclusive relationships, communication, perceived outcomes, and expectations of future intimate involvement

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

Older faces are rated as less attractive than younger faces; older perceivers are less influenced by the age of the viewed face; men distinguish more clearly between faces when judging attractiveness, especially in female faces

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The effect of aging on facial attractiveness: An empirical and computational investigation. Dexian He et al. Acta Psychologica, Volume 219, ...

Coping with global uncertainty: Perceptions of COVID-19 psychological distress, relationship quality, and dyadic coping for romantic partners across 27 countries

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Coping with global uncertainty: Perceptions of COVID-19 psychological distress, relationship quality, and dyadic coping for romantic partner...

Paranoia and negative image about the self and others

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Paranoia and negative schema about the self and others: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Charlotte Humphrey et al. Clinical Psychology...

The pandemic exposes human nature: 10 evolutionary insights

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The pandemic exposes human nature: 10 evolutionary insights. Benjamin M. Seitz, Athena Aktipis, David M. Buss, Joe Alcock, Paul Bloom,  Mich...

In 2000, the rate of being on probation was 1.6x higher & the rate of being parole was 3.6x higher for Hispanics than non-Hispanic whites; in 2016, the probation disparity had disappeared and the parole disparity had shrunk by 85%

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The rapidly shifting Hispanic experience of American criminal justice: Vanishing disparities in jail, probation, and parole rates — rising l...

Intimate partner violence data (quite old in many instances) — Asia, Africa

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Intimate partner violence data (quite old in many instances) 1  Intimate partner violence in selected countries. Source: Prevalence Rates, T...
Sunday, August 29, 2021

Humans are social animals, but not everyone will be mindful of others to the same extent: Social mindfulness and prosociality vary across the globe (study of 31 nations and regions)

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Social mindfulness and prosociality vary across the globe. Niels J. Van Doesum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 31, ...

From 2003...The Second Law of Thermodynamics Is the First Law of Psychology: Evolutionary Developmental Psychology and the Theory Of Tandem, Coordinated Inheritances

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From 2003... Tooby, J., Cosmides, L., & Barrett, H. C. (2003). The Second Law of Thermodynamics Is the First Law of Psychology: Evolutio...

The outcomes of over 5 million chess games were analyzed; controlling for differences in chess skills, there was an enhanced performance among players who were competing outside of their home countries; advantage is approx 2%

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The performance advantage of traveling. Uri Zak. Journal of Economic Psychology, August 28 2021, 102431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2021...

Similarities and differences in concepts of mental life among adults and children in five cultures (US, Ghana, Thailand, China, & Vanuatu)

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Similarities and differences in concepts of mental life among adults and children in five cultures. Kara Weisman, Cristine H. Legare, Rachel...