Tuesday, September 21, 2021

From 2013... Women in STEM: Investments and job rewards that generally stimulate field commitment, such as advanced training and high job satisfaction, fail to build commitment among women in STEM

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From 2013... What's So Special about STEM? A Comparison of Women's Retention in STEM and Professional Occupations. Jennifer L. Glass...

Higher education liberalizes moral concerns for most students, but it also departs from the standard liberal profile by promoting moral absolutism rather than relativism; more for individuals majoring in the humanities, arts, or social sciences

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College and the “Culture War”: Assessing Higher Education’s Influence on Moral Attitudes. Miloš Broćić, Andrew Miles. American Sociological ...

Developmental Noise Is an Overlooked Contributor to Innate Variation in Psychological Traits

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Mitchell, Kevin J. 2021. “Developmental Noise Is an Overlooked Contributor to Innate Variation in Psychological Traits.” PsyArXiv. September...

Epistemic hubris is prevalent, bipartisan, & associated with both intellectualism (an identity marked by ruminative habits and learning for its own sake) & anti-intellectualism (negative affect toward intellectuals & the intellectual establishment)

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Intellectualism, Anti-Intellectualism, and Epistemic Hubris in Red and Blue America. David C Barker, Ryan Detamble, Morgan Marietta. America...

Demand for sexual services might be inelastic to both the market price & the implicit price of stigma; criminalization is not likely to be conducive to decreases in demand as is hoped for; rather, it worsens working conditions & safety

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Quashing demand or changing clients? Evidence of criminalization of sex work in the United Kingdom. Marina della Giusta, Maria Laura di Tomm...

High levels of partisan polarization are in place well before early adulthood, unlike the developmental pattern that held in the 70s & 80s (early childhood was characterized by blanket positivity toward authority figures & partisanship gradually intruded)

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Political Socialization in the Era of Polarization. Shanto Iyengar, Matthew Tyler. August 31, 2021. https://www.dropbox.com/s/5go8ja05l9vwhf...

The “drunk utilitarian” phenomenon suggests that people are more likely to accept harm for the greater good when they are under the influence of alcohol; this study finds significant effect on moral judgments

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Paruzel-Czachura, Mariola, Katarzyna Pypno, Jim A. C. Everett, Michal Bialek, and Bertram Gawronski. 2021. “The Drunk Utilitarian Revisited:...

Moderate alcohol linked to lower risk of erectile dysfunction, high alcohol linked to higher risk; alcohol should be taken in moderate quantities in order to obtain the dual effect of disinhibition and relaxation

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A Meta-Analysis of Erectile Dysfunction and Alcohol Consumption. Li S. · Song J.-M. · Zhang K. · Zhang C.-L. Urologia Internationalis, Septe...

Autistic& nonautistic groups did not differ in age of sexual activity onset or contraction of STIs; autistic males are uniquely more likely to be bisexual; autistic females are uniquely more likely to be homosexual

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The sexual health, orientation, and activity of autistic adolescents and adults. Elizabeth Weir, Carrie Allison, Simon Baron-Cohen. Autism R...