Tuesday, December 7, 2021

The recent drought events (e.g., 2003, 2015, and 2018), are within the range of natural variability and they are not unprecedented over the last millennium

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Past megadroughts in central Europe were longer, more severe and less warm than modern droughts. M. Ionita, M. Dima, V. Nagavciuc, P. Scholz...

Becoming a physician increases the use of antidepressants, opioids, anxiolytics, and sedatives, especially for female physicians

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The Effects of Becoming a Physician on Prescription Drug Use and Mental Health Treatment. D. Mark Anderson, Ron Diris, Raymond Montizaan ...

Men and women primed with mate scarcity held a more positive attitude toward mate poaching relative to those primed with mate abundance, and this link was mediated by an induced fear of being single & intrasexual competitiveness

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Perceived Mate Scarcity Leads to Increased Willingness to Mate Poach. Larissa McKelvie et al. The Journal of Sex Research, Dec 3 2021. https...
Monday, December 6, 2021

In more gender-equal countries, differences between men and women are larger for innate preferences and smaller for socially constructed interests

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The Gender Gap in Preferences: Evidence from 45,397 Facebook Interests. Ángel Cuevas, Rubén Cuevas, Klaus Desmet & Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín....

The demographic transition (he move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality regime) in 186 countries for more than 250 years

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Demographic Transitions Across Time and Space. Matthew J. Delventhal, Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Nezih Guner. November 6, 2021. https://www...

Workplace premiums associated with teams of professionals have increased, while premiums for previously high-paid blue-collar workers have been cut

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Consolidated Advantage: New Organizational Dynamics of Wage Inequality. Nathan Wilmers, Clem Aeppli. American Sociological Review, December ...

A Polygenic Score for Educational Attainment Partially Predicts Voter Turnout

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A Polygenic Score for Educational Attainment Partially Predicts Voter Turnout. Christopher T. Dawes et al. Proceedings of the National Acade...

Sexual and romantic relationships among people experiencing homelessness: A scoping review

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Czechowski, K., Turner, K. A., Labelle, P. R., & Sylvestre, J. (2021). Sexual and romantic relationships among people experiencing homel...
Sunday, December 5, 2021

Predictions shape our perception: fMRI and multivoxel pattern analysis show that non-stimulated regions of early visual areas contain information about the conscious perception of an ambiguous visual stimulus

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Non-stimulated regions in early visual cortex encode the contents of conscious visual perception. Bianca M. van Kemenade, Gregor Wilbertz, A...
Saturday, December 4, 2021

Advancing mathematics by guiding human intuition with AI

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Advancing mathematics by guiding human intuition with AI. Alex Davies, Petar Veličković, Lars Buesing, Sam Blackwell, Daniel Zheng, Nenad To...

Daily Memory Lapses and Affect: Mediation Effects on Life Satisfaction

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Daily Memory Lapses and Affect: Mediation Effects on Life Satisfaction. Jennifer R. Turner, Jacqueline Mogle, Nikki Hill, Sakshi Bhargava ...

What does your favourite colour say about your personality? Not much

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Jonauskaite, D., Thalmayer, A. G., Müller, L., & Mohr, C. What does your favourite colour say about your personality? Not much. Personal...

Aguado and his team recently found that cells taken from the heart valve tissues of men and women with aortic valve disease respond very differently to the same drug

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Developing Sex-specific Treatments for Heart Disease: UC San Diego bioengineer advances equity in science, and among scientists. Univ. of Ca...

Participants feel more positive when in the presence of others; however, mood enhancement for women only occurred when the task was nondemanding; in the case of life satisfaction, only women were sensitive to the presence of others

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Feeling better in the presence of others: It may depend on whether you are a man or a woman. Teresa Garcia-Marques, Marília Prada, Ricardo F...

The prevalence of aphantasia (imagery weakness) in the general population: Prevalence of 3.9%, the most extreme aphantasia subtype (absent imagery) has a prevalence of 0.8%

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The prevalence of aphantasia (imagery weakness) in the general population. C. J. Dance, A. Ipser, J. Simner. Consciousness and Cognition, Vo...
Thursday, December 2, 2021

Examining effects within the same individuals over time indicated that climate concern predicted a small residual increase in psychological distress, but not in life satisfaction, one year later

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Longitudinal relations between climate change concern and psychological wellbeing. Sarah E. McBride et al. Journal of Environmental Psycholo...

How Bad Are Weather Disasters for Banks? Not very, we find that weather disasters over the last quarter century had insignificant or small effects on U.S. banks’ performance

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How Bad Are Weather Disasters for Banks? Kristian S. Blickle, Sarah N. Hamerling, and Donald P. Morgan. Federal Reserve Bank of New York, St...

Rates of positive changes related to therapy varied between 26.6% (relationship to parents) & 67.7% (improvement in depressed mood); deteriorations were related to physical well-being (13.1%), ability to work (13.1%) & vitality (11.1%)

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Negative effects of psychotherapy: estimating the prevalence in a random national sample. Bernhard Strauss, Romina Gawlytta, Andrea Schleu a...