Friday, September 3, 2021

Conventional wisdom (and several psychological theories) claim that political extremism is caused by insecure attachment, ultimately stemming from harsh experiences in childhood; twin data suggests this is wrong

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Kleppestø, Thomas H., Nikolai O. Czajkowski, Olav Vassend, Espen Røysamb, Nikolai H. Eftedal, Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington, Eivind Ystrom, et...

Excessive laughter-like vocalizations, microcephaly, and translational outcomes in the Ube3a deletion rat model of Angelman Syndrome

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Excessive laughter-like vocalizations, microcephaly, and translational outcomes in the Ube3a deletion rat model of Angelman Syndrome. Elizab...

The 21 reasons people violate the survival instinct

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Why Do People Place Themselves In Harm's Way? The survival instinct is governed by cognition, abstract codes, norms and fear. Reid J. Da...

Both Democrats and Republicans personally value core democratic characteristics but severely underestimate opposing party members’ support for those same characteristics, tendency linked to for anti-democratic practices

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Pasek, Michael H., Lee-Or A. Karlinsky, Alex Levy-Vene, and Samantha Moore-Berg. 2021. “Biased and Inaccurate Meta-perceptions About Out-par...

Are people with social anxiety disorder happier alone? It seems not.

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Are people with social anxiety disorder happier alone? Fallon R. Goodman et al. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, September 1 2021, 102474. http...
Thursday, September 2, 2021

Paranoia and conspiracy thinking are known to be distinct but correlated constructs, but it is unknown whether certain types of conspiracy thinking are more common in paranoia than others...

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Greenburgh, Anna, Alice Liefgreen, Vaughan Bell, and Nichola Raihani. 2021. “Factors Affecting Conspiracy Theory Endorsement in Paranoia.” P...

COVID-19: Group sex events were cancelled & guys only had sex with others they were isolating with; also reported attending online events (Zoom orgies); some say moving online opened up new opportunities for community-building

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Group sex in the time of COVID: Intimacy, learning, and community-building in sexual communities during a pandemic. Anabelle Bernard Fournie...

Exposure to partisan and centrist news websites – no matter if it is congenial or cross-cutting – does not enhance polarization; null effects are found among strong & weak partisans, & for Democrats & Republicans alike

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Wojcieszak, Magdalena, Sjifra E. de Leeuw, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Seungsu Lee, Ke M. Huang-Isherwood, and Brian Weeks. 2021. “Wojcieszak Et...

Supernatural Explanations Across the Globe Are More Common for Natural Than Social Phenomena

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Jackson, Joshua C., Danica Wilbanks, Brock Bastian, Joseph Watts, Dr., Nicholas DiMaggio, and Kurt Gray. 2021. “Supernatural Explanations Ac...

Women feel more attractive before ovulation: evidence from a large-scale online diary study

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Women feel more attractive before ovulation: evidence from a large-scale online diary study. Lara Schleifenbaum, Julie C. Driebe, Tanja M. G...

Cognition and well-being are inextricably intertwined during development and may be malleable to social and biological factors

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Well-Being and Cognition Are Coupled During Development: A Preregistered Longitudinal Study of 1,136 Children and Adolescents. Delia Fuhrman...

Love and marital satisfaction: Women showed stronger association between perception of intimacy and marital satisfaction than men did

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Love for a Marriage Story: The Association Between Love and Marital Satisfaction in Middle Adulthood. Gyesook Yoo & Susanna Joo. Journal...
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...