Saturday, November 20, 2021

Changes in Penile-Vaginal Intercourse Frequency and Sexual Repertoire from 2009 to 2018: Findings from the National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior

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Changes in Penile-Vaginal Intercourse Frequency and Sexual Repertoire from 2009 to 2018: Findings from the National Survey of Sexual Health ...

Mask-wearing improves the performance on a test that measures the capacity to infer other people mental states from their eye gaze

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Trainin, N., & Yeshurun, Y. (2021). Reading the mind with a mask? Improvement in reading the mind in the eyes during the COVID-19 pandem...

Pure 100% fruit juices – more than just a source of free sugars? A review of the evidence of their effect on risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and obesity

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Pure 100% fruit juices – more than just a source of free sugars? A review of the evidence of their effect on risk of cardiovascular disease,...

Both Trump & Clinton supporters display less positive attitudes towards the opposing supporters; significantly more wealth is destroyed if the opponent is an opposing voter, effect mainly driven by Clinton voters

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The cost of a divided America: an experimental study into destructive behavior. Wladislaw Mill & John Morgan. Experimental Economics, No...
Friday, November 19, 2021

Longitudinal Associations Between Parenting & Child Big Five Personality Traits: Preponderance of null relations between these parenting measures & child personality, esp. between changes in parenting & changes in child personality

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Longitudinal Associations Between Parenting and Child Big Five Personality Traits. Mona Ayoub et al. Collabra: Psychology (2021) 7 (1): 2976...
Thursday, November 18, 2021

Men’s anti-gay slur usage grounded in a status striving motive paired with distinct masculine personality features

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Experimentally testing the impact of status threat on heterosexual men’s use of anti-gay slurs: A precarious manhood and coalitional value p...

Only for men—emotional and psychological well-being were positively predicted by sociosexual behavior and negatively predicted by desire

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Sociosexual Orientations and Well-Being: Differences Across Gender. Ana Blasco-Belled et al. International Journal of Sexual Health, Nov 17 ...

U.S. Adults’ Attitudes toward Gay Individuals’ Civil Liberties, Moral Judgments of Homosexuality, Support for Same-sex Marriage, and Pornography Consumption

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U.S. Adults’ Attitudes toward Gay Individuals’ Civil Liberties, Moral Judgments of Homosexuality, Support for Same-sex Marriage, and Pornogr...

Twitter users high in Agreeableness and Extraversion tended to have more followers, while those high in Neuroticism had less

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“Are we tweeting our real selves?” Personality prediction of Indian Twitter users using deep learning ensemble model. Rhea Mahajan et al. Co...

People are more likely to believe things that are easier to process; foreign-accented speech is relatively difficult to process & people believe information less when it is delivered in a foreign accent rather than a native accent

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Exposing Individuals to Foreign Accent Increases their Trust in What Nonnative Speakers Say. Katarzyna Boduch-Grabka, Shiri Lev-Ari. Cogniti...

From 2020... Italy North-South gap: We show that the roots of the literacy gap that existed in 1861 can be traced back to Napoleonic educational reforms enacted between 1801 and 1814

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Institutions and literacy rates: the legacy of Napoleonic reforms in Italy. M Postigliola, M Rota. European Review of Economic History, Volu...

Thinking of a trigger warning does not prompt preparation for trauma-related content

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Unprepared: Thinking of a trigger warning does not prompt preparation for trauma-related content. Victoria M.E. Bridgland, Jorja F. Barnard,...
Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Zero-sum beliefs tend to be asymmetrical (the others gain at one’s own expense, but not vice versa), moderated by how threatened people feel by others’ success; reassuring people about their party’s strengths eliminates asymmetric zero-sum beliefs

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Roberts, R., & Davidai, S. (2021). The psychology of asymmetric zero-sum beliefs. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Nov 2021...

Tell Ekman! What are commonly known as the six classic basic emotions do not reliably co-occur with their predicted facial signal

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Durán, J. I., & Fernández-Dols, J.-M. (2021). Do emotions result in their predicted facial expressions? A meta-analysis of studies on th...

We also report men who believe that they are more successful at mating gaze more at male chests than less confident men & that women do gaze at sexualized body areas of men, specifically the hips and groin

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Widman, D. R., Bennetti, M. K., & Anglemyer, R. (2021). Gaze patterns of sexually fluid women and men at nude females and males. Evoluti...