Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Israeli scientists train goldfish to steer fish tank around room

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From fish out of water to new insights on navigation mechanisms in animals. Shachar Givon et al. Behavioural Brain Research, Volume 419, Feb...

Across firms, social and financial performance are correlated but that improvements in social performance seldom precede increased financial performance

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Building Knowledge by Mapping Model Uncertainty in Six Studies of Social & Financial Performance. Luca Berchicci, Andrew A. King. Strate...

Greater time in military service correlated with higher resilience for women but had little correlation for men; might be due to relative reduction in resilience for those goal-oriented women trained at West Point who leave the service

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Psychological Resilience in West Point Graduates: Results From a Nationally Representative Study. Melissa M. Thomas et al. Chronic Stress, N...

Both men and women evaluate a man as more creative and socially skilled when he is attractive, and women regard him as having higher mate value when his female friends are attractive... but these and related effects are quite nuanced

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Mr. Popular: Effects of implicit and explicit social endorsement. Ryan C. Anderson & Beatriz Escobar. Current Psychology, Jan 5 2022. ht...

Analyses revealed direct and indirect associations between frequent pornography consumption and greater sexual functioning through greater sexual flexibility in women, but not in men

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Associations Between Pornography Consumption, Sexual Flexibility, and Sexual Functioning Among Austrian Adults. Nikola Komlenac & Margar...

Diversity in religiosity in a society poses a threat to conventional personal morality of social conservatives (religiously devout or socially traditional), due to variegated attitudes on abortion, divorce, euthanasia, suicide, prostitution

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Diversity in Religiosity Undermines Conventional Personal Morality Across the Globe: Evidence From 90 Nations, 300,000+ Individuals. M.D.R. ...
Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Overall, as has been the case for previous media such as video games, concerns about screen time and mental health are not based in reliable data

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Ferguson, C. J., Kaye, L. K., Branley-Bell, D., Markey, P., Ivory, J. D., Klisanin, D., Elson, M., Smyth, M., Hogg, J. L., McDonnell, D., Ni...

Men were far more likely to expect a negative reaction from the receiver of an unsolicited nude or sexual image, and more likely to show a flirty or positive reaction when they were the receiver

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Expectations vs. reality: Expected and actual affective reactions to unsolicited sexual images. V. Karasavva, J. Swanek, A. Smodis, A. Forth...