Sunday, November 21, 2021

Male researchers more often value and engage in research mainly aimed at scientific progress, which is more cited; females more often value & engage in research mainly aimed at contributing to societal progress, which has more abstract views (usage)

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Gender differences in the aims and impacts of research. Lin Zhang, Gunnar Sivertsen, Huiying Du, Ying Huang & Wolfgang Glänzel. Scientom...

Holding heavily invested political beliefs makes individuals reluctant to update their beliefs in the face of contradictory information; providing ambiguous information caused them to become further divided based on their political ideology

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Updating Politicized Beliefs: How Motivated Reasoning Contributes to Polarization. Siyan Su. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economic...

Social Networks Facilitate Informed Option Trading? Evidence from Alumni Reunion Networks

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Cheong, Harvey and Kim, Joon Ho and Münkel, Florian and Spilker III, Harold D., Do Social Networks Facilitate Informed Option Trading? Evide...

Loosening the definition of culture... An investigation of gender and cultural tightness: We find that American women felt their gender culture is “tighter” than men

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Loosening the definition of culture: an investigation of gender and cultural tightness. Alexandra S. Wormley et al. Current Research in Ecol...

US and activism of sexual minorities: Lesbians and gay men were registered at greater rates than heterosexuals; transgender people were the least likely to be registered to vote, though this may be due to the vote-validation process itself

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Voter Registration Rates and Traits by Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression. Dakota Strode, Andrew R Flores. Public Opinion Quarterly, n...

Personality, intelligence and belief in astrology: Narcissism was surprisingly the strongest predictor, and intelligence showed a negative relationship with belief in astrology

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Even the stars think that I am superior: Personality, intelligence and belief in astrology. Ida Andersson, Julia Persson, Petri Kajonius. Pe...
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...