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Saturday, November 27, 2021

Formal religious practices statistically predicted increased severity of suicidal thoughts, while belief in God did not; religious conflict was also associated with increased severity of suicidal thoughts

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Rabasco, A., & Andover, M. (2021). The relationship between religious practices and beliefs and suicidal thoughts and behaviors among tr...

Countries and Cultural Differences in the Stigma of Mental Illness: The East–West Divide

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Countries and Cultural Differences in the Stigma of Mental Illness: The East–West Divide. Anne C. Krendl, Bernice A. Pescosolido. Journal of...

Paper suggests older humans are actually evolved to be much more physically active for longer than we usually are, & that physical activity is therefore extremely protective against chronic disease and extends life & health

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The active grandparent hypothesis: Physical activity and the evolution of extended human healthspans and lifespans. Daniel E. Lieberman et a...

594,196 fifteen-year-olds, 77 countries: girls experience less physical & verbal victimization & have stronger anti-bullying attitudes; physical victims have less –not more--anti-bullying attitudes

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Marsh, Herb, Jiesi Guo, Philip D. Parker, Reinhard Pekrun, Geetanjali Basarkod, Theresa Dicke, Roberto H. Parada, et al. 2021. “An Integrati...
Friday, November 26, 2021

Smell loss was quantified as the single best predictor of COVID19; this specificity was used to create a novel tool, the ODoR-19 (Olfactory Determination Rating Scale in COVID-19) scale, for use in rapid screening

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Massively collaborative crowdsourced research on COVID19 and the chemical senses: insights and outcomes. Elisabeth M. Weir et al. Food Quali...

Interoceptive accuracy, the ability to correctly perceive internal signals arising from the body: Men are better with heart signals; both sexes fail w/gastric or respiratory signals

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Sex differences in interoceptive accuracy: A meta-analysis. Freya Prentice, Jennifer Murphy. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Novem...
Thursday, November 25, 2021

In contrast to psychophysiological reactions, self-reported emotional reactions to threatening stimuli are reliably associated with ideology

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The Psychophysiology of Political Ideology: Replications, Reanalyses, and Recommendations. Mathias Osmundsen, David J. Hendry, Lasse Laustse...

Children’s gender accurately identified from their speech: Since young boys & girls overlap almost entirely in gross acoustic cues that drive gender perception for adults, results suggest accuracy based on transmission of more subtle gender information

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Perception of gender in children's voices. Santiago Barreda and Peter F. Assmann. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 150, ...

Narcissistic Individuals Exhibit Poor Recognition Memory; narcissistic individuals’ excessive self-focus predicted this memory deficit

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Narcissistic Individuals Exhibit Poor Recognition Memory. Miranda Giacomin, Christopher Brinton, Nicholas O. Rule. Journal of Personality, N...

Perceptions of early news coverage about COVID-19: Citizens had positive attitudes toward their own Covid-19 news sources, but were critical about the news sources others were using to get information about the virus

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My pandemic news is better than yours: audience perceptions of early news coverage about Covid-19. Mallory R. Perryman. Communication Resear...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Umbrella review: Most adolescents experienced no or negligible effects of social media use on mental health

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Social media use and its impact on adolescent mental health: An umbrella review of the evidence. Patti M. Valkenburg, Adrian Meier, Ine Beye...

Politically-motivated reasoning is similar for both men and women, but only men find it particularly attractive to believe that they outperform others

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Gender differences in motivated reasoning. Michael Thaler. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 191, November 2021, Pages...

Three key ways people/organisms can differ in a trait: Mean averages (personality), how variable they are in trait intraindividually over time/context (predictability), & how reactive/responsive the trait is across differing ecologies/contexts (plasticity)

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Unifying individual differences in personality, predictability and plasticity: A practical guide. Rose E. O'Dea, Daniel W. A. Noble, Shi...

Successful blinding is an important feature of double-blind randomized controlled trials, & ensures that the safety and efficacy of treatments are accurately appraised; but blinding is not successful among either patients or investigators

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A systematic review and meta-analysis of the success of blinding in antidepressant RCTs. Amelia J Scott, Louise Sharpe, Ben Colagiuri. Psych...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Contra Duckworth and Seligman’s seminal work: Only intelligence predicted developmental changes in each measure of academic performance over time, self-control did not

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Does Self-control Outdo IQ in Predicting Academic Performance? Alexander T. Vazsonyi, Magda Javakhishvili & Marek Blatny. Journal of You...

Death reminders caused less negative affect and more positive affect than toothache reminders; & reactions to death were quite diverse and did not show signs of being dominated by existential anxiety

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Storelv, Sina, and Bjørn Sætrevik. 2021. “Nothing Is Certain Except Taxes and the Other Thing: Searching for Death Anxiety in a Large Online...

The smaller preferences for sexually dimorphic facial cues in older adults compared to young adults suggest that older adults may shift away from mating-oriented psychology as they become less fertile

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The Autumn Years: Age Differences in Preferences for Sexually Dimorphic Faces. Chengyang Han, Xiangqian Li, Xiyue Chen, Xue Lei, Chuanjing L...

Consistent low-to-moderate alcohol consumption in early-to-middle adulthood predicted lower depressive symptoms at age 50; his work offers preliminary evidence that such protective effects may be causal

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Visontay, Rachel, Louise Mewton, Tim Slade, Izzuddin M. Aris, and Matthew Sunderland. 2021. “Moderate Alcohol Consumption and Depressive Sym...

Rolf Degen summarizing... Comic book bodies are supernormal stimuli that cater to the unrealistic sexual imagination of a predominantly male audience

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Burch, R. L., & Widman, D. R. (2021). Comic book bodies are supernormal stimuli: Comparison of DC, Marvel, and actual humans. Evolutiona...

Our review of the malevolent creative processes suggest that we have unintentionally avoided uncomfortable truths around who is capable of generating & instantiating malevolent ideas

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Malevolent Creativity and Malevolent Innovation: A Critical but Tenuous Linkage. Samuel T. Hunter, Kayla Walters, Tin Nguyen, Caroline Manni...

Financial crises and political radicalization: How failing banks paved Hitler's path to power, and to more pogroms and deportations in the most affected areas

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Financial crises and political radicalization: How failing banks paved Hitler's path to power. Sebastian Doerr, Stefan Gissler, Jose-Lui...
Monday, November 22, 2021

Sniffing the human body volatile hexadecanal blocks aggression in men but triggers aggression in women; our results imply that sniffing babies may increase aggression in mothers but decrease aggression in fathers

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Sniffing the human body volatile hexadecanal blocks aggression in men but triggers aggression in women. Eva Mishor et al. Science Advances, ...
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