Friday, October 29, 2021

Rape myth acceptance is the acceptance of false beliefs, stereotypes, and statements about rape, victims, and perpetrators

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Development and validation of the Rape Excusing Attitudes and Language Scale. Rebecka K. Hahnel-Peeters, Aaron T. Goetz. Personality and Ind...

Anticipating academic failure, some students may harm their chances of success (e.g., engaging in destructive behaviors like drug abuse), so that potential failure can be attributed to these handicaps rather than to personal characteristics like low intelligence

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Schwinger, M., Trautner, M., Pütz, N., Fabianek, S., Lemmer, G., Lauermann, F., & Wirthwein, L. (2021). Why do students use strategies t...

There was no significant association between religious or spiritual coping, religious service attendance, obesity, and weight

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The Association of Religion and Spirituality with Obesity and Weight Change in the USA: A Large-Scale Cohort Study. Nicholas D. Spence, Eric...

Decreases in Brain Size and Encephalization in Anatomically Modern Humans: Despite evolutionary pressures on the phenotype, intelligence increased since at least 1870 until recently, due to environmental factors

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Decreases in Brain Size and Encephalization in Anatomically Modern Humans. Stibel J.M. Brain Behav Evol, Oct 2021. https://doi.org/10.1159/0...

Statements that sounded superficially impressive but lacked intent to communicate meaning generated meaning-seeking, but only when delivered by high admirability speakers (the Dalai Lama) as compared to low admirability speakers (Kim Kardashian)

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Kara-Yakoubian, Mane, Ethan A. Meyers, Constantine Sharpinskyi, Anna Dorfman, and Igor Grossmann. 2021. “Hidden Wisdom or Pseudo-profound Bu...

Rethinking the Diagnosis of Mental Disorders: Data-Driven Psychological Dimensions, Not Categories, as a Framework for Mental-Health Research, Treatment, and Training

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Rethinking the Diagnosis of Mental Disorders: Data-Driven Psychological Dimensions, Not Categories, as a Framework for Mental-Health Researc...
Thursday, October 28, 2021

Gay men preferred more masculinized faces than did bisexual men; tops preferred feminized faces, whereas bottoms & versatiles preferred masculinized faces; South China gay men preferred more masculinized faces than did those living in North China

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Demographic and Geographic Differences in Facial Masculinity Preferences Among Gay and Bisexual Men in China. Lijun Zheng & Jing Zhang. ...

Rolf Degen summarizing... Large-scale, long-term study that allows tracking of individual developments gives the all-clear as regards the dangers of intensive social media use for adolescents

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The complex association between social media use intensity and adolescent wellbeing: A longitudinal investigation of five factors that May a...

Across a variety of economic decision-making situations, we were able to show a more generous attitude towards attractive people; this bias has been shown to be stronger for women, especially when men are the favoring subjects

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Voit, M., Weiß, M. & Hewig, J. The benefits of beauty – Individual differences in the pro-attractiveness bias in social decision making....