Monday, November 1, 2021

Daily & weekly data on Google searches for 107 countries: The COVID-19 crisis resulted in a massive rise in the intensity of prayer on all continents, at all levels of income, inequality, and insecurity, and for all types of religion, except Buddhism

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In Crisis, We Pray: Religiosity and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Jeanet Sinding Bentzen. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Nov 1 20...
Sunday, October 31, 2021

Reminder from 2010... Genetically, hunter-gatherer peoples of southern Africa, the oldest known lineage of modern human, seem to be, on average, more different from each other than a European and an Asian

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Complete Khoisan and Bantu genomes from southern Africa. Stephan C. Schuster et al. Nature volume 463, pages943–947. Feb 18 2010. https://ww...

Our review of recent studies finds a small-but-consistent gap in men & women's beliefs about their health risks related to the present pandemic; these risk beliefs are crucial determinants of whether individuals take protective measures

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Gender differences in perceived risk of COVID-19. Andrew Lewis, Raymond Duch. Social Science Quarterly, October 29 2021. https://doi.org/10....

Newly self-employed people are overly optimistic about their future life satisfaction; this overoptimism also holds for successful entrepreneurs who remain in business

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Are Newly Self-Employed Overly Optimistic About Their Future Well-Being? Reto Odermatt, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Alois Stutzer. Journal of Beha...

Our findings challenge the notion that merely thinking about a romantic partner's success or failure has a substantial impact on implicit self-esteem; 78pct effect is smaller than in Ratliff and Oishi (2013)

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Implicit self-esteem following a romantic partner's success: Three replications and a meta-analysis. Heather-Christina C. Hawkins, Tara ...
Saturday, October 30, 2021

Why Are Relatively Poor People Not More Supportive of Redistribution? Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment across Ten Countries

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Why Are Relatively Poor People Not More Supportive of Redistribution? Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment across Ten Countries. Chr...

Regional psychological differences are robust and can reliably be studied across countries and spatial levels; ignoring the methodological challenges of spatial data can have serious consequences for research

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Are Regional Differences in Psychological Characteristics and Their Correlates Robust? Applying Spatial-Analysis Techniques to Examine Regio...

Virtual Reality Erotica: Exploring General Presence, Sexual Presence, Sexual Arousal, and Sexual Desire in Women

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Virtual Reality Erotica: Exploring General Presence, Sexual Presence, Sexual Arousal, and Sexual Desire in Women. Sonia Milani, Faith Jabs, ...

Compared to heterosexual women, gay men appeared to prefer higher muscularity in potential romantic partners, which was also associated with increased drive for thinness & muscularity and increased eating pathology

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Appearance-Related Partner Preferences and Body Image in a German Sample of Homosexual and Heterosexual Women and Men. Martin Cordes, Silja ...

Backlash against mask refusal—Anti-mask discourse consistently occupied a marginal role in the public sphere, while backlash against mask refusal came to prominence & did not decline even as mask wearing behaviors normalized & partly depolarized

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Scoville, Caleb, Andrew McCumber, Razvan Amironesei, and June Jeon. 2021. “The Politicization of Face Masks in the American Public Sphere Du...
Friday, October 29, 2021

The Light vs. Dark Triad of Personality: Contrasting Two Very Different Profiles of Human Nature

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The Light vs. Dark Triad of Personality: Contrasting Two Very Different Profiles of Human Nature. Scott Barry Kaufman, David Bryce Yaden, El...