Saturday, October 23, 2021

Option to cooperate increases women's competitiveness and closes the gender gap

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Option to cooperate increases women's competitiveness and closes the gender gap. Alessandra Cassar, Mary L. Rigdon. Evolution and Human ...

Measured intelligence did not predict increased mate appeal in either study, whereas perceived intelligence and funniness did; intelligence is not important for initial attraction

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Intelligence can be detected but is not found attractive in videos and live interactions. Julie C. Driebe et al. Evolution and Human Behavio...

Crushes are uncommunicated, often unilateral, attractions to an individual; research suggests that these experiences might be common among adults (as they are in the young), including among those in committed relationships

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Loving you from afar: Attraction to others (“crushes”) among adults in exclusive relationships, communication, perceived outcomes, and expec...

Moderate heritability (30%–40%) for concern for nature, environmental movement activism, and personal conservation behavior and high genetic correlations between them (.6–.7), suggesting a partially shared genetic basis

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Genetic Contribution to Concern for Nature and Proenvironmental Behavior. Chia-chen Chang, Thi Phuong Le Nghiem, Qiao Fan, Claudia L Y Tan, ...

Rolf Degen summarizing... People like copartisan political-perspective seekers, who attempt to hear from the other side, but less so if they venture too far into enemy ideological territory

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Seek and Ye Shall Be Fine: Attitudes Toward Political-Perspective Seekers. Gordon Heltzel, Kristin Laurin. Psychological Science, October 22...

Conservatives (vs. liberals) are more satisfied with the products & services they consume; they are more likely to believe in free will (i.e., that people have agency over their decisions) & therefore to trust their decisions

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How Political Identity Shapes Customer Satisfaction. Daniel Fernandes et al. Journal of Marketing, October 19, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1177...

Considering how often people gossip about each other, they also underestimate how often others gossip about them—and probably don't even want to know; a recording of all the gossip about us would be dreadful

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Cooney, G., Boothby, E. J., & Lee, M. (2021). The thought gap after conversation: Underestimating the frequency of others’ thoughts abou...

Members of rival ideological camps in Israel perceived the Israeli attorney general & the Israeli police to be biased against their side; both Democrats and Republicans perceived the social network Facebook to be biased against their side

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The Hostile Mediator Phenomenon: When Threatened, Rival Partisans Perceive Various Mediators as Biased Against Their Group. Omer Yair. Publi...

No evidence was found to support the hypothesis that beards are honest (or dishonest) signals of the beard owners’ testosterone levels and dominance

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Are Beards Honest Signals of Male Dominance and Testosterone? Marta Kowal, Piotr Sorokowski, Agnieszka Żelaźniewicz, Judyta Nowak, Sylwester...
Friday, October 22, 2021

On women, we found a positive effect of hormonal contraceptives on frequency of vaginal intercourse and a negative effect of hormonal contraceptives on masturbation frequency

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Hormonal Contraception and Sexuality: Causal Effects, Unobserved Selection, or Reverse Causality?Laura J. Botzet, Tanja M. Gerlach, Julie C....