Friday, November 5, 2021

Resilients maintained higher levels of mental health and recovered faster when faced with specific adversities (unemployment, disability, divorce, and widowhood)

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Unraveling Resilience: Personality Predicts Exposure and Reaction to Stressful Life Events. Eva Asselmann, Theo A. Klimstra, Jaap J. A. Deni...

News producers’ incentive to invest in news quality increases with the private knowledge of the topic; hence, when information is most needed, the generated news tends to be of lesser quality; & competition does not necessarily improve news quality

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Four Things Nobody Tells you About Online News: a Model for the New News Market. Melika Liporace. Bocconi University, October 2021. https://...
Thursday, November 4, 2021

Four patterns of dark personalities: The troublemaker, the self-absorbed, the manipulator, and the exploiter

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Into the heart of darkness: A person-centered exploration of the Dark Triad. Matthew J.W.McLarnon. Personality and Individual Differences, V...

Sin good purchases are highly concentrated with 10% of households paying more than 80% of taxes on alcohol and cigarettes; the two most taxed clusters comprise 8% of households, pay 68% of sin taxes, are older, less educated, and lower income

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 Who Pays Sin Taxes? Understanding the Overlapping Burdens of Corrective Taxes. Christopher Conlon, Nirupama L. Rao & Yinan Wang. NBER W...

Men with larger neck musculature are rated as stronger, more masculine, and higher in fighting ability and short-term attractiveness

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Caton, Neil R., and David M. G. Lewis. 2021. “Intersexual and Intrasexual Selection for Neck Musculature in Men: Attractiveness, Dominance, ...

Despite chimpanzee mothers continuing to care for and transport dead infants for days, weeks, or even longer, chimpanzees find the smell of decaying corpses aversive

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Putrescine-- a chemical cue of death—is aversive to chimpanzees. James R. Anderson, Hanling Yeow, Satoshi Hirata. Behavioural Processes, Nov...
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...