Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Humans have evolved an independent psychological “engine” to respond to each kind of evolutionary problem (Lust, Hunger, Fear, Disgust, Attract, Love, Nurture, Hoard, Create, Affiliate, Status, Justice, Curiosity, & Play)

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Psychometric Analysis of a Postulated Set of Evolved Human Motives. Robert Aunger, Dugald Foster, and Val Curtis. Front Psychol. 2021; 12: 6...

Men of dark personality were more attractive in the context of short-term relationship, after controlling for the basic personality traits

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HEXACO and Dark Triad Personality Traits as Predictors of Male Attractiveness in Different Relationship Contexts. Ana Butkovic, Katarina Vat...

From 2019... What if rising concentration were an indication of more competition, not less?

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What if rising concentration were an indication of more competition, not less? Geoffrey Manne. December 14 2019. https://truthonthemarket.co...

From 2020... Recall and recognition of visual objects share common memory sources

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Tell me what you saw: The usefulness of verbal descriptions for others. Deborah H Tan, Yuhong V Jiang. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psy...

They Are Not Little Emperors: Only Children Are Just as Altruistic as Non-Only Children

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They Are Not Little Emperors: Only Children Are Just as Altruistic as Non-Only Children. Xuegang Zheng et al. Social Psychological and Perso...

Gender-equality paradox (greater social and economic gender equality predicts increased gender differentiation): Authors find given names are more phonetically gendered in more gender-equal societies

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The Gender-Equality Paradox and Optimal Distinctiveness: More Gender-Equal Societies Have More Gendered Names. Allon Vishkin, Michael L. Sle...

Suicidality and Mood: The Impact of Trends, Seasons, Day of the Week, and Time of Day on Implicit and Explicit Cognitions

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Freichel, René, and Brian O'Shea. 2021. “Suicidality and Mood: The Impact of Trends, Seasons, Day of the Week, and Time of Day on Implic...

What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Culture? There is a Missing Link Between the Natural and the Social Sciences

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What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Culture? There is a Missing Link Between the Natural and the Social Sciences. Andrea Zagaria. Integ...
Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Global-scale changes in the area of atoll islands during the 21st century: Since 2000, land area on 221 atolls examined had increased by 61.74 km2 (6.1 %); most of the increase in land area occurred in the Maldives & South China Sea

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Global-scale changes in the area of atoll islands during the 21st century. Andrew Holdaway, Murray Ford, Susan Owen. Anthropocene, Volume 33...

Higher self-perceived attractiveness & fewer minor ailments predicted lower scores of Somatization, Obsessive–Compulsive, Interpersonal Sensitivity, Depression, Anxiety, Phobic Anxiety, Paranoid Ideation, Psychoticism

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Self-Perceived Facial Attractiveness, Fluctuating Asymmetry, and Minor Ailments Predict Mental Health Outcomes. Javier I. Borráz-León, Marku...