Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Whereas conscientiousness was more strongly associated with academic than job performance, extraversion & neuroticism were less strongly associated with academic performance

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Big five personality traits and performance: A quantitative synthesis of 50+ meta-analyses. Ethan Zell,Tara L. Lesick. Journal of Personalit...

Sexual desire functions as a mechanism encouraging investment in partners who are perceived to be worth pursuing and retaining

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Sexual Desire Mediates the Relationship-Promoting Effects of Perceived Partner Mate Value. Gurit E. Birnbaum, Yaniv Kanat-Maymon, Erica B. S...

Blacks and Hispanics are significantly less likely than whites to describe themselves as “anti-racist,” and only the “very liberal” are more likely than other political orientations to identify with the label

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Who Identifies as Anti-Racist? Racial Identity, Color-Blindness, and Generic Liberalism. Samuel L. Perry, Kenneth E. Frantz, Joshua B. Grubb...

Individuals can purposely change their vocal behaviour in attempt to sound more attractive and to facilitate courtship success; women do better at this

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Vocal modulation in human mating and competition. Susan M. Hughes and David A. Puts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biol...

Conscientious individuals were more likely to maintain social distance and less likely to contract COVID-19; Agreeable individuals were more likely to comply with social distancing requirements yet more likely to contract COVID-19

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Personality and early susceptibility to COVID-19 in the United Kingdom, Satoshi Kanazawa. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psycholo...

Compared to heterosexuals, lesbians were more likely to report having sex 0–1 times per month & were less likely to report having sex greater than once per month; the authors reject the label “lesbian bed death”

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Debunking Lesbian Bed Death: Using Coarsened Exact Matching to Compare Sexual Practices and Satisfaction of Lesbian and Heterosexual Women. ...
Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Shorter height and long-bone growth in the arms and legs were more evident among sao praphet song—who are both sexually oriented towards men and markedly feminine

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An anthropometric study of sexual orientation and gender identity in Thailand. Malvina N. Skorska, Lindsay A. Coome, Diana E. Peragine, Madi...