Friday, September 17, 2021

Rolf Degen summarizing... Something in human nature makes it difficult for us to share unreservedly in the happiness of other people

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On prospect theory, making choices for others, and the affective psychology of risk. Qingzhou Sun, Evan Polman, Huanren Zhang. Journal of Ex...

Genomic data from 1,785 ancient humans who lived in the last 45,000 y: Low rates of first cousin or closer unions & a marked decay in background parental relatedness co-occurring with or shortly after sedentary agriculture

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Parental relatedness through time revealed by runs of homozygosity in ancient DNA. Harald Ringbauer, John Novembre & Matthias Steinrücke...

Women with large breasts were rated as more attractive, fertile, reproductively successful, likely to befriend, & threatening (& less likely to be introduced to a current partner)

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Garza, R., Pazhoohi, F., & Byrd-Craven, J. (2021). Women’s perceptions of breast size, ptosis, and intermammary distance: Does breast mo...

Gender Differences & the 5 Facets of Conspiracy Theory: Women score higher in all of them (government malfeasance, malevolent global conspiracies, extraterrestrial cover-up, personal well-being, & information control)

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Gender Differences and the Five Facets of Conspiracy Theory. Gary Popoli, Angel Longus. International Journal of Psychological Studies Archi...
Thursday, September 16, 2021

Having a child: You go through all the things you do when you fall in love. You find yourself infatuated. You want to tell everyone about your new love. You can’t wait to be with that person. And you feel like, no matter how many things are going wrong, someone loves you.

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The kid option. Alice Dreger. 2009. https://alicedreger.com/child I often say, honestly, if the woman I was before I had a child could see t...

Obesity and compensatory consumption: Evidence from jewelry shopping

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Obesity and compensatory consumption: Evidence from jewelry shopping. Didem Kurt. Psychology & Marketing, September 16 2021. https://doi...

Rolf Degen summarizing... People believe that they understand complicated things better when they are sure that other people understand them

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From 2020... How others drive our sense of understanding of policies. Nathaniel Rabb, John J Han, Steven A Sloman. Behavioural Public Policy...

Both genders show increase in consumption behaviors & substance use, but women revealed decrease in consumption of wine during pandemic; men showed more TV hours per day; women stand out in the use of mobile phone per day

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Health risk behaviors before and during COVID-19 and gender differences. Cátia Branquinho, Teresa Paiva, Fábio Guedes, Tânia Gaspar, Gina To...

Experiences during the epidemic and reproductive motivation yielded the results which are incongruent with life history theory—adverse experiences during the state of emergency were negatively related to the reproductive motivation

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Mededovic, Janko (2021). Reproductive motivation in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic: Is there evidence for accelerated life history dyn...

When dating, men without children (or those who wanted children) rated age as more important & selected a preferred age range that incorporated younger women; women’s age preferences showed little association with having/wanting children

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Kramer, R. S. S., & Jones, A. L. (2021). Wanting or having children predicts age preferences in online dating. Evolutionary Behavioral S...

Rolf Degen summarizes... The male attraction to nubile traits in females may reflect an evolved strategy to safeguard a successful first pregnancy

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Does Nubility Indicate More Than High Reproductive Value? Nubile Primiparas’ Pregnancy Outcomes in Evolutionary Perspective. William D. Lass...