Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Geographic Variation in Personality is Associated With Fertility Across the United States

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Geographic Variation in Personality is Associated With Fertility Across the United States. Eleanor J. Junkins et al. Personality Science, 20...

The woman in high heels was perceived as being more sexually attractive, physically attractive, feminine, & of a higher status; were not rated as more or less warm, enthusiastic, trustworthy, socially competent, healthy, intelligent, affectionate, friendly, or successful

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On a pedestal: High heels and the perceived attractiveness and evolutionary fitness of women. T. Joel Wade et al. Personality and Individual...

Children have initially a good view of the rich but with age that preference decreases; also have an increasing view as unfair of the wealth gap between the wealthy and the poor; have a developing understanding of the link between wealth & power

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Yang, Xin, and Yarrow Dunham. 2021. “Emerging Complexity in Children's Conceptualization of the Wealthy and the Poor.” OSF Preprints. De...

When a conspiracy theory goes mainstream, people feel more positive toward conspiracy theorists

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When a conspiracy theory goes mainstream, people feel more positive toward conspiracy theorists. Curtis Bram. Research & Politics, Decem...

Recent work has shown that body distortions are common in healthy individuals; there is a general bias to overestimate body width compared to length/height; this distorsion appear to be linked to aspects of psychological well-being, including body satisfaction and self-esteem

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Distortion of mental body representations. Matthew R. Longo. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, December 21 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics....
Tuesday, December 21, 2021

The cartesian folk theater: People conceptualize consciousness as a spatio-temporally localized process in the human brain

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Forstmann, M., & Burgmer, P. (2021). The cartesian folk theater: People conceptualize consciousness as a spatio-temporally localized pro...

Content in which emotions are more prevalent than argument quality is more likely to be shared; content in which positive emotions are more prevalent than negative emotions is more likely to be shared

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What makes people share political content on social media? The role of emotion, authority and ideology, Jason Weismueller et al. Computers i...

People form face impressions based on a conceptual understanding of personality structure that they have come to learn from their regional environment

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Personality across world regions predicts variability in the structure of face impressions. DongWon Oh, Jared D. Martin, and Jonathan B. Fre...
Monday, December 20, 2021

Adolescent close friendship quality was a significantly better predictor of adult peer and romantic outcomes, work performance, and depressive symptoms than parental reports of the parent–teen relationship

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When friendships surpass parental relationships as predictors of long-term outcomes: Adolescent relationship qualities and adult psychosocia...

Assessment of Romantic Relationship Quality

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Ribotta, B., Silan, M. A., Dujols, O., Bellemin, R., & IJzerman, H. (2021, December 15). Lack of Construct Validity and Item-Content Ove...

Fifty-nation study: Values better predict alcohol consumption; traits better predict obesity

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Using Public Datasets to Understand the Psychological Correlates of Smoking, Alcohol Consumption, and Obesity: A Country-Level Analysis. Pau...

Monkeys vs Dogs: It is claimed that over 200 puppies were dropped to their deaths by vengeful simians... Hyenas can also show this avenging behavior...

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Monkeys vs Dogs: Over 200 puppies dropped to their deaths by vengeful simians. Pritha Paul. MEAWW Dec 18 2021. https://meaww.com/horrifying-...
Sunday, December 19, 2021

Psilocybin microdosing: In a pre-registered, double-blind, placebo-controlled, within-subject crossover design study, they found not affect emotion processing or symptoms of anxiety and depression compared with placebo

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Psilocybin microdosing does not affect emotion-related symptoms and processing: A preregistered field and lab-based study. Josephine Marscha...

The psychologists with tattoos were viewed as less professional, but the ones with provocative tattoos were seen as more competent in interventions, empathy, ability to practice in a forensic setting, & as more confident, interesting, likable, & less lazy

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Zidenberg, A. M., Dutrisac, S., & Olver, M. (2021). “No ragrets”: Public perceptions of tattooed mental health professionals. Profession...
Saturday, December 18, 2021

Simulation of 100 000 years of evolution in hunter-gatherers: Evolutionary shifts in disgust as polygenic trait occurred (consequence of germ-cell mutations), but cultural transmission between generations operated more quickly & at greater magnitude

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The human behavioural immune system is a product of cultural evolution. Edwin S. Dalmaijer, Thomas Armstrong. arXiv Dec 17 2021, https://arx...