Wednesday, October 6, 2021

The dominant theory of facial attractiveness judgments is that they evolved to identify healthy individuals with strong immune systems; this paper finds little compelling empirical support

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Does facial attractiveness really signal immunocompetence? Benedict C. Jones, Iris J. Holzleitner, Victor Shiramizu. Trends in Cognitive Sci...

Human male reproduction exhibits distinct and derived features: Long-term reproductive partnerships, intensive paternal care including provisioning, shortened interbirth intervals, and later age-specific fertility than great ape comparisons

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Men and reproduction: Perspectives from biological anthropology. Peter B. Gray, Alex Straftis, Kermyt G. Anderson. Chp in The Routledge Hand...

Female bonobos engaged more in genito-genital rubbing when their sexual swelling was in the maximum phase, exchanging grooming & sex according to the daily “market fluctuations” associated with swelling status

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Sex and grooming as exchange commodities in female bonobos’ daily biological market. Simone Anzà, Elisa Demuru & Elisabetta Palagi. Scie...

Americans perceived political ingroups as more prototypical of Americans; perceiving the outgroup as poorly fitting the prototype of the superordinate group predicted opposition to bipartisan cooperation and a lower likelihood of bipartisan behavior

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Ingroup Projection in American Politics: An Obstacle to Bipartisanship. Angela C. Bell et al. Social Psychological and Personality Science, ...

Stability and change in major life goals during the transition to parenthood: Little evidence that parenthood leads to change in major life goals

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Stability and change in major life goals during the transition to parenthood. Caroline Wehner, Manon A. van Scheppingen, Wiebke Bleidorn. Eu...
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,...