Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Christianization with social mobility but without economic development: Evidence from missions in Ghana

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Christianization without economic development: Evidence from missions in Ghana. Remi Jedwab, Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Alexander Moradic. Jo...

Positive indirect effect of masculinity stress on red meat consumption through beliefs that meat consumption can augment masculinity; attenuation of the effect when a red meat product is associated with an out-group (i.e., women)

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The impact of masculinity stress on preferences and willingness-to-pay for red meat. Rhiannon MacDonnell Mesler, R. Bret Leary, William J. M...

Clark et al. (2014) proposed a theory of motivated free will beliefs, that at least part of free will beliefs & attributions are caused by a desire to hold moral transgressors responsible; recently, this theory has been challenged

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Clark, C. J., Winegard, B. M., & Shariff, A. F. (2021). Motivated free will belief: The theory, new (preregistered) studies, and three m...

Rolf Degen summarizing... People behaved less helpfully toward a person who had laughed at a joke that was at the expense of a political peer

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Are You Laughing at Them or with Them? Laughter as a Signal of In-Group Affiliation. Lawrence Ian Reed & Evelyn Castro. Journal of Nonve...

Most high-income earners support progressive taxation when they identify themselves with a lower group; additionally, individuals who overestimate the earnings of the rich are more likely to support progressive taxation

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Who Is High Income, Anyway? Social Comparison, Subjective Group Identification, and Preferences over Progressive Taxation. Asli Cansunar. Th...
Monday, October 4, 2021

People-Centered Intelligences Are Psychometrically Distinct from Thing-Centered Intelligences

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Are People-Centered Intelligences Psychometrically Distinct from Thing-Centered Intelligences? A Meta-Analysis. Victoria M. Bryan and John D...

Monkey Plays Pac-Man with Compositional Strategies and Hierarchical Decision-making

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Monkey Plays Pac-Man with Compositional Strategies and Hierarchical Decision-making. Qianli Yang, Zhongqiao Lin, Wenyi Zhang, Jianshu Li, Xi...

Men reported more likelihood of transmitting negative gossip than women, contrary to widespread perception that women are more indirectly aggressive; among adults, indirect aggression decreases with age, perhaps because older individuals have less need to compete for resources

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Competitive gossip: the impact of domain, resource value, resource scarcity and coalitions. Nicole H. Hess and Edward H. Hagen. Royal Societ...

How People Become Attractive to Prospective Mates: Strategies of Self-Promotion in the Greek Cultural Context

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How People Become Attractive to Prospective Mates: Strategies of Self-Promotion in the Greek Cultural Context. Menelaos Apostolou, Yan Wang,...

Disease avoidance trade-offs: People who are more interested in seeking new romantic partners (e.g., young men) may be less inclined to socially distance and be more at risk of pathogen transmission

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Disease Avoidance Motives Trade-Off Against Social Motives, Especially Mate-Seeking, to Predict Social Distancing: Evidence From the COVID-1...

Time Use and Happiness: Compared to 1985, domestic work and social care produce more happiness today; watching TV produces less happiness today than it used to; women’s time-weighted happiness has improved significantly relative to men’s

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Han, Jeehoon, and Caspar Kaiser. 2021. “Time Use and Happiness: Evidence Across Three Decades.” SocArXiv. October 3. osf.io/preprints/socarx...

Women collectively condemn other women who appear to be sexually permissive; they believed that “provocatively” dressed women are more likely to have one-night stands, even when these women were not direct sexual rivals

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Coordinated condemnation in women's intrasexual competition. Jessica D. Ayers, Aaron T. Goetz. Personality and Individual Differences, V...
Sunday, October 3, 2021

The different studies did systematically agree on the existence of the G-spot, but there was no agreement on its location, size, or nature

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Vieira-Baptista P, Lima-Silva J, Preti M, et al. G-spot: Fact or Fiction?: A Systematic Review. Sex Med 2021;9:100435. Oct 2021. https://www...

If giving money to the Red Cross increases well-being, does taking money from the Red Cross increase ill-being?

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If giving money to the Red Cross increases well-being, does taking money from the Red Cross increase ill-being? – Evidence from three experi...