Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Roughly 40% of Americans state that they do not feel comfortable disclosing their views publicly, a roughly three-fold increase since the 1950's

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Preference Falsification: How Social Conformity as an Interdependent, Recursive, and Multilevel Process Corrupts Public Knowledge. Jacob Eld...

Men’s Sexual Interest in Feminine Trans Individuals across Cultures

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Men’s Sexual Interest in Feminine Trans Individuals across Cultures. Lanna J. Petterson &Paul L. Vasey. The Journal of Sex Research, Jan...
Monday, January 10, 2022

Female dolphins possess a well-developed clitoris, which may very well have evolved as a sheer pleasure dispenser

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Evidence of a functional clitoris in dolphins. Patricia L.R. Brennan, Jonathan R. Cowart, Dara N. Orbach. Current Biology, Volume 32, Issue ...

US men and women both reported more conflict with mothers-in-law than with mothers, and mothers reported more conflict with their daughters-in-law than with their daughters

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Mother-in-Law Daughter-in-Law Conflict: an Evolutionary Perspective and Report of Empirical Data from the USA. Jessica D. Ayers, Jaimie Aron...

Dominance in humans is of great importance; it's separated from prestige—an alternate avenue to high status in which status arises from information (e.g. knowledge, skill, etc.) or other non-rival goods

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Dominance in humans. Tian Chen Zeng, Joey T. Cheng and Joseph Henrich. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Science...

88.7% of participants indicated that they have been, are currently in, or are open to being in an interracial relationship; women were more likely than men to say that they were not open to interracial dating

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Interracial Dating: A Closer Look at Race and Gender Differences in Heterosexual Dating Preferences. Kelsey Chappetta & Joan Barth. Sexu...

The author identified 11 infidelity-hiding strategies; more than 70% of the participants indicated a willingness to use at least seven strategies

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Catch me if you can: Strategies for hiding infidelity. Menelaos Apostolou. Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 189, April 2022, 1...
Sunday, January 9, 2022

Chess Girls Don’t Cry: Male players are substantially quicker to quit when dominated by a female than by a male; in contrast, female players’ behaviour differs little as a function of the gender of the opponent

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Chess Girls Don’t Cry: Gender Composition of Games and Effort in Competitions among the Super-Elite. Maryam Dilmaghani. Journal of Economic ...

Relationship-defining memories are a boon to marital happiness (marital satisfaction, intimacy, well-being, quality, etc.)

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The relationship between the reminiscence of relationship-defining memories and marital outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Moh...

The Origins and Psychology of Human Cooperation: The authors synthesize experimental and observational evidence from studies of children and adults from diverse societies with research among nonhuman primates

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The Origins and Psychology of Human Cooperation. Joseph Henrich and Michael Muthukrishna. Annual Review of Psychology, Volume 72, 2021, pp 2...
Saturday, January 8, 2022

Most White respondents felt safe, but most Black respondents lived in fear of the police killing them & hurting their family members; approximately half of Black respondents preferred to be robbed or burglarized than to have unprovoked contact with officers

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The American racial divide in fear of the police. Justin T. Pickett, Amanda Graham, Francis T. Cullen. Criminology, January 8 2022. https://...

The evolution of extraordinary self-sacrifice

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The evolution of extraordinary self-sacrifice. D. B. Krupp & Wes Maciejewski. Scientific Reports volume 12, Article number: 90. Jan 7 20...