Monday, November 29, 2021

Flynn Effect... Louisville Twin Study (longitudinal data collected continuously from 1957 to 1999): Overall gains equaled approximately three IQ points per decade

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Genetically informed, multilevel analysis of the Flynn Effect across four decades and three WISC versions. Evan J. Giangrande, Christopher R...

Short-term mating was unrelated or even negatively related to reproductive success; long-term mating predicted a greater number of children and children's children

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Phenotypic Signals of Sexual Selection and Fast Life History Dynamics for the Long-Term but Not Short-Term Mating. Janko Međedović. Evolutio...
Sunday, November 28, 2021

Incorporating a 12-step philosophy (and inserting religiosity without client’s consent) into therapy can make sexual compulsivity worse because of increasing shame and colluding with a power imbalance between therapist & client

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The religious disguise in “sex addiction” therapy. Silva Neves. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, Nov 26 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/146819...

Population ethical intuitions: Participants on average believed that approximately 1.5–3 times more happy people are required to outweigh a given amount of unhappy people

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Population ethical intuitions. Lucius Caviola et al. Cognition, Volume 218, January 2022, 104941. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.1...

In the Laterality Journal: Asymmetries of Brain, Behaviour, and Cognition... The effects of sex and handedness on masturbation laterality and other lateralized motor behaviours

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The effects of sex and handedness on masturbation laterality and other lateralized motor behaviours. Paul Rodway, Volker Thoma &Astrid S...
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...