Thursday, December 2, 2021

Personal relative deprivation fosters a belief that economic success is zero-sum, and that this is true regardless of participants’ household income, political ideology, or subjective social class

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Ongis, M., & Davidai, S. (2021). Personal relative deprivation and the belief that economic success is zero-sum. Journal of Experimental...
Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Mental Health and Well-being Profile of Young Adults Using Social Media: YouTube users are the most likely to have poorer mental health outcomes; Instagram and Snapchat users tend to have higher well-being

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Di Cara, Nina H., Lizzy Winstone, Luke Sloan, Oliver Davis, and CMA Haworth. 2021. “The Mental Health and Well-being Profile of Young Adults...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

The perception of lower mate availability was associated with decreased life satisfaction, but an oversupply of potential mates also made some uncomfortable (choice overload, especially of those who are good catches)

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The Influence of Sex Ratio and Perception of Mate Availability on Psychological Health. Rosenbach, Naomi. Hofstra University, ProQuest Disse...

Overall people share the widespread belief that women are less entitled to sexually pleasurable experiences than men in both casual and relationship contexts

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The Role of Gendered Entitlement in Understanding Inequality in the Bedroom. Verena Klein, Terri D. Conley. Social Psychological and Persona...

Childhood socioeconomic status positively related to dispositional greed (luxury hypothesis), instead of negatively related (scarcity hypothesis); relationship was found for only-children, not for children with siblings

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Further tests of the scarcity and luxury hypotheses in dispositional greed: Evidence from two large-scale Dutch and American samples. Karlij...
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...