Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Stronger correlations between self-esteem and mate value were found for men

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Digging deeper into the relationship between self-esteem and mate value. Gary L.Brase, Meghan H. Dillon. Personality and Individual Differen...

No support was found for the hypothesis that social media use contributed to the level of affective polarization; instead, it was the level of affective polarization that affected subsequent use of social media

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Affective polarization in the digital age: Testing the direction of the relationship between social media and users’ feelings for out-group ...
Monday, September 20, 2021

Optimal sexual passion outcomes were found at both higher and lower levels of religiosity, whereas mid-level religiosity was associated with the less beneficial sexual passion outcomes

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Religious Piety and Sexual Passion: What Is the Connection? Rebecca W. Clarke, Chelom E. Leavitt, Dean M. Busby. Journal of Sex & Marita...

How truthful is GPT-3? A benchmark for language models

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TruthfulQA: Measuring How Models Mimic Human Falsehoods. Stephanie Lin, Jacob Hilton, Owain Evans. arXiv, Sep 8 2021.  TruthfulQA: Measuring...

An attractiveness judgment for one face part can be highly predictive of the attractiveness of the whole face or the other parts

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Predicting attractiveness from face parts reveals multiple covarying cues. Chang Hong Liu,Andrew W. Young, Jiaxin Li, Xinran Tian, Wenfeng C...

The evidence that COVID-19 infection causes or impacts Erectile Dysfunction is compelling

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The Epidemic of COVID-19-Related Erectile Dysfunction: A Scoping Review and Health Care Perspective. Tung-Chin Hsieh et al. Sexual Medicine ...
Sunday, September 19, 2021

A greater tendency to have negative thoughts and feelings about people with a homosexual orientation was associated with an increased likelihood of avoiding cross-sex friendships

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Avoiding cross-sex friendships: The separability of people with and without cross-sex friends. Tobias Altmann. Current Psychology, Sep 19 20...

Barbarigenesis and the collapse of complex societies: Rome and after

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Jones D (2021) Barbarigenesis and the collapse of complex societies: Rome and after. PLoS ONE 16(9): e0254240, Sep 16 2021. https://doi.org/...