Monday, September 13, 2021

Widespread Reach, not much Influence of Online News: In the absence of rigorous research on causal effects on mass political attitudes and behaviour, we do not know whether the impact of the new media is strong or weak

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Widespread Reach, not much Influence: Online News and Mass Political Attitudes and Behaviour in the UK. Kenneth Newton. The Political Quarte...

Chemosensory anxiety signals seem to act contagiously; reduce trust as well as risk behavior; predominantly affect women; & act independent of odor concentration

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It’s trust or risk? Chemosensory anxiety signals affect bargaining in women. Lukas Meister, Bettina M. Pause. Biological Psychology, Volume ...

Immigration to the USA adds 1.4 and 1.5 years to male & female life expectancy; immigration contributed roughly half of life expectancy gains 2007-2017; the post-2010 mortality stagnation is due to adverse trends among the US-born

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Immigration and improvements in American life expectancy. Arun S. Hendi, Jessica Y. Ho. SSM - Population Health, Volume 15, September 2021, ...
Sunday, September 12, 2021

We observed an association between frequent pornography use and not having had sex in the last year among men (which was in contrast with previous studies), but not women

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Malki K, Rahm C, Öberg KG, et al. Frequency of Pornography Use and Sexual Health Outcomes in Sweden: Analysis of a National Probability Surv...

Testing Women’s Trust in Other Women and Same-Sex Attracted Males in Three Cultures

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Testing Women’s Trust in Other Women and Same-Sex Attracted Males in Three Cultures. Scott W. Semenyna, Francisco R. Gómez Jiménez & Pau...

Helmholtz Versus Haute Couture: How Horizontal Stripes and Dark Clothes Make You Look Thinner

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Helmholtz Versus Haute Couture: How Horizontal Stripes and Dark Clothes Make You Look Thinner. Antonis Koutsoumpis, Elias Economou, Erik van...

Especially with the increasing devaluation of the other group, but also with the increasing conviction of their own position, the supporters of COVID restrictions accept restrictions regarding the others’ freedom of expression

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Polarisation and Silencing others During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Germany: An Experimental Study Using Algorithmically Curated Online Enviro...

Sex differences in total brain volume are not accounted for by sex differences in height and weight, and that once global brain size is taken into account, there remain numerous regional sex differences in both directions

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Sex differences in the brain are not reduced to differences in body size. Camille Michèle et al. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, S...
Saturday, September 11, 2021

Adoptive & biological families with 30-year-old offspring: Proportion of variance in IQ attributable to environmentally mediated effects of parental IQs was estimated at .01; heritability was estimated to be 0.42

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Genetic and environmental contributions to IQ in adoptive and biological families with 30-year-old offspring. Emily A. Willoughby, Matt McGu...

Asking the mayor's office how to start a business: Chinese & German cities responded to 36-37% requests; American cities responded to 22%; Chinese cities were more responsive to requests from men

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Köhler, Ekkehard A. and Matsusaka, John G. and Wu, Yanhui, Street-Level Responsiveness of City Governments in China, Germany, and the United...
Friday, September 10, 2021

Older Taiwanese people had slower processing speeds than their US peers; younger Taiwanese people had faster processing speeds than their US peers; physiological, environmental, and genetic factors contribute

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Development of processing speed in the United States and Taiwan: A brief report. Hsinyi Chen, Yung-Kun Liao, Richard Lynn. Personality and I...

Helping behavior, bystander intervention, violence, emergency, danger, systematic video observation

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Does Danger Level Affect Bystander Intervention in Real-Life Conflicts? Evidence From CCTV Footage. Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard et al. Soci...

Centenarians: 31.4% expressed willingness to live longer, 30.6% did not, & 38% presented no clear positioning; annoyance, uselessness, loss of meaning, disconnection, & loneliness were common justifications for reluctance

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To Live or Die: What to Wish at 100 Years and Older. Lia Araújo et al. Front. Psychol., September 10 2021. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.202...